Tech Firms To Face Lawmakers Over Antitrust, Digital Currency Lawmakers in the Senate and House will question lobbyists and officials from Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple on an array of issues, including whether they're so big they stifle competition. Aarti Shahani
Majority of U.S. households are Amazon Prime members Amazon’s Prime Day began in 2015 as a sale day for Prime members, who were then a fraction of American consumers. Now the majority of households in the US are Prime members, says Andrew Lipsman, an analyst at New York-based eMarketer. Carolyn Adolph
Amazon is offering 100,000 warehouse workers tech training Amazon plans to invest $700 million to train a third of its U.S. workforce for higher-skilled jobs. The company acknowledged that workers could use their new skills to seek jobs outside Amazon. Amy Scott
Using Food Stamps For Online Grocery Shopping Is Getting Easier Walmart is expanding a program for food stamp recipients to buy groceries online and pick them up in stores. It's the latest move to give them more options in the era of online shopping. Amy Scott
How an Amazon pledge figures in the politics of housing Amazon and Microsoft this week pledged $5 million each to build housing for homeless people in the Seattle area. Is there a political effect of this kind of corporate action? Angela King
Amazon: Government should hurry up and regulate facial recognition The head of Amazon Web Services says he wants the federal government to regulate facial recognition technology. Carolyn Adolph
Amazon, Microsoft back new push to house the homeless in Seattle Some of the Seattle area’s biggest businesses are backing a $75 million fund-raising effort by Plymouth Housing to build homes for 800 homeless people. Derek Wang
In a big shift, Amazon gives security contract to union firms Security officers at Amazon have long protested their working conditions. Today they learned that is about to change. They’re joining a union, and it’s all because of Amazon. Carolyn Adolph
Amazon hires a state Senator to up its lobbying game in Olympia A Democratic state Senator from Snohomish County has quit government to become a lobbyist for Amazon. Carolyn Adolph
'One-day shipping won’t matter if our homes are under water,' Amazon workers tell Jeff Bezos Amazon employees held placards, gave speeches and confronted their boss at the company’s annual meeting . John Ryan
