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Minnesota

House DFL takes aim at Amazon in promoting warehouse safety bill

A bill introduced by Rep. Emma Greenman, DFL-Minneapolis, would require warehouses with more than 250 employees to provide workers with written notice of productivity quotas and would ban quotas that would interfere with breaks. It would also require employees to provide work speed and quota data to any employee upon request.

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Lifestyle

Swift: Captain Kirk's space trip may start seniornaut trend

Thanks to Amazon's recent New Shepard flight, William Shatner has boldly gone where no nonagenarian has gone before. Which got this columnist thinking: Doesn't every senior citizen deserve to visit space? But first, Jeff Bezos is going to have to make some modifications to the rocket, including Barcaloungers, a spacesuit redesign and lots of old TV Guides in the bathrooms.

October 16, 2021 02:00 PM

Letters

Reader Opinion: Warning

Anyone asking for money is likely a scam — even if they manage to put it through someone’s email address.

September 26, 2021 04:00 AM

Inside View Of Fargo's New Amazon Facility

Business

A look inside Fargo’s new 1.2 million-square-foot Amazon facility

The Amazon Fulfillment Center in north Fargo is the size of 22 football fields and is set to begin operations Sunday, Sept. 19. Take a look inside the massive warehouse with reporter Thomas Evanella and videographer Chris Flynn.

September 17, 2021 07:46 AM

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News

'Road to space': billionaire Bezos has successful suborbital jaunt

The 57-year-old American billionaire, donning a blue flight suit and cowboy hat, took a trip to the edge of space lasting 10 minutes and 10 seconds. After landing, Bezos and his crewmates exchanged hugs and popped champagne while roughly two dozen family members and company employees cheered.

July 20, 2021 07:30 AM

By Eric M. Johnson / Reuters

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National

Pentagon undoes Trump's $10 billion JEDI deal for Microsoft, reviving Amazon bid

The Pentagon initially said Amazon and Microsoft are the only companies that can meet the department's requirements but noted later in a press conference that they are reaching out to other cloud providers in the next three months if they also meet the government's standards.

July 05, 2021 11:30 PM

By Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Vehicles drive past the New York Times headquarters in New York

Business

Websites rumble back to life after Fastly-linked outage

High traffic sites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network and the New York Times were all listed as experiencing problems by outage tracking website Downdetector.com, but appeared to be coming back up after outages that ranged from a few minutes to around an hour.

June 08, 2021 06:14 AM

By Subrat Patnaik / Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon Jeff Bezos unveils his space company Blue Origin's space exploration lunar lander rocket called Blue Moon during an unveiling event in Washington

Business

Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos to fly to space next month

Jeff Bezos, fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson have been investing billions of dollars on their rocket startups, but Bezos will be the first of the three to actually travel into space on a rocket developed by his own company.

June 07, 2021 06:38 AM

By Reuters

Arts and Entertainment

Amazon snaps up James Bond owner MGM for $8.45 billion as streaming war heats up

Privately-held MGM, or Metro Goldwyn Mayer, was founded in 1924, owns the Epix cable channel and makes popular TV shows including "Fargo," "Vikings" and "Shark Tank."

May 26, 2021 06:56 AM

By Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters

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National

Amazon.com warehouse workers vote to reject forming union in Alabama

The U.S. south has been an especially difficult region for unions to make inroads because many of those states, including Alabama, passed so-called right-to-work laws that curtail unions’ abilities to mandate dues and other measures.

April 09, 2021 09:59 AM

By Hilary Russ, Richa Naidu and Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters

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National

'No sense of job security': Amazon union organizers tell lawmakers in Alabama

Workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, are voting on whether to become the first employees in the U.S. to join a union at one of the country's largest employers.

March 05, 2021 01:15 PM

By Daniel Medina and Nandita Bose / Reuters

NFL: Super Bowl LV-Kansas City Chiefs vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Arts and Entertainment

Super Bowl 2021 ads: Here are the most-watched spots on YouTube

YouTube ranked the most-viewed Super Bowl LV commercials in the U.S. based on their total views on Sunday, Feb. 8.

February 08, 2021 10:06 AM

By Todd Spangler / Variety.com

Business

Bezos to give Amazon reins to cloud boss Jassy as sales rocket past $100 billion

Jassy, 53, joined Amazon in 1997 after Harvard Business School, founding Amazon Web Services (AWS) and growing it to a cloud platform used by millions, the company's website said. He had been a clear contender for the top job since Amazon created two CEO roles reporting to Bezos, the other held by recently retired consumer CEO Jeff Wilke.

February 02, 2021 04:06 PM

By Jeffrey Dastin and Akanksha Rana / Reuters