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Amazon.com Inc. ( NASDAQ: AMZN) has been one of the stock market's biggest success stories ever. The company had its initial public offering in May 1997 and traded for an astonishingly low split-adjusted price of just seven cents per share. Since then, the stock has gained over 294,600% as the company has grown into the linchpin of e-commerce. Since its inception, Amazon has become a mainstay in the Magnificent 7 and now commands the fifth-largest market cap of any publicly traded company.

Amazon and Alphabet are two of the biggest companies in the world, ranking as the fifth and fourth largest, respectively. Conventional wisdom states that as these companies become larger, it becomes more difficult for them to grow at a rapid rate. However, both of these companies have put up respectable growth rates that are often quicker than the broader market.

Brazil's Petrobras has been given permission to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River, casting a shadow over the country's green ambitions as it prepares to host UN climate talks. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president, has come under fire from conservationists who argue his oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change. Brazil will host Cop30 climate talks in the Amazon city of Belem next month.

Last fall, the house of Bezos announced a $500 million investment in SMR startup X-Energy. On Thursday, the e-tailer revealed that X-Energy's Xe-100 SMR designs would eventually supply Washington State with "up to" 960 megawatts of clean energy. "Eventually" is the key word here as construction isn't expected to start until the end of the decade and the plants won't begin operations until sometime in the 2030s.

This Second Bienal das Amazônias seems to understand its contradictions without attempting to resolve them. Curated by Manuela Moscoso together with Sara Garzón, Jean da Silva, and Mónica Amieva, the biennial unfolds around the idea of verde-distância ("green distance"), a notion borrowed from Benedicto Monteiro (1924-2008)-a Brazilian writer, journalist, and politician-that gestures toward the aliveness of the forest and its reverberation across bodies, landscapes, and times.

The world's largest meat company, JBS, has allegedly fuelled illegal deforestation, land grabs and human rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon by sourcing cattle from ranches operating inside protected areas, according to a new Human Rights Watch investigation. On Wednesday, the nonprofit issued an 86-page report focusing on the state of Para, where the United Nations will hold its annual climate change summit, COP30, next month.

A new kind of warehouse has just popped up, nestled in seven acres of forest in northern Indiana. It's the latest delivery station for Amazon, one of hundreds of logistics centers around the world that handle the package sorting and van loading for last-mile delivery. But while this delivery center will be doing all that standard work, it's also acting as a living laboratory to test out what the future of Amazon's delivery stations-and maybe the future of warehouses writ large-will look like.

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Consider this a PSA: The best candles on Amazon include, in our opinion, some of the best candles out there, period. While you may consider the retailer a go-to for home tech, kitchen appliances, and furniture finds, Amazon's robust scented candle inventory rivals that of some of our favorite department stores. Think brands like Voluspa, Malin & Goetz, Nest, Boy Smells, and more, all available with free and speedy shipping (for the low, low cost of a Prime membership of course).

The number represents the state's single largest spike in planned data centers in any one year, and a 16% increase from Virginia's 2024 total. Amazon-built data centers represent the bulk of the new construction, with 28 planned facilities, according to Business Insider's count. The tech giant had 177 data centers built or in construction nationwide by the end of 2024, according to the analysis. The new planned data centers in Virginia would grow Amazon's fleet to 205, a 15% increase.

Don't underestimate the power of Amazon wedding gifts. You know that rule that you have a year after the celebration to dive into the wedding registry and give the newlyweds the perfect gift before you become a rude, uncaring friend? Every single time I'm required to buy a wedding present, I procrastinate so much that I end up sending something juusssst before the 365th day hits. At my worst,

Warehouse laborers from Asia say the world's second largest employer, Amazon, has failed to live up to its promises to compensate them for financial abuses tied to their work for the online retailer in Saudi Arabia. In 2023, Amazon promised to reimburse recruitment fees to its contract workers from Asia who had been forced to pay large sums to secure jobs at the company's warehouses in Saudi Arabia.

2025 is three-fourths over. While that may be odd to say, the reality is that a new investing year is almost upon us. However, there are still plenty of stocks that are worth buying now, especially to capture an end-of-year rally that may occur as institutional investors reposition their portfolios to capture gains where they think the market will be heading in 2026.

He says, 'Hold on for a second. You mean to tell me you're leaving this company for some tiny, little internet bookstore that nobody's ever heard of ... that has got to be the stupidest decision I've ever heard anyone made,' Risher recalled.

The Echo Dot Max is available for preorder in black, purple, and white with Alexa Plus Early Access for $99.99 at Amazon ahead of its release on October 29th. The Echo Studio is available for preorder at Amazon in black or white for $219.99, and will arrive in stores on October 29th. US customers will also get access to Alexa Plus Early Access when they place their preorder.

The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon's entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon's October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June, which means they're beating their summer Prime Day prices. Both speakers are screen-free, and allow you to use Amazon Alexa to control compatible smart home devices, set timers, and ask for information about the news, weather, and other goings-on.

Amazon's October Prime Day (officially called Prime Big Deal Days) starts on October 7th, but waiting a week won't be necessary to score a great deal. Amazon has already discounted the Kindle Kids, Kindle Paperwhite Kids, and Kindle Colorsoft Kids e-readers to their lowest prices ever. All of the kid-friendly Kindles have 16GB of storage and are ad-free. They also come with a cover, expanded parental controls panel, six or twelve month subscription to Amazon Kids Plus,

Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission, which claimed it tricked millions of customers into subscribing to Prime and made it hard to cancel. Under the agreement, Amazon will pay a $1 billion civil penalty, along with $1.5 billion that it will pay back to an estimated 35 million customers impacted by the company's "deceptive" sign-up process.

Amazon has agreed to settle a landmark case over its Prime membership program, according to U.S. regulators, who had alleged the company's web designs manipulated tens of millions of people into paying for subscriptions that were purposefully hard to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission says Amazon, without admitting wrongdoing, has agreed to pay a historic $1 billion in civil penalties to the government and another $1.5 billion in redress payments to affected consumers.

LEGO just released its new Advent calendars, and they're treating early buyers to a welcome bargain. Year after year: prices are kindest at introduction, then closer to December, demand pushes them on the rise. Currently, the LEGO Minecraft Advent Calendar 2025 is available for as low as $38 rather than its normal price of $44.99, which is its lowest ever on Amazon.