Awards, Company News / General Interest, Entertainment Content / Streaming
Amazon Blog – 3.11.24
The American Fiction screenwriter and director nabbed an Oscar Sunday night for Best Adapted Screenplay. The critically lauded film from Amazon MGM Studios, starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Erika Alexander, bested fellow nominees Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest in the category.
Source: Amazon MGM Studios wins big with ‘American Fiction’ at the 2024 Academy Awards—now streaming on Prime Video
Smart Home
Amazon Blog – 3.7.24
Ring Battery Doorbell Pro, Ring’s most advanced battery doorbell yet, is now available for purchase. With cutting-edge features that give customers more precise motion detection, it is the newest addition to Ring’s Pro line of devices.
Source: 4 things to know about the new Ring Battery Doorbell Pro—available now
Company News / General Interest, Tech4Good
Amazon Blog – 3.6.24
As part of our ongoing commitment to support entrepreneurs and female-led companies in climate tech, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund recently invested in Glacier, an AI and robotics company helping the recycling industry work toward a world without waste. Co-founded and led by Rebecca Hu and Areeb Malik, Glacier uses AI-powered robots to automate the sorting of recyclables and collect real-time data on recycling streams for recycling companies and consumer brands. The Climate Pledge Fund, Amazon’s corporate venture capital fund that invests in climate tech companies to help accelerate Amazon’s path to meet the commitments of The Climate Pledge, first announced its $53 million Female Founder Initiative in 2022 to close the funding gap for women in climate tech. Glacier is the second company led by a female CEO to receive investment from The Climate Pledge Fund.
Source: How Amazon’s latest Climate Pledge Fund investment is transforming recycling through AI and robotics
Cybersafety / Cybersecurity / Privacy
Amazon Blog – 3.5.24
Amazon strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, which includes ensuring that scammers are not using our brand to take advantage of people who trust us. Our vision is to build a world where consumers are confident that they won’t fall prey to bad actors who impersonate our brand or anyone else’s. We believe this is the right thing to do for our customers, and all consumers, especially given the global, cross-industry nature of this challenge.
Source: Amazon charts a course for protecting consumers from scams
Company News / General Interest
Amazon Blog – 2.14.24
When customers shop in Amazon’s store, they trust that they can find an amazing selection of products that are safe. Our goal is to ensure that these products are inherently safe when they were manufactured, that they remain safe when they are delivered, and that the customer knows how to use the products appropriately to ensure their continued safety. This is both the right thing to do for customers, and it is critical to ensuring the trustworthiness of our store.
Source: A blueprint for private and public sector partnership to improve product safety for consumers