Amazon is shutting down its “Smile” charity donation program as the company cuts costs and rethinks its strategy. The Smile initiative will shut down by February 20, Amazon said in a statement ...

Amazon Smile shutting down is extremely disappointing. Not because of what it raised for any individual charity – most donations were modest – but the fact that Amazon will now hand pick ...

"Amazon claims the Amazon Smile program didn't have an impact. I can tell you as an animal not for profit it made a huge difference to us. That $9400 meant the world.

Since 2013, Amazon Smile has donated a percentage of its revenues to all the charities that have been associated with the program. While the net total is over $500 million, each company gets a ...

Amazon is ending its charity donation program by Feb. 20, the company announced Wednesday. The move to shutter AmazonSmile comes after a series of other cost-cutting measures.. Through the program ...

E-commerce giant Amazon (AMZN 0.26%) is diving deeper into its cost-cutting spree.On Wednesday, the company decided to pull the plug on Amazon Smile, the charitable donation program it started in 2013 ...

Amazon.com Inc. is halting “AmazonSmile,” a decade-old charitable program that let customers pick a charity to receive a donation from the company equal to 0.5% of their purchases.

The Amazon Smile scheme has been in place since 2013 and has dished out more than £18.5million to thousands of small charities across the country in that time.

Amazon Smile donated a small percentage of sales made on eligible purchases to a charity that shoppers chose. In total, $500 million has been donated since its 2013 launch, ...