Product could debut by second quarter of 2026, with 100,000 units in planned production

LONDON, July 31 — The dominant position of Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing is harming competition, with their impact exacerbated by technical and commercial barriers to switching, according to an inquiry group from the United Kingdom's (UK) antitrust regulator.

VENICE, June 29 — Mass tourism, impossibly high rents, worker exploitation, inequality and elitism: Venice protests in recent days against Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's high-profile wedding have highlighted growing global grievances.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 — Amazon.com Inc yesterday announced its financial results for this year's first quarter ending on March 31, with net sales of US$155.7 billion (RM669 billion), up by 9 per cent year on year, Xinhua reported.

BRASILIA, April 20 — Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told Reuters during the country’s largest Indigenous gathering last week.

BRUSSELS, Feb 12 — The European Commission on Wednesday scrapped draft rules regulating technology patents, artificial intelligence (AI), and consumer privacy on messaging apps, saying it did not expect them to receive the green light from European Union (EU) lawmakers and countries.

NEW YORK, Dec 20 — Thousands of Amazon workers in the United States walked off the job early yesterday to pressure the company into union contract negotiations, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, as reported by German news agency dpa.

NEW YORK, Dec 13 — Amazon is donating US$1 million (RM4.42 million) to United States president-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund and the company will air the event on its Prime Video service, an Amazon spokesman said yesterday.

SAN JOSE, Sept 17 — Amazon's chief executive officer Andy Jassy has announced a full-time return to the office for Amazon employees, emphasising the benefits of working together in person, the German News Agency (dpa) reported.

NEW DELHI, Sept 14 — Samsung, Xiaomi and other smartphone companies colluded with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart to exclusively launch products on the e-commerce firms' Indian websites in breach of the country's antitrust laws, according to regulatory reports seen by Reuters.

ISTANBUL, June 27 — Amazon's market value surpassed US$2 trillion on Wednesday for the first time in the company’s history as its shares hit an all-time high during afternoon trading, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

SINGAPORE, April 10 — Singaporean authority registered 9,783 e-commerce scam cases in 2023, more than doubling the 4,762 cases in 2022, according to a report issued by the Home Affairs Ministry today, reported Xinhua.

BRUSSELS, March 26 — Apple, Alphabet's Google, and Meta Platforms will be investigated for potential breaches of the European Union's (EU) new Digital Markets Act, said European antitrust regulators yesterday, which could potentially lead to hefty fines for the companies.

BRUSSELS, March 5 — Alphabet's Google outlined changes to search results and new tools for app developers to promote their products on third-party apps and rival app stores as part of efforts to comply with landmark European Union (EU) tech rules seeking to curb Big Tech's power.

BEIJING, March 5 — US e-commerce giant Amazon and China's multinational tech corporation Huawei have ended a row over patents, reported dpa news.

LONDON, Jan 1 — Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and used the internet to buy the poison that killed her, a coroner has said, reported PA Media/dpa.

NEW YORK, Nov 21 — US multinational tech giant Amazon announced on Monday that it was launching a free skills programme to train people how to work with artificial intelligence (AI).

JOHANNESBURG, Ovt 17 — United States ecommerce firm Amazon said on Tuesday it would launch its online shopping service in South Africa in 2024, entering a market dominated by Naspers' TakeAlot.

WASHINGTON, June 22 — Retail giant Amazon has been accused of tricking customers into enrolling in its Prime programme and preventing people from cancelling their subscriptions in a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday (June 21), reported the German News Agency (dpa).

LONDON, June 1 — Online giant Amazon has revealed it paid £781 million (US$971 million or RM4.48 billion) in direct taxes in Britain last year, a jump of more than £130 million from the year before, as it continues its rapid expansion across the nation, reported the German News Agency (dpa).