Housing fund to benefit moderate- to low-income families and individuals in three communities Amazon calls home: Washington State’s Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee.
More
I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives.
More
New up-to-$80 benefit to those who get the vaccine off-site is the latest in our efforts to support employees, customers, and communities during the pandemic.
More
Facebook and Twitter have banned Donald Trump from their platforms. Fleeing to the right-wing alternative Parler has been effectively shut down by Amazon’s decision to cease hosting it on Amazon Web Services while both Android and Apple have removed it from their app stores.
More
Jeff Bezos and the Walmart heirs have grown $116 billion richer during the pandemic—35 times the total hazard pay given to more than 2.5 million Amazon and Walmart workers.
More
In a trading environment that lately seems to be encouraging investors to think in 10-day timeframes, 10-month and even 10-week mindsets are becoming pretty rare. Ten-year timeframes are almost unheard of.
More
An individual, formerly a juvenile, pleaded guilty to committing acts of federal juvenile delinquency in relation to a cyberattack that caused massive disruption to the Internet in October 2016.
More
President Trump has threatened to veto a major defense funding bill over a law that protects social media companies from liability for what their users post. Why is it controversial?
More
Our top priority is ensuring the health and safety of our employees, and we expect to invest approximately $10 billion in 2020 on COVID-related initiatives to keep employees safe and get products to customers.
More
The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in India.
More