2026-03-03
New: Amazon said three data centers in the Middle East were damaged by drone strikes, taking them offline. Two UAE sites were directly hit by drones. AWS urged customers to considering migrating workloads to other regions as things remain “unpredictable.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
AWS warns of “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drones “directly struck” two UAE facilities and a drone strike near one of its Bahrain facilities
Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.
2024-10-10
New w/ @KatieTarasov : Grabango, a competitor to Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless tech, is shutting down. The startup, which raised ~$73M from backers including Founders Fund, said it failed to secure additional funding. https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Grabango, which provided cashierless checkout tech and raised $73M+, shuts down after failing to “secure the funding it needed to continue providing service”
2024-04-18
New w/ @jordannovet: Amazon's data-hauling 18-wheeler is going back in the garage. Almost 8 years after driving it onstage with Andy Jassy, AWS says it won't offer Snowmobile to customers as online data transfers are more efficient and cost-effective. https://www.cnbc.com/... [image]
CNBC
Amazon discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers move large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities
Amazon Web Services Snowmobile Truck — At Amazon's annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowd's attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage.
2024-03-15
An Amazon employee was arrested at a TN warehouse last May for theft after they granted scam refunds to a mysterious person named “Ralph.” It turns out “Ralph” was part of a refund fraud ring. The groups thrive on Telegram, robbing retailers of billions: https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
How Amazon refund fraud gangs, which promote their schemes on Reddit, TikTok, and Telegram, are exploiting lenient refund policies at the company
- Refund fraud groups, organized like businesses, are exploiting lenient refund policies, robbing retailers of billions of dollars, experts told CNBC.
2023-11-03
waiting for the commercials that say, “if you got served an ad for ‘buck urine’ after searching for water bottles on Amazon, you may be entitled to financial compensation.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
Bloomberg
The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022
- FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
2023-08-02
New: Leaked Amazon seller data is being openly bought and sold by brokers on Telegram. For $200-$400, sellers can buy screenshots of internal account info that's (supposed to be) only accessible by Amazon employees. https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
How illicit data brokers on Telegram, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Facebook peddle internal Amazon market data and services like attacking rivals' product listings
Amazon says it has methods of monitoring/detecting this activity. But the problem is that bad actors are increasingly concentrating their activity off Amazon, on places like Facebook, Telegram, etc. where services like these are abundant: [image]
CNBC
How illicit data brokers on Telegram, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Facebook peddle internal Amazon market data and services like attacking rivals' product listings
2023-03-28
New: A well-known Amazon consultant admitted to bribing employees of the e-commerce giant to help his clients boost sales and get suspended accounts reinstated “I am sorry to have done these things,” Ed Rosenberg wrote in a LinkedIn post on Monday https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
A fifth defendant plans to plead guilty to the DOJ's charges in 2020 regarding a conspiracy to bribe Amazon staff to give sellers unfair marketplace advantages
2023-01-22
SCOOP: Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery unit was hit with significant job cuts this week amid the largest layoffs in the company's history The timing is awkward, since Prime Air just made its long-awaited debut in two markets https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
A look at Amazon's nascent drone delivery unit, which has struggled due to crashes and other safety issues and now faces layoffs and other cost-cutting measures
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
2023-01-19
Amazon is shutting down AmazonSmile, the program where it donated a percentage of purchases to a users' chosen charity “The program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped,” the company said in a notice to customers https://www.cnbc.com/...
The Hill
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023
Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
2022-11-18
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just sent out his first public acknowledgement of the layoffs that began this week. The job cuts are expected to extend into 2023, Jassy said. https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday
KEY POINTS — Amazon will continue to lay off employees in the coming year, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to workers on Thursday.
2022-11-01
“According to internal records viewed by CNBC, employees from Musk's other companies are now authorized to work at Twitter, including more than 50 from Tesla, two from the Boring Company, and one from Neuralink.” More from @lorakolodny: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms
Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …
“According to internal records viewed by CNBC, employees from Musk's other companies are now authorized to work at Twitter, including more than 50 from Tesla, two from the Boring Company, and one from Neuralink.” More from @lorakolodny: https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Sources: Elon Musk asks trusted staff from his other companies, including 50+ from Tesla, two from Boring Company, and one from Neuralink, to help at Twitter
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now sole director and CEO of Twitter, is asking employees of the social network to redesign their subscription and verification systems within one week.
2022-07-22
next stop: mini One Medical clinics inside Whole Foods stores? https://www.cnbc.com/...
TechCrunch
Amazon plans to acquire primary health care provider One Medical, which offers in-person, digital, and virtual services, for about $3.9B in an all-cash deal
Amazon is buying One Medical, the so-called “Netflix of primary care,” for $3.9 billion. Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Amazon might own your doctor's office after latest acquisi...
2022-06-13
New from me: I wrote about the “Amazon Resort,” a recent event that brought about a dozen TikTok, IG and YouTube stars out to a luxury hotel in Mexico. It was hosted by Amazon's influencer program, which the company has been trying to build out https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
How Amazon entices creators to join its Influencer Program, which launched in 2017 and pays a commission for generated sales, by flying them to resorts and more
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
2022-06-08
Amazon, Google and other tech companies are urging DHS to let the kids of visa holders stay past the age of 21, arguing the current policies hurt their ability to attract high-skilled workers from outside the U.S., @lauren_feiner reports https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
A coalition including Amazon, Google, and Uber urges the DHS to let kids of high-skilled visa holders stay in the US past the age of 21 without a green card
when my time is up, will I be “forced” to leave? Michelle Hackman / @mhackman : Athulya moved here when she was 5. She competed on her HS debate team, graduated from UT Austin with...
2022-05-25
Amazon says it uses tracking apps and cameras in vans to increase safety among its delivery driver workforce. But a new @TheSOC study found increasing surveillance hasn't helped reduce driver injury rates; in fact they've risen since cameras were added: https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
VICE
Study: Amazon's third-party delivery drivers had an injury rate of one per five full-time-equivalent workers in 2021, up 38% YoY, above other delivery drivers
Introduction Amazon's e-commerce business boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic …
2022-04-28
New: OSHA has released the findings of its investigation into a deadly Amazon warehouse collapse in Illinois. OSHA didn't fine Amazon, but said it found safety risks during its probe, including that some workers didn't know where shelters were located. https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
An OSHA probe into an Illinois warehouse collapse that killed six Amazon workers levies no fines or penalties after finding Amazon met minimal safety standards
so that workers' lives are prioritized over profit. https://www.cnbc.com/... Annie Palmer / @annierpalmer : New: OSHA has released the findings of its investigation into a deadly A...
2022-04-02
I just asked Chris Smalls, @amazonlabor president, what he thinks about Amazon's statement that it may challenge the election results: “They lost. We won. They salty. They're filing objections, we have objections too.” https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US
- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.
2022-01-26
Today in online reviews news: The FTC today ordered fast fashion retailer Fashion Nova to pay $4.2 million to settle claims it blocked hundreds of thousands of negative reviews of its products from being posted to its website. https://www.ftc.gov/...
New York Times