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For Jeff Bezos, growing a little online bookseller into e-commerce giant Amazon took hard work and ingenuity, but it also took something else: luck. “Amazon is one of the lotteries I won,” Bezos said.

Some of the largest companies in the world have begun testing the temperatures of their workers. CNBC Make It spoke with an employment attorney to get to the bottom of what rights workers have.

To make it in today’s world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos prove it’s better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.

Worcester’s planning board has approved a site plan for the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the Greendale Mall as an Amazon “last mile” distribution center, despite concerns from neighbors about traffic, environmental impacts and noise. Board members on Wednesday said they didn’t want to invalidate neighborhood concerns, but they could only consider a narrow range of factors defined by...

Massachusetts residents who would be neighbors of Amazon’s proposed “last-mile” distribution facility continue to raise concerns surrounding traffic, noise, and the environmental impacts the facility could have on their neighborhood. Worcester residents echoed those concerns Monday at a Planning Board meeting and called for stronger commitments to worker protections, local hiring and a community benefits agreement, the Telegram &...

Amazon’s charity platform is allowing dozens of anti-LGBTQ organizations to receive donations, according to a report published Tuesday by U.K.-based political activist group openDemocracy.

Amazon is launching a new shared network called Sidewalk, letting some people with its products know they’d been opted in to the program automatically.

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year

In 2011, Larry Lubarsky was $100,000 in debt and living with his mom in Brooklyn. Now, he’s making millions of dollars a year reselling anything from shampoo to Nerf toys on Amazon.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested after allegedly stealing packages from outside homes. Police in Arlington say 37-year-old Patrick McLaughlin of Everett was arrested Saturday at the intersection of Stowecroft Road and Columbia Road after a report of a suspicious person in a vehicle. Authorities said McLaughlin was on drugs and was initially arrested on charges of operating under the…

Mattel and Sanrio have joined forces to bring a new line of “Hello Kitty and Friends” dolls to the market

A 23-year-old Amazon delivery driver is being hailed as a hero after he rescued an elderly man from a burning house in central Florida

Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Las Vegas-based online shoe retailer Zappos

RadioShack, a fixture at the mall for decades, has been pulled from brink of death, again.

The developer behind Amazon.com Inc.’s new Seaport office marked a construction milestone on Thursday as it topped off the 17-story building scheduled to be complete in 2021. The topping off came days after an attorney for Amazon pulled back on plans for a separate South Boston distribution center. Online retail behemoth Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is leasing 430,000 square feet at…

Big tech is now small business focused as they try to help smaller retailers survive past the pandemic. Holiday shoppers now have the option to shop at regional small businesses through their “Support Small” page. Facebook, meanwhile, launched a #BuyBlackFriday campaign to encourage more commerce at Black owned businesses.

Amazon has been quietly building out its pharmacy offering for several years after ramping up internal discussions in 2017 and acquiring PillPack in 2018.

Boston University Advertising Lecturer Mike Proulx talks about the Alexa Care Hub, Amazon’s new feature designed to give caregivers and family members peace of mind when it comes to the safety of a loved one.

Boston police arrested a man suspected in a series of armed robberies dating back to early September after allegedly stealing an Amazon delivery van Tuesday, officers said. Edwin Powell, a 46-year-old from Dorchester, was caught in the van that officers saw be stolen while they were conducting an investigation in Dorchester, police said. Officers saw a man run down Dorchester…

One of the largest employers in Massachusetts is expanding again. Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) said on Tuesday it is planning to open two new facilities in Massachusetts. A so-called “AMXL delivery station” will open in East Taunton in the first half of 2021, and a new sorting center will launch in Northborough later this year. The East…