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Amazon is testing $12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day delivery and ad-supported Prime Video in SD; Prime costs $18/year or $2.20/month in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Amazon is testing $12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day delivery and ad-supported Prime Video…
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Rent the Runway partners with Amazon to launch an Amazon Fashion online storefront featuring new and second-hand items, expecting ~$4.6M in revenue in Q3 2023 (Olivia Rockeman/Bloomberg)
Olivia Rockeman / Bloomberg: Rent the Runway partners with Amazon to launch an Amazon Fashion online storefront featuring new and…
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An NLRB official rejects Amazon's attempt to overturn an April 2022 Staten Island warehouse union victory, citing lack of evidence; Amazon intends to appeal (New York Times)
New York Times: An NLRB official rejects Amazon’s attempt to overturn an April 2022 Staten Island warehouse union victory, citing…
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Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL's Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021's average (Daniel Frankel/Next TV)
Daniel Frankel / Next TV: Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder…
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Amazon S3 will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side using AES-256; AWS has had server-side encryption for over a decade (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Amazon S3 will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side…
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Amazon adds four partners for its Sidewalk network, including Deviceroy's Aria solar inverters, and plans to open the platform for developers later in 2023 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Amazon adds four partners for its Sidewalk network, including Deviceroy’s Aria solar inverters, and plans to…
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Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in November 2022, with new cuts starting over the coming weeks (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in…
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Sources: Sirius XM and Amazon are slowing podcast deals, Spotify is freezing US budget for new podcasts; all three seek to keep 50% of ad revenue vs. 20% before (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Sirius XM and Amazon are slowing podcast deals, Spotify is freezing US budget for new podcasts; all three…
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