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Learn moreAmazon Prime Day, which is in its final stretch today, has brought many of our favorite tech, beauty, and home products to all-time-low prices. We check every deal against our tested guides and price tracking to make sure you're getting the best products for the lowest cost, optimizing your Prime Day experience. As more of Business Insider's top-rated products and brands go on sale during Prime Day, we'll continue to update this page with new discounts. If you're looking for a solid Android tablet, this is an excellent option, especially at its lowest price ever for Prime Day. Check out our roundup of all of the best Prime Day deals, or browse Amazon's website for more.

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☆ Amazon's amazing turnaround: How Andy Jassy secretly wooed Wall Street and overhauled a bloated tech giant
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

This person is one of over a dozen Amazon employees, investors, and analysts that BI interviewed to better understand Jassy's first 3 years as CEO. Andy Jassy replaced Jeff Bezos (pictured here) as Amazon's CEO in July 2021. In his first 3 years as CEO, Jassy has lost many senior staff. Amazon's spokesperson said the company has "strong retention and continuity" among senior leaders. Amazon's spokesperson said the company is making "huge investments" in AI across AWS and the retail business.

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Learn moreAhead of Mother's Day weekend, Amazon is offering several great discounts to make shopping easier. With that in mind, we've gathered some of the best Amazon deals we've found for this weekend. Keep scrolling to find more of our favorite deals Amazon is offering right now. Amazon sale quicklinks Amazon Devices : Get up to 50% off Amazon Devices including Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV: Get up to 50% off Amazon Devices including Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV Beauty : Save on Aveeno, Neutrogena, Clean & Clear, and more. Shop at AmazonThis is just a small sample of this weekend's top Amazon sale picks.

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For even more discounts, check out our roundup of the best Best Buy deals and the best Mother's Day sales. Amazon sale quicklinks Amazon Echo : Get up to 50% off select Echo speakers. Amazon Fire : Get up to 40% off select Fire TV streaming devices. : Get up to 40% off select Fire TV streaming devices. Shop at AmazonThis is just a small sample of this weekend's top Amazon sale picks.

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☆ New FTC transcript reveals juicy details on how Jeff Bezos and other top Amazon execs used disappearing messages
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In the past, he set Signal messages to automatically delete after one week. "I never would have used Signal under any circumstances with disappearing messages on or off to discuss any complicated business issues. Associated PressJEDI ContractThe FTC lawyer also showed Bezos a log of Signal messages that were used with the disappearing message feature activated. He said he "did not" know Signal messages were covered by those legal guidelines. The company was "unable to determine" why that's the case, but said it's possible Signal messages were deleted when they got new phones.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Bezos, Mike Hopkins, —, Andy Jassy, Amazon's, Jassy, Donald Trump, there's, I'm, Jeff Blackburn, Hopkins, Blackburn, Blackburn wasn't, Blackburn's, Max Organizations: Federal Trade, Amazon, Business, FTC, Associated Press, Defense Department, Microsoft, Department of Defense, Blackburn, Bezos Locations: Bezos, Blackburn

☆ Top Amazon exec says it's a 'myth' robots steal jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

A robot prepares to pick up a tote containing product at the Amazon Robotics fulfillment center on April 12, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. A top Amazon executive told CNBC Thursday that it's a "myth" that robots and other technologies take jobs away from people. Stefano La Rovere, director of global robotics, mechatronics, and sustainable packaging at Amazon, said that, rather than replacing jobs, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are enhancing people's roles. "It is a myth that technology and robots take out jobs," La Rovere told CNBC's "Street Signs Europe" on Thursday. Amazon says that the introduction of new technologies has enhanced more than 50,000 jobs across its fulfilment centers in Europe.

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☆ Top Amazon aggregator Thrasio files for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Thrasio, an early leader in the big business of Amazon aggregators, had a booth at the popular Prosper Show for Amazon sellers in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 14, 2021. Thrasio, an early leader in aggregating Amazon sellers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New Jersey court Wednesday. Thrasio and other Amazon aggregators raised billions of dollars from investors looking to cash in on the third-party seller rollup craze. Aggregators bought up promising products and storefronts on Amazon, to use their data and operational expertise to turbocharge sales. WATCH: What's behind the big hype and billion-dollar aggregator start-ups buying Amazon seller brands

Persons: Prosper, Thrasio, Greg Greeley, Aggregators, Josh Silberstein, Carlos Cashman Organizations: Amazon, fizzle, CNBC Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, New Jersey, Greeley

Trading on the world's largest exchange would give JBS, which applied in July, access to more capital and enhance its credibility. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesThe dispute highlights the connection between finance and various drivers of climate change, such as deforestation. Two-thirds of Amazon deforestation results from conversion to pasture for livestock, according to the Brazilian government. In 2020, it created the JBS Fund For the Amazon. In the three years since inception, the JBS Fund for The Amazon has provided $15 million to 20 projects, according to its website.

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☆ Amazon tells managers they can now fire employees who won't come into the office 3 times a week
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Amazon is now giving managers leeway to effectively fire employees who fail to meet the company's three-times-a-week, return-to-office mandate. That's according to updated global manager guidance on Amazon's return-to-office policy obtained by Insider. The guidelines tell managers to first hold a private conversation with employees who don't comply with the three-times-a-week requirement. Giving managers the ability to fire employees for non-compliance is the strongest measure Amazon has taken over its return-to-office policy. In February, Amazon said that corporate employees would have to come into the office at least three times a week starting in May.

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An Amazon worker moves boxes on Amazon Prime Day in the East Village of New York City, July 11, 2023. The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday updated its complaint against Amazon for its "deceptive" Prime sign-up and cancellation processes, adding three senior executives as defendants. Top Amazon executives overseeing Prime downplayed employee concerns about members of the popular subscription program being enrolled without their consent, the amended complaint alleges. Subscription services revenue, which includes Prime memberships, totaled $9.8 billion in Amazon's most recent quarterly earnings report. Amazon executives and employees met in 2018 about "Project Lucent," where the primary objective was to discuss "how many Prime signups [is] Amazon .

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☆ A top Amazon exec reveals how she's using 'Thursday Night Football' to rope in new brands for the tech giant's $38 billion ads business
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Non-endemic advertisers have been a crucial part of Amazon's ability to expand its ad business more broadly, which totaled $38 billion in 2022. Last year, Amazon made custom ads for DraftKings with "TNF" analysts Ryan Fitzpatrick and Richard Sherman previewing a same-game betting parlay. The matchup will be shown for free on Prime Video, offering advertisers a wider audience than those with an Amazon Prime membership (Amazon ended 2022 with 168 million members , according to CIRP). In another move that will have big implications for some advertisers, Amazon is exploring dynamic advertising, a more targeted form of messaging that's tailored to the individual (i.e. Beyond non-endemic ads featuring "TNF" talent, fans can also expect to see more spots featuring themes of gender equality.

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☆ A top Amazon executive recently said he had 'no data' to support the company's return-to-office mandate, prompting criticism from frustrated employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some Amazon employees are upset about the company's new RTO mandate. Amazon is famous for using data to make decisions — except when it's forcing employees back to the office. Hopkins's comments have added to rising frustration among some Amazon employees over the company's return-to-office mandate. Following Hopkins's meeting, Amazon employees took to internal Slack channels to vent their concerns. Another suspected Amazon was intentionally hiding data, and said the RTO mandate was in conflict with the company's "Earth's best employer" commitment.

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☆ Amazon sellers and experts weigh in on how to pick a good product to sell online: 'Sticking to durable goods is the way to go'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

If you're thinking about starting an e-commerce business, you need to first pick a product to sell. That's essentially what Reeves did when he first started selling wallets. Another pro tip from Walter: Consider selling products that are durable — things that likely won't break in transit. Plus, you'll have an advantage if you're selling a product you understand well and use personally. "Looking around at your own life and your own day-to-day is a good way of coming up with product ideas."

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☆ NASA chief offers Brazil satellite imaging to help stop Amazon deforestation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attends a news conference, after meeting with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (not pictured), at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano MachadoBRASILIA, July 25 (Reuters) - NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Brazilian space research center INPE on Wednesday and proposed extending satellite partnerships with the United States to help monitor and prevent destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Nelson said NASA will have a satellite in January that can even render images of what is happening below the forest canopy. "I thanked the president for his continuous effort to save the Amazon rainforest," he told reporters after the meeting. Earlier on Tuesday, Nelson visited Brazilian plane maker Embraer (EMBR3.SA) in Sao Jose dos Campos and toured the production line for its narrow-body commercial E-Jets.

Persons: Bill Nelson, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Adriano Machado BRASILIA, Nelson, Sao Jose dos Campos, Luciana Santos, Anthony Boadle, Brad Haynes, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, NASA, INPE, Embraer, EMBR3, Jets, Thomson Locations: Brasilia, Brazil, United States, India, Sao Jose, INPE, China, U.S, Brazilian, American, Argentina, Colombia

☆ GlobalFoundries scraps plan to appoint former top Amazon executive as CFO
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 11 (Reuters) - Chipmaker GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) has shelved its plan to appoint former Amazon executive Tim Stone as chief financial officer, it said on Tuesday, two months after choosing him. It said current CFO David Reeder will remain in the role through the end of the year as it looks for a new candidate. GlobalFoundries had in May named Stone, who was at Amazon (AMZN.O) for more than 20 years and served as CFO for AWS and Devices businesses. The chipmaker counts companies including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) among its customers. Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Arun KoyyurOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Lina Khan takes on her longtime targetIn 2017, Lina Khan, then a 29-year-old law student, shot to fame with an academic article about why Amazon should be contained. Cutting against prevailing trends in antitrust law, Khan argued that the e-commerce giant was unfairly dominating huge swaths of the American economy. Now the chair of the F.T.C., Ms. Khan has finally taken on Amazon, though her agency’s new lawsuit against the company isn’t focused on antitrust. “Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent,” Ms. Khan said. wants the courts to stop Amazon from engaging in those practices and impose a financial penalty.

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☆ FTC sues Amazon, saying it 'tricked' customers into signing up for Prime and sabotaged attempts to cancel
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The FTC filed a new lawsuit accusing Amazon of "tricking" customers into joining Prime. Prime subscriptions cost $14.99 a month and generate $25 billion in revenue each year, the complaint said. The company "knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in its Amazon Prime service," the FTC said in its complaint filed in federal court in Washington state. "Specifically, Amazon used manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs known as 'dark patterns' to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically-renewing Prime subscriptions," the agency alleged. Prime members tend to buy more and shop more frequently at Amazon, driving higher sales and a more loyal customer base for the retail giant.

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Now that the clock has officially struck "Cyber Monday," Amazon's Cyber Monday sale is chock-full of discounts on 4K TVs, mattresses, and everything in between. All throughout Cyber Monday, we'll update this page with deals vetted by our expert team of editors and reporters. In other words: If the deal is highlighted here, it's worth your consideration. For more deals, be sure to check out our Cyber Monday deals liveblog for all the best ways to save. Top Amazon Cyber Monday deals right nowShop the best Amazon Cyber Monday sales

Now that the clock has officially struck "Black Friday," Amazon Black Friday deals are chock-full of sales on 4K TVs to mattresses, and everything in between. All throughout Black Friday, we'll updating this page with deals vetted by our expert team of editors and reporters. In other words: If the deal is highlighted here, it's worth your consideration. For more deals, be sure to check out our Black Friday deals liveblog for all the best ways to save. Top Amazon Black Friday deals right nowShop the best Amazon Black Friday sales

When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Amazon is well-known for its vast product offerings and therefore, has become a one-stop shop for everyday items from cookware to tech gadgets. With an ever-expanding inventory, it's easy to get lost in the sea of product pages on Amazon and suss out what's actually worth adding to your cart. Luckily, our colleagues at Insider Reviews research and test thousands of products to recommend to you, and we've asked them to provide their top Amazon picks under $25. The resulting list features everything from TikTok-viral beauty products to handy kitchen tools, so there's something for everyone in your life — including yourself.

☆ Don't make these 5 virtual interview mistakes—they can 'sabotage your candidacy' and cost you a job
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Between August and September, TopResume asked 330 U.S. hiring managers, recruiters and HR professionals to rank the worst offenses a candidate can commit during a virtual interview. How do you make proper eye contact with someone on a screen? The best place to conduct a virtual interview is a room that's clean, quiet and has good acoustics, Jeff Hyman, CEO of Recruit Rockstars, says. As for decorations, "if you would think twice about having something behind you in a cubicle at an office, then you probably shouldn't have it up during a job interview," Augustine says. Surprisingly, technical difficulties did not make the list of virtual interview deal-breakers.

☆ The FTC rejected Amazon's request to quash subpoenas ordering founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy to testify in a Prime investigation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The FTC declined Amazon's request to quash or limit subpoenas served to its executives over the agency's investigation into the Prime sign-up and cancellation process. The Federal Trade Commission has ruled against Amazon's request to quash or limit subpoenas served to top Amazon executives including founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy over the agency's investigation into the Prime sign-up process. In a previous filing, Amazon disclosed that some of its top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy, were subpoenaed as part of the probe. Amazon has cooperated with the FTC throughout the investigation and already produced tens of thousands of pages of documents. The filing broadly cites Insider's story from March that first reported about Amazon's internal deliberations over the Prime sign-up and cancellation process.

☆ California is suing Amazon, accusing it of inflating prices and crushing competition
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Isobel Asher Hamilton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

California is suing Amazon accusing it of anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuit says Amazon coerces third-party sellers into agreeing not to sell their products cheaper anywhere else. The suit seeks to stop Amazon from enforcing contracts that restrict the prices sellers can set for their products off Amazon. In response to the lawsuit an Amazon spokesperson told Insider: "Sellers set their own prices for the products they offer in our store." This isn't the first time Amazon has been accused of anticompetitive conduct in relation to third-party sellers.

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