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This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, April 6, 2022 The Amazon union win in Staten Island could spread to the rest of Big Tech Amazon (AMZN) is officially the first Big Tech company to face the threat of a union telling it what to do. And that could energize workers across other tech companies to seek the same kind of… Source link

Boeing engineers huddle over a computer to work on an aircraft design. (Boeing Photo / Bob Ferguson) The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft are all getting a share of the business, Boeing announced today. In a LinkedIn post, Susan Doniz, Boeing’s chief information officer and senior VP for information technology and data… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) warehouse workers at a Staten Island, N.Y., facility on Friday established the first U.S. union in the company’s 28-year history, delivering a blow to the e-commerce giant and intensifying a wave of labor organizing nationwide. The astonishing victory of a worker-led, crowdfunded union over the nation’s second-largest employer became an immediate symbol for resurgent worker strength. But for now, a symbol is just about all that it is. In the coming days, the Amazon Labor Union… Source link

A labor drive at an Amazon (AMZN) warehouse on Staten Island narrowly won a historic union election on Friday, establishing the first U.S. union in the company’s 28-year history and intensifying a nationwide surge of organizing across major companies like Starbucks (SBUX) and Disney (DIS). As of early Friday afternoon, the union was poised for victory with a margin of nearly 500 votes. The National Labor Relations board said on Friday that the union and Amazon had challenged 66 ballots,… Source link

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Amazon (AMZN) warehouse workers at a facility in Staten Island, New York, began casting their votes in a union election on Friday, thrusting the e-commerce giant into a nationwide surge of workers organizing across major companies like Starbucks (SBUX) and Disney (DIS). The Staten Island warehouse marks the second site of a union election among a large group of warehouse workers in Amazon’s history, arriving roughly one year after the overwhelming defeat of a labor drive at an Amazon… Source link

As the war in Ukraine continues, companies as varied as Exxon, Visa, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have suspended sales in Russia. Tech companies like Adobe, Apple and PayPal have joined in over the last couple of weeks. We queried the world’s top cloud infrastructure vendors (including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Cloudflare) to find out how each was reacting to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Each company let their public blog posts stand as the message they… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is planning to split its stock for the first time in more than two decades in a move that will end an era of four-digit stock prices for the biggest U.S. technology companies. Most Read from Bloomberg Amazon intends to boost its outstanding shares by a 20-to-1 ratio, under a plan disclosed late Wednesday, joining other technology giants like Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc. who have turned to splits to make their stocks more attractive to retail investors. That news… Source link

Cloud-computing services are so ubiquitous that it’s hard to fathom modern life without them. Take a photo on your phone and it is zapped to a cloud service for storage. Order shoes online, book a hotel room or stream a TV show, and the transaction likely takes place in the cloud. Moreover, thousands of companies and government agencies use cloud computing to run their core internal software and databases. Source link

Top 10 Amazon products for the month of February. Yahoo Lifestyle Canada is committed to finding you the best products at the best prices. We may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Yahoo Canada readers are big fans of Amazon Canada — and head there to shop for pretty much anything, from buzz-worthy products to the everyday essentials. In Feburary, there were certain items that stood out as our readers’ top picks —… Source link