Amazon has decided to ban all "incentivized" reviews, except for those coming via its own Amazon Vine program. The company has always banned paid-for reviews, taking legal action against organisations ...

Amazon Vine is an invitation-only club for a small percentage of elite reviewers.

Amazon is making a significant change to its Community Guidelines, announced today, which will eliminate any incentivized reviews, except for those that emerge from within its own Amazon Vine program.

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You can get free stuff on Amazon in a variety of ways, even if you don't subscribe to Amazon Prime. It's possible to get free products in exchange for writing honest Amazon reviews. Third-party ...

Amazon detractors say that some customer reviews put small third-party merchants at a disadvantage. E-commerce juggernaut Amazon is being accused of manipulating reviews to ensure its own brands are ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world's largest cloud provider, stumbled over on Sunday for 59 minutes, due to issues with its U.S.-EAST datacenter. The outage began at about 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m.