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Spencer Soper

ARTICLES BY SPENCER SOPER

Amazon is advising its delivery partners to prominently advertise that they don’t screen applicants for marijuana use (AP)

Amazon’s answer to delivery driver shortage: Recruit pot smokers

2 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is on a shopping spree. (Reuters)

₹1200 crore: Jeff Bezos sets record with new home purchase

2 min read . 13 Feb 2020

Workers prepare orders for customers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Tracy, California. (REUTERS)

Amazon and EBay accused of selling cosmetics with mercury

2 min read . 28 Nov 2019

Nike to stop selling its products on Amazon in e-commerce pivot

4 min read . 13 Nov 2019

On Amazon Prime Day, Sales of car seats, appliances and toys were up four to five times a typical day. (AP)

Amazon Prime Day 2019: Sales triple of normal day

1 min read . 16 Jul 2019

Amazon’s merchants are feeling the pain of a trade war with China

4 min read . 24 Jun 2019

Amazon is poised to unleash a long-feared purge of small suppliers

4 min read . 28 May 2019

Amazon.com Inc. parking signage stands outside a Kohl's Corp. department store in Huntington Beach, California. The Kohl's partnership, which will let Amazon customers return packages at over 1,500 Kohl's stores, provides Amazon a relatively risk-free and low-cost way to expand its physical presence and narrow the gap with Walmart. (Bloomberg)

Amazon bets on Kohl’s as its own brick-and-mortar efforts falter

7 min read . 21 May 2019

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person. Photo: Mint

Amazon joins Apple in trillion-dollar valuation club

4 min read . 05 Sept 2018

Amazon, world’s largest online retailer, projected operating income in the current quarter of $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion on revenue of $51 billion to $54 billion. Photo: Reuters

Amazon forecast shows e-commerce giant growing profitably

1 min read . 27 Apr 2018

Analysts project earnings of $1.26 per share, down from $1.48 a year earlier, as Amazon keeps investing in international expansion, data centers for its cloud-computing division, new devices and original programming for video streaming. Photo: AFP

Amazon seen posting strong revenue growth as expenses surge

1 min read . 26 Apr 2018

Donald Trump’s attacks—five tweets on subjects including the Postal Service, taxes and retailing —weighed on the Amazon’s shares, sinking its market value by as much as $55 billion over the past six days. Photo: AFP

As Donald Trump attacks Amazon on Twitter, White House holds its fire

3 min read . 04 Apr 2018

Amazon Pantry launched in 2014 as an entree into consumer packaged goods, a business worth more than $800 billion a year in the US. Photo: Reuters

Amazon shifting Prime Pantry service to subscription model

1 min read . 09 Mar 2018

Amazon.com Inc. is embracing open-source software in the race to get its voice-based Alexa digital assistant into cars ahead of Google. Photo: Bloomberg

Amazon’s Alexa takes open-source route to beat Google into cars

1 min read . 28 Feb 2018

Amazon is focusing on outpatient clinics, which include everything from doctors’ offices to ambulatory surgery centres. Photo: Reuters

Amazon bets on band-aids as health industry braces for shakeup

3 min read . 15 Feb 2018

The reduction in positions is modest for Amazon, which counted 566,000 total employees at the end of 2017. Photo: Reuters

Amazon eliminates hundreds of Seattle jobs in rare cutback

2 min read . 13 Feb 2018

Amazon shares rose as much as 6.8% in extended trading after closing at $1,390 in New York. Photo: Reuters

Amazon investments pay off with rising sales and bigger profit

2 min read . 03 Feb 2018

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc. Amazon attracts 180 million US visitors each month. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Amazon has a plan to become profitable: it’s called advertising

5 min read . 19 Jan 2018

Amazon hasn’t explained why it acted against Roy Price now when Isa Hackett first filed a complain in 2015. Photo: Reuters

Amazon Studio head Roy Price resigns after harassment scandal

2 min read . 18 Oct 2017

A file photo of Amazon Studios chief Roy Price. Photo: AP (AP)

Amazon puts top Studio executive Roy Price on leave after harassment claim

2 min read . 13 Oct 2017