A roundup of Amazon’s hot events of the week!

Amazon's audiobook company Audible has launched a new app in India called Audible Suno, which features original audio series, alongside its numerous podcast options and video streaming apps including Amazon Prime, in a bid to expand its presence in the country's competitive digital entertainment and streaming space.

Amazon will join an open source project called Dent, an operating system developed for switches. By creating an open source alternative, Amazon and its trading partners can reduce the control and product prices of dominant companies in the field.

Amazon recently released its 2019 Global Prime Membership Report and announced that the number of new Prime members added globally this year has hit a new record high. The report shows that as of now, there are more than 100 million Prime paying members worldwide.

The CGT and the government have an irreconcilable conflict over pension reform, and the union has responded by saying the strike will continue until Christmas. The CGT threatened that if the government does not give up pension reform, the strike will not stop during Christmas, and public transportation will not be able to operate normally at that time.

A set of data released by Tmall Global shows that in the past six months, the pet industry has become the fastest growing industry in terms of sales volume. Among them, the sales volume of pet beauty products increased by more than 100% year-on-year, the sales volume of cat and dog ear cleaning products increased by 552% year-on-year, the sales volume of shampoo and bath gel increased by 149%, and the sales volume of eye cleaning care products increased by 141%.

Shopee’s annual 12.12 birthday sale ended successfully with 80 million items sold on the day of the event. Within 24 hours, Shopee received over 80 million page views.