Amazon’s Whole Foods deal wins FTC antitrust approval
The Federal Trade Commission approved the deal within a 30-day period, meaning it didn’t find the tie-up would hurt competition in the grocery market. Earlier...
Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is now America’s biggest company town
Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city’s next 40 biggest employers combined. And the growth continues: Amazon’s Seattle...
Amazon’s booming South Lake Union still awaiting its dinner crowd
Some hopeful restaurateurs may have jumped the gun in South Lake Union, where recent closures show a healthy lunchtime and happy-hour bustle from Amazon’s workforce...
Amazon’s new Bellevue bookstore shows brick-and-mortar ramp-up
Amazon is opening its ninth and 10th bookstores this week — in Bellevue and San Jose. The brick-and-mortar stores provide a glimpse into what Amazon’s...
No two-tier benefits: Amazon warehouse workers get same parental leave as corporate staff
Amazon’s relatively low-paid warehouse workers get the same parental- leave benefits as the company’s highly paid software developers and executives — a rarity for U.S....
Trump criticizes Amazon’s impact on rival retailers; a close look at what he said
Amazon.com’s prowess as a hiring machine isn’t impressing President Donald Trump, who in an early Wednesday tweet called the company a destroyer of retail jobs.
Amazon launches Instant Pickup service at five college campuses
The service, dubbed Instant Pickup, offers a limited stock of basic items that range from snacks to phone chargers and Amazon devices.
Amazon’s army of robots: job destroyers or partners? WATCH
The 100,000 orange robots that glide through Amazon warehouses and the thousands of Amazonians who build, program and use them are part of the evolving...
Defense chief Mattis visits Amazon’s headquarters
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos posted a picture of the visit on Twitter, where he wrote that it was “a pleasure” to host the official.