Jun 13 Amazon cloud service outage causes some websites to go dark By Associated Press Amazon’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing an outage affecting publishers who suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites as former President Donald Trump was appearing in court in Miami. Continue reading
Jun 01 Amazon to pay $31 million in fines for Alexa voice assistant and Ring camera privacy violations By Associated Press Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by its Alexa voice assistant. Continue reading
Mar 20 Amazon to cut 9,000 more jobs in second round of layoffs By Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history. Amazon had already cut 18,000 in the past few months. Continue reading
Mar 03 Amid layoffs, Amazon pauses construction on second headquarters in Virginia By Haleluya Hadero, Associated Press Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in the company’s history. Continue reading
Jan 30 Germany pledges $222 million for environmental projects in Brazil By Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press Germany announced on Monday that it would make 204 million euros ($222 million) available for environmental policies in Brazil. Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch 4:23 News Wrap: U.S. and Germany reach agreement to send tanks to Ukraine In our news wrap Tuesday, Germany and the U.S. have now agreed to send tanks to Ukraine to aid in the fight against Russia, the U.S. Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance… Continue watching
Jan 23 Spotify becomes latest tech company to announce layoffs By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it’s cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs. Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch 4:41 Massive tech layoffs, slowing growth boost fears of possible recession By Geoff Bennett The job cuts in big tech are piling up. Microsoft said it's laying off 10,000 employees and Amazon started a fresh round of job cuts in what’s expected to become the largest workforce reduction in its 28-year history. It all… Continue watching
Dec 30 Brazil’s president-elect announces 1st Indigenous woman chief for key government post By Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday Sonia Guajajara as the nation's first Indigenous person to head up a ministry. Continue reading
Dec 07 Pentagon splits $9 billion cloud computer network contract between 4 firms By Tara Copp, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon's $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network. Continue reading