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April 6, 2018

Amazon in growth push, despite tweets

  • Amazon relies on a nearly 30-member in-house lobbying team — four times as large as it was three years ago — as well as outside firms.
    • By RICHARD LARDNER
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Amazon is spending millions of dollars on lobbying as the global online retailer seeks to expand its reach into a swath of industries that President Donald Trump's broadsides haven't come close to hitting.

    Trump's attacks over the last week targeted what Amazon is best known for: rapidly shipping just about any product you can imagine to your door. But the company CEO Jeff Bezos founded more than two decades ago is now a sprawling empire that sells groceries in brick-and-mortar stores, hosts the online services of other companies and federal offices in a network of data centers, and even recently branched into health care.


     
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