Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces that he will step down as CEO during the third quarter. Current Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy is expected to replace him. 2021-02-2
UN special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and David Kaye demand an investigation into claims made by "The Guardian" yesterday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the 2018 hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone. The hack was allegedly done months before the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, who was employed at Bezos's newspaper "The Washington Post" and was a fierce critic of the Saudi government. The Saudi Foreign Ministry dismisses the allegations as "absurd". 2020-01-22
"The Times" reports that the Barclay family is looking to sell "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Sunday Telegraph", citing conflicting viewpoints within the family and low circulation. The "Daily Mail", Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and "Evening Standard" owner Evgeny Lebedev are rumored to be potential buyers. 2019-10-26
Amazon.com announces bidding for a second headquarters campus in North America, to house 50,000 workers and cost $5 billion USD 2017-09-7
The European Court of Justice decides an international agreement, generally known as a Safe Harbor rule, used by thousands of companies for moving people’s digital data between the European Union and the United States is invalid, effective immediately. The decision throws into doubt how global technology giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google can collect, manage, and analyze online information from their millions of users in the 28-member bloc. Decisions by this court, the highest legal authority in the EU, cannot be appealed. 2015-10-6
Amazon.com announces that it is removing Confederate Flag merchandise from sale following the shootings. 2015-06-23
Journalists from Al Jazeera and "The Washington Post" are arrested by Egyptian authorities; Swedish television loses contact with correspondent Bert Sundström. 2011-02-3
"The Washington Post" reports that an FBI informant so frightened Muslim worshippers by referring to violent jihad while spying on an Islamic community centre in Irvine, California, that they reported him to the authorities. The FBI spy, a convicted fraudster, sues the FBI. 2010-12-6
Amazon.com cuts off its access to the WikiLeaks website following "heavy political pressure" applied by Joe Lieberman, a senator in the United States. The move is compared to the censorship of Google by China. 2010-12-2
"The Washington Post" wins four awards at the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes. 2010-04-12