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Amazon

(亚马逊)

Amazon

亚马逊

Incorporated as “Cadabra” in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company went online the following year as amazon.com. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified into DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewellery. Apart from online retailing, Amazon also produces consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer, and provides cloud computing services.

Chairman / President

Jeff Bezos

CFO / Finance Director

Brian Olsavsky

Industry

Internet

Website

amazon.com

Headquarters address

Seattle, Washington and Arlington, Virginia, U.S.

Stock Code

NASDAQ: AMZN

Year founded

1994

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Amazon plans to cut its workforce worldwide to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy across the company. Photo: Shutterstock

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Flood of small parcels from China pushes Belgian airport to limit

Belgium’s top customs official says main problem is that many products do not meet EU standards.

Apple’s Tim Cook to step down as CEO, handing reins to John Ternus

How Amazon uses closer China supply ties to counter tariffs, Shein and Temu

Amazon bets on Shenzhen smart warehouse to cut merchant storage costs by 45%

Amazon expands China push with smart warehouse model, aiming to retain sellers amid rising competition from Temu and Shein.

Meet Anthony Norman, star of Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat

The second instalment of Amazon’s hoax comedy show stars an unsuspecting Anthony Norman, who believed he was working a temp job and ended up heroically saving the day.

Meet Lionel Boyce, who plays security officer Carl in Project Hail Mary

He was in hip-hop collective Odd Future, formed a production company with high school pal Tyler the Creator, and appears in TV series The Bear as Marcus.

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}Opinion | The danger in the Global South’s pursuit of AI as a magical cure

Rushing in without local R&D, literacy or governance risks leaving countries as testing grounds and passive consumers of foreign tech.

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Europe and America’s warmongering and genocide-enabling are at the roots of the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoints.

Dow breaks 50,000 for first time, as US stocks rally

The market roared back, with tech stocks recovering from AI-linked jitters and bitcoin halting its plunge.

Washington Post cutting hundreds of jobs, as US media faces Trump pressure

The newspaper, now owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, once helped bring down US President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

Ding Linwei convicted of stealing Google AI secrets for Chinese companies

Some of the blueprints were meant to give Google an edge over Amazon and Microsoft and to reduce Google’s reliance on Nvidia chips.

Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs amid AI shift, post-pandemic restructuring

The restructuring and cost-cutting come despite soaring profits and strategic hiring in key areas.

At America’s biggest retail show, the China question never really goes away

Tariffs may ebb and supply chains may detour, but US shoppers – and giants like Walmart and Amazon – still rely heavily on Chinese goods.

Bezos’ Blue Origin to deploy thousands of satellites to rival Musk’s Starlink

The TeraWave plan coincides with a rush to build data centres in space that can meet the soaring demand for large-scale AI data processing.

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Opinion | The danger in the Global South’s pursuit of AI as a magical cure