Demonstrators demanded better wages for workers and for Amazon to provide better working conditions in a campaign called ‘Make Amazon Pay’

The mass layoffs that began in Amazon’s corporate ranks this week will extend into next year, chief executive Andy Jassy said.

Those job cuts would be effective beginning on January 17.

Amazon is facing a one billion US dollar (£889 million) class action lawsuit in the UK over allegations it uses an algorithm to favour its own products and those of third-party sellers who use its storage and delivery services.

Brazil’s government has granted a preliminary environmental permit for paving a dirt road that cuts through one of the Amazon rainforest’s most preserved areas.

Members of Brazilian indigenous groups, friends and family members have attended the funeral of Bruno Pereira, who was killed with a British journalist during a trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Human remains found buried in the Amazon have been confirmed as those of British journalist Dom Phillips, a Foreign Office minister has said.

The suit alleged that some of the products produced by third parties but sold on Amazon contained mercury levels that were thousands of times the US federal legal limit

Two bodies believed to be those of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been discovered in the Amazon, according to the Guardian and local media.

Search teams have discovered personal items belonging to missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous affairs official Bruno Pereira, Brazilian Federal Police said.

The two men vanished from a remote part of the rainforest more than three days ago

Amazon shareholders have voted down a proposal calling for an independent audit of working conditions at the e-commerce giant’s warehouses.

Amazon has fired two employees with ties to the grassroots union that led the first successful US organising effort in the retail giant’s history.

Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant can become more “proactive” and expand to be useful in “more places in your life” in years to come, the tech giant’s devices boss says.

Amazon is working with three rocket companies to help launch communications satellites the online retail giant says will help provide fast, affordable broadband to millions of under-served people around the world.

Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionise on Friday, marking the first successful US organising effort in the retail giant’s history.

Amazon has confirmed it is closing all of its bookstores as well as its 4-star shops and pop-up locations as the online behemoth reworks its physical footprint.

Visa and Amazon have announced an agreement that will allow customers to use Visa cards on Amazon sites worldwide without additional fees.

Amazon was one of the few retailers that prospered during the Covid-19 outbreak

Italy’s competition authority has fined Amazon 1. 13 billion euros (£960 million), accusing the company of exploiting its dominant position against independent sellers on its website in violation of European Union competition rules.

The area deforested in Brazil’s Amazon has reached a 15-year high after a 22% jump from the prior year, according to official data.

Amazon said it has made the decision due to “the high fees Visa charges for processing credit card transactions”

About 50,000 tech and office employees in Seattle work at the company’s headquarters campus

Your palm could soon be your ticket into a concert. Amazon said it is bringing its palm-recognition technology to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver and it will be available at other venues in the coming months.

The positions range from tech jobs to corporate roles to warehouse work packing and shipping orders for the online shopping giant

The boss of Amazon Studios has revealed she wanted the Kate Winslet drama Mare Of Easttown for the streaming service but lost out on the show to HBO.

It comes as UK firms are struggling to fill roles across a range of industries, with issues caused by Brexit and coronavirus self-isolation rules

Amazon has turned in a mixed bag of results for its fiscal second quarter, coming up short of Wall Street expectations in revenue but beating them on profits. During the three-month period ended June 30, the Seattle-based company reported profit of 7.

Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January as Covid-19 cases surge nationally due to the more contagious Delta variant.

The US tech giant said it believed the decision was without merit and that it would defend itself vigorously

It’s up to us to think about who benefits when we click and buy. We might not be able to stop the billionaire space odyssey, but we don’t have to help finance it.

Questions about the ethical nature of the Amazon chief's flight are justified

The research found that in the three years after the El Nino, the Lower Tapajos region emitted 494 million tonnes of carbon dioxide

He takes over the role of executive chairman, with plans to focus on new products and initiatives

Thousands of sealed face masks, were sorted into boxes marked “destroy” at the Amazon Fulfilment Centre in Dunfermline, Fife.

Amazon has told social networks to take greater responsibility for fake reviews facilitated on their platforms, saying the problem is increasingly outside of its control.

Amazon is buying MGM, the movie and TV studio behind James Bond, Legally Blonde and Shark Tank, in an effort to fill out its video streaming service. The online shopping giant is paying $8. 45bn (€6.

A European Union court has annulled a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between the Luxembourg government and Amazon amounted to illegal state support.

The company said its target was to reduce counterfeits on the platform to zero

Amazon’s pandemic boom is not showing signs of slowing down. The company said on Thursday that its first-quarter profit more than tripled from a year ago, fuelled by the growth of online shopping.

Customers can virtually test out a new hair colour and scan QR codes to order products directly from Amazon

Amazon has apologised for a tweet it sent to a US politician more than a week ago denying the company’s employees work so hard they must urinate in empty water bottles.

Jeff Bezos had already become a senior vice-president at a Wall Street hedge fund before founding Amazon, a journey which would lead him to become the richest man in the world.

Mr Bezos founded Amazon as an online bookstore and turned it into a behemoth that sells just about everything.