- Amazon Will Face Black Friday Strikes and Protests in 20 Countries https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vebb/amazon-will-face-black-friday-strikes-and-protests-in-20-countries 76 comments economy
- Czechs Don’t Use Amazon, but Amazon Does Use Czechs - Amazon doesn’t have a website for the Czech Republic, but it has created a distribution hub in that country in order to process orders for German customers. They're paid half as much as German logistics workers. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/amazon-czech-republic-germany-unions 57 comments europe
- Amazon workers plan Black Friday strikes and protests in 15 countries https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-black-friday-strikes-protests-181200444.html 4 comments worldevents
- Amazon India demands product listings have country of origin by August 10 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-india-iduskcn24h1ty 77 comments worldnews
- Amazon India demands product listings have country of origin by August 10 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-india/amazon-india-demands-product-listings-have-country-of-origin-by-august-10-iduskcn24h1ty?il=0 3 comments india
- Amazon countries sign forest pact, promising to coordinate disaster response https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005991425 5 comments worldnews
- Amazon fires: South American countries to meet to discuss response https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49494908 5 comments worldnews
- G-7 countries slammed over $22 million pledge to fight Amazon wildfires: "Netflix paid $100 million to stream 'Friends'" https://www.newsweek.com/g-7-countries-slammed-22-million-pledge-fight-amazon-fires-1456206 1137 comments worldnews
- G-7 Countries Slammed Over $22 Million Pledge To Fight Amazon Wildfires: 'Netflix Paid $100 Million To Stream 'Friends'' https://www.newsweek.com/g-7-countries-slammed-22-million-pledge-fight-amazon-fires-1456206? 134 comments politics
- The Colombian government has been ordered to take urgent action to protect the Amazon rainforest by its own supreme court. In a historic ruling, the country's most senior judges said the state had not done enough to tackle the destruction of the environment. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-colombia-protect-deforestation-environment-logging-supreme-court-legal-rights-a8292671.html 545 comments worldnews
- Amazon's stream of the Sept. 28 TNF Packers-Bears game will include an alternate English-language feed aimed at "people who live in English-speaking countries and don’t follow the NFL. The feed will be elementary, essentially for people who don’t know what a first down is." http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/journal/issues/2017/09/11/media/amazon.aspx 858 comments nfl
- India is the cheapest country in the world to get Amazon Prime. [np] https://i.redd.it/gnertg3hsltx.png 45 comments india
- India is second biggest investment country for Amazon http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/india-is-second-biggest-investment-country-for-amazon/articleshow/48610417.cms 34 comments india
- Brazil's Lula lays out plan to halt Amazon deforestation, make country "global reference" on climate https://apnews.com/article/brazil-climate-carbon-amazon-deforestation-marina-d24fdc687f8e1ef27da2265bf70aad2f 120 comments worldnews
- Salles (Head of the Brazilian Ministry of the environment) promises to reduce deforestation in the Amazon in 40% if he receives 1 billion US$ in Aid from the USA and other countries. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brazil-seeks-1-billion-foreign-160720737.html 40 comments worldnews
- #ChinaBoycott: Amazon India begin work to list 'country of origin' labels on products https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-ecommerce/e-tailers-in-india-begin-work-to-list-country-of-origin-labels-on-products-iduskbn2491uo 6 comments politics
- Armed robbers raided an Amazon truck just before Black Friday as package theft runs rampant across the country https://www.businessinsider.com/armed-robbers-raid-amazon-truck-black-friday-steal-60-packages-2019-12 8 comments worldnews
- Bolsonaro: South American countries will meet over Amazon wildfires https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/08/28/bolsonaro-south-american-countries-will-meet-amazon-wildfires/ 5 comments worldnews
- Message to the EU: you have the chance to stop fuelling devastation in the Amazon - In an open letter published today in the journal Science by more than 600 scientists from every country in the European Union (EU) and 300 Brazilian Indigenous groups https://theconversation.com/message-to-the-eu-you-have-the-chance-to-stop-fuelling-devastation-in-the-amazon-115465 6 comments europe
- Morgan Stanley says Jeff Bezos has “financial muscle” in the space industry equal to whole countries thanks to his more than $160 billion in Amazon stock https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/morgan-stanley-jeff-bezos-amazon-shares-bring-muscle-to-space.html 28 comments space
- Peruvian Amazon lost nearly two million hectares of forest between 2001 and 2016, or more than 123,000 hectares a year, figures made public Tuesday by ministry of environment. Peru is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries on Earth, which together contain 70% of world's biodiversity. https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/peruvian-amazon-loses-over-a-million-hectares-official-20180508-0027.html 14 comments worldnews
- Colombian high court grants personhood to Amazon rainforest in case against country’s government https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-05-06/colombian-high-court-grants-personhood-amazon-rainforest-case-against-country-s 6 comments worldnews
- French book prize kicks up storm with Amazon selection - Booksellers are furious a novel distributed only by Amazon has made it onto the long-list for one of France’s top literary prizes, saying it rewards the goliath that threatens both their livelihood and the country’s heritage. https://www.france24.com/en/20180912-france-literature-book-prize-renaudot-amazon-koskas-bookshops 45 comments books
- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has pledged to donate 1 million Australian dollars ($690,000) to help fight the country's wildfires, which has drawn criticism from some who say the donation is meager in comparison to his net worth. None 5 comments business
- Bolsonaro on Norway's Amazon aid cut: "Norway is that country that kills whales in the North Pole, right? That also explores oil there? They haven't anything to offer to us. Take this money and help Angela Merkel to reforest Germany" https://noticias.uol.com.br/meio-ambiente/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2019/08/15/bolsonaro-sobre-noruega-nao-e-aquela-que-mata-baleia-e-explora-petroleo.htm 13 comments worldnews
- Amazon is launching a better version of the post office in cities around the country https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pickup-locations-how-to-use-them-2018-7?utm_source=feedburner&amp%3Butm_medium=referral&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+businessinsider+%28business+insider%29 5 comments business
- Amazon's Founder Pledges $2.5 Million in Support of Same-Sex Marriage (becoming among the largest financial backers of gay marriage rights in the country) - NYTimes.com http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/amazons-founder-pledges-2-5-million-in-support-of-same-sex-marriage/?smid=fb-nytimes&wt.mc_id=po-e-fb-sm-lin-afp-072712-nyt-na&wt.mc_ev=click 8 comments politics
- ‘Ring Nation’ Is a Terrible Idea That’s Unstoppable Because Amazon Owns Everything | Amazon owns Ring, MGM, and production company Big Fish Entertainment. It owns Prime Video, and has the support of police around the country. What can stop it? https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zdkm/cancel-ring-nation-amazon-show 885 comments technology
- Who’s Watching Your Porch? - Ring offers a front-door view of a country where millions of Amazon customers use Amazon cameras to watch Amazon contractors deliver Amazon packages. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/style/ring-video-doorbell-home-security.html 9 comments technology
- Exploit the Amazon: Brazil Unveils Its Radical New Sales Pitch. The country’s environment minister says the best way to save the region from burning is to open it up to business. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-04/exploit-the-amazon-brazil-unveils-its-radical-new-sales-pitch 11 comments worldnews
- Indian business owners are furious about Amazon's $1 billion expansion into their country and are calling Jeff Bezos an 'economic terrorist' https://www.businessinsider.com/indian-shop-owners-protesting-amazon-call-bezos-economic-terrorist-2020-1 501 comments worldnews
- I'm a big fan of Purse, where you can pay with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash and get 15–30% off everything from Amazon, so I wrote a guide how to use it. This works even if Amazon and Purse is not “officially” in your country. Enjoy! https://medium.com/bitruption/pay-with-bitcoin-and-get-15-30-off-everything-from-amazon-a54515341d6 18 comments btc
- 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
- European Union approves content quota for streaming services: Netflix and Amazon Prime will have to make sure that at least 30 percent of their catalogs in Europe come from European countries. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/european-union-approves-content-quota-for-streaming-services/ 13 comments worldnews
- A panel working on the Indian government’s cloud computing policy wants data generated in India to be stored within the country, according to its draft report seen by Reuters, a proposal that could deal a blow to global technology giants such as Amazon and Microsoft who offer such services. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-data-localisation-exclusive/exclusive-india-panel-wants-localization-of-cloud-storage-data-in-possible-blow-to-big-tech-firms-iduskbn1kp08j 9 comments technology
- G7 pledges $20m to fight record Amazon fires -- Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro slams G7 plan to tackle Amazon blazes, saying it treats his country 'like a colony'. https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/g7-pledges-20m-fight-record-amazon-fires-190826113023820.html 4 comments worldnews
- Amazon wins dispute with Latin American governments over the top-level domain ".amazon". A coalition of eight countries had argued the name referred to their geographic region and should belong to them. https://www.ft.com/content/c8f227e6-7b0c-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560 11 comments worldnews
- Is there any hope for America when the #1 book on Amazon is endorsed by Glenn Beck and called "The Islamic Antichrist?" WTF is happening to our country? http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/021811amazonimage.jpg 82 comments politics
- Big Tech defenders dominate the country’s top group of antitrust lawyers: Current and former members say the American Bar Association's antitrust section is overrun with lawyers who have represented Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. https://www.protocol.com/policy/big-tech-antitrust-legal-association 2 comments technology
- Peru dismissed its top anti-illegal logging official, amid claims that he was doing too good a job at breaking up the organized crime groups profiting from ravaging the country’s vast Amazon rainforest. http://www.globalpost.com/article/6720538/2016/01/15/amazon-forest-defenders-say-top-anti-logging-official-peru-was-fired 4 comments worldnews