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Amazon will no longer sell QAnon merchandise, and vendors who try to sell related products might be banned.  On Monday, Amazon said it would be pulling all QAnon merchandise from its site. QAnon believers are a group of people who believe Donald Trump was voted into the presidency to save …

Amazon has told Parler it will suspend the company’s AWS hosting services access at midnight (Sunday).  According to The Washington Post, users of the site praised Wednesday’s Capitol riot while violating the e-commerce and web hosting giant’s terms of service. Amazon says Parler’s inadequate content-moderation practices was the violation.  A …

Amazon‘s Alexa is getting updated with a new feature that allows the device to scan your body using a radar.  Alexa, watch me sleep. That is pretty much what you’ll be able to do with Alexa’s upcoming new development that allows the device to track a person’s breathing for signs …

Amazon Music has just acquired the podcast company Wondery. Popular podcasts, including “Dr. Death” and The Shrink Next Door,” now have a new home on Amazon Music. On Wednesday, Amazon Music announced its plans to acquire the West Hollywood-based podcast company.  In a statement, Amazon Music welcomed Wondery. “We hope …

Amazon recently launched a new service called Amazon Explore. The digital platform will allow customers to book live, virtual events. The forum will consist of learning DIY skills, virtual tours, and shopping. According to Amazon, the virtual experiences are guided by local experts they trained. Amazon Explore gives consumers a …

Amazon has shut down its New Jersey facility as the Covid-19 case numbers amongst the company’s workers in the state continue to increase.  On Sunday, Amazon.com Inc. sent a statement to Reuters saying that it would be shutting down one of its New Jersey-based warehouses until Dec. 26, after seeing …

An Amazon delivery driver has been robbed at gunpoint and had his van stolen in Cleveland. The Cleveland Division of Police announced that the incident happened Thursday afternoon. The male driver told police he was parked and delivering a package when he noticed a dark blue car sitting behind his …

Amazon’s live-streaming service, Twitch has announced that it is beefing up its policy against hateful images on its platform and adding a ban on the Confederate flag. The new rules will take effect for any content posted on or after January 22, 2021. According to CNN, these changes are some …

Now, wait a minute Amazon! Another racist description has once again “slipped through the cracks” of Amazon, but this time around, it’s dealing with an African American doll with braided hair. According to TMZ, the digital marketplace was selling a doll with a description that reads “Doli Yearning 14-inch Adorable …

Burt’s Bees featured an extremely distasteful advertisement. The Amazon ad photographed a Black family wearing the brand’s matching holiday pajamas. If you haven’t seen the ad yourself, you may be wondering what all of the commotion is about. The outrage is due to the fact that the company carelessly represented …

Today Amazon opened an online pharmacy that allows customers to order medication or prescription refills and get them delivered to their front door within a few days. The potential impact of Amazon’s arrival in the pharmaceutical industry rippled through that sector immediately. On Tuesday, CVS Health Corp, Walgreens, and Rite …

Oscar award-winning actor Jamie Foxx is set to produce and star in “The Burial.” Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright wrote the film’s screenplay, and Maggie Betts has been slated as director. Foxx will act as producer for the drama alongside Amazon Studios, Bobby Shriver Inc. and Double Nickel Entertainment. Other producers …

House lawmakers are looking to crack down on several tech companies for their abuse of monopoly power.  In fact, they are now calling for changes to antitrust laws to combat the misuse of power.  After 15 months of investigating the practices of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, a 449-page report …

Amazon has been hit hard by the pandemic. The company has reported that nearly 20,000 employees are believed to have contracted COVID-19 between March 1st and September 19th. The billion-dollar corporation released the shocking stats on Thursday in a report about its testing policies and its response to the coronavirus …

According to finance records obtained by the Associated Press, several companies donated money to the reelection campaign of a Tennessee state lawmaker Rep. Susan Lynn, who chairs the Tennessee House finance committee. She has also used social media to promote QAnon, an unfounded conspiracy theory that says that Donald Trump …