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Amazon

Streaming platforms tighten grip on Hollywood with producer award nods

By AFP

Six of the 10 movies shortlisted by the Producers Guild of America were released by streamers - up from two last year.

  • FILE: Nikol Szymul staffs a reception desk at Amazon offices discretely tucked into a building called Fiona in downtown Seattle, Washington on 11 May 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Amazon accused of race-gender bias in workplace

    Charlotte Newman, who is black and heads Underrepresented Founder Startup Business Development at Amazon Web Services, said in the suit she has been harassed, sexually assaulted, and kept from advancing to positions she deserved in the corporation.

    50 days ago
  • FILE: US President Joe Biden on February 17 2021. Picture: Saul Loeb / AFP.

    Biden backs Amazon workers' right to unionize

    Amazon does not officially oppose unions but it has campaigned against efforts by staff at the warehouse in Bessemer to unionize.

    50 days ago
  • FILE: Jeff Bezos. Picture: AFP

    Amazon seeks to build on soaring growth as Bezos hands over

    Here are some key questions and answers following Tuesday's surprise announcement of a change in top management at Amazon.

    76 days ago
  • FILE: Jeff Bezos. Picture: AFP

    Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO

    The world's richest person based on his Amazon stake, Bezos said he will transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter, handing over the CEO role to Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services.

    77 days ago
  • FILE: Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. Picture: AFP

    Bolstered by pandemic, tech titans face growing scrutiny

    Governments and users are belatedly coming to terms with the power held by the likes of Apple and Amazon, particularly in focus this year thanks to their role in everything from setting up video meetings to doing our shopping for us.

    113 days ago
  • Handout picture released by the Communication Department of the State of Mato Grosso showing deforestation in the Amazon basin in the municipality of Colniza, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, in August 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon surges to 12-year high

    Environmentalists say those policies fuel the destruction of the Amazon, about 60% of which is in Brazil.

    141 days ago
  • FILE: Nikol Szymul staffs a reception desk at Amazon offices discretely tucked into a building called Fiona in downtown Seattle, Washington on 11 May 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Amazon says nearly 20,000 of its workers got COVID-19

    Data on the e-commerce giant's 1.37 million frontline workers, including those at its Whole Foods Market grocery stores in the United States, showed a lower infection rate than expected, Amazon said.

    201 days ago
  • FILE: Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan looks on during a commercial event in Mumbai on 17 May 2018. Picture: AFP

    Namaste, Alexa: Amazon signs up Bollywood superstar Bachchan

    In a blog post on Monday, Amazon India said Amitabh Bachchan's 'voice experience' feature will become available for purchase on Alexa next year.

    217 days ago
  • Aerial view of a burning area of Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, on 16 August 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Amazon blazes burn forest, farmland and threaten homes

    Experts say the fires that threaten the world’s largest rainforest are rarely a natural phenomenon and are mostly set deliberately by speculators to clear land for pasture.

    246 days ago
  • MacKenzie Scott. Picture: AFP

    MacKenzie Scott gives nearly $1.7 bn of Amazon fortune to social causes

    Scott, who formerly went by the name MacKenzie Bezos, last year signed a 'giving pledge' to donate the bulk of her wealth to charity.

    265 days ago
  • Construction workers, unemployment

    CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: COVID-19 job loss tsunami will be tough - but we have plans

    While we had an unemployment crisis and weak economic growth pre-coronavirus, there is reason for optimism, writes President Cyril Ramphosa.

    302 days ago
  • The MultiChoice offices in Randburg, Johannesburg. Picture: multichoice.co.za

    MultiChoice looks to Netflix and Amazon in strategy shift

    The partnership move marks a shift in MultiChoice’s strategy from trying to compete with such players to working with them instead.

    313 days ago
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    Amazon offers permanent jobs to 125K temp hires

    Amazon expanded its workforce with 175,000 new positions in March as restrictions on movements shuttered real-world shops and had people staying home to avoid the virus.

    327 days ago
  • A picture made available on 28 October 2014 shows the Amazon e-trader's new logistics center in Sady, near Poznan, west Poland, 24 October 2014. Picture: EPA/ Jakub Kaczmarczyk

    Amazon hit from all sides as crisis highlights growing power

    Amazon's market value has hovered near record levels around $1.2 trillion dollars as it reported rising revenues and lower profits in the past quarter.

    338 days ago
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    Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers

    Hourly workers at Amazon’s US warehouses will receive double pay after 40 hours for overtime, up from the 1.5-times rate, from 15 March through 9 May.

    394 days ago
  • FILE: Nikol Szymul staffs a reception desk at Amazon offices discretely tucked into a building called Fiona in downtown Seattle, Washington on 11 May 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Amazon boosts pay, recruitment as virus triggers demand

    The Seattle-based firm expects to spend more than $350 million to bump up hourly pay in North America and Europe for employees and partners in distribution centres, transportation operations and stores.

    400 days ago
  • FILE: Jeff Bezos. Picture: AFP

    Bezos launches $10 bn fund to combat climate change

    The e-commerce tycoon said the Bezos Earth Fund would 'fund scientists, activists, NGOs - any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world.'

    427 days ago
  • Robert Aramayo attends the 'The Standoff At Sparrow Creek' premiere during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival at Ryerson Theatre on 12 September 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Picture: AFP

    'Game of Thrones' actors among Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' cast

    The TV adaptation will explore new storylines preceding author J.R.R. Tolkien’s 'The Fellowship of the Ring', the first instalment in the famed fantasy trilogy set in the fictional land of Middle-earth.

    461 days ago
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