Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
And It's Not Because of AI or Cost Cutting Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Andy Jassy Is Turning Amazon Into The 'World's Largest Startup' — One Layer At A Time Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon's CEO s...
Amazon plans to end support for its videoconferencing tool Chime on February 20, 2026; report: Amazon is adopting Zoom as its standard app for internal meetings
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Amazon confirms Gregg Zehr, who led the Lab126 R&D unit, and Tom Taylor, SVP for Alexa, are retiring after over a decade, the latest to depart under Andy Jassy
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A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators
We created this page to provide customers … Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News : Amazon takes public stand on minimum wage, climate change Eugene Kim / CNBC : Amazon says punishing counterfeiters and regu...
Profile of Jay Carney, formerly Obama's press secretary, who is now a member of Jeff Bezos' elite S-team, in charge of PR and policy at Amazon
Eugene Kim / CNBC : Tweets: @jordannovet , @mattrosoff , @matthewstoller , and @stevekovach Tweets: Jordan Novet / @jordannovet : 'Amazon's leadership instructed certain policy and sales people to st...
Sources: Udi Manber, who ran engineering for Google's core search products before leaving in 2015, is joining health insurance giant Anthem as its head of AI
Christina Farr / CNBC : Tweets: @chrissyfarr and @eugenekim222 . Thanks: @mattrosoff Tweets: Christina Farr / @chrissyfarr : SCOOP: Google's former search lead Udi Manber is joining Anthem to run a n...
Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for US warehouse workers after raising wage to $15/hour; sources say bonuses could be hundreds per month
How We Can All Fix Wikipedia's Lack of Female Representation Eugene Kim / CNBC : Amazon's hourly workers lose monthly bonuses and stock awards as minimum wage increases Mariella Moon / Engadget : Some...
A look at Amazon HR's Connections daily Q&A and strengths-focused Forte annual reviews, presumably responses to 2015 NYT exposé of brutal working environment
Eugene Kim / CNBC : Tweets: @eugenekim222 and @eugenekim222 Tweets: Eugene Kim / @eugenekim222 : Scoop: Amazon employees have mixed feelings about Connections, the daily Q&A program rolled out compan...
A look at Amazon HR's Connections daily Q&A and strengths-focused Forte annual reviews, presumably responses to 2015 NYT exposé of brutal working environment
- Some employees who spoke to CNBC expressed concerns about the program's confidentiality and the usefulness of the data. Tweets: @eugenekim222 and @eugenekim222 Tweets: Eugene Kim / @eugenekim222 : S...
Google Cloud announces that the former head of Intel's data center group, Diane Bryant, will join the division as its COO
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