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Hyderabad: We recently witnessed Gucci and Adidas sell an umbrella for Rs 1.2 Lakh, an umbrella that was not even waterproof. Following suit, Amazon is now selling a plastic bucket for just Rs 25,999. This pink coloured bucket was initially priced at Rs 35,900 and after the good graces of the Amazon fell on it, […]
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Bengaluru: E-commerce giant Amazon on Sunday said it has cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh direct and indirect jobs in India so far, and is on track to reach the target of creating 20 lakh direct and indirect jobs by 2025. “We have cumulatively created over 11.6 lakh jobs, enabled nearly $5 billion in exports and […]
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Hyderabad: Industry body FTCCI and Amazon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enable e-commerce adoption by its MSME members in Telangana State. “E-commerce played a major role in streamlining business processes right from receiving a product order, to managing deliveries, keeping track of stock and analyzing consumer feedback and data,” said Industries Principal Secretary […]
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Bengaluru: E-commerce giant Amazon on Wednesday announced it now aims exports worth $20 billion from India by 2025, thus doubling its goal. In 2020, Amazon pledged to enable $10 billion in cumulative exports from India by 2025. The company said that cumulative exports by the Indian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) via its ‘Global […]
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Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao on Friday said that Telangana, under the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, was witnessing balanced growth in terms of welfare and development and was providing better amenities than neighbouring States. “Corporate giants like Amazon and Google were setting up their second largest units in Hyderabad with investments […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon uses voice data from its Echo devices to serve targeted ads on its own platforms and the web, says a new report. According to The Verge, the report, which included researchers from the University of Washington concluded that Amazon and third parties (including advertising and tracking services) collect data from interactions […]
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Hyderabad: After Microsoft and Amazon announced their largest campus outside of their headquarters, another tech giant is all set to open its campus in Hyderabad. Sundar Pichai-led Google has announced that it will be setting up its largest campus in India at Hyderabad. The campus will be spread across 7.3-acres in Gachibowli’s Financial District. The […]
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New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon on Friday said that it has acquired homegrown women-focused social commerce startup GlowRoad for an undisclosed sum. In a statement, the company said the acquisition will help it meet the commitment to digitise 10 million local Indian businesses by 2025. “Amazon continues to explore new ways to digitise India and […]
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San Francisco: Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy has said that the e-commerce giant wants to improve worker safety at its warehouses and fulfilment centres, as the company faces intense scrutiny over employees’ conditions. In his first shareholder letter as the head of Amazon, Jassy, who took over as CEO from founder Jeff Bezos last […]
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New Delhi: A bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana on Wednesday said it hopes it does not have to hear this case again, while noting that Amazon and Future Retail Limited (FRL) will move the arbitration tribunal to resume arbitration proceedings. The top court added that the tribunal will consider FRL’s application on priority […]
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New Delhi: Tata Group has finally announced to launch its much-anticipated super app called aNeu’ on April 7, as it attempts to take on Amazon and Jio Platforms amid the stupendous growth in the consumer digital economy space in the ‘mobile-first’ country. The company revealed the launch date of ‘Neu’ on its app as well […]
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Washington: The US government has initiated an investigation into Amazon’s labour rules around severe weather events, as six people died in a tornado strike last year at the company’s warehouse in the state of Illinois. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, seeking documents regarding Amazon’s […]
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New Delhi: Future Retail Limited (FRL) counsel on Friday told the Supreme Court that nobody wants to do business with it today as Section 7 of the IBC may come any day, and the company owes landlords thousands of crores in rentals, as Amazon could not get Future Retail, it destroyed the company. Senior advocate […]
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New Delhi: Amazon India and SUN Mobility on Thursday announced that they are working together to expand the deployment of EVs integrated with battery swapping technology for its transportation and logistics services. These EVs will contribute to Amazon India’s commitment of adding 10,000 electric vehicles in its India delivery fleet by 2025, announced in 2020. […]
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Visakhapatnam: A girl studying B.Tech has been selected as software engineer by e-Commerce major Amazon. Snehakiran, a native of Palasa in Srikakulam district, is studying final year engineering at ANITS college in the city. During campus selections held in December last year, Amazon selected her offering a salary of Rs.44 lakh per annum. Snehakiran’s father […]
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New Delhi: Amazon counsel on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the dialogue to settle the dispute with Future Retail did not work, and complained against Reliance taking over Future stores, despite no asset transfer order. Senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, representing Amazon, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, “the efforts did […]
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Los Angeles: Amazon has joined the growing number of businesses suspending commercial activities in Russia in the wake of the country’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. The e-commerce giant said in a statement that it is cutting off access to Prime Video for customers based in Russia, given “the ongoing situation in Russia and Ukraine.” Amazon […]
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The company said that it will no longer be accepting new Russia and Belarus-based AWS customers and Amazon third-party sellers.
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The retail giant confirmed to ZDNet late on Wednesday that it is shutting over 60 bookstores, Amazon Pop Ups and "Amazon 4-star" shops.
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Hyderabad: Reliance has started taking over the Future Retail stores recently as these store leases were in Reliance’s name and Future was no longer able to operate the stores any further. Reliance is making job offers to all the employees of these stores, which will ensure job continuity for nearly 30,000 employees of Future’s retail […]
