Read about online retailer Amazon.com and founder Jeff Bezos. Topics include Amazon Prime and Amazon Fresh; Amazon Original /Amazon Studios streaming TV; Amazon Web Services; its South Lake Union headquarters and other Seattle offices; Kindle readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo and Alexa; its e-commerce competitors; and Bezos' Washington Post ownership and Blue Origin space venture.
Time for U.S. Senate to take on climate change | Editorial
Congressional leadership, especially in the Senate, must work to find bipartisan solutions, however incremental, rather than continuing to stall meaningful progress.
Suits allege Amazon's Alexa violates laws by recording children's voices without consent
A lawsuit filed in Seattle Tuesday alleges Amazon is recording children who use its Alexa devices without their consent, in violation of laws governing recordings...
Amazon speaks out in favor of U.S. regulating facial-recognition technology WATCH
"Whether it's private-sector companies or our police forces, you have to be accountable for your actions and you have to be held responsible if you...
Amazon, Microsoft and others give tens of millions for homeless housing
The gifts total $48.8 million and will help build 8 buildings for chronically homeless people, who are usually regarded as among the hardest to house.
Antitrust chief rips Google and Amazon, citing historic breakups
Makan Delrahim, who recently launched an investigation of the tech industry, compared Amazon and Google to previous companies that the U.S. government broke up, such...
Amazon to shut down U.S. restaurant delivery service
Amazon Restaurants offered delivery in more than 20 cities in the U.S. It will end service this month. Still, Amazon has an interest in delivering...
Amazon donating $8 million to affordable-housing efforts in Seattle, Virginia
The company, whose high-paying jobs are blamed for driving up housing prices, also will match employees' contributions to selected local charities that aid housing in...
FedEx declines to renew Amazon's U.S. air-delivery contract
Amazon has been building its own logistics network and is delivering more of its customers' packages — but it doesn't have the capacity to handle...
Amazon's one-day delivery service depends on the work of thousands of robots
Amazon unveiled a new warehouse robot named Pegasus. The suitcase-sized robot is used to sort packages at dozens of the company's sprawling distribution centers.
Amazon conference showcases robots and social uses of artificial intelligence WATCH
Thousands of tech fans descended on the Mojave desert for the first re:MARS conference, a public offshoot of Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos' previous invitation-only conferences...