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Covid brought structural shift to get more users online: Amazon India boss

In a Q&A, Amit Aggarwal dwells on his company's long-term commitment to India and its eight year journey in the country

Amazon employees turn into Covid warriors to fight pandemic in India

The team works 24x7 to support colleagues, their families and friends. Its helps find hospital beds, ambulances and isolation centres and addresses queries on claims, insurance, leave and pay advances

Outsourcing service provider BLS to help Amazon expand India footprint

The company provides outsourcing services to governments and diplomatic missions globally

Amazon India to offer Covid financial support for frontline teams

This is for frontline teams of associates hired through staffing agencies and other eligible employees

Amazon to retire Prime Now, allows 2-hour deliveries on main app

Amazon has announced to shut down its standalone Prime Now delivery app, and the two-hour delivery options will now be available on its main app and website.

Amazon's acquisition of MGM would add to frenzy for streaming assets

The acquisitions are setting 2021 up to be a record for media deals. More than $80 bn in takeovers have been announced so far this year

Amazon India launches new free video streaming service miniTV

Currently available for Android, miniTV will be extended to iOS app and mobile web over the coming months.

Amazon's Covid Warriors help people with resources as second wave rages

Faced with the shortage of oxygen and other crucial medical supplies, Amazon India's 'Covid Warriors' are helping colleagues and community with critical resources

Tata set to enter e-grocery with competition panel approval on Bigbasket

Company to acquire 64.3 per cent stake in Supermarket Grocery

Covid-19 second wave: Amazon to airlift, import 100 ICU ventilators from US

The e-commerce giant has worked with MoHFW, Government of India, to ensure the ventilators are of acceptable technical specifications

Amazon partners with Indian EV firms for its last-mile delivery fleet

The e-commerce firm will engage with more Indian OEMs to achieve its goal of 10,000 EVs by 2025

Amazon building computer vision tech to check defects in fruits, vegetables

The e-commerce giant's technology can carry out millions of assessments to grade the quality of fruits and vegetables per day at a cost that is far below compared to any other method

100 mn jobs in India can come from small businesses, says Nilekani

'I think small businesses are being brought into a digital world, getting access to markets, and companies can now start leveraging their own data,' says Nilekani

Amazon launches $250 mn venture fund for Indian startups, entrepreneurs

The fund will specifically focus on encouraging the best ideas to digitise SMBs

Amazon to cover Covid-19 vaccine cost for more than a million in India

The e-commerce firm is supporting cost coverage for Covid-19 treatment, hospital search and coverage of prescribed Covid-19 tests

Amazon India launches mentor programme for startups, emerging brands

Amazon India on Sunday announced the launch of its 'Mentor Connect' programme, which is aimed at accelerating the growth of startups

Amazon reveals scorching growth in India as Flipkart fight deepens

The US online giant said it has enabled exports of Indian-made goods worth $3 billion and created over a million local jobs since it began operating in the Asian nation about a decade ago

Amazon violated employees' rights by firing outspoken workers: Labour board

The National Labour Relations Board has found that two outspoken Amazon workers were illegally fired last year

How Jeff Bezos' Amazon is fighting door to door to beat Mukesh Ambani

The world's largest retailer is permeating the complex tapestry of the only billion-people-plus market open to it

Amazon packages delayed in Pune as report says delivery staff go on strike

Workers say company's new terms have reduced their earnings after lockdowns to contain the coronavirus.