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Once a modest online seller of books, Amazon is now one of the largest companies in the world, and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the world’s most wealthy person. We track developments, both of Bezos and Amazon, its growth as a video producer, the popular Prime service, as well as its own hardware, which includes the Amazon Kindle e-reader, Amazon Kindle Fire tablets, and Amazon Fire TV streaming boxes.

The M1 MacBook Air is discounted to its lowest price yet at Best Buy

By Alice Newcome-Beill

Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home

With Roomba’s maps, Amazon’s vision of ambient intelligence in the smart home is suddenly attainable

By Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion

By Tom Warren
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Amazon’s Luna game streaming service arrives on Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs and monitors

By Tom Warren
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Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now

By Brandon Widder and Sheena Vasani

A mysterious battery-powered Google device appears in FCC filings

By Jay Peters
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

By Brandon Widder and Cameron Faulkner

Amazon's climate pollution is getting way worse

By Justine Calma

Amazon is teaming up with Dude Perfect for alternate Thursday Night Football streams

By Jay Peters
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Amazon brings the mall to you with same-day GNC, PacSun deliveries

By Emma Roth
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The M1 MacBook Air is down to its lowest price ever at Best Buy

By Alice Newcome-Beill

The next Tomb Raider film will feature a new Lara Croft

By Emma Roth
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Amazon’s stunner of a smart thermostat is on sale for its best price to date

By Sheena Vasani

Lenovo Smart Clock Essential with Alexa review: not essential at all 

Your kid might like it, but you probably won’t

By Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023

By Chris Welch
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Amazon’s Paper Girls series takes too long to get fun and weird

The live-action adaptation plays things a little too safe

By Andrew Webster
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Amazon says sales are picking up following a big Prime Day

By Jay Peters

These 26 Amazon workers want the feds to investigate racist death threats

By Mitchell Clark
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Amazon is raising Prime prices in Europe by up to 43 percent a year

By Tom Warren
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Amazon’s best-selling new charcoal grill is... the Pixel Buds Pro?

By Sean Hollister
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Streaming video apps all look the same now

By Chris Welch
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There’s beauty and battles in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s new trailer

By Andrew Webster
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How to change Alexa’s voice

By Dan Seifert and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

The PlayStation Summer Sale is offering rare deals on games like The Quarry and Sifu

By Sheena Vasani

Amazon’s electric Rivian delivery vans are rolling out nationwide

By Richard Lawler
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Amazon is buying ‘membership-based’ healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9 billion

By Richard Lawler
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Amazon is slowly turning Alexa into a totally automated virtual assistant

By David Pierce

Here’s how Amazon says Matter will make Alexa better

By Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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Internal documents show Facebook and Google discussing platform strategies

By Makena Kelly

Amazon targets admins behind thousands of fake review Facebook groups

By Jon Porter
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Amazon is giving Prime Video its biggest redesign in years

New navigation, a top 10 list, and a very familiar look and feel

By Chris Welch
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Today I learned Amazon will recycle small electronics for free

By Emma Roth
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