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.

Odd pricing alledged

Amazon is being investigated by German authorities for allegedly abusing its market position during the coronavirus pandemic.

Anti-trust investigations for everyone

The US Justice Department is moving “full-tilt” on its antitrust investigation of Google and other Big Tech platforms.

Home engineering

The next generation of Amazon's Scout bots -- the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon, are being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle in their homes and garages.

Mates rates

While the fruity cargo cult Apple is insisting that it needs to take a third of profits from app store developers, it is not above doing cosy deals with the likes of Amazon.