Brazil’s Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap funding at COP27
By Michael Taylor A new alliance of rainforest nations – sought by Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – could be key to unlocking...
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Amazon moves to take down seatbelt alarm blockers in US, UK
Amazon.com Inc. is in the process of removing US and UK marketplace listings of products that disable car seatbelt alarms, the e-commerce giant said on...
Amazon strikes $3.5 bln deal for One Medical in long march into U.S. healthcare
Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O agreed to buy primary care provider One Medical ONEM.O for $3.49 billion, expanding the e-commerce giant’s virtual healthcare and adding brick-and-mortar doctors’ offices for...
Amazon pauses work on new office buildings to weigh hybrid work needs
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is pausing the construction of six new office buildings in Bellevue and Nashville to reevaluate the designs to suit hybrid work, the...
Amazon places purchase limit on emergency contraceptive pills
Amazon.com Inc has placed a temporary purchase limit of three units per week on emergency contraceptive pills, the company said on Tuesday. The move comes...
Cyprus signs MoU to modernise state IT
Modernisation of the state’s technological infrastructure and speeding up the adoption of cloud services by the public and private sectors are the two main goals...
Is the Amazon rainforest on the verge of collapse?
By Simon Willcock, Gregory Cooper and John Dearing Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to...
Amazon to launch AWS Local Zone in Greece
Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing services, announced on Monday that it will launch an AWS Local Zone in Athens,...
Visa, Amazon reach global deal over payment fees
Visa Inc (V.N) cards will be accepted at all Amazon.com Inc stores and sites as part of a global agreement, the companies said on Thursday....
Italy fines Amazon record $1.3 bln for abuse of market dominance
Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Amazon 1.13 billion euros ($1.28 billion) for alleged abuse of market dominance, in one of the...
