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Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) response to concerns about the safety of its last-mile delivery contract drivers was not enough to satisfy one of the lawmakers looking into the matter. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), who along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime Air vice president Gur Kimchi held an audience of clean technology and environmental policy experts spellbound as he laid out the company's futuristic vision of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) darting around the sky delivering packages to consumers in 30...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently acquired cloud-based startup INLT, a move designed to simplify importing goods into the United States for Amazon's online merchants, according to Reuters. INLT, which the company said stands for IN:LET, makes software for merchants to manage the costs of...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Sept. 23 that it will open a 1 million square-foot fulfillment center in Scarborough, located in the city of Toronto. The center will be Amazon's twelfth fulfillment center in Canada and its seventh in the province of Ontario. Employees at the center will pick...

Raising the stakes in the eco-friendly delivery wars, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans from electric vehicle startup Rivian. The announcement coincided with a broader pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the e-giant generates by delivering over...

We're concluding our coverage of Trimble's in.site conference 2019 we talk about Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) big change to their algorithm, Linda Baker has the conference beat from Crawford St., and we're joined by guests from Trimble, TriumphPay, FleetWorthy, and more. Stay tuned until the...

Good day, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk wants to streamline the logistics of delivering the automaker's vehicles. Starting next quarter, the company will ship cars to local delivery centers and allow customers to pick them up at their convenience, according to website Electrek, which...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has transferred flying responsibility for two leased Boeing 767-300 freighters from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AAWW) to Air Transport International, a charter airline owned by Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), Amazon and ATSG officials confirmed....

Three U.S. Senators are calling on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to stop doing business with contract delivery drivers that are allegedly violating federal labor laws and skirting commercial motor carrier regulations. In a September 12 letter to Amazon President and CEO Jeff Bezos, Senators...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Thursday its Amazon Air airline unit will open its previously announced regional air hub at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport next month. The project, which was announced last December, represents the first airport that Amazon is building from scratch. It will...

"If you build it, they will come." They prophesy has come true as a multi-story warehouse building built in Seattle by commercial real-estate giant Prologis (NYSE: PLD) has its first tenants: Amazon and Home Depot. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will take almost 500,000 square feet of space and...

Amazon Air (NASDAQ: AMZN) began flights to and from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) on June 27. ANC occupies a key point along the "great circle" between Asia and the Lower 48. It is 9.5 hours flying time to 90% of the industrialized world — and no other U.S. airport enjoys such a...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Sept. 9 that its airline unit will operate two cargo flights as early as next week bound for areas of the Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian. Two aircraft will be deployed, with each operating one flight from Tampa, FL, to Nassau, Amazon said. Supplies are...

Air Transport Services Group, a major provider of midsize leased cargo aircraft and transportation services for customers such as DHL and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), named current Chief Operating Officer Richard F. Corrado president, effective Sept. 16. Joseph C. Hete will relinquish his role...

Good day, Necessity is the mother of invention. To offset the high costs and intense aggravation of accepting online product returns, companies have decided to get humans involved in the process. According to Business Insider, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is testing a program in which packages...