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India looks at Rs 90,000 crore sales as Flipkart, Amazon begin festive season war [details]

E-commerce giants Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra and others on Sunday began the festive season sales in India which is expected to reach Rs 90,000 crore worth online gross merchandise value (GMV) in the festive month -- up 18-20 per cent from last year's festive month sales.

Oct 8, 2023

'View the product in your Room': Amazon introduces 5 new ways for easy search & shop

E-commerce giant Amazon has introduced 5 new ways to make it easier to search and shop for products on smartphones.

Sep 15, 2023

Bezos, Sanchez announce $100 mn fund to help Hawaii recover from wildfire

Billionaire Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez have announced a $100 million fund to help with recovery efforts for the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii.

Aug 12, 2023

Rogue Amazon employees peddling bad review removals on social media: Report

Some rogue Amazon employees are reportedly helping third-party sellers by removing bad reviews on their products on the e-commerce platform via secret groups on Telegram, WhatsApp and Facebook.

Aug 2, 2023

Amazon to shut online bookstore 'Book Depository' on April 26

Amazon has announced that it will shut down its UK-based online bookstore 'Book Depository', which it acquired in 2011, on April 26.

Apr 5, 2023

Amazon closes $3.9 bn acquisition of healthcare provider 'One Medical'

Amazon has closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of primary healthcare organisation One Medical, as the e-commerce giant steps up efforts to reinvent healthcare in the digital and virtual era.

Feb 23, 2023

China-linked online superstore surpasses Amazon & Walmart, becomes most downloaded app in US

A new online shopping platform linked to one of China's top retailers has quickly become the most downloaded app in the US, surpassing Amazon and Walmart, CNN reported.

Feb 20, 2023

This is why China can't build a ChatGPT AI rival

As the world goes gaga over an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, experts believe that developing its Chinese competitor will surely face censorship, cost and data challenges, as in the case of big Internet companies like Alibaba and Tencent, the media reported on Monday.

Feb 20, 2023

Amazon asks employees to return to office three days a week

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has asked employees to return to office, starting with three days per week from May 1.

Feb 18, 2023

Techies earning up to $1 mn a year laid off at Big Tech firms

As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Jan 23, 2023

Amazon layoff stories: Sacked Amazon employees in India break down, "crying in office" [details]

On Grapevine, a community app for Indian professionals, an Amazon India employee posted sad scenes at offices, including people crying after the announcement of layoffs.

Jan 15, 2023

Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle

Ending the bitter Cloud war, the Pentagon has awarded its multi-billion dollar Cloud-computing contract to all the major players -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle - that can reach up to $9 billion in total till 2028.

Dec 8, 2022

Job Cuts: Resigned at Google, this techie's job offer declined by Amazon next

Call it ironic, but a Google software engineer, who resigned to take a new job at Amazon, was told by the company that his job offer has been declined, just 3 days ahead of his first day at the e-commerce giant.

Dec 6, 2022

Amazon to shut food delivery business in India

Amazon said on Friday that it is shutting down its food delivery business in India, a day after it announced to shut down its edtech vertical in the country.

Nov 25, 2022

Amazon begins mass layoffs to combat "unusual and uncertain macroeconomic environment"

Reuters reported that the layoff will primarily affect the retail and human resource development sections of the company

Nov 17, 2022

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says will donate most of his $124 bn fortune in his lifetime

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced plans to donate most of his $124 billion fortune during his lifetime, at a time when the e-commerce giant is reportedly set to lay off nearly 10,000 workers.

Nov 15, 2022

Over 1,000 kg adulterated ghee seized in Surat

Over 1,000 kg duplicate ghee (clarified butter) was seized from Kim taluka in Surat, police said on Wednesday.

Nov 9, 2022

Action against Cloudtail for selling pressure cookers flouting BIS standards; CCPA issues notices to major e-commerce platforms

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has passed an order against Cloudtail India Pvt. Ltd. for violation of consumer rights and unfair trade practice by selling domestic pressure cookers in violation to mandatory standards prescribed as per Domestic Pressure Cooker (Quality Control) Order, 2020.

Nov 5, 2022

Home Technology: Amazon acquires home robot maker iRobot for $1.7 bn

Amazon on Friday announced to acquire Global consumer robot company iRobot for $1.7 billion in an all-cash deal.

Aug 6, 2022

Amazon to shut down cloud storage service 'Drive' in 2023

Tech giant Amazon has announced that its "Drive" cloud storage service is shutting down at the end of 2023.

Jul 30, 2022