Antitrust

Amazon and Apple face German antitrust scrutiny  over a policy that excludes independent sellers of brand products on the online market place.

But smaller sites will have to pay

Amazon will not have to pay the UK's new digital services tax on products it sells directly to consumers but small traders who sell products on its site will face increased charges.

Wants to speed things up

EU antitrust regulators may narrow the scope of their year long investigation into Amazon to speed up the case against the online bookseller.

Don't expect a resurrection

After six years development, Amazon has cancelled its free first person shooter game Crucible.

Evil robots

Even as Amazon spends tens of millions on new robotics and technologies to automate its warehouses, workers are still paying the price with more than 14,000 serious injuries -- requiring days off or job restrictions -- reported in fulfilment centres in 2019.

Luna starts next month

Amazon Luna will start a service to stream games running on Amazon Web Services servers to Fire TV, Windows, Mac, and iOS devices initially, with Android support coming weeks later.

Leg up into defence contracts

Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today.

Charged with delaying investigation into Deliveroo

Britain’s competition regulator fined Amazon the grand sum of $72,364 after the US online giant delayed an investigation into its purchase of a 16 percent stake in food platform Deliveroo by failing to provide documents on time.

Total control over workers

A new report has revealed that Amazon's retail side has adopted an almost dystopian level of control over its warehouse workers, firing them if they fail to meet secret targets and monitoring the crap out of them.

But there appears to be some weirdness

Amazon is getting into the health gadget market with a new fitness band and subscription service called Halo. However this being Amazon, you can expect some weirdness.