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The unionization effort, which began last summer, is the largest and most viable organizing campaign among Amazon workers in the United States. The most closely watched union election in recent [...]

Her new husband, Dan Jewett, is a high school science teacher. He has pledged to work with her in giving away much of her billions. The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott [...]

Byline: Michael Corkery and Karen Weise A vote on whether to form a union at the e-commerce giant's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., has become a labor showdown, drawing the attention [...]

A vote on whether to form a union at the e-commerce giant's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., has become a labor showdown, drawing the attention of N.F.L. players, and the White [...]

The case focuses on two of the company's facilities in New York. New York's attorney general, Letitia James, sued Amazon on Tuesday evening, arguing that the company provided inadequate safety [...]

Byline: Karen Weise and Daisuke Wakabayashi Mr. Jassy, who will become Amazon's chief this summer, has spent more than two decades absorbing lessons from Mr. Bezos. SEATTLE - In 2002, [...]

Mr. Jassy, who will become Amazon's chief this summer, has spent more than two decades absorbing lessons from Mr. Bezos. SEATTLE -- In 2002, Andy Jassy, a young executive at [...]

Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon's cloud computing division, will become chief executive, while Mr. Bezos, the company's founder, will become executive chairman. SEATTLE -- When Jeff Bezos founded an [...]

Byline: Michael Corkery and Karen Weise Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are to vote next month on whether to unionize, the largest and most viable effort of its [...]

Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are to vote next month on whether to unionize, the largest and most viable effort of its kind involving the technology giant. The [...]

STIMULUS Europe's Central Bank CommitsTo Letting the Money Flow The European Central Bank promised on Thursday to keep easy money flowing after its president, Christine Lagarde, said that the eurozone [...]

The social network, which had fast been gaining right-wing users, said that Amazon had conspired with Twitter, but did not provide any direct evidence. Hours after it went offline on [...]

The company, Haven, had promised to disrupt the way large corporations deliver benefits to their employees. A joint venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase to explore new [...]

The election, expected early next year, will be one of the few times that employees of the e-commerce giant have had an opportunity to decide whether to join a union. [...]

Byline: Karen Weise The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million. SEATTLE - Amazon has embarked on an extraordinary [...]

Mr. Hsieh, who died at 46, tried to revitalize a corner of the city by attracting other entrepreneurs. It was his own personal sandbox, a real-life Sim City that he [...]

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million. SEATTLE -- Amazon has embarked on an extraordinary hiring binge this [...]

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet reported the latest in a string of enormous quarterly profits on Thursday. While the rest of the U.S. economy languished earlier this year, the tech [...]

TECHNOLOGY Cloud Services Help Lift Microsoft Profits to Record Microsoft reported its most profitable quarter ever on Tuesday, as the pandemic accelerated the shift of work and school to online [...]

The company added a powerful voice to a raging debate, much of it focused on Apple, about how tech companies should manage their app stores. SEATTLE -- Microsoft said on [...]

Byline: Karen Weise and David McCabe The tech giant, once an example of how not to operate in the nation's capital, now has a successful influence operation there. SEATTLE - [...]

The tech giant, once an example of how not to operate in the nation's capital, now has a successful influence operation there. SEATTLE -- Microsoft's quiet pursuit to buy TikTok [...]

The additional space and workers, envisioned before the pandemic, are a sign of how large tech companies continue to prosper. SEATTLE -- The pandemic has upended many companies' expansion plans. [...]

Buying one of the largest and most influential social networks in the country could change the perception of the tech giant. SEATTLE -- Maybe money can buy love. Or, at [...]

Even though the tech industry's four biggest companies were stung by a slowdown in spending, they reported a combined $28 billion in profits on Thursday. A day after lawmakers grilled [...]

The C.E.O.s are likely to argue before Congress that their companies aren't anticompetitive. Here are the facts. Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and [...]

WASHINGTON -- Last September, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, rattled off terrifying statistics about the warming planet from the storied National Press Club, two blocks from the White House. Then [...]

Byline: Karen Weise SEATTLE - Tim Bray, an internet pioneer and a former vice president at Amazon, sent shock waves through the tech giant in early May when he resigned [...]

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security threat. SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon on Friday asked its employees to delete the Chinese-owned [...]

Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft's business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in August. SAN FRANCISCO -- Magic Leap said on Tuesday that it had hired Peggy [...]

Byline: Karen Weise From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a 'systemic pattern of racial bias' permeates the company. SEATTLE - Last week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, wrote [...]

From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a ''systemic pattern of racial bias'' permeates the company. SEATTLE -- Last week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, wrote a rare note [...]

Now closed again, a Brooklyn site set up for models didn't appear to qualify as an essential business under state pandemic rules. A large Amazon fashion photo studio in Brooklyn, [...]

Byline: Karen Weise and Ruth Fremson KENT, Wash. - After months of being embattled over its response to the coronavirus, Amazon is working to convince the public that its workplaces [...]

The company said it hoped the moratorium ''might give Congress enough time to put in place appropriate rules'' for the technology. SEATTLE -- Amazon said on Wednesday that it was [...]

KENT, Wash. -- After months of being embattled over its response to the coronavirus, Amazon is working to convince the public that its workplaces -- specifically, the warehouses where it [...]

Byline: Karen Weise After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales. As millions more Americans [...]

After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales. As millions more Americans turned to online [...]

Byline: Karen Weise A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon's others after missing early opportunities to protect workers. Therese [...]

A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon's others after missing early opportunities to protect workers. Therese Kelly arrived for [...]

Jeff Bezos, the chief executive, said the company could spend up to $4 billion to handle the effects of Covid-19. SEATTLE -- Online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic drove sales [...]

Byline: Karen Weise The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic. SEATTLE - At the end of February, [...]

The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic. SEATTLE -- At the end of February, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's [...]

Byline: Karen Weise Sometimes products are in stock. Sometimes they aren't. And delivery times vary widely. A virus-fueled surge in orders has created chaos behind the scenes, and confusion for [...]

Shifting sick-leave policy and communication issues are causing employees to assert themselves after they stayed on the job. SEATTLE -- Jonathan Bailey, a 30-year-old Amazon warehouse employee in Queens, has [...]

Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell had just come off back-to-back work shifts in the emergency room at Boston Medical Center last week and was not sure how to think about what she [...]

Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell had just come off back-to-back work shifts in the emergency room at Boston Medical Center last week and was not sure how to think about what she [...]

Byline: Karen Weise and Mike Baker Fearing a critical shortage of lifesaving resources as the coronavirus spreads, Washington State is engaged in grim discussions to determine which dying patients would [...]

Byline: Karen Weise SEATTLE - After her shifts in the emergency room, one doctor in Utah strips naked on her porch and runs straight to a shower, trying not to [...]

The three-week pause, which affects products like consumer electronics, allows the e-commerce company to deal with a surge in demand for household goods. SEATTLE -- Amazon is moving to meet [...]