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Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio

Apple made more profit in three months than Amazon has generated in its lifetime

Amazon Takes Fresh Stab at $16B Housekeeping Industry

Now Amazon is quietly hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees. The online retailer is swapping the low cost of contract workers for the greater control of employing its own people. Doing so puts it on the hook for things like minimum wage, workers compensation and overtime pay.

Amazon looks at dropping packages from as high as 25 feet

‘Not welcome here’: Amazon faces growing resistance to its second home

How Amazon Became Corporate America’s Nightmare

It sells soap and produces televised soap operas. It sells complex computing horsepower to the U.S. government and will dispatch a courier to deliver cold medicine on Christmas Eve. It’s the third-most-valuable company on Earth, with smaller annual profits than Southwest Airlines Co., which as of this writing ranks 426th.