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Amazon says it mistakenly sent an email to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones

Randy Mac reported on NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30, 2020.

Amazon announced plans to pay bonuses to employees who have worked on the frontlines throughout the coronavirus pandemic, which the company says will total over $500 million. Throughout the pandemic, Amazon deliveries have become more valuable than ever, and delivery workers have put their health on the line every day so that consumers can shop from the safety of their…

Special delivery instructions for an Amazon package had a driver in Delaware doing some magic on a front porch.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago have voiced outrage at the company after the facility offered employees “an authentic meal” of chicken and waffles in celebration of Juneteenth.

Microsoft has become the third big tech company this week to say it won’t sell its facial recognition software to police, following similar moves by Amazon and IBM

Amazon said on Wednesday that it’s banning use of its facial recognition software by police for one year, as pressure on tech companies builds to respond to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos posted another email exchange with an angry customer who criticized the company’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Firefighters battled a fire that destroyed a large warehouse Friday morning near a freeway in Redlands. The fire was reported in the 2200 block of West Lugonia Avenue. Video from the scene showed big rig trailers, including at least one Amazon trailer, on fire.  Firefighters said the building, estimated at about 600,000 square feet, is a distribution center for a…

A morning fire tore through a warehouse in Redlands. Tony Shin reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Friday June 5, 2020.

A warehouse and several big rig trailers were on fire in Redlands. Video broadcast Friday June 5, 2020 on Today in LA.

Amazon has set a date for its  “Summer Sale” event that’s designed to provide a boost for sellers feeling the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the delay of the company’s annual Prime Day event. The company sent a notice to sellers early Tuesday informing them that it’s hosting a “Fashion Summer Sale Event” on June 22, according to a...

Many people are relying on Amazon deliveries during the coronavirus pandemic and fraudsters are taking advantage of that. Now, a new scam targeting Amazon customers is duping people out of a lot of money. Sheyla Maldonado got a text, which appeared to be from Amazon, telling her to review her shipment details. “I’m an Amazon Prime member,” said Maldonado....

Fraudsters are pretending to be Amazon to trick consumers into turning over their credit card number. Consumer investigator Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. Friday May 22, 2020.

A new report claims that Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of American firms that are providing various web services to Chinese surveillance firms accused of human rights abuses and which are now on a U.S. blacklist. Top10VPN, a site that reviews virtual private network (VPN) services and researches topics on privacy, said in a report that it had identified U.S. technology giants...

America’s billionaires saw their fortunes soar by $434 billion during the U.S. lockdown between mid-March and mid-May, according to a new report. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the biggest gains, with Bezos adding $34.6 billion to his wealth and Zuckerberg adding $25 billion, according to the report from Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy...

Some privacy advocates are concerned that police are inadvertently helping Ring build a massive crime database.

Jeff Bezos is already the world’s wealthiest person by a healthy margin and he’s the founder and CEO of one of the world’s few trillion-dollar companies. But before this decade is over, one extremely optimistic estimate projects that the Amazon CEO could also become worth $1 trillion all by himself.