The FINANCIAL — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, and other tech companies participated in teleconference planned by White House. U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios led the call. White House officials urged the tech industry to coordinate its efforts to
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The FINANCIAL — Sales of hand sanitizer in supermarkets have drastically increased amid the coronavirus outbreak. On the auction site 50ml bottles of Cien hand gel, which can be bought in Lidl for 49p listed for £39.99 and people still buy them at elevated prices. Also,
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The FINANCIAL — The online retail giant removed more than 1 million fake and overpriced coronavirus listings from its online marketplace in an effort to stop sellers from profiting off fear. Facebook said it has banned misleading ads on coronavirus this week
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The FINANCIAL — The prices of masks are now rocketing as shops sell out but do they really work? China confiscated 31 million counterfeit face masks during the coronavirus outbreak. Amazon is warning sellers if they’re charging too much for face masks.
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The FINANCIAL — The online retailing giant – Amazon opened its first-ever full-size, cashier-less grocery store. Just Walk Out Technology automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When
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The FINANCIAL — Amazon’s chief executive and the world’s wealthiest man Jeff Bezos announced on Monday, that he will commit $10 billion to fund scientists, activists and NGOs to help preserve and protect the natural world. About launching the Bezos Earth Fund,
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The FINANCIAL -- Amazon, which doubled its profits and made more than $11 billion in 2018, won't pay any federal income taxes for the second year in a row, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has reported.
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The FINANCIAL -- Amazon.com Inc. disclosed its latest bet to control the so-called smart home, adding to its fold a company that offers a Wi-Fi system that ditches the traditional router.
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The FINANCIAL -- Having explored every time-saving delivery option from flying warehouses and package-carrying drones to checkout-free retail stores and even the controversial Amazon Key, it was only going to be so long until Amazon hopped aboard the delivery robot bandwagon. That’s
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Baltic countries, Ukraine and Georgia have lashed out at retail giant Amazon for selling online T-shirts and other products with Soviet Union emblems on them, and demanded that the goods be removed. Millions of internet users are protesting with putting #WhyNotSwastika on
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