- Nielsen and Amazon Sign Agreement for National TV Measurement of NFL's Thursday Night Football on Prime Video https://ir.nielsen.com/news-events/press-releases/news-details/2022/Nielsen-and-Amazon-Sign-Agreement-for-National-TV-Measurement-of-NFLs-Thursday-Night-Football-on-Prime-Video/default.aspx 11 comments nfl
- Amazon Really Doesn’t Want to Reveal Its COVID-19 Protection Measures for Workers https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/amazon-workers-labor-practices-covid-19-securities-and-exchange-commission 32 comments politics
- NFL teams up with Amazon to simulate and predict player injuries for better safety measures https://siliconangle.com/2019/12/05/nfl-teams-aws-simulate-predict-player-injuries/ 4 comments nfl
- Reddit, I built a tool to compare Amazon products by their unit-measure to price ratio. Yoonitz! http://yoonitz.com 3 comments productivity
- Amazon invested millions in a pre-revenue company with a system for measuring human proteins https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/amazon-invested-millions-in-nautilus-biotechnology.html 22 comments wallstreetbets
- Amazon deal lacks concrete measures, say climate activists https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66446449 2 comments environment
- Amazon deal lacks concrete measures, say climate activists https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66446449 2 comments worldnews
- Amazon could sidestep new G7 corporate tax measures because its profit margins are below a 10% threshold https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-could-avoid-key-g7-tax-boosting-measure-low-profit-2021-6 43 comments technology
- Amazon delivery app Mentor tracks drivers’ locations and measures their performance https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/22280585/amazon-mentor-app-delivery-drivers-location-tracking-performance 7 comments technology
- Dear Flipkart and Amazon, sales are measured in rupees—not Burj Khalifas https://qz.com/india/1424745/amazon-india-flipkart-measure-festive-sales-with-absurd-metrics/ 4 comments india
- Big Brands Are Using Amazon’s Anticounterfeiting Measures to Crush Small Businesses https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwad4/big-brands-are-using-amazons-anticounterfeiting-measures-to-crush-small-businesses 12 comments technology
- Pioneering study measures ravages of forest fires, identifying 230 Indigenous victims over the course of five years in the Amazon https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-07/pioneering-study-measures-ravages-of-forest-fires-identifying-230-indigenous-victims-over-the-course-of-five-years-in-the-amazon.html 3 comments worldnews
- In Brazil's Amazon region the Rio Negro has swollen to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, with a depth of 29.98 meters at the Manaus port's measuring station https://en.mercopress.com/2021/06/03/record-flooding-in-brazil-s-amazon-region-half-a-million-displace 11 comments worldnews
- Amazon workers go back to pre-coronavirus pay, with cuts to hourly pay raise and other emergency measures https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/05/amazon-cuts-hourly-pay-raise-and-other-emergency-measures/111901564/ 29 comments worldnews
- As Amazon shrinks, so does the region's vegetation, NASA study shows - While a separate study measured a 25 percent decline in rainfall across two-thirds of Amazon between 2000 and 2012, the new NASA analysis calculated a corresponding 0.8 percent decline in greenness. http://www.upi.com/science_news/2014/12/11/nasa-study-vegetation-decline-seen-in-wake-of-drying-amazon/2811418317129/ 24 comments science
- Brazil’s President Lula just issued six decrees revoking measures from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, that were harming indigenous people and the Amazon. https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/president-lulas-first-pro-environment-acts-protect-indigenous-people-and-the-amazon/ 8 comments environment
- Amazon broke the law by firing workers who called for better Covid safety measures, board finds https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-workers-pandemic-safety-b1827243.html 242 comments technology
- Amazon denies outbreaks at German warehouses: Two virus outbreaks have now been traced to Amazon warehouses in Germany. The company says it has introduced over one hundred new safety measures, which a major workers’ union says is still too little, too late https://www.dw.com/en/amazon-denies-outbreaks-at-german-warehouses/a-53574537 57 comments worldnews
- Amazon will spend entire $4 billion quarter profits on COVID to include employee safety. Measures include PPE for workers and introduction of *inefficient* processes to enable social distancing in warehouses. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-ceo-tells-investors-if-youre-shareowner-you-may-want-to-take-a-seat-as-he-explains-why-the-company-will-spend-entirety-of-4-billion-profit-2020-04-30 11 comments worldnews
- French court backs workers in Amazon row over virus measures; A French court on Friday rejected Amazon’s appeal against a ruling that restricts what it can deliver during the coronavirus crisis, handing a victory to unions which had criticised the U.S. e-commerce giant’s safety measures https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-france/french-court-backs-workers-in-amazon-row-over-virus-measures-iduskcn2261yq 5 comments worldnews
- Brazil’s foreign minister and President Jair Bolsonaro’s son met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday to discuss the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest, although no concrete measures to deal with the blazes were announced. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-officials-bolsonaros-son-meet-with-trump-to-discuss-amazon-fires-iduskcn1vk1f0?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 7 comments worldnews
- Big Brands Are Using Amazon’s Anticounterfeiting Measures to Crush Small Businesses: Amazon sometimes requires small businesses to get permission from manufacturers to sell their products on Amazon Marketplace. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwad4/big-brands-are-using-amazons-anticounterfeiting-measures-to-crush-small-businesses 8 comments worldnews
- Happy New Year, big tech! France starts taxing Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon| Tech giants will now pay more tax in France, after the country decided not to wait for the rest of the EU to introduce the measure. The so-called GAFA tax targeting major digital firms comes into force on January 1 https://www.rt.com/business/447865-france-tax-google-facebook/ 23 comments worldnews
- The Amazon is worth $8.2 billion a year if it’s left standing, finds a new study in Nature. In many parts of the rainforest, that economic benefit far outweighs the short-term gain of tearing it down. “The forest should unambiguously be saved when measured in a purely economic sense”. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bje7wd/the-amazon-is-worth-more-money-left-standing-study-shows 1417 comments science
- Brazil's lower house of Congress has approved a measure significantly reducing the size of a fully protected national park in the Amazon rain forest and opening up a big chunk of land for agriculture and other activities http://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/brazils-lower-house-oks-reducing-protection-amazon-park-47466530 5 comments worldnews
- Brazilian government reverses efforts to protect the Amazon: From sweeping cuts of funds to protect forests, to the loosening of conservation of indigenous land and measures to boost large-scale property deals, Brazil has embarked on the biggest roll back of environmental protections in two decades. http://news.trust.org/item/20170515130758-w3cht/ 8 comments worldnews
- Four years after billionaire moguls such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer funded a campaign to defeat an income tax ballot measure, Washington now makes low-income families pay seven times the effective tax rate that the rich pay. http://inthesetimes.com/article/17565/regressive_taxes 114 comments politics
- Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest. These shifts, measured against celestial timing used by indigenous groups, are affecting traditional ways of life that date back thousands of years. http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0430-amazon-tribes-climate-change.html 35 comments science