by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 26, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Regulation, Risk Management
“The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions allow it to stop rivals and sellers from lowering prices, degrade quality for shoppers, overcharge sellers, stifle innovation, and prevent rivals from fairly competing against Amazon,” the agency said in a statement...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 2, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Technology
Amazon said Tuesday that customers can visit its virtual clinic around the clock through Amazon’s website or app. There, they can compare prices and response times before picking a telemedicine provider from several options. The clinic, which doesn’t accept insurance,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 22, 2023 | International News, Regulation
The consumer protection agency filed a lawsuit claiming that Amazon’s website manipulates users into enrolling in Prime, where subscribers pay $139 a year for privileges like speedy free delivery, video streaming and access to 100 million songs. The cancellation...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 1, 2023 | International News, Policy, Regulation, Technology
“Amazon’s history of misleading parents, keeping children’s recordings indefinitely, and flouting parents’ deletion requests violated COPPA and sacrificed privacy for profits,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 29, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Facts
“Despite uncertainty about the total effect of these disturbances, it is clear that their cumulative effect can be as important as deforestation for carbon emissions and biodiversity loss,” said Jos Barlow, a professor at Lancaster University, UK, and co-author of the...
