Amazon, by contrast, has grown into a powerful economic force in China in recent years, providing lucrative export opportunities to thousands of Chinese businesses while growing its own industry-leading cloud-services unit.

Yahoo recently exited China and Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn announced it would pull out some of its services.
Both cited the country's difficult business environment and regulatory requirements. Some companies have responded to Beijing's demands by leaving the market.

Last month, in a Twitter video promoting his autobiography, the teen revealed how he started his first business at age seven and by 10 owned and operated a 350-acre ranch. The teen was reportedly the sole keeper of the land Free Book where he lived with his disabled parents and brother.

With the brand endorsed by popular Bollywood celebrities, the duo has cashed in on growing e-commerce adoption in India by offering its products on platforms such as Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart. Mamaearth was co-founded by Varun Alagh, a former Hindustan Unilever executive, and his wife Ghazal.

BERLIN, June 21 (Reuters) - Germany's cartel office launched an investigation of Google Germany and parent Alphabet Inc on Tuesday over possible anti-competitive restrictions on the Google Maps platform.





Amazon dedicated several employees to the effort, which involved CIBTC, the government Free Book-trading company, which the document described as "the executing body from GAPP." The company planned to tout the portal to Chinese authorities as Amazon's only store named after a country, the document said.

It's also worth splurging for over Amazon's new, similarly ball-shaped . Amazon has faltered recently with its core smart speaker, as the more budget-friendly Dot has become a better entry point to the market and 2019's Echo Studio offers higher-end sound for audiophiles. That left the $100 Echo as a sort of undefined middle child in the growing family of Alexa-powered speakers. This Echo has turned up the sound quality and added higher-end smarts than the competition, all for the same $100 price tag, leaving it one of the most forward-looking smart speakers released in years. But 2020's Echo is genuinely different, and it's not just because of the new spheroidal profile.

I tried installing a couple of Zigbee devices and found the process to be totally painless. This isn't revolutionary -- in fact, Amazon included Zigbee receivers in their $150 Echo Plus and their $230 second-gen Echo Show -- but it is bringing better home connectivity to a broader audience, and that's a clear win for Amazon customers.

(Writing by Rachel More Editing by Madeline Chambers and David Goodman) The office has used the rules to open parallel investigations into Google's terms and conditions for data processing and the Google News Showcase, as well as tech giants Facebook and Amazon.

Authorities have said a main line of the police investigation into the disappearances has pointed to an international network that pays poor fishermen to fish illegally in the Javari Valley reserve, which is Brazil's second-largest indigenous territory.



MUMBAI, June 21 (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital-backed Indian skincare startup Mamaearth is in talks to raise at least $300 million in a planned IPO next year and is seeking a valuation of around $3 billion, three people with direct knowledge of the company's plans told Reuters.

According to a recent Amazon blog post explaining it, Sidewalk will allow users to "contribute a small portion of their internet bandwidth, which is pooled together to create a shared network that benefits all Sidewalk-enabled devices in a community." What's less clear is how Amazon Sidewalk, which Amazon says will launch later this year, will affect Echo users.

CEO Alagh told the Business Standard newspaper in January that 70% of Mamaearth's sales come from online platforms, but it was targetting a bigger offline presence and aiming to reach 40,000 retail outlets in 100 cities this year.



Shock at their fate has echoed across Brazil and around the world, highlighting the overhaul of indigenous agency Funai under President Jair Bolsonaro, along with a rising tide of violence and criminal incursions on native lands.



Still, by 2018, Amazon was receiving an "increasing number of requests from (Chinese) watchdogs to take down certain content, mostly politically sensitive ones," stated the briefing document prepared that year for Carney.

Amazon's compliance with the Chinese government edict, which has not been reported before, is part of a deeper, decade-long effort by the company to win favor in Beijing to protect and grow its business in one of the world's largest marketplaces.

Another "best seller," about COVID-19, was ranked 10,654,483. The Chinese-language version of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China Volume Three" - is listed first on China Books' "BEST SELLER" page.
It recently showed a sales rank of 1,347,071. The Xinjiang title, which Reuters purchased, Novel Books had been ranked 13,441,455. Nonetheless, the China Books project continues.