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Amazon.com, Inc. is a global leader in e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. Originally launched as an online bookstore, Amazon quickly expanded into a…

Amazon allows fraudulent product page after manual review

Sellers on Amazon can list products, gather reviews for them, and then modify the listings to sell entirely different items while retaining the reviews from the previously sold products…

Amazon alters the content of purchased ebooks

Amazon allows publishers who publish e-books through their store to alter their existing works, and push such updates to the copies of e-books in user libraries, without explicit user permission, or…

Amazon Echo changes terms of voice usage

Amazon Echo is a series of client devices for the Amazon Alexa voice control platform for connected smart homes. Echo products have long offered the option to disable cloud voice analysis and perform…

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle is a product line of e-readers made by Amazon.

Amazon Kindle discontinues support for pre-2013 devices

On May 20, 2026, Amazon will disable Kindle Store access on thirteen Kindle devices released between 2007 and 2012, preventing owners of those devices from buying, borrowing, or downloading new…

Amazon locks home owner out of Amazon account over allegation by Amazon delivery driver

A home owner was locked out of their Amazon account for nearly a week, after a delivery driver from Amazon misheard an automated message from their Eufy doorbell. The delivery driver had a package to…

Amazon Luna revocation of third-party games

On 10 April 2026, Amazon announced it would end support for individual game purchases and third-party storefront integrations on its Luna cloud gaming platform, revoking cloud-streaming access for…

Amazon PhotosPlus discontinuation

Amazon PhotosPlus was a subscription-based service that offered users the ability to display their chosen photos on their devices as the "primary content." Additionally, it provided 25 GB of Amazon…

Amazon revokes access to their Appstore on non-Amazon devices

In August of 2025, Amazon revoked access to the Amazon App Store on all non-Amazon Android devices. Customers will now be required to purchase Amazon hardware, such as Fire TV or Fire Tablet, if they…

Amazon sued for enrolling and charging customers into Audible without consent

Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon, has two pending class action lawsuits against it for enrolling Amazon customers into the Audible membership without their consent and charging them the $14.95 monthly…

Amazon to charge non-Prime consumers to use Alexa

Amazon charges non-Prime customers $19.99 per month for Alexa+, a generative AI upgrade to the Alexa voice assistant, while bundling it free with Prime memberships that cost $14.99 per month. The…

Audible

Audible is an audiobook and podcast service company owned by Amazon. The service platform has a dual content model that allows for individual purchases and downloads as well as streaming content…

Blink

Blink is a manufacturer of home security cameras owned by Amazon. The company was acquired from Immedia Semiconductor as a subsidiary in 2017.

Fake memory still being sold on eBay and Amazon

Counterfeit flash memory, such as USB flash drives, SD cards and solid-state drives (SSD), with falsified storage capacities are a prevalent problem on popular online marketplaces such as Amazon…

Proposed Ring-Flock partnership (2025-2026)

The proposed Ring–Flock Safety partnership was an announced integration between Amazon-owned Ring and surveillance technology company Flock Safety, which would have enabled law enforcement agencies…

Ring

Ring is a manufacturer of home security and smart home devices owned by Amazon, who acquired Ring in 2018. Ring's products include their flagship Video Doorbell devices, as well as a number of…