After deciding to drop Visa as a payment option in the U.K. effective Wednesday (Jan. 19), Amazon has reversed its position and emailed customers to announce that the ban has been reversed, according to multiple news outlets Monday (Jan. 17), including Bloomberg. Amazon had said...
A U.S. district court judge has stepped down from a long-running Amazon civil case following a news article that revealed his family owned stock in the retail giant. As The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Jan. 12), Judge Liam O’Grady had ruled in Amazon’s favor throughout his...
Amazon will be cutting paid leave time for the front-line workers in the U.S. who test positive for COVID-19, CNBC reported Friday (Jan. 7). Those workers will now be eligible for a week, or up to 40 hours, of paid leave — a change from...
It’s been just over a year since the launch of Amazon Pharmacy, and while performance stats are hard to come by, the service is clearly central to Amazon’s larger healthcare aspirations. In early December came news that former Amazon Prime chief Neil Lindsay is taking...
On the news that Amazon’s Neil Lindsay, who had been senior vice president of Prime and marketing, will now lead the eCommerce titan’s Amazon Care health unit, it’s worth considering how his experiences running Prime may inform and shape the company’s future healthcare offerings. Keep...
Amazon’s senior vice president of Prime and marketing was appointed to lead Amazon Care, the tech giant’s foray into the healthcare industry, sources with insider knowledge told CNBC. Neil Lindsay has worked for Amazon in some capacity since 2010, including managing global marketing efforts and...
Amazon is working on its own daily sports studio shows in a bid to challenge some of the biggest names in sports media, according to a New York Post report Thursday (Dec. 9). The retail giant is in “the beginning stages” of creating their own...
Amazon said it would appeal a $1.3 billion fine from Italy’s antitrust regulator after the eCommerce giant was found to favor third-party sellers that use its logistics services, according to a statement from the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) on Thursday (Dec. 9). In addition to...
People couldn’t change flights on Delta, order concert tickets from Ticketmaster, read several news outlets, and more when Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down on Tuesday (Dec. 7) for more than five hours, according to multiple reports. Although Amazon has not yet addressed a reason...
