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Snapchat, Duolingo, banks, airlines down after major Amazon services outage

Airline websites, including Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, experienced partial outages on Monday following a disruption in Amazon Web Services, which supports many online platforms. “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” Amazon said on its AWS dashboard early Monday. “During this time, customers may […]

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Bezos’ ex-wife slashes Amazon stake by 42% for charity

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has significantly reduced her stake in Amazon.com Inc. by a massive 42 per cent over the last year, according to a regulatory filing made public on Tuesday, dated September 30. The filing shows that Scott now holds 81.1 million Amazon shares, a sharp drop from the 139 million she held a […]

Amazon cuts jobs in books division amid broader efficiency push
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Amazon fires Palestinian engineer over protest against Israel ties

Amazon has dismissed a Palestinian software engineer, Ahmed Shahrour, who was previously suspended for protesting the company’s business dealings with the Israeli government. Shahrour, who worked with Amazon’s Whole Foods division in Seattle, received an email on Monday notifying him of his termination. His suspension in September followed internal Slack posts criticizing Amazon’s collaboration with […]

Amazon cuts 100 Jobs in devices, services unit
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Amazon pays $2.5bn for ‘misleading’ Prime customers

Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle claims that it misled millions of customers into enrolling in its Prime service and made it difficult for them to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission announced that $1.5 billion of the total will be refunded to customers who were unwittingly signed up for the subscription. According […]

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Nigeria collects over ₦600bn VAT from Facebook, Amazon, Netflix

The Special Adviser on Tax Policy to the Chairman of the Tax Reforms Committee, Mr Mathew Osanekwu, has revealed that Nigeria has successfully collected over ₦600bn in Value Added Tax from global digital service providers such as Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix. He explained that amendments to the VAT Act had empowered the Federal Inland Revenue […]

Amazon plans stand-alone app for payments in India
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Amazon halts Prime free shared shipping

Amazon is discontinuing a feature that let Prime members extend free shipping benefits to non-household users, notifying customers that the Prime Invitee Program will end on October 1. This was disclosed in a according to a notice, according to CNBC. “We are writing to inform you that the Prime Invitee Program, which allowed sharing Prime’s […]

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Amazon offers $1bn in cloud discounts to US agencies

Amazon Web Services will offer up to $1 billion in discounts to United States federal agencies for cloud services, modernisation, and training through 2028, the General Services Administration announced Thursday. The deal aims to accelerate cloud migration and the use of artificial intelligence across government agencies. “AWS’s partnership with GSA demonstrates a shared public-private commitment […]

Amazon cuts jobs in books division amid broader efficiency push
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Amazon adds OpenAI’s open-weight models to AI platforms

Amazon Web Services has announced the addition of OpenAI’s open-weight foundation models to its AI platforms, marking the first time the models will be available on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. The move gives AWS customers access to OpenAI’s recently released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models, enabling them to build and scale generative AI applications using […]

Amazon restructures Wondery Podcast Studio, cuts 110 jobs
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Amazon restructures Wondery Podcast Studio, cuts 110 jobs

Amazon is overhauling its Wondery podcast division, shifting its award-winning narrative shows like Business Wars to Audible and consolidating creator-led programs into a new internal unit, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The restructuring will result in approximately 110 job cuts, though many affected staff will be reassigned to other roles within Amazon, […]

Amazon eyes advertising in Alexa+, says CEO Andy Jassy
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Amazon eyes advertising in Alexa+, says CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon may soon start delivering ads to users during conversations with its AI-powered assistant, Alexa+, CEO Andy Jassy revealed during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Thursday. As Alexa+ rolls out to millions of users, Jassy highlighted the growing potential of advertising within voice-based interactions. “As people engage in more multi-turn conversations, there will be […]

Amazon to exit Quebec operations, cut 1,700 jobs
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Amazon trims workforce in cloud unit

Amazon has confirmed that it is cutting jobs within its cloud computing division. “After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we’ve made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS,” Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said in a statement. “We […]

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Amazon’s Ring unveils AI alerts for smart homes security 

Amazon’s Ring has introduced a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to send users notifications about unusual or suspicious activity near their homes. The AI analyzes motion detected by Ring doorbells and cameras and generates brief text summaries, which are delivered as alerts to users’ phones. Ring says the summaries highlight only the primary subject […]