Enlarge / Adriana Ramirez packs items into envelopes at Amazon’s Fulfillment Center on March 19, 2019, in Thornton, Colorado. The facility, which opened in July of 2018, is 855,000 square feet and employs over 1,500 people. (credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post) As Amazon struggles to staff its warehouses, it’s joining other large employers […]
Amazon’s new Omni Series 4K Fire TV set. [credit: Amazon ] Amazon on Thursday announced its first self-branded smart TVs and a new 4K streaming media player called the Fire TV Stick 4K Max. The tech giant has previously partnered with Best Buy to sell various Toshiba and Insignia TVs that run Amazon’s Fire TV […]
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. (credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld ) In the ongoing battle between the two companies, Amazon . com fired back at SpaceX today at the Federal Communications Commission, claiming that the Starlink operator refuses to obey the rules […]
Worldpay estimates that the buy-now-pay-later model could double its share of e-commerce by 2024. Read More
Enlarge / Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos at the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on April 12, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Amazon’s attempt to block proposals for the next-generation Starlink system is a “delay tactic” and a continuation of Amazon’s strategy of “hinder[ing] competitors to compensate for Amazon’s failure […]
Enlarge (credit: SpaceX ) Amazon is urging US regulators to reject an update to SpaceX’s plan for a second-generation Starlink system. Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite-broadband subsidiary, says that SpaceX broke Federal Communications Commission rules by “propos[ing] two different configurations for the nearly 30, 000 satellites of its Gen2 System, each of which arranges these satellites […]
The White House has pledged billions in cybersecurity upgrades. The holes, though, are glaring. Read More
Enlarge / Amazon has experimented with physical retail for years, including this pop-up store inside a Whole Foods in Chicago, Illinois. (credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg ) Amazon is looking for its next conquest. After years of growth, most recently fueled in no small part by the COVID-19 pandemic that also has decimated physical retailers across the […]
Enlarge / An aerial view of the NSA. (credit: nsa.gov) Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named the winner of a $10 billion cloud computing contract, called “WildandStormy,” for the National Security Agency. But Microsoft, no doubt still salty about Amazon’s successful challenge of Redmond’s $10 billion JEDI contract with the Pentagon, filed a formal […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jorge Villalba) Amazon today announced a new policy in which it will pay customers up to nearly $1, 000 when a third-party product causes property damage or personal injury. Payments of any amount less than $1, 000 will be made at no cost to sellers who hold valid insurance, but […]