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Jason del Rey

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Amazon’s layoffs and leaked AI plans beg the question: Is the era of robot-driven unemployment upon us?

As Amazon doubles down on automation, the tech giant’s vision for “collaborative robots” sparks debate over the future for both blue-and...

04.04.2026 60

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Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say

Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

15.10.2025 10

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Why Amazon actually got off easy despite ‘historic’ $2.5 billion Prime deceptive practices settlement

The surprise settlement between the online retail giant and the Trump administration happened just a few days into the trial over one of Amazon’s...

26.09.2025 10

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Amazon’s famed ‘Customer Obsession’ credo is on trial this month

On Monday, a federal judge will begin hearing the FTC's case alleging Amazon tricked people into signing up for Prime and made it too hard to cancel.

23.09.2025 10

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Jensen & Co. caught in U.S.-China trade war crossfire—again

Jensen Huang has 4 trillion reasons to smile. But geopolitical instability is making it tougher by the day.

18.09.2025 10

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Opendoor’s ‘founder mode’ and new CEO bet

The upside of Kaz Nejatian's pay package is massive. But so is the challenge in leading the struggling company.

12.09.2025 10

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Why the founder CEO of $22 billion Ramp tracks every single day his unicorn startup has been in existence

Two thousand three hundred and sixty-seven days. Exactly.

12.09.2025 10

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Amazon has dreamed of cracking Walmart’s lock on groceries for decades, with limited success. A massive same-day shopping expansion could change that

Amazon has boasted that it’s building a digital “supercenter that’s actually super to shop at”—a thinly veiled swipe at its retail rival.

15.08.2025 10

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DoorDash is worth $100 billion thanks to dominating U.S. restaurant delivery. A much larger opportunity is starting to come into view

A string of recent acquisitions point to the ambitions of the company which posted its first ever profit last year and is due to report its latest...

06.08.2025 10

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy unleashed a meticulous 8-minute defense of AWS’ standing in the AI arms race amid investor stock freakout

AWS is the clear cloud leader in Big Tech. But fast-growing rivals, and the AI boom, have investors spooked.

01.08.2025 10

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Is eBay actually sexy again as the ecommerce old-timer’s stock surges to an all-time high?

The 30-year-old auction site is riding hot, historically strong product categories like collectibles and trading cards to its best performance in...

01.08.2025 10

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Is a ‘pretty good’ Alexa+ good enough to pull off a comeback almost two years after Amazon’s revamped voice assistant was first announced?

I've spent the last few weeks using Alexa . The beta version of Amazon's new voice assistant is slowly rolling out but needs improvement to live up to...

26.07.2025 10

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Walmart–yes, Walmart–says AI agents are its future

The retail giant has recently been at the forefront of online commerce. In embracing AI agents however, it's positioning itself ahead of even many...

24.07.2025 10

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Exclusive: Forerunner leads $30 million round in collectibles marketplace Courtyard

The NYC startup sells $50 million of Pokemon and sports cards a month.

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Amazon’s AWS has joined the AI agent craze. Now the real work of showing Fortune 500 companies how to actually use them begins

Amazon's unveiling of the Agentcore AI platform this week might not be the hard part.

18.07.2025 10

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Amazon’s Prime Day celebratory recap was missing one key metric that the tech giant usually reveals

Alexa, how many items did Amazon sell this Prime Day?

15.07.2025 10

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Amazon’s tariff-clouded, seller-confused, AI-researched, weirdest Prime Day ever

Ten years after Amazon launched Prime Day in 2015, this year's version of the online shopping and discount extravaganza is unlike any other in the...

09.07.2025 10

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Andy Jassy’s latest canvas for reinvigorating Amazon’s cultural DNA? Employee reviews

A recent move codifies and formalizes what was previously implied: that Amazon managers should evaluate employees in part on how well their actions...

03.07.2025 10

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How Amazon and Walmart’s retail dominance could be disrupted by ChatGPT and Perplexity

Serial e-commerce entrepreneur, and ReFiBuy founder, Scot Wingo lays out the vision.

27.06.2025 30

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Top e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein unveils Daydream—an AI-powered shopping agent that’s 25 years in the making

"This is very much the culmination of everything I've seen and done," Bornstein said. "I've just been waiting for the technology to catch up."

25.06.2025 20

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Andy Jassy is the perfect Amazon CEO for the looming Gen AI cost-cutting era

The Amazon chief's public memo about AI's impact on the workforce raises numerous questions. But there's one clear takeaway if you've been paying...

18.06.2025 10

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Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of

Whatnot has built a $5 billion business that's equal parts eBay and Twitch. Can it last?

16.06.2025 20

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Meet the 35-year-old tech exec helping chart DoorDash’s future—after a rapid rise to become of Amazon’s youngest female VPs ever

How Parisa Sadrzadeh went from an hourly job at Amazon to a Big Tech exec fast track.

29.05.2025 10

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Meet Amazon’s 38-year-old supply chain guru, helping CEO Andy Jassy navigate tariff chaos with a giant fleet of planes, trucks, and robots

Udit Madan is Amazon's youngest and newest SVP, overseeing the most critical arms of internet retail giant's business.

23.05.2025 10

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Exclusive: PillPack’s founders and an Amazon colleague launch General Medicine—a ‘one-stop’ online shop for medical care

TJ Parker, Elliot Cohen, and ex-Amazon colleague Ashwin Muralidharan, are back with a new startup and $32 million in funding led by Matrix Partners.

23.05.2025 20

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Andy Jassy makes the case for Amazon’s extraordinary AI spending, promising shareholders they will end up ‘very happy’

Amazon's annual shareholder meeting lacked surprises, but provided the CEO with another chance to build faith in his AI spending.

22.05.2025 10

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Inside the secret history of Walmart’s innovator’s dilemma and its decades-long road to e-commerce success

America’s largest retailer says its e-commerce department has finally turned a profit, but it spent years trailing competitors by failing to...

17.05.2025 30

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Walmart and Amazon prices are going up despite Trump’s China tariff reduction

Doug McMillon admitted on Thursday that even reduced China tariffs are too much for the country's largest retailer to absorb.

15.05.2025 10

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A serial entrepreneur, a musician, and Walmart’s CEO walk into an AI factory…

Eko, a startup that pivoted from video tech to product catalog image galleries, is building a new kind of factory.

15.05.2025 20

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy plays up his retail rivals’ worst nightmare: Trump’s tariffs may actually strengthen Amazon

Jassy tried to persuade Wall Street that Amazon will be just fine, despite worries about a tariff war with China.

02.05.2025 10

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Exclusive: Amazon is no longer penalizing some top sellers for raising prices aggressively amid U.S.-China tariff war

Amazon recently penalized some top sellers who increased prices amid Trump's tariff war. But those penalties have now been reversed.

24.04.2025 10

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Exclusive: Some desperate sellers say Amazon is penalizing them for raising prices to combat Trump’s China tariff increases

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said recently that sellers would “pass that cost” of tariff increases on to customers. But their reality has been more...

18.04.2025 20

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Netflix latest earnings and surprisingly stable outlook defies the souring economy and plummeting consumer confidence

Netflix shares surged 4% in after-hours trading after reporting a strong quarter and also maintaining its guidance for the rest of the year.

18.04.2025 10

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Exclusive: Chinese suppliers are offering U.S. Amazon sellers a tariff solution—but it’s not legal

In emails and WeChat messages viewed by Fortune, Chinese suppliers proposed illegal workarounds to executives from a brand with a large presence on...

12.04.2025 10

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Exclusive: U.S. Chamber of Commerce is considering suing the Trump administration to halt global tariff assault

Many big-company CEOs have been resistant to speaking out against the tariffs; No one wants a target on their back. Enter trade groups like the...

07.04.2025 10

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Is the CEO of the heavily funded humanoid robot startup Figure AI exaggerating his startup’s work with BMW?

A closer look at the details of humanoid activity at the automaker's U.S. factory reveals a decidedly more modest affair than some of the CEO's past...

06.04.2025 30

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Inside the fundraising playbook of the serial entrepreneur who’s done 3,000 pitches, raised $3 billion, and sold his startups to Amazon and Walmart in monster acquisitions 

Everyone's money is green. Fill the pipeline. Take every possible investor meeting.

03.04.2025 20

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AI search engine Perplexity wants to create the next great shopping experience. It believes a small startup can help

The company is working with the startup Firmly.ai to help make it easy for any brand, big or small, to start selling goods directly through its...

27.03.2025 20

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‘We are a speck of dust’: CEO of $80 billion DoorDash reveals candid take on popular delivery app’s standing

DoorDash's CEO argues his company has plenty of room for growth in its core restaurant delivery business in addition to newer initiatives.

13.02.2025 10

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Top U.S. Amazon sellers are furious about the ‘avalanche’ of Chinese competitors—and they crave a Trump intervention

The billionaire investor Mark Cuban also told Fortune that the state of competition on Amazon is “a huge problem for small companies."

12.02.2025 20

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The mystery inside Amazon’s record profits: How much are higher seller fees boosting the bottom line?

Amazon's cloud and ad divisions are key contributors to its record profit. But the tech giant keeps the full picture murky.

08.02.2025 10

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Amazon’s profit is suddenly going through the roof, fueling CEO Andy Jassy’s $100 billion AI spending spree to fight Google and Microsoft

Once profit-starved, Amazon is displaying a version of itself that many rivals have long feared.

07.02.2025 10

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Temu’s owner sheds billions in value over fears Trump’s trade crackdown will curb U.S. appetite for China-shipped goods

The elimination of the so-called de minimis trade rule could wreak havoc on Temu, Shein, and other direct-from-China merchants.

04.02.2025 10

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Amazon is jumping on the DeepSeek wave to boast about its AI game. But the real test will be its upcoming earnings

As AWS added China's DeepSeek's RI model to its customer menu of cloud AI services, company execs said the upstart AI company proved Amazon's AI...

01.02.2025 20

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