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Chief executives of Amazon, Google and Apple will also testify as part of a high-powered investigation of the tech industry More
House lawmakers said they could subpoena CEO to testify in antitrust investigation if he doesn’t appear voluntarily House lawmakers are asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify to address possible misleading statements by the company on its competition practices. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP A bipartisan group of House lawmakers investigating Amazon for possible antitrust violations have […] More
America’s billionaires are giving to charity – but much of it is self-serving rubbish Robert Reich Well-publicized philanthropy shows how afraid the super-rich are of a larger social safety net – and higher taxes Jeff Bezos’s $100m donation, for example, amounts to about 11 days of his income. Photograph: Katherine Taylor/Reuters As millions of jobless Americans […] More
Wildfires are ravaging California and Australia – and local fire departments are alarmingly underfunded and underprepared In the wake of the devastating Australian bushfires, Jeff Bezos announced last month that he will donate $10bn to fight the climate crisis. As a resident of California and the former president of the Sierra Club Foundation, I welcome […] More
More than a dozen senators tell Amazon chief Jeff Bezos of their ‘serious concern’ about worker safety at the tech giant Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are among more than a dozen senators telling Amazon chief Jeff Bezos of their “serious concern” about worker safety at the tech giant. Related: ‘I’m not […] More
Company claims president’s interference harmed its chances of receiving military contract that was eventually awarded to Microsoft Amazon wants Donald Trump to submit to questioning over the tech company’s losing bid for a $10bn military contract. The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump’s interference and […] More
