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Amazon will impose new fees on third-party sellers who ship their products to customers instead of using the company’s fulfillment service. Effective October 1, the company will get a 2% cut of every product sold by merchants that are members of Amazon’s Seller Fulfilled Prime Program, or a minimum of $0.25 per item, according to a notice sent by the company. Launched in 2015, the Sellers Fulfilled Prime program allows merchants to display a Prime badge on their listings without using Amazon’s fulfillment service, Fulfillment by Amazon...

Generative AI poses risks to Amazon's (AMZN) e-commerce business, impacting its AI opportunities and raising familiar issues. Read the article for more detail...

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Amazon could be facing one the biggest challenges in the company's history, and it's only getting deeper. A group of booksellers and authors sent a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission asking them to address Amazon's role in the monopoly of the market of selling books, according to a report by the New York Times. This comes as Amazon is facing a possible antitrust lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission that would allege that the online retailer has violated anti-monopoly laws...

Amazon is once again dealing with a labor-related issue. Amazon's in-house clinics are reportedly pushing injured employees to continue working, according to an investigation by WIRED. The magazine said it spoke with 11 on-site medical representatives who worked with AmCare, which is Amazon's on-site first aid clinic...

CNBC's Julia Boorstin joins 'Fast Money' to talk streaming hitting a new monthly viewing record as it surpasses linear television for the first time ever...

In a week of retail earnings reports, Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) managed to beat second-quarter earnings estimates but its revenue fell short of Wall Street's expectations despite its efforts to compete with Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its Prime Day in July. Although the retailer slashed its full-year outlook as it continues to fight for price-conscious shoppers, its shares did surge upon the report. Also today, The TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX) topped expectations for both its revenue and...

The Teamsters flexed their muscles during contract negotiations with UPS last month, securing pay hikes for drivers and scoring other wins. Since late June, dozens of Amazon drivers and dispatchers who work for a California-based delivery firm that the Teamsters unionized in April have been picketing company warehouses as far out as Michigan and Massachusetts, calling on the e-commerce behemoth to come to the table and bargain over pay and working conditions. Amazon has essentially said no. Teamsters say the strike will continue until Amazon reinstates the employees and comes to the bargaining table...

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. is imposing a new fee on merchants who don’t use the company’s logistics services, a change many of these sellers consider coercive and surprising since the US government is poised to file an antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce giant.Most Read from BloombergGoldman CEO’s Most Loyal Deputy Is Tested by Mutinous PartnersFed Saw ‘Significant’ Inflation Risk That May Merit More HikesStocks, Bonds Fall as Rate Hikes Left on the Table: Markets WrapChina Shadow Bank...

LOS ANGELES, August 16, 2023--IMDbPro and ReFrame, an initiative of Sundance Institute and Women in Film (WIF), today announced that 94 of the 200 most popular scripted series of the 2022-23 season have been awarded their ReFrame Stamp for gender-balanced hiring. A full list is provided below...