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Amazon promises equal visibility to products from rival sellers in EU

Amazon has agreed to make major changes to its business practices to settle antitrust investigations that found the ecommerce giant gave itself an unfair advantage over rival merchants, European Union regulators said Tuesday. Amazon promised to give products from rival sellers equal visibility in the buy box, a premium piece of real estate on its website that leads to higher sales. The company also pledged to stop using non-public data from independent sellers on its platform to provide insights into its own products to compete against those merchants. Amazon also agreed not to discriminate against sellers in its Prime membership service and let Prime members freely choose any delivery service. The commission said it has accepted the commitments from Amazon, which allows the company to avoid a legal battle with the E.U.'s top antitrust watchdog that could have ended with huge fines, worth up to 10% of its annual worldwide revenue. We are pleased that we have addressed the European

Amazon rolls out subscription-based service 'Prime Gaming' in India

Amazon Prime and Video subscribers can access the gaming service, which offers a variety of mobile, PC and Mac games with in-game loot for free

Amazon adds free music videos from independent labels to Fire TV in US

Fire TV customers will get personalised recommendations based on their likes and viewing history or they can also create their own mixes

Amazon delays joining date of some graduates amid cost-cutting efforts

Some university graduates were set to join Amazon in May but their joining has been delayed likely as a result of cost-cutting efforts

Henry Cavill to lead miniature game series Warhammer 40,000 for Amazon

Hollywood star Henry Cavill has found his next big acting gig -- series adaptation of miniature game "Warhammer 40,000". The news comes a day after Cavill announced that he will not be returning as Superman for future DC films. The actor also exited Netflix show "The Witcher" recently. According to entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon Studios is negotiating a deal with the game's producer Games Workshop. Cavill is attached to star and executive produce the series adaptation of the popular science-fiction fantasy. In "Warhammer 40,000", players enact battles using miniature models of warriors and fighting vehicles. It is set in the distant future, where a stagnant human civilization is threatened by hostile aliens and supernatural creatures. The models in the game are a mix of humans, aliens, and supernatural monsters, wielding futuristic weaponry and supernatural powers. No writers or showrunners are currently attached with the project. Cavill most recently

Environmental group casts doubt on Amazon's claims of reducing plastic

A report by environmental group Oceana has found that plastic waste from Amazon packages went up by 18 per cent last year, but Amazon says it has reduced its use of single-use plastic across its network. According to the Oceana's estimates, released Thursday, Amazon's plastic waste jumped from 599 million pounds in 2020 to 709 million pounds last year an amount that can circle the planet more than 800 times in the form of air pillows, the group said. For years, the advocacy organisation has been pushing the company to release more data around its plastic footprint and commit to reducing any harmful environmental impacts that might stem from it. That idea was put up for a vote two times at Amazon's annual shareholders meetings during the past two years. The last vote, held in May, got support from 48 per cent of shareholders. But the e-commerce behemoth had resisted calls to release more data until Tuesday, when it disclosed in a blog post that it used 97,222 metric tons (over 214 .

Amazon Smartphone Upgrade Days sale: Know deals, discounts, bank offers

Amazon Smartphone Upgrade Days sale started today, December 15, and it would continue until December 18

Amazon faces $280 mn lawsuit from Vietnamese supplier for post-Covid cuts

Gilimex Inc. said it was a key partner of Amazon from 2014 to 2022, investing tens of millions of dollars in manufacturing facilities to build the steel-and-cloth storage pods

With focus on efficiency, start-ups scale back ops in major reversal

Many quick commerce firms have scaled back their dark stores (warehouses) in the past few months

Amazon Smartphone Upgrade Days sale: Know offer details, discounts and more

Started on December 10, the Amazon Smartphone Upgrade Days sale would continue until December 14

Amazon to end support for third-party Alexa skills to book doctors online

Amazon to end support for third-party healthcare Alexa skills that allow users to ask the virtual assistant for booking a doctor's appointment, accessing hospital post-discharge instructions, etc.

Snapdeal defers $152 mn IPO indefinitely citing poor market conditions

Development follows shelving of IPO plans by several notable firms such as Image Marketing (owner of wearable brand Boat), Droom Technology and PharmEasy

Blanket rule for winter: What you need to be covered for the season

The market has multitude of choices: pick a blanket that will last long and is not cumbersome

Amazon reveals anime massively multiplayer online game 'Blue Protocol'

The game is described as a multiplayer action role-playing game (RPG), which allows players to choose different roles and enjoy either the story or multiplayer mode

Amazon to bring TikTok-like feed of shoppable content 'Inspire' to its app

The new feed option will appear as a lightbulb icon in the application and will roll out to select US users this month

We are committed to India; review process is normal: Amazon India's Tiwary

In an interview with Peerzada Abrar, Tiwary said India has become the innovation hub for the company for the rest of the world. Edited excerpts

Pentagon awards $9 bn Cloud project to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle

Ending the bitter Cloud war, the Pentagon has awarded its multi-bn dollar Cloud-computing contract to all the major players -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle - that can reach up to $9 bn

Amazon refreshes Kindle with better screen, extra storage: Details here

Priced at Rs 9,999, the Kindle is available at an introductory price of Rs 8,999 on Amazon India

Amazon Luna to allow users to play Ubisoft PC games they own for PC

Users can link their Ubisoft account to Luna to play owned PC games and can also purchase new ones

Amazon sees 'huge opportunity' for India grocery service: Executive

Grocery business will spread 'deep into Bharat', says e-commerce firm as it shuts down some other smaller units