Amazon is taking greater steps to protect warehouse workers following weeks of public outcry., CNBC reports.

An employee at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in suburban Joliet has tested positive for the coronavirus, but the company has no plans to close the facility at this time. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed this week that a worker has tested positive, but is no longer on site. “We are supporting the individual who is recovering,” Amazon spokesman Timothy Carter wrote…

As the coronavirus outbreak has worsened, many Americans have hunkered down in their homes and are turning to online marketplaces like Amazon to get essentials like toilet paper, food and hand sanitizer delivered to their door.  While physical stores run out of stock and cities are on lockdown, Amazon’s warehouse workers, delivery drivers and contract employees have been praised for their...

In the last week, a group of thirty volunteers from tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Alphabet put together a website called “covidnearyou” that aims to track the coronavirus as it spreads.

On Feb. 19, U.S. stocks closed at a record, led by four tech companies that were each worth comfortably over $1 trillion at the time. What a difference a month makes.  As of the close of trading on March 19, those four companies — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet — along with Facebook have lost a combined $1.3 trillion in value since the market peaked. The broader S&P...

Amazon says it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online

Amazon says it is hiring 100,000 full- and part-time workers to meet the demand for online delivery services during the coronavirus pandemic.

The five biggest tech firms, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft, lost a combined $416.63 billion in value as the markets continued to crater on coronavirus fears and economic uncertainty.

Amazon said it has removed hundreds of thousands of “high-priced offers” and suspended thousands of sellers who have engaged in price gouging on its marketplace.  The company acknowledged the move on Friday in a letter it wrote to Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. Earlier this week, Markey wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos seeking more information on what steps the company...

Amazon is working on a cure for the common cold in a years-long, top secret effort called “Project Gesundheit,” according to three people familiar with the effort.

Ever buy an item from Amazon.com because it offers protection from scammers? Here are some tips on how to make sure you are not being scammed by the seller themselves. 

An Amazon employee at the company’s Seattle headquarters has tested positive for coronavirus.

A former Amazon manager alleges that her supervisor made her scour the social media accounts of applicants to determine their race and gender, and then fired her when she complained, NBC News reports.

The Daily Herald reports that Amazon plans to move into warehouses in Downers Grove and Palatine.

The Auschwitz Memorial criticized Amazon Prime’s new show about Nazi hunters Sunday, calling its depiction of the Holocaust “dangerous foolishness,” NBC News reports.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.

Roman Catholic priests, deacons and bishops across the Amazon are voicing surprise, resignation and reluctant acceptance of Pope Francis’ refusal to allow married men to be ordained priests.

A federal court has ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt work with Microsoft on a $10 billion military cloud contract that Amazon was initially favored to win

Pope Francis has stopped short of allowing the ordination of married men as priests in the Amazon, where there are severe shortages of clergy, calling instead for ordained ministers to come to the region and work alongside lay preachers.

Amazon is seeking to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis over a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract awarded to Microsoft.