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By Craig Shirley | April 1, 2021 | 11:31am EDT Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, Washington on January 29, 2018. (Photo credit: JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) Some people still like to view Amazon as a personalized company delivering a variety of products straight to their door. This may have once been true, but make no mistake, Amazon is not simply any multi-billion-dollar company; it is  the multi-billion-dollar company. It’s owned by Jeff Bezos, who at this point deserves a lengthy e...

Updated Feb 24, 2021 Amazon Workers' Fight To Unionize Draws Help From Around The World Labor groups across the country and beyond are joining the effort to create a union at an Amazon facility in Alabama, which would be a first in the U.S. Roughly a hundred organizers have been calling workers from Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse in recent weeks, making the case for why they should unionize. The robust phone-banking operation reflects the high stakes for organized labor as workers at the facility consider forming the first Amazon union in the U.S. The organizing effort extends well b...

Amazon wealth reigns: Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott lead list of top U.S. philanthropists for 2020 February 10, 2021 at 9:36 am Jeff Bezos, right, his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, third from right, and other family members at the opening of the Amazon Spheres in Seattle in January 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was the top American philanthropist in 2020, giving away $10.1 billion to non-profit efforts associated with climate change and education, according to a ranking released this week by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Bezos, ra...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL February 08, 2021 Last week, Amazon unveiled its architectural plans for its highly anticipated second headquarters in Arlington, just a few hours north of the University of Virginia. The centerpiece of the planned complex, which also includes three traditional office buildings, is “The Helix,” a 350-foot tall steel and glass tower lined with greenery – including fully grown trees – that spirals upward in exposed pathways along the building’s exterior. Architectural firm NBBJ, which designed the building for Amazon, likened it to the...

Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos is stepping down as chief executive of the tech company he founded but said the move "isn't about retiring".