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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Amazon over its coronavirus safety protocols and the firing of one of its outspoken workers.

Solo online retailers who sell products without having to store inventory, called dropshippers, have been able to quit day jobs and become their own bosses.

Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, once gave Jeff Bezos advice that led to Amazon Web Services. Jassy has since steered AWS to great success.

Amazon has submitted plans for the final piece of its future home in Arlington County.

Amazon announced on Tuesday that founder Jeff Bezos would be stepping down as CEO and transitioning to executive chair of the Amazon board.

Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its Seaport District footprint with another office lease — and in this building, the e-commerce giant will share space with two long-awaited performing arts centers. Amazon has committed to 630,000 square feet of office space in a 17-story tower at 1 Boston Wharf Road, a building that’s part of WS Development’s Seaport Square master plan….

For Jeff Bezos, growing a little online bookseller into e-commerce giant Amazon took hard work and ingenuity, but it also took something else: luck. “Amazon is one of the lotteries I won,” Bezos said.

Some of the largest companies in the world have begun testing the temperatures of their workers. CNBC Make It spoke with an employment attorney to get to the bottom of what rights workers have.

To make it in today’s world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos prove it’s better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.

Worcester’s planning board has approved a site plan for the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the Greendale Mall as an Amazon “last mile” distribution center, despite concerns from neighbors about traffic, environmental impacts and noise. Board members on Wednesday said they didn’t want to invalidate neighborhood concerns, but they could only consider a narrow range of factors defined by...

Massachusetts residents who would be neighbors of Amazon’s proposed “last-mile” distribution facility continue to raise concerns surrounding traffic, noise, and the environmental impacts the facility could have on their neighborhood. Worcester residents echoed those concerns Monday at a Planning Board meeting and called for stronger commitments to worker protections, local hiring and a community benefits agreement, the Telegram &...

Amazon’s charity platform is allowing dozens of anti-LGBTQ organizations to receive donations, according to a report published Tuesday by U.K.-based political activist group openDemocracy.

Amazon is launching a new shared network called Sidewalk, letting some people with its products know they’d been opted in to the program automatically.

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year

In 2011, Larry Lubarsky was $100,000 in debt and living with his mom in Brooklyn. Now, he’s making millions of dollars a year reselling anything from shampoo to Nerf toys on Amazon.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested after allegedly stealing packages from outside homes. Police in Arlington say 37-year-old Patrick McLaughlin of Everett was arrested Saturday at the intersection of Stowecroft Road and Columbia Road after a report of a suspicious person in a vehicle. Authorities said McLaughlin was on drugs and was initially arrested on charges of operating under the…

Mattel and Sanrio have joined forces to bring a new line of “Hello Kitty and Friends” dolls to the market

A 23-year-old Amazon delivery driver is being hailed as a hero after he rescued an elderly man from a burning house in central Florida

Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos

RadioShack, a fixture at the mall for decades, has been pulled from brink of death, again.