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The latest news on Amazon, the eCommerce giant founded by Jeff Bezos. Featuring coverage of antitrust legislation, criticism and protest against the company, and the platforms impact on politics and society.

The AWS outage exposes the fragility of our data-hungry digital economy

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, reported by The Verge, took down a huge number of applications and websites yesterday…

November 26, 2020 6:10 pm

Biden invites tech execs and Silicon Valley “creeps” to join his transition team

Joe Biden's transition team includes a number of executives from big tech. The move by the Biden camp, reported in…

November 12, 2020 11:59 am

The European Commission takes issue with Amazon’s buy box: opens another antitrust investigation

The European Commission has Amazon in its sights once again. Over a year after opening an antitrust case against the…

November 10, 2020 1:41 pm

What is “on background” and why is it bad for accountability in tech?

“On background” is little known outside of journalism circles. Typically, it’s a useful way of getting sources that wish to…

November 9, 2020 10:34 am

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