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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has claimed that the crypto hype is gone, leaving space for true crypto believers

The ongoing power struggle in Venezuela has extended to a row over who is managing its state oil firm PDVSA and its U.S. refiner Citgo Petroleum

Like President Trump, the Internet postage provider Stamps.com has some doubts about the future of the U.S. Postal Service.

Bitcoin is will eventually hit $1 million, according to IBM's VP of blockchain and digital currencies, Jesse Lund

A Times Square billboard mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for her celebration of Amazon's decision to cancel its plan to build a new headquarters in New York City. What are the details? Job Creators Network, a conservative advocacy group,

A week after the Amazon deal in Queens died, New York lawmakers want states to agree to stop using taxpayer money to lure big businesses.

We all last week heard much about this: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters I am nauseously loathe to agree with New York Communist oops, I mean Democrat Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But when she's right she's right. Am

Despite doubling its profits, Amazon has paid zero dollars in federal taxes for the second successive year. A recent report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has raised huge questions about the tax-paying habits of the tech giant...

The news of a terminated partnership between delivery startup Deliv and Walmart could potentially be the canary in the coalmine signaling an impending power shift away from Walmart and toward Amazon in the American retail market. To those in the know, a clandestine but very real war is currently

The company has added fulfillment and logistics services to its list of competitors in its 10-K Opens a New Window. report, and has unveiled a program called Amazon Shipping Opens a New Window. The e-commerce giant is using its own logistics service to deliver about 26% of its own orders, according

New York City's Democratic mayor sets the record straight about the $3 million the Big Apple would have gotten 'only after' the jobs and the revenue came in

Amazon officials reportedly defended the company's facial recognition programs during a meeting with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Thursday, just hours before Amazon reversed its controversial deal to base its new "HQ2&

Simply saying 'no' to its headquarters isn't enough Amazon should be investigated for abusing monopoly power

Amazon made the surprising announcement this week that it would be backing out of plans to build a second headquarters in Queens amid political backlash, but some staffers at the online retail giant think that Jeff Bezos' love life could be the real r

Philadelphia officials say Amazon has warned that a proposed ban on cashless stores would impact plans to open a brick-and-mortar location in the city.

The progressive congresswoman fielded intense backlash after the shocking cancellation of the company's planned second headquarters

Some activists and elected officials oppose the secretive process by which Amazon got its land, tax breaks and grant, others feel like the company isn’t a corporate entity the city and state should be welcoming because of labor, political and other practices. But all of the opponents to the Amazon

New York was set to give Amazon more in tax breaks and credits than Virginia.

In a period of growing antipathy toward billionaires, Amazon’s corporate-welfare haul struck many as a gratuitous gift to a trillion-dollar company that was probably going to keep adding thousands of jobs to the New York region anyway. The company has more than 5,000 employees in the five boroughs,

Amazon couldn't cut it in New York City. The company announced Thursday that it no longer plans to open a 25,000-worker office in Long Island City, Queens, one of the two winners of its HQ2 search, a continental bake-off in which cities offered genero