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Amazon raises minimum hourly pay by $1 to $20 for US operations workersThe e-commerce and cloud giant also unveiled a new benefit called "Day 1 Financial," giving qualified employees and their families lifetime...
NPCI announces MDR for UPI; merchant transactions above Rs 2,000 to attract 0.4% chargeWhile NPCI has not specified a threshold based on the size of a merchant’s turnover, it said in its announcement that vendors operating und...
Amazon Now’s sales surge; govt’s stance on UPI chargesHappy Tuesday! Amazon's quick commerce arm is scaling fast, India head Samir Kumar told us. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatc...
Amazon crosses $1 billion in annualised quick commerce sales: India chief Samir KumarAmazon India's quick commerce unit Now has achieved $1 billion in annualised sales. The company is rapidly expanding its operations to over...
Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damageAmazon's cloud computing unit AWS said the damage in Bahrain spanned multiple so-called availability zones, which are clusters of one or mo...
Flipkart plans 250,000 festive season jobs to meet delivery demandFlipkart plans to hire over 250,000 workers for the upcoming festive season. This significant recruitment drive represents an increase of 3...
ETtech Explainer: Google’s Mechanize deal and acqui-hiresGoogle’s deals with chatbot platform Character.AI and AI coding platform Windsurf, Microsoft’s deal with AI assistant company Inflection AI...
Semicon India eyes chip deals; AI leaders seek slowdownThe government is pushing supply chain partnerships at Semicon India 2026 to help local players. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Amazon adds 20 fulfillment centres, expands logistics network ahead of festive seasonIn a major expansion, Amazon announces the launch of twenty new fulfillment centers and additional operational units in several cities acro...
Trump administration formally proposes scrapping 60-day grace period for laid-off H-1B workersThe Trump administration has proposed scrapping the 60-day grace period that gives H-1B and several other foreign workers time to find a ne...
Amazon halts operations with 21 Air, owner of crashed Miami cargo planeAmazon has suspended its work with 21 Air LLC following a deadly plane crash. The cargo plane overshot the runway and tragically killed fiv...
Could the US workweek drop to 32 hours? New Congress bill backed by Bernie Sanders and Mark Takano could change overtime rulesA new bill proposes gradually reducing the US overtime threshold to 32 hours as U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, and Sen. Bernie Sander...
India's physical AI boom spawns a new class of robot workersData collection related to basic human activity and on the shop floor was the first layer, and is well documented, but now teleoperators, r...
AI-led payments will need strong risk checks as trust remains critical: Amazon Pay India CEOAs artificial intelligence increasingly makes digital payments more contextual and automated, strong risk checks will remain critical to ma...
Micron's Taiwan workers to get rewards worth up to 68 months of payMicron said the payouts to employees were its strongest ever and that more than 60,000 staff globally will receive fiscal 2026 rewards "fol...
Gandhinagar building collapse: Several workers feared trapped after slab collapses in KudasanA portion of an under-construction building collapsed in the Kudasan area of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, with several workers feared trapped unde...
Trump’s H-1B crackdown hurts Indian IT, but the industry saw it comingIndian IT’s H-1B dependence was shrinking well before Donald Trump’s latest immigration crackdown. New H-1B approvals for seven major India...
Amazon faces class action alleging widespread discrimination against pregnant workersAmazon faces a nationwide class action lawsuit alleging discrimination against pregnant workers. The suit claims the company denied basic a...
Amazon India to hire 1.6 lakh seasonal workers for festive order rushMost of the new hires will be deployed for picking, packing, shipping, and delivering customer orders, supporting Amazon's ecommerce and qu...
Amazon to hire 160,000 temporary workers for festive season demandAmazon India is hiring 160,000 temporary workers for the upcoming festive season. These new hires will support picking, packing, shipping, ...