The office has used the rules to open parallel investigations into Google’s terms and conditions for data processing and the Google News Showcase, as well as tech giants Facebook and Amazon. (Writing by Rachel More Editing by Madeline Chambers and David Goodman)

The Amazon founder first became a billionaire in 1998, the year after Amazon went public as an online bookseller and has since increased his fortune by 12,425 percent — now raking in more than $140,000 per minute.

‘The acquisition thesis here is really very simple,’ Founder Jeff Bezos, who no longer has an active role in the company, said in May. ‘MGM has a vast, deep catalogue of much beloved intellectual property.

It holds roughly a third of the $152 billion market for cloud services, according to a report by Synergy Research – a larger share than its closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, combined. The cloud-service operation is a huge profit center for Amazon.

Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues, the company said in a post on the AWS status page that it had ‘mitigated’ the underlying problem responsible for the outage, which it did not describe.

BERLIN, June 21 (Reuters) – Germany’s cartel office launched an investigation of Google Germany and parent Alphabet Inc on Tuesday over possible anti-competitive restrictions on the Google Maps platform.

The company said by 6pm that the issue was mostly resolved, and at 7.30pm the network device issue had been fully resolved, with Amazon adding that it was ‘working towards recovery of any impaired services.’ The AWS outage began at around 10am ET and had widespread impacts.

Phillips, 57, a freelance reporter, was doing research for a book on the trip with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, Classic Novels a former head of isolated and recently contacted tribes at federal indigenous affairs agency Funai.

Bezos, who is estimated to be worth $131.9 billion, is the third richest man in the world after Tesla owner Elon Musk, who knocked him off the top spot with a net worth of $213.9 billion and Bernard Arnault, who oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora, according to Forbes.

During Amazon’s first quarter results, Buy Books the company said 175million Prime members streamed shows last year, and more than 200 million have access to it because they’re signed up for its Prime membership, which gives them faster shipping and other perks.

Placing voice assistants in homes, cars and offices is central to Amazon´s goal of becoming ubiquitous in consumers´ lives, always ready to answer their questions or to sell them, for instance, toilet paper or dish soap when they run out.

The MGM acquisition would give the world’s largest online retailer rights to James Bond, one of the most lucrative franchises in film history that’s earned nearly $7billion at the box office globally, according to company.

It will be a lot of fun work and people who love stories will be the big beneficiaries.’  And with the talent at Amazon and the talent at MGM Studio, we can reimagine and develop that IP for the 21st century.

The company is now one of the biggest donors to the Virginia legislature´s Democratic and Republican fundraising committees. The 2020 total is more than Amazon donated in any other state but California, its corporate disclosures show.

The previous articles showed how Amazon has circumvented e-commerce regulations website meant to protect Indian retailers, and how it copied products and rigged search results website to promote its own brands over those of other vendors on its India platform. It is the third in a series of reports revealing how the company has pursued business practices that harm small businesses or put its own interests above those of consumers.

In a statement, Amazon said: “The premise of this story is flawed and includes reporting that relies on early, incomplete drafts of documents to draw incorrect conclusions.” The company said it protects consumers´ privacy and doesn´t sell their data.

The roughly eight-hour Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday shut down communications between the e-commerce giant and the fleet of thousands of drivers it relies on, preventing drivers from getting route assignments or packages, according to The disruption hit the app Amazon uses to communicate with the network of independent contractors who carry out much of its last-mile shipping, leaving vans that were supposed to be on the road idle, sources told the outlet.

Amazon´s lobbying against privacy protections aims to preserve the company´s access to detailed consumer data that has fueled its explosive online-retailing growth and provided an advantage in emerging technologies, according to the Amazon documents and former employees.

To technologist and public data access activist Carl Malamud, the AWS outage highlights how much Big Tech has warped the internet, which was originally designed as a distributed and decentralized network intended to survive mass disasters such as nuclear attack.