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Amazon Changes New App Icon After Design Is Compared To Hitler Mustache
A new icon that Amazon rolled out on its mobile app has quietly undergone an alteration after part of the logo drew some comparisons to the mustache worn by Adolf Hitler. The new logo, which debuted in January, features a cardboard box design with a blue strip of tape on it. Some said the tape, situated above the company’s...
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Timeline: The Golden Globe Awards
Take a look at some of the key moments in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.
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NY Attorney General Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Safety Protocols, Retaliation
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Amazon over its coronavirus safety protocols and the firing of one of its outspoken workers.
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Dropshipping: How to Use Amazon and EBay to Become Your Own Boss
Solo online retailers who sell products without having to store inventory, called dropshippers, have been able to quit day jobs and become their own bosses.
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Future Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Was Jeff Bezos' ‘Shadow' for Months: ‘I Participated in All of His Meetings'
Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, once gave Jeff Bezos advice that led to Amazon Web Services. Jassy has since steered AWS to great success.
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Amazon Submits Plans for 350-Foot ‘Helix' at HQ2 in Virginia
Amazon has submitted plans for the final piece of its future home in Arlington County.
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Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO
Amazon announced on Tuesday that founder Jeff Bezos would be stepping down as CEO and transitioning to executive chair of the Amazon board.
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Jeff Bezos: I Succeeded Because I ‘Won a Lot of Lotteries'
For Jeff Bezos, growing a little online bookseller into e-commerce giant Amazon took hard work and ingenuity, but it also took something else: luck. “Amazon is one of the lotteries I won,” Bezos said.
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Can You Be Sent Home Without Pay for Having a Fever?
Some of the largest companies in the world have begun testing the temperatures of their workers. CNBC Make It spoke with an employment attorney to get to the bottom of what rights workers have.
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Harvard Lecturer: ‘No Specific Skill Will Get You Ahead in the Future'—But This ‘Way of Thinking' Will
To make it in today’s world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos prove it’s better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.
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Dozens of Anti-Gay Groups Are Making Money Off Amazon's Charity Platform
Amazon’s charity platform is allowing dozens of anti-LGBTQ organizations to receive donations, according to a report published Tuesday by U.K.-based political activist group openDemocracy.
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MacKenzie Scott Says She Has Given $4.1 Billion to Charity
MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year
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How This High School Dropout Went From $100K in Debt to Bringing in $18M Selling Stuff on Amazon
In 2011, Larry Lubarsky was $100,000 in debt and living with his mom in Brooklyn. Now, he’s making millions of dollars a year reselling anything from shampoo to Nerf toys on Amazon.
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See What Happens When Mattel Teams Up With ‘Hello Kitty'
Mattel and Sanrio have joined forces to bring a new line of “Hello Kitty and Friends” dolls to the market
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Amazon Driver Hears Screams, Rescues Man From Burning Home
A 23-year-old Amazon delivery driver is being hailed as a hero after he rescued an elderly man from a burning house in central Florida
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Tony Hsieh, Retired Zappos CEO, Dies at 46 After House Fire
Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos
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Popularity of Holiday Shipping Expected to Increase This Year
Chances are this holiday season, you will likely be sending or receiving a package of some sort. Travel restrictions combined with a desire to avoid crowded places have many people turning to online shopping and shipping services, rather than shopping malls. Using Thanksgiving as an indicator, The Mail Room in Manchester is expecting what they say will be a “crazy”…
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Left for Dead, Twice, RadioShack Gets Another Shot Online
RadioShack, a fixture at the mall for decades, has been pulled from brink of death, again.
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Big Tech to Launch Small Businesses Campaigns
Big tech is now small business focused as they try to help smaller retailers survive past the pandemic. Holiday shoppers now have the option to shop at regional small businesses through their “Support Small” page. Facebook, meanwhile, launched a #BuyBlackFriday campaign to encourage more commerce at Black owned businesses.
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Amazon Jumps Into Pharmacy Business With Online Prescription Fulfillment
Amazon has been quietly building out its pharmacy offering for several years after ramping up internal discussions in 2017 and acquiring PillPack in 2018.