July 21, 2022 by Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Privacy, antitrust, and other advocates on Thursday sounded the alarm over Amazon’s purchase of boutique healthcare company One Medical, a move that one group said “opens a terrifying new frontier in surveillance of Americans by private corporations.” CNBC reports Amazon is acquiring One Medical, a Read more…
November 17, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Progressives on Wednesday slammed what they called a proposed $10 billion handout to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—the world’s first multi-centibillionaire—in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act as a “giveaway of galactic proportions” in the face of growing Read more…
July 12, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Progressive politicians and advocates this week responded to the so-called billionaire blastoff—the space race between Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos—with derision and calls to solve earthly problems of people and planet before spending Read more…
April 4, 2021 by Ethics in Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams Faced with irrefutable evidence and the prospect of yet another public relations debacle, Amazon apologized on Friday to Rep. Mark Pocan for an “incorrect” tweet denying that its delivery drivers sometimes urinate in bottles while on the job Read more…
October 7, 2020—By Ethics In Tech board member Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams House Democrats on Tuesday released a major report calling on Congress to overhaul U.S. antitrust law and take action to curtail the power of tech titans Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust Read more…
August 30, 2020, By Brett Wilkins (Image credit: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Creative Commons) On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, shattered the $200 billion ceiling. He had a decent day on the stock market, with Amazon shares edging up about 2 percent. But a “decent” 2 percent day for the Read more…
August 1, 2020 By Brett Wilkins At Wednesday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust hearing, tech CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) took a beating from lawmakers who grilled them on everything from monopolistic business practices Read more…
By Brett Wilkins A senior engineer and vice president at Amazon announced on Monday that he is resigning “in dismay” over the company’s termination of employees who speak out against dangerous and potentially deadly working conditions during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A ‘Chickenshit’ Company Motherboard first reported the departure of Read more…
Amazon is the most customer-centric company in the world! But who is the customer? By Vahid Razavi Everyone is familiar with Amazon retail business and how small merchants that participate in its marketplace are leveraged to build Amazon’s own retail endeavors. This article is not about the merchants, but rather Read more…
By Vahid Razavi Amazon Web Services (AWS) has tremendous market share when it comes to the cloud customer base and cloud offerings. I am not here to argue its success, but rather to show that its success has been won at the expense of its partner ecosystem. Amazon pioneered this Read more…