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Amazon Moves Prime Marketing Head to Lead Healthcare Efforts
December 16, 2021

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...

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Amazon Mulling Daily Sports Studio Shows
December 09, 2021

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...

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Amazon Plans Appeal Following $1.3B Fine in Italian Antitrust Case
December 09, 2021

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...

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Amazon Outage Grounds Deliveries, Ticket Sales, Media Outlets, Streaming
December 08, 2021

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...

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Amazon Charters Private Cargo Vessels for Greater Supply Chain Control
December 05, 2021

Amazon has been looking to control more of the supply chain journey for years by making its own containers, chartering private cargo ships and more — moves which are now giving the eCommerce giant a leg up in the chaos of the 2021 supply chain...

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Amazon: Consumers Buy Clothes, Toys and Decor on ‘Record-Breaking’ Black Friday
November 29, 2021

Amazon is seeing “record-breaking” Black Friday sales, with Dave Clark, Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO, saying customers were engaged. Clark, speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said Sunday (Nov. 28), customers had spent on a myriad of items, including clothes, holiday decor and children’s toys. He...

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Amazon VP of Physical Retail Departs
November 24, 2021

Cameron Janes left his position as Amazon VP of physical retail Tuesday (Nov. 23), according to his LinkedIn profile. Before leaving Amazon, Janes oversaw its brick-and-mortar division, highlighted by the retail giant’s plans to open department store-style locations in California and Ohio in the near...

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UK-Issued Visa Credit Cards No Longer Accepted by Amazon Starting 2022
November 17, 2021

Amazon users were informed this week that beginning Jan. 19, they can no longer use U.K.-issued Visa credit cards to make purchases due to the high fees charged by the payment processor, according to multiple reports. The pushback by Amazon is the latest is a...

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Amazon Debuts Mac-Focused Prime App
November 15, 2021

Amazon has launched a new Mac-native Prime Video app on the Mac App Store, allowing Prime users to directly purchase films and TV shows, Apple Insider reported Monday (Nov. 15). Although Amazon already has a Prime Video app for iOS and tvOS, this new version...