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Amazon plans to invest over $5 billion in a cluster of data centers in Taiwan. The investment will support the launch of a new cloud services region on the island...

Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region on Thursday, along with plans to invest more than $5 billion to support the construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of its data centers in Taiwan...

SEATTLE, June 06, 2025--Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. The new AWS Region will give developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as education, entertainment, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and nonprofit organizations, greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Taiwan, ensuring that customers who want to keep their content onshore can do so. As part...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon has cut jobs in its books division, including at its Goodreads review site and Kindle units, the company said on Thursday. The Seattle-based retailer said that fewer than 100 workers were impacted and the move was meant to improve efficiency and streamline operations. "As part of our ongoing work to make our teams and programs operate more efficiently, and to better align with our business roadmap, we’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles within the Books organization," an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement...

LONDON (Reuters) -Amazon has committed to do more to tackle fake reviews, including sanctioning British businesses that boost their ratings through bogus posts, the country's competition watchdog said on Friday. Following a four-year probe, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Amazon's undertakings also addressed its concerns about 'catalogue abuse' where sellers use the reviews of well-performing unrelated products to boost ratings and mislead customers. Amazon also committed to robust processes to quickly detect and remove fake reviews and catalogue abuse, the CMA said...

The CMA investigated Amazon over concerns the retail giant was failing to take adequate action to protect consumers from fake reviews...

Some sellers have hijacked the reviews of well-performing products in order to falsely boost the star rating...

Amazon has assembled a research and development team to develop an agentic artificial intelligence framework for its robotics division, according to reports...