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US quits negotiations, stokes fears of new trade war

Trump in May proposed to weaken law shielding big tech, to punish outlets where he had been criticized

Microsoft announcement came shortly after Amazon declared it was pausing police use of its facial-recognition tech

Amazon's ban comes just after IBM announced exit from facial recognition business

Exporters are seeking out e-commerce and even social media mobile apps to lift their fortunes

Screenshots and video grabs of the messages were trending on Twitter, with users sharing the images

Warehouse employees last month staged a walkout in Michigan to demand safer working conditions at their facility

Seattle-based tech giant has invested more than $6.5 billion in India

Revenues surge 26% in first three months of 2020 to more than $75 billion

Amazon has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during the coronavirus pandemic

Amazon is piloting the use of video conference calls to verify the identity of merchants to counter fraud

The wealth surge of America’s richest men happened during a period when 22 million Americans filed for unemployment

The cameras in effect measure how much heat people emit relative to their surroundings

Amazon faces the daunting task of hiring more people even as calls grow for it to shut facilities

Amazon will begin to put new grocery delivery customers on a waitlist and curtail shopping hours at some

Excelso Sabulao delivers groceries for Amazon in California so he can help provide his parents with an income

Amazon is looking into the ability to screen more than one person at a time for the virus

Amazon has been in contact with the CEOs of two coronavirus test-makers

Crucible is a team-based multiplayer game in which you survive in a hostile alien world

Amazon is postponing its major summer shopping event, Prime Day

Amazon said it fired an employee who helped organise the action for alleged violations of his employment

Amazon is offering higher pay to its warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand

The world’s largest online retailer notified sellers that its program known as Amazon Lending would pause repayments

The legendary torch relay has had its fair share of mishaps

Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg promised 18 million masks to fight COVID-19

Jeff Bezos the world’s richest person said it is raising overtime pay for associates working in its US warehouses

Amazon made the decision due to a spike in orders and the need to respect anti-coronavirus safety measures

Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has not given enough support to warehouse staff during the coronavirus outbreak

Google, Facebook and Amazon are using their size, reach and technological prowess to help Americans

People have turned to Amazon for anything from toilet tissue to groceries and pet treats

With shoppers clearing out shelves in fear of quarantines or product shortages

Amazon is already providing unlimited unpaid time off for all hourly employees

Amazon's Just Walk Out technology

Those that had been infected with the virus were under quarantine

As more Indians shift to viewing movies and shows online

The initiative underscores the company’s aim to stay quick in online retail

Disney's board named Bob Chapek, a 27-year veteran of Disney

The world’s biggest online retailer is set to open Amazon Go Grocery

“Hunters”, released on Friday and starring Al Pacino, features a team of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York

Finance ministers, central bankers from the G20 met in Riyadh for talks, with digital taxation topping their agenda

OECD says this could boost national tax revenues by a total of $100b a year

The Bezos Earth Fund will try to safeguard the world from the effects of climate change

In 2020, the market for the public cloud is expected to reach $266 billion

Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics

The proposal has alarmed conservatives who fear it can lead to a change in the commitment to celibacy among priests

Pentagon awarded a contract for cloud computing to rival Microsoft

The online retailer is the fourth company to pull out of the annual gathering this week

Spencer rates Amazon and Google as his top rivals

The company’s revenue went uphill due to its cloud business, Amazon Web Services

PEMRA also recommended acquiring a license for Web TV and OTT TV