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Amazon to Set-Up East Coast Headquarters Between Northern Virginia and New York…

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Amazon will open major new outposts in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City and in New York City, splitting its much-sought investment of up to 50,000 jobs between the two East Coast sites, the company announced Tuesday. “We are excited to build new headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos […]

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies…

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In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream […]

The Real Reason Why Amazon Is Hiking Minimum Wages…

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Amazon hiking its minimum wage to $15 per hour – a “feel good” story that was praised by everybody and that even brought enemies like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders together – appears to be nothing more than another self-serving ploy by the world’s largest online retailer to not only bolster its staff for the […]

“We Listened to Our Critics” – Amazon Hikes U.S. Minimum Wage to $15/Hour…

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If Bernie Sanders was trying to get under Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ skin, it appears he has succeeded. With Sanders’ “Stop BEZOS” act threatening to tax companies like Amazon to compensate for the government benefits that their employees collect, the company has instead opted to raise wages for more than 100,000 employees, the Wall Street […]

Amazon’s Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked 45-Minute Video…

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Amazon, the country’s second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union. With rumblings of employee organization at Whole Foods—which Amazon bought for $13.7 billion last year—a 45-minute union-busting training video produced by the company was sent to Team Leaders of the grocery chain last week, according […]

European Antitrust Authorities Probe Amazon…

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The top antitrust regulator in the European Union said Wednesday she is investigating Amazon’s relationship with independent merchants it hosts on its platform. Why it matters: If this were to turn into a formal investigation, it would represent a major headache for Amazon, as it faces allegations that it has unfair dominance over the market. […]

Bernie Sanders Introduces ‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to Tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers…

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced a bill that would tax companies like Amazon and Walmart for the cost of employees’ food stamps and other public assistance. Sanders’ Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (abbreviated “Stop BEZOS”) — along with Khanna’s House of Representatives counterpart, the Corporate Responsibility […]

Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales…

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For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two […]

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