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A six-member committee of Seattle City Council has already unanimously approved the measure, making it almost certain that the full nine-member council will pass it on Monday.

A number of recipients, however, reported on social media that they were not expecting a child.

Amazon.com Inc has stepped up lending to third-party sellers on its site who are looking to grow their business, a company executive said in an interview on Wednesday.

The buyback replaces the $2 billion repurchase programme approved in 2010. 

Global e-commerce giant Amazon continues to invest "very heavily" in the Indian market, encouraged by its strong sales numbers and expanding seller base, a top company executive has said.

Amazon said Tuesday it plans to hire 100,000 people in the United States for the upcoming holiday season.

It's official: Amazon is bigger than Wal-Mart. Amazon shares surged 15 percent on Friday after the e-commerce powerhouse reported a surprise second-quarter profit and a better-than-expected 20 percent jump in revenue.

Amazon said on Wednesday it would expand a marketplace that offers services from plumbing to fence repairs in 15 cities and help customers find contractors for more expensive home projects as it develops its role as a middleman for third-party vendors.

The 300 PPI screen the new Kindle Paperwhite offers significantly improves the screen resolution from the previous Paperwhite, matching it with the top-of-the-line Kindle Voyage.

Amazon.com Inc will start a business loan programme for small sellers in the United Kingdom on Tuesday and is looking to launch it this year in seven more countries including China.

It could soon pay more to write lengthier books, if you are an author self-publishing on Amazon.com Inc`s Kindle ebook platform.

Amazon Seller Services (ASSPL) Wednesday announced the opening of a fulfilment centre in Doraha on the outskirts of Ludhiana.

Amazon Inc is developing a mobile application that would pay ordinary people, rather than courier companies, to deliver packages en route to other destinations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Retail giant Amazon has launched Global Selling Program in India, opening doors for businesses in the country to export to markets across the world.

US online retail giant Amazon said Wednesday it is creating more than 6,000 full-time jobs in the United States as it expands its deliveries system.

Seattle-based leading e-commerce company Amazon is hiring 6,000 full-time workers for distributions across its 50 centers in the United States.

State Bank of India Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with e-commerce player Amazon to develop payment and commerce solutions for customers and small businesses.

The EU opened a new front Wednesday in its battle with Internet firms like Amazon and Google as part of a wide-ranging digital strategy aimed at making Europe more competitive with global rivals.

The European Union will announce a wide-ranging probe on Wednesday into how big technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook use their market power as it considers whether to regulate them more tightly.

Amazon.com Inc surprised investors on Thursday by disclosing for the first time that it makes a profit from its fast-growing cloud-computing business.