Amazon is blaming rising fuel costs and inflation for its decision to impose an average 5% surcharge on merchants to store and ship their products in the United States, Reuters reported Wednesday (April 13). The price increase marks the company’s first such surcharge and comes...
Regulators are looking into the way Amazon has disclosed some details of its business practices — including how it uses third-party seller data for private-label businesses, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (April 6), citing unnamed sources. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking...
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will soon be telling users when items they’ve been looking at will be on sale, CNBC reported Thursday (March 31). The eCommerce titan said Alexa will notify Prime customers 24 hours in advance of upcoming sales on items in their Amazon...
With fuel prices remaining at more than $4 per gallon in most U.S. cities and no end in sight to high prices, Amazon on Wednesday (March 30) announced a program that will double cash back rewards on fuel purchases to up to 12% for Amazon...
A third-party seller on Amazon could face up to 20 years in federal prison for fleecing the eCommerce giant out of more than $1.3 million, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California. Ting Hong...
The Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” which debuted in May of 2021, didn’t exactly start off on the right foot. Panned by critics and viewers, its Rotten Tomatoes average audience score of 47 seemed to reflect the social media banter over the “infuriating” naivete of...
Amazon won a dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit that the District of Columbia had leveled at it, saying the eCommerce giant had blocked sellers from offering better deals elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (March 18). D.C. Superior Judge Hiram Puig-Lugo tossed the suit....
European Union antitrust officials have given the green light to the Amazon proposal to buy storied movie studio MGM, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (March 15). This marks an important step in Amazon’s quest to purchase the studio, with a deadline quickly approaching for...
Amazon.com has told India’s top court that talks to settle the dispute with Future Retail Ltd., the Mumbai-based retailer with more than 1,500 stores in the country, is at a stalemate, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 15). “We made efforts, but nothing is possible,” Amazon’s lawyer...
