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• On Tuesday, Amazon filed a lawsuit against Paradigm Clinical Research Institute Inc. and their representatives, Ramprasad Dandillaya and Juan Jesus Rojas de Borbon, for fraud and breach of contract.

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• 整改 — Amazon

  The bikini had the colours of unofficial state's flag, in hues of yellow and red, and has the state's emblem 'Gandaberunda', a two-headed mythological bird, which now seems to have been removed by Amazon from its Canada site following uproar.

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• Following outrage against e- commerce giant Amazon after users claimed that a bikini having colours of the Karnataka flag and emblem was available for sale on its Canada site, state's Kannada and Culture Minister Aravind Limbavali has said the government would take legal action.

• The bikini had the colours of unofficial state's flag, in hues of yellow and red, and has the state's emblem 'Gandaberunda', a two-headed mythological bird, which now seems to have been removed by Amazon from its Canada site following uproar.

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• Upon seeing the news of the booth, the Twitter-world called out Amazon and the irony of giving employees a place to relax instead of implementing other basic policies.

• In a poorly received tweet from Amazon News, the company announced that they would be introducing an AmaZen booth to their warehouse facilities as a means of easing tension in their workforce.

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• 否认 — Amazon

  An Amazon spokesperson said Tuesday: "The DC Attorney General has it exactly backwards — sellers set their own prices for the products they offer in our store."

• 否认 — Amazon

  Amazon disputes these arguments.

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• The lawsuit alleges Amazon illegally maintained monopoly power through pricing contracts with third-party sellers.

• Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday he's suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company's practices have unfairly raised prices for consumers and suppressed innovation.

• An Amazon spokesperson said Tuesday in a statement: “The DC Attorney General has it exactly backwards — sellers set their own prices for the products they offer in our store.

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• The company is taking the fight to the scammers, filling a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington against a number of yet-to-be-named participants.

• Amazon has announced it is launching a lawsuit to tackle text scams that purport to be from the e-commerce giant.

• The text messages promise rewards or gifts, but direct people to sites where they must purchase products that have no affiliation with Amazon.

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• 澄清 — Amazon

  Amazon said it welcomed the court’s decision, which is “in line with our long-standing position that we followed all applicable laws and that Amazon received no special treatment,”

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• a court on Wednesday annulled a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between Amazon and Luxembourg's government amounted to illegal state support.

• But judges at the EU's General Court said the European Commission didn't prove “to the requisite legal standard that there was an undue reduction of the tax burden of a European subsidiary of the Amazon group."

• Amazon said it welcomed the court’s decision, which is “in line with our long-standing position that we followed all applicable laws and that Amazon received no special treatment,”

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• The European Commission did not prove that Amazon had secured an “undue reduction” in its tax base, according to a May 12 ruling by the General Court.

• The European General Court has ruled that Amazon’s cost-sharing arrangement in Luxembourg did not breach EU competition law.

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• 道歉 — Amazon

  We owe an apology to Representative Pocan,

• 澄清 — Amazon

  The tweet was incorrect. It did not contemplate our large driver population and instead wrongly focused only on our fulfillment centers,

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• Amazon has apologized to a congressman after falsely denying that some of its workers are forced at times to urinate in plastic bottles.

• We owe an apology to Representative Pocan,

• The workers' testimony underlined the complaints of many Amazon employees -- both in its processing facilities and among its drivers -- about what they say is a relentless work pace.

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• 道歉 — Amazon

  We apologize to Representative Pocan.

• 道歉 — Amazon

  Amazon apologized Friday for a snide tweet it sent last week denying the well-documented occurrence of its delivery drivers peeing in bottles while on the job.

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• Amazon has issued a rare public apology — but not to its workers, and with no real admission of guilt.

• Over a week ago, the company was caught publicly lying to Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) that its workers never feel the need to pee in water bottles (which is, in fact, a well-documented issue at Amazon because of how it robotically tracks and fires its laborers).

• We apologize to Representative Pocan.

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• 整改 — Amazon

  The District Attorney’s Office statement said Amazon “worked promptly and cooperatively throughout the district attorneys’ investigation and has already implemented changes to its website and pricing algorithms consistent with the final judgment.”

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• In addition to the monetary penalties, the stipulated judgment reached Wednesday requires Amazon to make revisions to its pricing disclosures,which includes providing hyperlinks on its site that give consumers “clear definitions of the meaning of ‘was’ and `’list’ price advertisements, so they understand the nature of the advertised savings.”

• The complaint filed last week in San Diego Superior Court alleged that the e-commerce giant’s use of “reference pricing” in some of its online advertisements was either misleading or potentially misleading.

• Amazon has agreed to pay $2 million in penalties and restitution after settling a lawsuit with San Diego County and five otherCalifornia counties over potentially misleading price listings on its website, it was announced Thursday.

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• A New York City man is suing Amazon for its policy to weed out new hires — arguing it was illegal to rescind a job offer after he tested positive for marijuana on a drug test.

• Filed in Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday, the suit claims that Amazon violated New York City Human Rights Law, which prohibits employers from drug-testing potential hires for marijuana except in certain cases, including if employees are going to operate heavy machinery.

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• 调查 — Amazon

  In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said the company is investigating new allegations included in the lawsuit

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• In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said the company is investigating new allegations included in the lawsuit and that a review determined Newman’s interview process placed her in the correct role.

• Newman says the comments from her former boss were “hypocritical” and “odd” considering the feedback she received in her previous roles.

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• AWS当然驳斥这一说法，它说Parler有权决定哪种内容可以在平台上传播，AWS表示尊重，但是诉讼案证据已经证明，Parler平台上有相当多的内容煽动暴力，这与AWS服务条款相违背。

• 在新起诉案中，Parler指责亚马逊AWS当初驱逐服务违反和约，违反消费者保护守，不公平竞争。

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• The lawsuit also alleged that shifts were "chronically understaffed," which left some employees unable to take short 10-minute rest breaks in order to finish their work on time.

• A former Amazon worker has sued the e-commerce giant in the US for not scheduling the mandatory 30-minute meal breaks for employees.

• First filed in San Francisco County Superior Court in February, the case has now been moved to US District Court California, Northern District.

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• The lawsuit, originally filed by two Amazon delivery drivers in 2017, had alleged Amazon was partly to blame for illegally failing to pay drivers the minimum wage and denying them compensation for overtime and rest breaks.

• Amazon agreed last month to pay some of its contract delivery drivers in Washington state $8.2 million to settle a class-action wage-theft lawsuit, reported earlier on Friday by Vice News and confirmed by Insider.

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• Amazon filed suit in the EU’s General Court on Tuesday to combine investigations of the tech giant by the EU Commission and the Italian Competition Authority (ICA).

• The ICA, which launched its case in April 2019, and the Commission both allege that Amazon favors its own retail brands and brands that use Amazon fulfillment services with superior promotion.

• The company said Smalls was fired for violating social distancing guidelines, not for protesting.

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• A search this morning still found no availability of the book.

• Amazon appeared to deplatform Ryan Anderson and his best-selling book, "When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement."

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• Minutes away from the venue where Bezos was speaking, a few dozen of these retailers held up placards with Bezos’ face on them, shouting “Amazon go back!”

• The goal of Amazon and Flipkart is to bring in crony capitalism in India, dominate and monopolize the market, wipe out the competition, and leave consumers with no choice,

• On Monday, just days before Bezos arrived in India, the Competition Commission of India, the country’s antitrust regulator, announced it was launching an investigation to examine whether Amazon and Flipkart had violated these rules.

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• “我们的目标是提醒消费者，部分浏览器扩展程序会在他们不知情或未经同意的情况下收集个人购物数据，比如消费者姓名、收货和/或账单地址，以及结账页面上的付款方式，”一名亚马逊发言人说道。

• 在假日购物旺季，亚马逊告诉部分用户，Honey提供的浏览器插件可能存在“安全问题”。

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• On Wednesday, lawmakers questioned four tech CEOs about the market power of their companies. The nearly six-hour hearing was conducted by the House Judiciary Committee as part of an investigation into the potential anticompetitive behavior of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.