Free Talk Live - Amazon

Amazon to build CIA cloud

PC Harris — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:41:45 +0000

The online retail has reportedly won a contract for CIA efforts to "collect everything and hang on to it forever"

Amazon tribe disappears - A likely casualty of the war on drugs

sharalynn — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:37:53 +0000

An un-contacted Amazon tribe has disappeared since a group of armed men (presumed to be Peruvian drug traffickers) overran a Brazilian guardpost near the tribe's lands. Brazilian officials are now looking for signs of the missing tribe.

Amazon seeks ballot measure to undo California tax

Deslock Darkstar — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:19:24 +0000

Amazon.com Inc has taken the first step toward asking California voters to repeal a new law requiring websites that forward shoppers to it to collect sales tax, a spokeswoman for the state's attorney general said on Monday.

Don’t Tell Us Amazon May Be Forced to Start Charging Sales Tax

XD45 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:47:39 +0000

At the end of June, a bill will be floated at Capitol Hill, proposing Amazon start collecting sales tax from its customers. Meaning, in essence, that online shopping could become more expensive.

Hell no, we won't go... out of our way to collect sales taxes

assawyer — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:42:05 +0000

Amazon is no fan of collecting state sales taxes, and it's ready to play hardball once again in its attempt to avoid the levy. An e-mail sent from the company to all of its Illinois affiliates this morning warns that, should Illinois Governor Pat Quinn sign a just-passed tax bill, Amazon is cutting off every affiliate in Illinois.

Should FTL stop using Amazon as an affiliate?

argash — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:51:15 +0000

Amazon has bowed to pressure from Senator Lieberman and de-hosted the Wikileaks website.

Police News: 'Suspicious' box turns out to be Amazon delivery

Takeshi Kovacs — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:04:10 +0000

Hudson -- A Sullivan Road resident called police to report a "suspicious package" on his front porch Nov. 2 at 3:20 p.m.

The resident said he observed an unknown person leave the package and called police, according to the police report.

The officer said he could see the package was clearly labeled with the Amazon.com logo and asked the man if he had ordered anything from the firm recently.

The man reportedly said "Why yes, I did."