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Only about 10% of the Amazon's water enters downstream of Óbidos, very little of which is from the northern slope of the valley. The drainage area of the Amazon basin above Óbidos city is about 5,000,000 km 2 (1,900,000 sq mi), and, below, only about 1,000,000 km 2 (390,000 sq mi) (around 20%), exclusive of the 1,400,000 km 2 (540,000 sq mi ...
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Amazon Local was a daily deal service launched in June 2011 in Boise, Idaho. [108] As of 2013, Amazon Local offers daily deals to over 100 regions in 36 U.S. states. Amazon Local also acts as a deal aggregator; some of the deals are actually offered through LivingSocial, a firm in which Amazon has heavily invested. [109]
In May last year, workers at Amazon's Seattle headquarters staged a walkout protesting changes to the e-commerce giant's climate policy, layoffs and a return-to-office mandate.
Amazon is demanding that its corporate employees return to the office five days a week, a significant change from its current pandemic-era hybrid policy that requires them to be in the office just ...
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Amazon notified all employees on Monday about the new return-to-office mandate requiring us to come into the office five days a week starting in January. My entire team was very shocked and ...
MacKenzie Scott (born MacKenzie Scott Tuttle, formerly Bezos; April 7, 1970) [1] [2] is an American novelist, philanthropist, co-founder of Amazon and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. As of December 2024 [update] , she has a net worth of US$42.1 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index ; owning a 4% stake in Amazon .