Amazon’s reach extends far beyond online shopping, with the company quietly building a portfolio of well-known brands across entertainment, retail and technology.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been pushing to reduce bureaucracy across the company. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon confirmed Tuesday that it is cutting about 14,000 corporate jobs, citing a need to reduce bureaucracy and become more efficient in the ...

Amazon will double down on the Whole Foods brand, killing two of its own physical retail experiments in the process. The online retail giant said Tuesday that it will close all of its Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh brick-and-mortar grocery ...

SEATTLE — Even as Amazon reports record earnings, the company is eliminating thousands of positions. Wednesday, the company announced it was laying off 16,000 corporate employees to streamline operations and free up money for investments into artificial ...

Amazon is laying off another 16,000 corporate employees globally, the company confirmed Wednesday morning, the second phase in a restructuring that now totals 30,000 positions — adding up to the largest workforce reduction in the company’s history.

Amazon's stock popped more than 13% on Thursday afternoon after the company reported huge growth in the third quarter, including in its cloud business, Amazon Web Services. CEO Andy Jassy said AWS was "growing at a pace we haven't seen since 2022.

Amazon is shutting down all 72 of its Amazon-branded grocery stores, including Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go. According to the company, it will convert some of those locations into Whole Foods Market-branded stores. “While we’ve seen encouraging signals ...

Amazon is laying off thousands of corporate workers in an effort to slim down while it spends big on the AI race. In a note on Tuesday, Amazon human-resources executive Beth Galetti said the tech giant would cut about 14,000 corporate jobs, or about 4% of ...

Up in the Cascade Mountains, 90 miles east of Seattle, a group of high-ranking Amazon engineers gather for a private off-site. They hail from the company’s North America Stores division, and they’re here at this Hyatt resort on a crisp September ...

If you're shopping for tools or hardware in Home Depot, you may wonder if it's cheaper to buy them on Amazon. But will Home Depot match that price?