#Amazon shares surge on record 0 billion gain in value

#Amazon shares surge on record $190 billion gain in value

“#Amazon shares surge on record $190 billion gain in value” A day after Facebook owner Meta suffered the deepest loss of stock market value in history for a US company, Amazon logged the greatest ever one-day increase in value. Shares of the online retail and cloud computing giant surged 13.5% on Friday following its blowout quarterly report,…

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#Amazon workers make harder push in second bid to organize Alabama

#Amazon workers make harder push in second bid to organize Alabama

“#Amazon workers make harder push in second bid to organize Alabama” Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to convince their peers for the second time to unionize their warehouse in an election that starts Friday by…

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#Amazon endorses bill legalizing marijuana on federal level

#Amazon endorses bill legalizing marijuana on federal level

“#Amazon endorses bill legalizing marijuana on federal level” Amazon has endorsed a Republican-backed bill in Congress on Tuesday that would legalize marijuana on a federal level, leaving states to decide whether to prohibit or regulate it.  Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) States Reform Act would remove cannabis as a federal Schedule I substance and introduce a…

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#Google, Amazon, Meta up lobbying as Big Tech scrutiny rises

#Google, Amazon, Meta up lobbying as Big Tech scrutiny rises

“#Google, Amazon, Meta up lobbying as Big Tech scrutiny rises” Google, Amazon, and Meta spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying Congress last year as the tech behemoths came under increasing scrutiny from antitrust regulators and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. boosted spending on lobbyists by 27.5% last…

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