When internet shoppers want their items yesterday, who pays the price? This is what it's like to deliver parcels for the world's biggest online retailer.

Amazon has long contended that it shouldn’t be held legally liable for defective products sold by third-party merchants on Amazon.com, maintaining that the liability rests with the seller, not with the marketplace facilitating the sale.

There has been a lot of rumor and speculation circulating in the crypto and mainstream media recently regarding e-commerce giant Amazon moving into the crypto-space by accepting select cryptocurrencies as payment options. While it's a virtual certainty Amazon will soon start doing that in some manner, Amazon's crypto aspirations seem much bigger and could positively impact small business owners in the near future.

There are many benefits to frontline employees being vaccinated for COVID-19, mainly that they can't get the virus and can keep working but also that they provide security for customers. In order to entice its workers to get vaccinated, Amazon has instituted the 'Max your Vax' contest that offers up to 18 prizes valued at almost $2 million, according to Bloomberg.

Well over 100 employees at Amazon Prime Air have lost their jobs and dozens of other roles are moving to other projects abroad as the company shutters part of its operation in the UK, WIRED understands. Insiders claim the future of the UK operation, which launched in 2016 to help pioneer Amazon’s global drone delivery efforts, is now uncertain.

Amazon (AMZN) faces a record-breaking €746 million (roughly $887 million) fine after a European Union data privacy regulator said the e-commerce giant had violated the bloc's signature privacy law, known as GDPR, in an advertising-related decision.

Amazon urges drivers not to "operate any unsafe vehicles" but drivers say managers encourage them to ignore safety hazards during daily inspections.

Amazon has predicted slower sales growth in the third quarter as a boost from the Covid pandemic subsides. Customers turned to Amazon and other online platforms during the Covid crisis, leading to record profits for the US giant. But Amazon's breakneck growth is beginning to level as customers start to return to bricks and mortar shops.

Amazon.com Inc on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year.

Amazon’s Key for Business, a system that allows its delivery drivers to gain access to apartment buildings without having to be buzzed in, has been installed in thousands of buildings across the US, according to the Associated Press. The company is reportedly pushing to get the system installed in more buildings, using a combination of free installations and $100 gift cards as incentives.

The award for “Best Small Talk on a Flight to Space” goes to Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old from the Netherlands who was part of Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed flight to space earlier this week. On the roughly 10-minute flight, Daemon told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos what probably sounded like blasphemy to his billionaire ears: He had never bought anything on Amazon.

Fakespot, an app that analyzes Amazon reviews to determine which ones are fake, is no longer available for iOS. Amazon has successfully convinced Apple to remove it from the App Store after the company raised concerns that the application provides misleading information and creates potential security vulnerabilities. The e-commerce giant has confirmed to Engadget that it reported Fakespot for investigation.

In the new report “The Amazon Panopticon,” UNI Global Union catalogues the various methods Amazon uses to pile pressure on workers through extreme surveillance and monitoring.

If you are bothered by having to wear a wristband to monitor your sleep, Amazon might have some good news for you. The company has recently been granted permission to use radar to capture motion in three-dimensional space and enable contactless sleep monitoring using a "non-mobile" device.

We were initially anxious about the introduction of robots into our workforce because of the potential disappearance of manual labor jobs. Robots would take over factories, we were told, they’d drive our cars and trucks, and they would do all of the cleaning that janitorial and domestic workers are currently hired to do.

Streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon and Disney Plus, will soon have to invest between 20%-25% of their French revenues in French content under a new decree that was just unveiled by the French government following an 18-month process.

Amazon’s cloud-computing business has acquired Wickr, an encrypted messaging platform used by government agencies and enterprises, the company announced Friday. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is probing whether Amazon and Google broke consumer laws by failing to take action against fake reviews on their sites, the agency announced Friday.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is going to space next month, and more than 60,000 people have signed petitions politely requesting he stay there. The 57-year-old Bezos and his brother Mark will be passengers on the first human spaceflight conducted by Blue Origin, the aerospace company he founded more than two decades ago.

Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, ITV News investigation finds