Amazon Says It Will Buy Whole Foods In $13.7 Billion Deal
Whole Foods, which opened its first store in Austin, Texas, back in 1980, now has 465 markets in North America and the U.K.
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Amazon Lowers Prime Membership Rate For Low-Income Customers
Amazon and Walmart are in a battle for low-income shoppers. Now Amazon is cutting the $10.99 monthly rate on its Prime membership to $5.99 for people who receive government assistance.
Amazon Offers Refunds for Children's Unauthorized In-App Purchases
The Federal Trade Commission sued the retail giant over charges incurred by kids using apps. Both sides dropped their appeals so the refunds could begin.
New Amazon Building In Seattle Will Include A Homeless Shelter
The company is donating about half the space in a six-story building to a shelter with room for 65 families. Housing prices in Seattle have skyrocketed, along with the city's business fortunes.
EU Drops Its Antitrust Probe Over Amazon E-Book Contracts
The European Union's executive arm closed the investigation after accepting Amazon's promise to strip its publisher contracts of clauses that the commission feared were "harmful to consumers."
Who Has The Healthiest Hearts In The World?
Move over Japanese women. You've been dethroned as the population with the healthiest hearts. This group of people can fight off heart disease even into their 80s. What's their secret?
As Amazon Moves In, A Local Bookseller Hopes To Thrive With A Personal Touch
Amazon has opened its latest brick-and-mortar bookstore — the first on the East Coast. But an independent bookseller in the Boston suburb says: "I think that we're going to be OK."
Amazon And The $150 Million Typo
Amazon said a mistyped command caused part of the company's cloud computing service to go down for hours on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported the outage caused millions of dollars in losses.
Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Traffic For Websites, Apps
The cloud-computing service went down around midday on Tuesday, and Amazon said the issue was resolved just after 5 p.m. ET. Thousands of companies were affected by the outage.
The South Has Been Slow To Harness Its Wind, But That's Changing
There are several reasons the region is lagging in wind energy — including lower wind speeds. But now North Carolina is home to the first large-scale commercial wind farm in the Southeast.