Amazon is a Seattle-based retailer and technology company primarily involved in e-commerce, cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming and artificial intelligence. It owns dozens of ...

History of Amazon Amazon was launched out of the garage of founder Jeff Bezos in 1994. The company began operations in April, 1995 when, early on, Bezos famously hand-delivered orders to the post ...

Amazon on Friday said it acquired iRobot, the company that makes Roomba vacuums, for $1.7 billion.; The deal prompted concerns from data-privacy experts and antitrust researchers. People don't buy ...

The tech sector’s ongoing economic woes continue to hammer Amazon, resulting in the largest round of layoffs in the e-commerce giant’s history. The company will eliminate an additional 8,000 ...

Amazon layoffs last year were the largest in the company's history. Here's a timeline of the e-commerce giant's hiring freezes and job cuts into 2024.

This past fall, Amazon announced it was cutting 6% of its 300,000-strong corporate workforce — the largest in its nearly 30-year-history. In its most recent earnings report, the company said its ...

2018. On September 4, 2018, Amazon became just the second US company ever to reach a $1 trillion market cap, after Apple reached it earlier in the year.2020. Amazon's sales and profits surged ...

Andy Jassy announced that Amazon employees impacted by its largest layoff in history will start to get notified Wednesday. The company plans to lay off just over 18,000 people.

Amazon plans to lay off about 10,000 employees in what would be the largest reduction in the company's history, according to reports. The New York Times reported the mass layoffs could begin as ...

Amazon said July 11 was the single largest sales day in the company’s history, but declined to provide totals. Shoppers bought 375 million items across the two days, up from 300 million last ...

Amazon will become the latest technology company to make massive job cuts, laying off approximately 10,000 people in its corporate and technology workforce, according to a New York Times report ...