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Lawmakers Threaten to Subpoena Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos As Antitrust Probe Heats Up…

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House lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are threatening to subpoena Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company used data from independent sellers to develop competing products. The House panel is engaged in an antitrust investigation targeting Amazon and other major tech companies. Probes against the company come as […]

Amazon Used Data from its Own Sellers to Then Launch Competing Products…

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Amazon employees have used data about the vast number of independent sellers on its platform to create competing products — in violation of its own policies and statements to Congress, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The retail giant, which has felt a surge of goodwill for providing essential goods nationwide amid the coronavirus […]

Amazon Is Placing New Online Grocery Customers on a Waiting List…

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Amazon is placing new grocery delivery customers on a waitlist as it pushes social distancing and grapples with the onslaught of digital orders placed during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The e-commerce giant is focusing on orders placed by existing Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market delivery customers, for the time being, the company said in […]

Amazon Expedites Grocery, Health Shipments at Expense of Other Products…

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Amazon is taking steps to speed the delivery of household staples and medical products amid a surge of demand because of the coronavirus pandemic — a move that threatens to devastate businesses that use its platform to sell less-essential goods. The country’s largest online retailer notified vendors and third-party sellers Tuesday that it would temporarily […]

Amazon Launches Business Selling Automated Checkout to Retailers…

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Amazon calls it: Just Walk Out – Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Born from years of experience at Amazon Go, Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. We now offer retailers the ability to leverage this technology […]

FBI Probes Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Group for ‘Hacking Americans and Government Agencies’ After Jeff Bezos and Facebook Both Accused the Company of Malicious Attacks…

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The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible hacks on American residents and companies as well as suspected intelligence gathering on governments, according to four people familiar with the inquiry. Earlier this month, a security firm contracted by Jeff Bezos implicated NSO in hacking the Amazon CEO’s nude […]

Your Smart Vehicle is Recording Your Every Move…

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Recent reports indicate that data gathered by automakers and tech companies could be the next front in the battle over digital privacy. In early January, companies at the CES 2020 displayed their plans for making use of the surprising amounts of data gathered by newer model vehicles. Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and Blackberry were among the […]

Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments…

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Ruthy Hope Slatis couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She’d been hired by a temp agency outside Boston for a vague job: transcribing audio files for Amazon.com Inc. For $12 an hour, she and her fellow contractors, or “data associates,” listened to snippets of random conversations and jotted down every word on their laptops. Amazon […]

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