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Digital gold is the new war zone for PhonePe, Amazon and Google in India

With Covid-19 impacting buying sentiment, the tech giants are leaving no stone unturned to woo customers to buy digital gold on instalments across the country, including smaller towns

Bezos says Blue Origin will take the first woman to moon's surface

Jeff Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon's surface as Nasa neared a decision to pick first privately built lunar landers to send astronauts to moon by 2024

Amazon faces charges of illegally firing warehouse worker in US

Amazon is facing charges of violating labour laws in the US for firing warehouse worker Courtney Bowden of Pennsylvania.

Boxed in: French climate activists protest against Amazon's expansion

The campaigners view the U.S. retail giant as a prime factor in the urbanisation of farmland, a process they say is contributing significantly to climate change.

Amazon to roll out tools to help workers in social distancing

The Distance Assistant solution will remind the workers to maintain social distancing in real-time through visual cues and sensors.

Aim long term for a strong currency

Strong currencies reflect strong economies

Amazon Monitron to help industries predict abnormal behaviour in machinery

Amazon Web Services has introduced a new machine learning service to detect abnormal behaviour in industrial machinery

Amazon to up the ante by venturing into quantum computing; lays groundwork

Amazon has been hiring for a Quantum Hardware Team within its Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Computing

Flipkart India revenue grew 12% to Rs 34,610 cr in FY20; losses dropped 18%

The company's total expenses for the year were reported at Rs 37,760 crore. During FY20, the company allotted total equity shares worth Rs 4,455 crore to Flipkart Private Limited Singapore

Amazon says sellers racked up more than $4.8 bn in sales over weekend

Estimates from Adobe Analytics showed this year's conclusion to Thanksgiving weekend sales would come in between $10.8 billion and $11.4 billion.

Amazon offers 'special recognition bonus' to employees in India

The announcement comes amid a global campaign #MakeAmazonPay, which alleges that the e-commerce giant made big profits, but at a huge cost to workers and the planet.

In the year of pandemic, recession and layoffs, Amazon 'hired like mad'

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million

US-focused disounts make Black Friday sale a white space in India

Post-Diwali weeks are dull here as most of the shopping budget is spent during Dussehra and Diwali period in the country

Battle of the billionaires: Bezos, Ambani gun for India retail supremacy

The winner in the fight for Future Retail Ltd, Amazon's estranged local partner, will get pole position in the race to meet the daily needs of more than a billion people.

Amazon to spend $500 million in holiday bonus to frontline workers

The company said on Thursday that it would pay full-time operations workers $300, and part-timers $150, if they are employed by the e-commerce giant for the entire month of December

Amazon, Flipkart, and others clock $8.3 billion in festive gross sales

The festive season this year saw 88 per cent customer growth from last year, which was driven by 40 million shoppers from tier-2 cities and beyond

Amazon row: FRL says not every development 'material event for disclosure'

Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail Ltd on Thursday accused e-commerce giant Amazon of adopting a media strategy of "having every development reported

Amazon's Jeff Bezos called upon to save thousands of stranded seafarers

Industry bodies including the International Chamber of Shipping wrote an open letter urging Bezos to exert pressure on the incoming Biden administration and other leaders

Amazon's popular cloud service AWS back up after widespread outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it had identified the cause of the outage and taken action to prevent a recurrence

NSE warned Future Retail of action over disclosures on Amazon clash: Report

Future Retail - one of country's top retailers - has been locked in a bitter dispute with Amazon over its $3.4 billion retail assets deal with Reliance Industries