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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.

Amazon Prime now includes free Deliveroo deliveries in the UK

By Tom Warren
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Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues

By James Vincent
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Amazon gives the Kindle’s interface a refresh

By Mitchell Clark
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Today is the last day to save up to $100 on Sonos speakers

By Sheena Vasani

Amazon’s new MMO could come to its Luna cloud gaming service

By Jay Peters

Amazon, fighting SpaceX’s Starlink plans, says Elon Musk’s companies don’t care about rules

By Joey Roulette

California advances bill targeting Amazon labor algorithms

By Makena Kelly
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Amazon starts making its own TVs with new Fire TV Omni and 4-Series

By Chris Welch
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Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K Max adds Wi-Fi 6 and faster performance

By Chris Welch
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Amazon Luna is expanding to Fire tablets and Chromebooks, and retro games are on the way

By Sean Hollister
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

By Taylor Lyles and Cameron Faulkner

Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund pledges $150 million to climate justice groups

By Justine Calma

Today I learned that Amazon’s game engine can be used to aid humanity in a zombie apocalypse

By Cameron Faulkner
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The Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an excellent value at $250

By Sheena Vasani and Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Amazon’s cashierless tech is coming to Whole Foods next year

By Jon Porter
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California bill takes aim at Amazon’s productivity-tracking algorithms

By Russell Brandom
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge exits Amazon’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith series

By Chris Welch
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New Trailers: Moonfall, The Wheel of Time, Belfast, and more

By Kim Lyons

Amazon is reportedly planning to release an Amazon-branded TV as soon as October

By Jay Peters
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Amazon denies reports that it will proactively moderate content on its hosting service

By Russell Brandom
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Amazon is now denying its CEO saved an exec from being fired for discrimination

By Sean Hollister

Amazon’s Wheel of Time show is finally revealed in its first trailer

By Chaim Gartenberg
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1Password subscriptions are 50 percent off for Verge readers today

By Sheena Vasani

Ivermectin misinformation has poisoned Amazon’s platform, with few fixes planned

By Dieter Bohn
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Amazon’s new ‘adaptive volume’ will make Alexa speak louder when it’s noisy

By Mitchell Clark

Elon Musk: ‘Bezos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’

By James Vincent
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Amazon’s New World MMO is getting an open beta on September 9th

By Jay Peters
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The latest August Wi-Fi Smart Lock is cheaper than ever

By Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Walmart is launching a new white label delivery service

By Ian Carlos Campbell
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A guide to platform fees

By Ian Carlos Campbell and Julia Alexander

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As demand for bikes surged, Amazon got in the way

A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

By Decca Muldowney
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Amazon is using a custom logging device to track the trucks moving its freight

By Ian Carlos Campbell
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