Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is cutting hundreds of jobs in its consumer business in Seattle, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the company shifts resources into fast-growing areas like its work on voice assistant Alexa. The job cuts, rare for the world’s largest online retailer, are in the low hundreds, the person […]

Amazon is planning to debut a package-delivery service for businesses that’s designed to compete directly with FedEx and UPS, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Stevens reported Friday that the e-commerce giant would roll out the service, called Shipping with Amazon, or SWA, in Los Angeles over the next few weeks. The service […]