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NEW YORK (AP) — Starting Monday, Amazon will requiring all of its 900,000 U.S. warehouse workers to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status. The move follows steps by a slew of other retailers, including Walmart and Target, to mandate masks for their workers. In many of those cases the mandates apply to workers […]

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. won a crucial court case to halt billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s planned $3.4 billion purchase of an indebted Indian retailer, a big boost to the global e-commerce giant’s ambitions of dominating the country’s $1 trillion retail market.On Friday, a two-judge bench of India’s Supreme Court ruled that an emergency order by a Singapore arbitrator last year, which stopped Reliance from proceeding with the deal, is legally binding. Amazon had app...

Starting Monday, Amazon will be requiring all of its 900,000 U.S. warehouse workers to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status.

Amazons sales growth slows as pandemic shopping surge eases Sign In ANNE DINNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer July 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - This April 16, 2020 shows the Amazon logo in Douai, northern France. Amazon on Thursday, July 29, 2021 turned in a mixed bag of results for its fiscal second quarter, coming up short of Wall Street expectations in revenue but beating on profits.Michel Spingler/AP NEW YORK (AP) — The worlds return to almost normalcy is slowing down Amazons pandemic-i...

Seattle-based Amazon has purchased a vacant site in south Miami-Dade County where the commerce giant plans to build a distribution facility, likely its biggest in South Florida. “We are expanding operations in Miami-Dade County. We will be opening a new fulfillment center (in 2022) that will employ 1,000 full- and part-time employees,” said Owen Torres, a public relations spokesman for Amazon. “Employees at the more than 1 million-square-foot facility will pick, pack and ship lar...

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Wednesday pressed a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James claiming the online retailer failed to ensure worker safety at two New York...

Amazon Asks Judge to Toss New York State Lawsuit Over Warehouse COVID-19 Safety Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday pressed a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James claiming the online retailer failed to ensure worker safety at two New York City warehouses as COVID-19 infections surged. James sued Amazon in February over its safety protocols for thousands of workers at a Staten Island fulfillment center and a Queens distribution center, and for allegedly retaliatin...

A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours Geekwire 8 hrs ago Alan Boyle © Provided by Geekwire Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was built with Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s backing. (Photos by Virgin Galactic and Michael Pereckas) The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galact...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was built with Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s backing. (Photos by Virgin Galactic and Michael Pereckas) The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceline may look totally different, but financially speaking, they have something in common: They both have connections to Seattle tech billionaires. The co...

The union will vote Thursday on whether to make organizing Amazon workers its main priority. Author: JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer Published: 4:55 PM MST June 23, 2021 Updated: 5:04 PM MST June 23, 2021 NEW YORK — The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that represents 1.4 million workers, is setting its sights on Amazon. On Thursday, it will vote on whether to make organizing Amazon workers its main priority. The Teamsters accuse ...