Amazon goes into full-scale retreat on the high street
The Amazon Style fashion store it recently launched in Los Angeles will be kept open and so will a few other experiments. Even so, it is hard…
Amazon shuts dozens of its book shops and electronics outlets
Amazon is closing a raft of electronics and book shops in Britain and the United States after they failed to take off. The online retail giant is…
Frictionless payments fuel boom in online spending
Social media giants have also played their part in getting consumers comfortable with quick payments. Instagram, for instance, has diversified away from sharing images and videos, allowing…
Amazon raises white-collar pay cap to $350,000
Amazon is more than doubling a cap on salaries for its white-collar staff to $350,000 (£258,000) amid a global battle for technology workers. The online retail giant…
Amazon backs down over threat to ban Visa credit cards
Amazon has backtracked on plans to ban the use of Visa credit cards for UK orders just days before the change was due to take effect. The…
The 10 best TV shows to look forward to in 2022
With this craving for content, an inevitable consequence has been an insatiable demand for stories. As a result, literature has found itself in fresh demand: you buy…
Amazon hit by IT issues wreaking havoc on US home deliveries
Amazon Web Services, which manages the troubled facility in Virginia, said the root cause was “an impairment of several network devices” but it was not clear how…
Michael Sheen interview: ‘I could never do impersonations of people’
In an acting career that has seen him play such luxuriantly coiffed men as Tony Blair and David Frost, Michael Sheen has found himself in some pretty…
Amazon’s takeover of James Bond studio will raise streaming charges, unions warn
Streaming prices will rise if competition authorities do not block Amazon’s £6.4bn bid for the studio behind James Bond, unions have warned. A powerful group of American…