Amazon investor proposal to review plastic use narrowly fails to clear
Amazon.com Inc’s investor-led proposal to review its use of plastic won 49% support. This is even as shareholders voted down all the 15 resolutions at the e-commerce giant’s annual general meeting. It was the only proposal that came close to reaching the 51% mark for approval. Investors opposed resolutions that challenged the company’s policies on various…
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Amazon to get hearing that could overturn NY union vote
A U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) official said that Amazon.com Inc’s objections to a landmark union election at a company warehouse in New York City justify a hearing that could overturn the result. The online retailer has accused the NLRB’s Brooklyn office of appearing to support the union drive and alleged that labor organizers intimidated…
How to save the Amazon?
A Brazilian company that owns 410 square kilometers (158 square miles) of Amazon rainforest is offering a new way to fund conservation by selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This allows buyers to sponsor the preservation of specific areas of jungle. NFTs are a kind of crypto asset that exploded in popularity, with a unique digital signature…
Outage shows how Amazon’s complex cloud makes backup plans difficult
Major companies using Amazon.com’s data services got a lesson, about how the complexity and market dominance of the company’s cloud unit make it difficult to back up their data with other providers. Amazon said that an impairment of several network devices in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virginia data center region caused the prolonged outage….
Amazon’s Twitch blames configuration error for data breach
Twitch is a live streaming e-sports platform, which is owned by Amazon. They recently blamed “an error” in server configuration change, and added that this might have allowed an alleged hacker to leak sensitive information. This platform said that it was still assessing the impact and that it had reset all stream keys that allow…
Amazon, Google faces formal fake review inquiry in Britain
Britain’s competition regulator started a formal investigation into whether Amazon and Google may not have done enough to prevent or remove fake reviews. Along with regulators in the United Sates and the European Union, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has stepped up its scrutiny of big tech firms in recent years. The British regulator said that…