All news on the topic: Amazon

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Amazon delivery van stolen with £1,000 of parcels sparks 100mph police chase
Police have detained a man after he allegedly stole an Amazon delivery van loaded with £1,000 worth of parcels.
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Jeff Bezos closes in on £5bn Liverpool stake as billionaire consortium targets Anfield
An announcement about a deal with the consortium led by Amit Bhatia, and including Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, could come as soon as this week, Sky News learns.
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Chinese state agency secretly built stakes in European energy, police and property assets through offshore network
Through an opaque network of shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg holding firms, an agency that manages China’s foreign reserves has discreetly scooped up stakes in Europe’s critical infrastructure, utilities, and real estate.
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Andy Burnham announces tax cuts for pubs as Labour overhauls business rates
Business rates will be cut by 20 per cent for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year, Downing Street has announced.
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Sky agrees £1.6bn takeover of ITV to challenge Netflix, YouTube and Disney
Comcast’s Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain’s ITV for £1.6 billion ($2.13 billion), creating a British champion to compete with global players YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and Disney.
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From enemies to allies: How Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos forged a powerful alliance
In Donald Trump’s first term, the president called an aide into his study off the Oval Office to assign a new target.
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EU court judges held shares in major companies they could later rule on, investigation finds
More than 40 per cent of jurists at the Court of Justice have declared private financial interests, with some working on cases concerning industries where they hold stakes.
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SpaceX soars past $2 trillion in Nasdaq debut and makes Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire
SpaceX shares jumped 19% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday, sending the company’s value past $2 trillion to make it the sixth-biggest U.S. company by value and turning Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire.
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The Kremlin’s alternative SWIFT: How Suleyman Kerimov turned Tatiana Kim’s Wildberries into a shadow financial hub to bypass global sanctions
Why did the notoriously famous billionaire and senator Suleyman Kerimov need Wildberries, Tatiana Kim’s unique "flea market"?
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New York secures $9m from Amazon in environmental fines amid tensions between Mamdani and Bezos
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles.
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Illegal asbestos found in children’s toys sold in UK despite wave of recalls
Five children’s toys on sale in Britain analyzed in a Guardian investigation have been found to contain asbestos.
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Big Tech accused of rewriting EU law to shield data centre pollution and water use from public
Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta.
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Google AI engineer claims he was pushed out after protesting company’s work with Israeli government
Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, highlighting growing concerns about the social and ethical impacts of AI.
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Twitch reverses bans on streamers who promoted sanctioned drone-linked Russian college
Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has unblocked the accounts of streamers who broadcast a Counter-Strike 2 championship organized by Alabuga Polytech.
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Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, deepening AI partnership
Google is planning to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence firm confirmed Friday, expanding a long-standing alliance between the two companies.
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Big Tech secures secrecy over data centres’ environmental impact as EU accused of breaching transparency rules
Environmental footprint of Europe’s data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
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Amazon in complex talks to buy Globalstar with Apple stake complicating $9bn deal
Ecommerce giant is trying to catch up with SpaceX’s low Earth orbit internet service.
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$50bn OpenAI deal with Amazon sparks showdown as Microsoft warns of lawsuit
Microsoft is considering taking legal action against Amazon and OpenAI regarding a $50 billion deal that might violate its exclusive cloud partnership with the ChatGPT creator, potentially leading to a conflict between the major tech competitors.
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Israel required Google and Amazon to use a secret “winking mechanism” in $1.2bn cloud deal
When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”.
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Amazon to cut up to 30,000 corporate jobs amid cost-cutting efforts
Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to reduce expenses and address overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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E-commerce giant to shut 14 stores and convert five into Whole Foods Market locations
Amazon intends to shut down all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the United Kingdom to concentrate on online grocery services.
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Chaos online as Amazon servers crash, taking down banks, apps and games worldwide
Dozens of games, apps, and banks experienced disruptions following a global outage.
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Machetes and ‘zombie knives’ sold by retailer used in fatal attacks
The owner of a knife retail store that sold a "fearsome" machete to the Southport killer had previously been warned by police for selling blades.
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Mike Bezos builds out Aurora Borealis family office to manage multibillion fortune
Jeff Bezos’ father, Mike Bezos, 79, is reportedly undertaking a “major expansion” of the family’s office, has hired a CEO, and is now on the hunt to hire a new chief investment officer to manage an estimated $40 billion.
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Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft ramp up AI investments, eclipsing US education spending
Tech giants have invested more in AI than the US government has on education, jobs, and social services in 2025 up to this point.