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Seattle - Amazon is reportedly facing a potential investigation of its marketplace by antitrust officials examining whether it's using its influence to hurt competition.

Shoppers loaded their online baskets with items from Echo speakers to Calvin Klein clothes, signing up for Amazon Prime memberships, both paid and on a trial basis, giving the online retail giant another record-breaking holiday season.

Elizabeth City - Now that the Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East in North Carolina is ready to start generating electricity, the state's GOP lawmakers are wanting the project halted by the new Trump administration because it's a threat to national security.

Amazon.com has won a patent for a voice-controlled, pocket-sized unmanned aerial vehicle assistant (UAV) that will be lighter, smaller, and less expensive than conventional UAVs.

Late last week, Amazon.com unveiled the newest entry into the smartphone user-space, the Amazon Fire. The phone introduces several new features into the current smartphone market, specifically a feature dubbed dynamic perspective, and firefly.

U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc's China unit will strengthen regulation of its online sales channels and has closed down a third-party store, after state media criticized Amazon and smaller local rival Dangdang for selling fake cosmetics.

Amazon strengthens its position as a content creator by launching a new type of publishing platform, StoryFront, for short fiction.

Swansea - Just as the selling season begins to heat up, BBC Panorama send an undercover investigator into a UK Amazon warehouse and discover conditions that could cause "mental and physical illness." Amazon respond with, safety is its "number one priority."

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of online commerce giant Amazon.com, is buying one of the nation's most venerable newspapers.

Amazon, who already offers aspiring authors several ways to have their works published and sold online for free, has now entered into the comic book and graphic novel market.

Online retailing giant Amazon has been accused of employing security guards with links to neo-Nazis to intimidate foreign workers at distribution centers in Germany.

Amazon has operated in China for quite some time now and they are finally entering the ebook market with a mixture of paid and free ebooks with a cost range of $0 to $7 USD.

This past week Amazon announced it was launching a wine delivery service. The new marketplace, called Amazon Wine, will sell domestic wines in the U.S.

Olympia - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced today that they had donated $2.5 million to the Washington United for Marriage campaign to defend Washington's same-sex marriage law.

Online streaming is becoming a highly coveted market niche many businesses want to get into. In the past year there has been a lot of talk on the web about this industry.

A rather messy trademark infringement lawsuit over the name "iPad" has forced Apple to remove their iPad from being sold online in China.

Large chains pushed out independent bookstores. Bookstore chains pushed each other out. Barnes & Noble, the last remaining bookstore chain, now stands alone. As eBooks replace print books, can Barnes & Noble survive Amazon.com in an online, digital world?

The Humane Society of the United States has filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com over the sale of cockfighting magazines.

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. today announced that leading online retailer Amazon.com has selected Microsoft Reader as the preferred format for Amazon.com's future e-Book store. Under a strategic alliance announced today at Seybold San Francisco/...