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Amazon helps provide food for students at Roebling Elementary School in Florence

FLORONCE — Last month, members of Amazon partnered with Share our Strength's "No Kid Hungry" campaign by donating two meal carts to Roebling Elementary School to help end the stigma facing children who receive free or reduced lunch. Students were welcomed by about 20 local Amazon ...

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Responds to Donald Trump's Twitter Attacks: 'I Expect Us to Be Scrutinized'

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a long history of trading barbs with the current president of the U.S., Donald Trump. But in the face of criticism, the 54-year-old chief executive claims to be taking the high road—saying in a recent interview that he fully expects his company to be scrutinized. Bezos—one of the ...

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Here's How Designers Would Fix Amazon

If you've ever searched for a product and felt like Amazon's results were serving Amazon's business goals more than your own, you aren't alone. A recent Forrester survey found that while consumers appreciate its speed and convenience, they don't feel valued as Amazon customers. Who can blame ...

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Deutsche Bank: Amazon-USPS relationship mutually beneficial

Jeff Bezos managed to convince 100M people to sign up for Amazon Prime, but President Trump is not a fan. Trump has tweeted about the discounted postal rates Amazon enjoys, the USPS's finances, the taxes the e-commerce giant supposedly avoids, Amazon's responsibility for the 'retail apocalypse', ...

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Amazon Sees Increase Sales In Q1

All Amazon categories in which books are sold increased in the first three months of 2018 over the same period in 2017. Amazon, which does not break out its sales by product type, reports book and e-book sales as part of its "online stores" category; it also reports audiobook and e-book subscriptions as ...

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The Curious Case of the Amazon Prime Price Hike

For more than a decade, that Costco-inspired lowest-price-anywhere mentality fueled the rise of Amazon.com Inc.'s reputation. But recently the company appears to be taking a different tact. There are legitimate questions about whether customers are really seeing the cheapest products on the internet, ...

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Wall Street raises the bar for Amazon after blowout quarter, but some aren't buying the hype

Larry McDonald, editor of the Bear Traps Report, is also cautious on Amazon but for a different reason, one he thinks could catch the Street off guard. "There's no better populist pinata than Amazon," McDonald said on "Trading Nation," referring to President Donald Trump's attacks on the Jeff Bezos-led ...

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Why Amazon.com Stock Still Has Enormous Upside

Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) stock surged to new all-time highs last week after the company reported a huge earnings beat and said it is raising ... 35 percent so far this year, but Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter says there is still at least another 33 percent upside to Amazon stock in the next year.

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Bill Gates is glad Amazon is getting into health care — but cautions it's complicated

Their plan to form an independent health care company for employees of their companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase — has been hailed as a way to "disrupt" health care. In an interview with STAT 2, Gates said that while the industry titans might be able to curb costs and ...

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How Amazon decided the first thing it would sell was books

Amazon grew out of CEO Jeff Bezos' desire to build an "everything store." It was an idea he'd discussed at length with his former boss, David Shaw. As Brad Stone describes it in his 2013 book, also called "The Everything Store," Bezos' and Shaw's goal was to build "an Internet company that served as ...

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Amazon: Why It Looks Like A (Potentially Major) Top

Amazon.com (AMZN) is the opposite now. When an icon such as AMZN now accelerates after a huge run, accompanied by massive, one-sided cheerleading from the Street, and some warts begin to become visible, history suggests that it is too late to buy the name. This point of view doesn't mean that ...

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Amazon Got Rich on These 4 Design Principles and You Could Too

Amazon's domination reinforces a theory that is sometimes difficult to digest in the design community: successful design experiences do not always have to be beautiful. Design is subjective, of course. Ecommerce entrepreneurs should understand the following shopping experience design principles.

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Chico's shares jump as apparel retailer announces plans to sell on Amazon.com

Chico's FAS, the parent company of Chico's, White House Black Market and Soma, announced Monday its plans to soon sell Chico's merchandise on Amazon.com. Chico's shares jumped more than 4 percent in premarket trading on the news. The company said in mid-May shoppers will find a "select ...

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The Curious Case of the Amazon Prime Price Hike

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When It Comes To Landing Amazon's HQ2, Austin Isn't As Keen As Dallas, Survey Says

The capital city isn't that enthusiastic about the prospect of landing the company; only 36 percent of survey respondents "strongly support" Amazon's potential move. In fact, opposition to the so-called HQ2 was highest among Austin and Denver respondents to the new survey by the Elon University Poll ...

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Bank executives are talking about Amazon more than ever, out of admiration and fear

Bank executives are obsessed with the tech industry. Fast-growing technology firms are both a source of business and an increasingly serious threat to the financial services establishment. The preoccupation with tech can be seen by the rising number of mentions of Amazon, Apple, Google, and ...

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How Alexa Keeps Beating Siri

Apple had a three-year head start on other major competitors such as Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana. But while Apple took the early lead in the space, its cautious approach—particularly when it comes to integrating information and functionality from third-party apps—has left it lagging.

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BankThink Amazon plays the long game to win over customers. Banks should do the same.

Amazon's maniacal focus on customer experience is well known. In Jeff Bezos own words, Amazon "aspire[s] to be Earth's most customer-centric company." Financial industry observers (including myself) have spilled barrels of digital ink opining on the disruptive significance of every move Amazon ...

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Amazon is fueling its ad business after a massive Q1

This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Amazon reported massive Q1 earnings last week, with overall sales of $51 billion, up 43% year-over-year (YoY), and profits ...

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Chico's shares rise after Amazon partnership announced

Chico's Fas Inc. CHS, -2.85% shares rose 4% in Monday premarket trading after the women's clothing and accessories company announced it will make Chico's brand merchandise available on Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.89% Items will be available beginning mid-May and will be eligible for Prime ...

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Walmart retreats from its UK Asda business to hone its focus on competing with Amazon

In the US, Walmart has been trying out multiple routes for consumers to shop in new ways that address the kinds of options that the likes of Amazon now offers them. Targeting different geographies and demographics, Walmart has made big bets like its $3 billion acquisition of Jet.com; expanding its own ...

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What's streaming on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon in May

Margot Robbie won raves portraying former US championship figure skater Tonya Harding in "I, Tonya," which also earned costar Allison Janney a best supporting actress Academy Award. The film is coming to Hulu in May. Here's what else is streaming during the month... Hide Caption. 1 of 30.

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Amazon upped Prime's price tag — here are a few reasons why

This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence "E-Commerce Briefing" subscribers hours before appearing on Business Insider. To be the first to know, please click here. Amazon reported its earnings for Q1 2018 last week, revealing that it brought in $51 billion in net sales, up 43% ...

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Chico's, Joining Nike and Sears, Turns to Amazon to Sell Its Products

Chico's said it doesn't expect sales through Amazon to be material to 2018 results. The company generated $2.28 billion of sales in its last fiscal year. Shares in Chico's, which rose premarket after the announcement, were down 1.6% in recent morning trading. Some companies, including Nike Inc., have ...

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Amazon still sells counterfeit goods despite efforts to clean up

Amazon still sells plenty of counterfeit goods even though it's tried to crack down on fake sellers for years, according to The Guardian. By ordering goods that were listed as legitimate on Amazon, the report uncovered a number of fake items sold by third-party sellers, including a pair of knockoff AirPods ...

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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin: Successful 'New Shepard' Test Flight Brings Amazon Boss Closer to ...

Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company, has successfully completed the latest test flight of its fully reusable launch system, New Shepard, which could soon be taking private citizens into suborbital space. On Sunday, the rocket took off from the company's West Texas launch site at 1:06 ...

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Multiple crews respond to reported fire at Amazon center in Dinwiddie

DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Fire crews from multiple jurisdictions responded to a reported fire the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Dinwiddie County Monday morning. Crews from Dinwiddie, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Petersburg, Fort Lee and Prince George, all responded just before 10 a.m. ...

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These are the 5 best deals on Amazon right now

I browsed through Amazon's Gold Box and found a handful of deals that really stood out from the other, less impressive discounts and offers available today. These products stood out because we've tested them ourselves and found them to be the best or they've got loads of high ratings and glowing ...

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You Can Save Up to $50 On a New Fitbit

If you're into the simple, straightforward, classic models, the Fitbit Charge 2 has earned rave reviews for its ability to track the heart rate and provide information while remaining clear and concise. Currently, Amazon is offering the highly-rated Charge 2 for 20 percent off its original price, making it a deal ...

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Amazon To Now Deliver Packages Into Car Trunks

Amazon announced a new service that gives its couriers access to a person's vehicle to leave package deliveries by using the connected technologies embedded in many modern vehicles. What do you think? "Now this is just the right amount of invasive." Joel Branson • Unemployed. "So I'm supposed ...

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7 Ways That Amazon Is Winning By Acting "Glocally" In India

On a recent visit with Amazon's team in Bangalore, I made a fascinating observation. In a two-hour conversation about the company's strategy for the Indian e-commerce market, not once did the team mention their competitors. Instead, Amazon's team spoke only of the value that they are creating for ...

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Jeff Bezos says his advice to Amazon interns and execs is to stop aiming for work-life 'balance ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn't a fan of the phrase "work-life balance." At a recent awards event hosted by Axel Springer and Business Insider US editor in chief Alyson Shontell, Bezos revealed the counterintuitive advice he offers new Amazon employees. Bezos believes that his new hires should stop ...

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Amazon second headquarters: some expect another round of finalists before winning bid

SAN FRANCISCO — The finish line is in sight. Amazon has completed the visits it's been making to the 20 cities winnowed from the initial 238 that wanted to be home to the Seattle company's second headquarters. Cities are eager to get on to the winning and the enormous financial windfall the prize will ...

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Does tracking Jeff Bezos's plane offer clues to location of Amazon's new HQ?

Of the HQ2 candidate cities on Amazon's shortlist, Bezos' plane – which has a range of 7,500 miles – has also touched down near Denver, Dallas, Los Angeles and Newark, New Jersey. "While they aren't necessarily an indicator of the company's likelihood of choosing one of these cities for its second ...

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Amazon Prime: Still a good deal at $119?

Amazon Prime has always offered an eclectic array of benefits, but the big draw for most subscribers is probably free two-day shipping on zillions of Amazon's gajillion products. (Depending on where you live and what you order, you might even get overnight or same-day shipping at no extra charge.).

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Amazon adding 3000 high-tech jobs with Vancouver tech hub expansion

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.04% said it would add 3,000 high-tech jobs with the expansion of its Vancouver Tech Hub. Jobs will include positions in e-commerce technology, cloud computing and machine learning. Amazon already has 6,000 Canadian employees. The new facility will span 416,000 ...

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Amazon to open new 416K square-foot office in Vancouver, will hire for 3000 new jobs

Amazon currently employs more than 1,000 people in Vancouver who work on the company's retail and AWS products, in addition to human resources technology. In November it announced plans to expand a separate office at 402 Dunsmuir, in addition to another 156,000 square-foot location in TELUS ...

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Alexa exec Charlie Kindel leaves Amazon to spend more time with his smart home

Charlie Kindel, a key Amazon executive who helped shape the rise of Alexa, is leaving the company after five years. Kindel, who served as director of Alexa Smart Home for Amazon, helped to shape the voice assistant's growth in many ways. He presided over an aggressive, early push to win over the ...

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​Why Softbank wants Amazon -- not Walmart -- to acquire Flipkart

It's hard not to blame Softbank for its desire to see Amazon wedded to Flipkart. It slapped down $2.5 billion last year for a 24-percent stake in the Indian e-commerce leviathan, hoping that it could build a larger, potent force in India through the marriage of one of its other children, PayTM, a payments ...

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Sainsbury's Coupe gives Yorkshire the lead over Amazon of Seattle

But what is perhaps more remarkable is that these longstanding connections could make Yorkshire a bigger obstacle to the global ambitions of Seattle-based Amazon than any other place in the world. Not only does Mr Coupe's background make his deal a good cultural fit, it will also make "Sainsda" ...

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Why Amazon is driving force behind Asda-Sainsbury's merger

The rapid expansion of discounters Aldi and Lidl – whose share of the grocery market has rocketed from less than 4% a decade ago to nearly 13% today – has hit all traditional supermarkets. But the industry's biggest fear is Amazon. Sainsbury's boss Mike Coupe has long made clear that his real ...

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How worker pay compares at Facebook, Google, Amazon

At Amazon, where jobs include bookstore clerks and warehouse workers, the median salary is only $28,446, a recent filing shows. This is the first year publicly traded companies are required to reveal the median compensation for their employees and how that compares to their CEOs. The first public ...

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Amazon Recovers From Trump Tweets By Ignoring Them And Delivering Good Results

When Amazon was trading at $700 in May of 2016, Rex Jacobsen told us The Market Is Underestimating Amazon and set a target price of $1,100. Last month, Amazon traded as high as $1,598 until President Trump's tweets knocked it back about 14% to $1,372. Since Amazon announced record ...

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Jeff Bezos says his advice to Amazon interns and execs is to stop aiming for work-life 'balance ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he believes the term "work-life balance" is a "debilitating phrase." Bezos revealed that one of the top pieces of advice he offers new Amazon employees is that they shouldn't view the two as a strict trade-off. Instead, Bezos thinks of his personal and professional pursuits as a ...

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In the age of Amazon, warehouse powerhouse Prologis is getting bigger

Shopping at Amazon.com Inc. and other internet retailers still accounts for less than 10% of retail sales in the United States, but e-commerce is reconfiguring supply chains and shaping the fortunes of industrial landlords. Demand is especially high in and around large cities, where online shopping has ...

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Philly Likely to Appeal Order to Release Amazon HQ2 Bid

City officials say they are considering appealing a state agency's order to release financial details regarding Philadelphia's bid for Amazon's second headquarters. Last week, the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records ruled that Philadelphia officials have 30 days to release any financial enticements ...

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Amazon Alexa Smart Home founder Charlie Kindel departs tech giant after 5 years

Kindel, a Seattle tech veteran who previously spent two decades at Microsoft, played an important leadership role at Amazon with the company's Alexa voice platform. He created the Alexa Smart Home unit in 2016, helping grow Amazon's voice technology capabilities inside the home. "The Alexa Smart ...

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Amazon exec Charlie Kindel says he's leaving to take a serious break from 'work'

Before joining Amazon, Kindel had held the role Microsoft Windows Phone general manager. He has also dabbled in the world of startups, including starting a company called FreeBusy whose tool used artificial intelligence to generate mileage logs using users' cloud-based calendars. That outfit has ...

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Amazon plans another Vancouver, BC, expansion, to 5000 employees

Amazon on Monday said it plans to grow its Vancouver research and development office to 5,000 employees after a new office building is completed in 2022, the retailer's second expansion in the city announced in the last six months.

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Amazon officials on an HQ2 tour of the Triangle focused on only two areas

When the Triangle first submitted its bid to become the second home of Amazon, it highlighted seven potential sites, spread across the region, for a potentially massive corporate campus. But when Amazon officials visited the Triangle in late March, they were only shown sites in two areas: downtown ...

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Yamazaki Home Kitchen Organization Rack Amazon Sale

One of our favorite kitchen organizers is now on sale (20 percent off!). Not only is it incredibly useful, it's also incredibly pretty.

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in May

Amazon Prime is primarily focused on adding library films and limited miniseries, although the service will premiere a new Rocky and Bullwinkle TV series on May 11th, and Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer stars in the service's new series adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock. That show is scheduled ...

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India: Amazon Leads Flipkart, But Gap Is Narrowing

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has committed to pouring $5 billion into the Indian e-commerce market, and that bet appears to be paying off. The Seattle-based online retailer is now the leader in India with rival Flipkart a close second. That's notable given that Flipkart is the local player, which could sell a ...

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Amazon Is Building a New Tech Hub Inside an Old Post Office

In another stunning display of its might, Amazon will be transforming an old post office building into a new Amazon office building. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just announced that the Seattle-based online retailer will open a new tech hub on the site of a historic Canada Post building in ...

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Amazon: Can Design Make It a More 'Human' Experience?

If you've ever searched Amazon.com for something you wanted and then found yourself feeling like you're being shunted toward things you aren't entirely sure you want, you're not alone. Fast Company's Mark Wilson took that feeling to the next level, inviting a digital design studio to explore ways to ...

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Trudeau announces Amazon bringing 3000 new tech jobs to Vancouver

Related video: Need to redefine Amazon away from just e-commerce platform, says editor [Provided by CNBC]. Amazon has announced plans to expand its Vancouver tech hub and bring 3,000 jobs to the city. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on hand for the announcement Monday morning.

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How Amazon's decision to spend billions on video is paying off

For $99 a year, Amazon Prime subscribers get exclusive access to all of its original video content and two-day shipping. The goal is to draw Amazon Prime subscribers in with content and then use the perks to turn those subscribers into consistent shoppers. "When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell ...

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Amazon Fulfillment Center in Virginia Catches Fire, Cause Unknown

A blaze swept through Amazon Fulfillment Center RIC1 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia this morning, overwhelming the building's internal fire suppression systems. The Richmond ... We've reached out to Amazon and the Dinwiddie Fire Department for comment and will update when we hear back.

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Amazon Web Services starts blocking domain-fronting, following Google's lead

A week after Google shut down a method for app developers to skirt internet censorship, Amazon is doing the same. In a post last week, Amazon Web Services announced that it would implement a new set of enhanced domain protections specifically designed to stop domain-fronting, a practice that lets ...

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Amazon buyers warn watch out for the "empty box" scam

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Scammers often hide behind a trusted name, and there are few more well known nowadays than Amazon. Some customers have reported getting a delivery they paid for but when they open the box nothing's inside. It's an attempt to circumvent Amazon's guarantee policy and it's ...

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How Much Does it Cost to Hook You Up on Amazon Prime

By expanding its product range with the implementation of a video on demand platform, Amazon managed to bring some added value to their premium membership model known as Amazon Prime. Since the very beginning of Amazon Video, the e-commerce colossus tried to ramp up subscription ...

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Alexa exec calls it quits after five years at Amazon

Despite Amazon's notoriously high-pressure work culture, Kindel went on to add that he would miss the company's high standards and didn't rule out the possibility of returning in the future. We couldn't blame him for staying away, though: Kindel spent the last three years leading the Alexa team in ...

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Tough Sledding for Amazon?

This was all the confirmation Amazon bulls needed. The BDI and the BCSO were simultaneously flashing vivid buy signals. Had you gotten in the moment Mr. Bezos's dogsled tweet appeared and then sold your shares either after hours the day of the earnings report or the next morning in the premarket, ...

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Job search

We're a company of pioneers. It's our job to make bold bets, and we get our energy from inventing on behalf of customers. Success is measured against the possible, not the probable. For today's pioneers, that's exactly why there's no place on Earth they'd rather build than Amazon.

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Amazon HQ2

With Amazon now reportedly done visiting Denver and the 19 other sites on its list of finalists for its sprawling second headquarters campus, some watchers of the process expect that a shorter version of the "Amazon Hq2" short list may be coming soon before the winning site is announced.

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Robotics-heavy Amazon fulfillment center creates 2000 jobs for humans in KCK

It starts with an online order. An Amazon customer buys a product and designates a shipping schedule, and the high-speed automated process at the company's Kansas City, Kan., fulfillment center begins. The order makes its way to an employee at the fulfillment center. But the employee doesn't go ...

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Amazon News Roundup: Prime Membership Bumped Up To $119, But Will People Care?

Last week, Amazon announced that it will increase the price for Prime membership from $99 per year up to $119. The Prime program is central to Amazon's growth "flywheel," locking consumers into an ecosystem that provides free, 2-day delivery and digital services like Prime Video. So will the price ...

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Amazon Couldn't Justify A $750 Billion Market Cap On A 350 P/E Ratio

Amazon's recent Q1 2018 saw the company post excellent growth not only in its core retail business, but also its very profitable and growing cloud computing segment as well as advertising. Amazon Prime's membership numbers have been revealed by CEO Jeff Bezos for the first time at over 100 million ...

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Amazon's Focus on India Sends Shivers Down Walmart's Back

Just as Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced its platform is the fastest growing marketplace in India, Walmart (NYSE:WMT) is said to be near closing a deal to take a majority stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart. Amazon and Walmart are both eager to become the "Amazon of India," and for good ...

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Fashion Vet Joyce Azria Bets Big On Amazon With Her Next Venture

And now Amazon looms large on the horizon, eager to bring fashion labels onto its gargantuan platform. All of this disruption in the industry has affected BCBG badly. Last year, after seasons of declining sales, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, shuttering 120 stores. Joyce Azria has observed ...

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Sainsbury's Asda buy could make UK tougher grocery market for Amazon

The Sainsbury deal to buy Asda, announced on Monday, comes as retailers on both sides of the Atlantic grapple with heightened competition from the discounters such as Germany's Aldi and Lidl and e-commerce giant Amazon. The marriage of Britain's second- and third-largest grocers will not ...

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Amazon is increasing the price of its annual Prime membership. Here's when it starts

"We continue to increase the value of Prime," Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said, according to CNN Money. Amazon said it has seen increased costs for multiple Prime services, including shipping and video streaming. The increase will be the first jump for Amazon Prime since 2014 when the price spiked ...

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Amazon finds Utah businesses to be the biggest users of its platform

No state outdoes Utah in the number of small- and medium-sized businesses that sell their products on Amazon. Not California. Not New York. Those giant commercial states were runners-up to Utah on Monday when Amazon released the list of its Top 10 "Most Entrepreneurial States." The ranking was ...

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Poll: Amazon Is Pushing Its 'Prime' Luck With 20% Membership Price Hike

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed this month that the online giant's Prime loyalty program boasts more than 100 million members worldwide. Amazon Prime, which grants consumers savings on shipping, such as free two-day delivery, and perks on streaming content, reading, and other deals, has ...

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Amazon on Braintree's doorstep

The online giant plans to lease 200,000 square feet of space for a warehouse and distribution facility. BRAINTREE − Amazon has agreed to lease 200,000 square feet of space on Campanelli Drive for a warehouse and distribution facility, Mayor Joseph Sullivan said. "The plans have been filed" Sullivan ...

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All for one and one for all in the Washington area's quest for HQ2

AMAZON'S SEARCH for a suitable site to build the equivalent of three Empire State Buildings for its second corporate headquarters has triggered heated competition among the 20 localities the company has identified as finalists, with some salutary byproducts. In the Washington area, home to three of ...

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New Zealand plans 'Amazon Tax' for people buying online

New Zealand announced plans Tuesday to start taxing people who buy books, shoes and other small items online from abroad in a measure many people are calling the "Amazon Tax." Revenue Minister Stuart Nash said the government plans to close a loophole that allows people to buy low-cost items ...

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Softbank and Sprint, Amazon's Earnings, Jeff Bezos's Letter and Interview

Sprint and the problem of fixed costs, Amazon and the advantage of fixed costs, and Jeff Bezos' fundamental optimism. To read this daily update you must be a subscriber (Current members login here.) Stratechery.com is supported by subscriptions to the Daily Update. Daily Update. $10 per month or ...

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Amazon in Boston: It's not Amazon HQ2, but a massive expansion is coming

Amazon will formally announce on Tuesday a huge expansion in Boston that will bring 2,000 technology jobs to a new building in Seaport Square, where it will focus on developing its Alexa voice-activated technology, as well as cloud computing and robotics. It's confirmation of a move that has been ...

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Amazon adding 2000 tech jobs with expanded Boston Tech Hub

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.10% said Tuesday that it will add 2,000 technology jobs in Boston with the expansion of the company's Boston Tech Hub. Jobs will cover areas like speech science and robotics engineering. Amazon will move into a new 430,000-square-foot space to accommodate the new ...

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Amazon expands Alexa hub in Boston with 2000 new jobs

Amazon is expanding its Boston tech hub and creating 2,000 new jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science and robotics, the company announced Tuesday. The Seattle-based company said in a press release that it will open the doors of a new office in Boston's waterfront Seaport ...

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Amazon launches Prime Book Box, a $23 kids' book selection, in its first physical Prime book service

Along with the higher price that Amazon is introducing to Prime this month, the company is also bringing another first to its membership service: physical books. The company now has a new product called Prime Book Box, a subscription service for children's hardback books, selected by Amazon editors, ...

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Amazon plans to add 2000 workers to Boston office

On Monday, Amazon disclosed plans to occupy much of a coming office development in downtown Vancouver, B.C., hiring an additional 3,000 employees there from 2022 and making the city one of Amazon's largest technology development outposts. The company also said Monday that it would add ...

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'Amazon Effect' May Push Vancouver Housing Prices Even Higher

The Seattle-based company plans to increase its Vancouver workforce five-fold to 5,000 by 2022 - mostly high-tech positions, said Jesse Dougherty, Amazon's general manager of web services. Dougherty spoke Monday in the bunker-like former Canada Post mailing center that's set to be re-developed ...

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Amazon introduces kids book program for Prime members

... at 6:29 am. Amazon says its new Prime Book Box program will ship customers age-appropriate children's' books at one- to three-month intervals. ... After years spent getting people comfortable ordering books online, Amazon is trying out just delivering them to customers automatically. The company ...

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Amazon formally announces expansion into Boston's Seaport, plan to create 2000 jobs

Amazon formally announced Tuesday plans to expand its presence in Massachusetts. The technology giant is expanding its team focused on Alexa and Audible, opening an office in Boston's Seaport. "Amazon is excited to create 2,000 more jobs in greater Boston," said Rohit Prasad, vice president and ...

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Amazon's Growth Is About To Slow

Whenever I talk to an Amazon (AMZN) shareholder they always highlight for me the same 'story' - which is, Amazon is investing for growth. However, if after more than a decade of investing for growth, the business is still only just marginally profitable, it makes you wonder if some of that cash has been ...

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Amazon to add 2000 jobs in Boston

Amazon is adding 2,000 jobs to its Boston tech hub in fields including cloud computing and speech science, the company announced Tuesday. Boston is one of the tech giant's largest footholds and is a finalist to win the company's second headquarters. Amazon has been paying visits to each of the 20 ...

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Amazon Will Expand Boston Technology Hub With 2000 New Jobs

"In just a few years, we've grown from a handful of software developers and scientists to a team of more than 1,200, inventing new capabilities and products on behalf of millions of customers around the world," said Rohit Prasad, Amazon's Boston area-based vice president and head scientist of Amazon ...

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3 Key Things From Amazon's Q1 Earnings Call Investors Should Know

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) turned in a fantastic first-quarter 2018 earnings report last week. The e-commerce and cloud-computing titan's revenue soared 43% year over year to $51.0 billion, and earnings per share (EPS) adjusted for one-time items rocketed 121% to $3.27. As it did in the previous ...

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Amazon Announces Plans to Expand Boston Tech Hub and Create an Additional 2000 Technology ...

SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2018-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon today announced plans to expand its Boston Tech Hub and create an additional 2,000 technology jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics engineering. Together with its ...

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Australia's Mall Owners Gird Themselves for Battle With Amazon

Previously, Australians had to shop on Amazon's U.S. and U.K. websites for most products, which meant hefty shipping fees and long delivery times. Although other big online retailers such as eBay Inc. have been popular in Australia, up until recently the country's consumers have been mostly hooked ...

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Surviving Amazon and the Technology a Danish CEO Says Can Do It

Seattle-based retail giant Amazon is testing its own delivery network, and may take away business from long-time partners United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. "We're monitoring this development very closely," the DSV CEO said. "It's obvious that Amazon will be able to take a slice." Amazon ...

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Amazon is launching a $23 subscription book box for kids

Later this year, Amazon plans to launch Prime Book Box, a monthly book subscription service for kids. For $22.99 per month, subscribers will receive a box of four board books (for ages two and younger) or two hardcover picture books or novels (for ages three to 12). This is Amazon's first monthly ...

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After a Bernie Sanders tweet, Amazon is now in the crosshairs of both political parties

Amazon is now under scrutiny from both sides of the aisle, as Sen. Bernie Sanders echoed President Donald Trump's criticism of the e-commerce giant in a tweet this week. "You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero," the 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful said in a tweet ...

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Amazon's Echo can now remember whatever you tell it to

Last week, Amazon announced that a slew of new functions were coming to Alexa that would make it smarter and more natural to interact with. Starting today, US users can use one of those features, called "Remember This." With Remember This, you can ask Alexa to store important information that ...

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Amazon introduces Prime Book Box, a subscription service for kids

Amazon is going back to its bookseller roots for its latest Prime program. The online retailer on Tuesday introduced Prime Book Box, a subscription service that offers curated boxes of hardcover books for kids up to age 12. Customers can pick whether to receive the boxes every one, two or three months.

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Amazon Launches Kids' Subscription Service

Books will come from a range of publishers and are selected for the program by Amazon Books editors who will factor in customer ratings and reviews. The service is aimed at children up to 12 years-old. Each box contains two hardcover children's books tailored to each reader's age (for ages 3-12), ...

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Amazon Struggles to Sell Apparel, Shoes in Europe

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has been in the European market for 20 years now, but when it comes to cracking the apparel and footwear segment of e-commerce, it is still having a hard time. Citing Euromonitor International data, The Wall Street Journal reported that while Amazon is the leading seller of ...

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Amazon Is Adding 2000 More Jobs in Boston to Focus on Alexa, Cloud Computing

In February, Mayor Marty Walsh made public that Amazon inked a deal to move into a massive, 430,000-square-foot office in the Seaport in 2021, where employees will likely focus on Alexa and artificial intelligence projects. "Amazon is excited to create 2,000 more jobs in greater Boston," Rohit Prasad, ...

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Amazon expansion includes new office, 2K jobs in Boston

BOSTON (AP) — Amazon unveiled plans on Tuesday for a major expansion in Boston's Seaport District, promising 2,000 new technology jobs even as the city remains in contention for the company's coveted second headquarters. Seattle-based Amazon announced it would move into a ...

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Amazon wants Prime Book Box to be your kid's summer reading companion

Amazon is a little late to the (non-food) subscription box fad, but that won't stop it from shipping children's books to your door. Prime Book Box Kids is targeted at parents, and will deliver either a pair of hardcover books or a quartet of board books on a regular basis. There are four age ranges to choose ...

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Open records request forces Denton to reveal Amazon Air's interest in airport

The city's economic development department was compelled Monday to reveal Amazon Air's identity after a citizen won an open records request to force the disclosure. The city had given the inquiry a code name, "Project High Flyer," which the Texas attorney general's office ultimately ruled was not ...

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Amazon Is Launching $23 Prime Book Box Subscription for Kids

Amazon is launching a new subscription service specifically designed for kids. Called Prime Book Box, the service will be available in one, two, or three-month subscriptions, and will deliver a box of discounted books to a child's doorstep. Books in Amazon's Prime Book Box are divided by age group.

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Amazon ranks Colorado 4th for entrepreneurship thanks to state's number of small-business sellers

Add Colorado to another list. This time, it's Amazon determining which 10 states are the most entrepreneurial. Colorado came in fourth, outranked by Utah, California and New York. While many lists that rank top cities for business focus on number of local startups or business costs, Amazon used its own ...

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Beloved, Feared And Unsolvable Amazon

Selling at a nearly infinite price-earnings ratio on today's numbers, it's impossible to model Amazon with a sharp pencil. So everyone uses kindergarten crayons, mainly in primary colors. Amazon's aura recalls early postwar years when the country's grandmothers bought their grandchildren odd lots of ...

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I Bought a Fiddle-leaf Fig From the New Amazon Plants Store

As you may have heard, Amazon sells plants now. Actually, it's sold plants for a while, but the retailer's recently centralized its offerings to form the Amazon Plants Store. The eight featured brands you'll find on that page aren't the only plant sellers on Amazon, but you can think of them as the most vetted ...

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Amazon Prime members can get monthly box of kids' books with new subscription

On the heels of announcing the new Echo Dot Kids Edition, Amazon has a new offering tailored to parents who want more convenient, kid-friendly content for their family. The company now offers Prime Book Box, a curated box of two or four children's books available for Prime members for $22.99.

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Amazon Ranks Top Entrepreneurial States Amid Push for New Headquarters

"It is exciting to see Utah at the top of our list ahead of other great entrepreneurial states like California and New York," Nicholas Denissen, an Amazon vice president, said in a statement Tuesday morning, noting that "more than 300,000 small and medium-sized businesses from across the U.S." started ...

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Amazon tells Signal's creators to stop using anti-censorship tool

The team behind secure messaging app Signal says Amazon has threatened to kick the app off its CloudFront web service unless Signal drops the anti-censorship practice known as domain-fronting. Google recently banned the practice, which lets developers disguise web traffic to look like it's coming ...

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Amazon Plans to Expand Boston Hub and Create 2000 Tech Jobs

BOSTON, MA — Amazon announced Tuesday it plans to add 2,000 tech jobs to the Boston area. The city is still waiting on the other Amazon announcement on where it will land its second headquarters, but in the meantime, city officials are praising this news. Amazon has already created more than ...

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'Amazon Effect' Is Causing Housing Prices in Vancouver to Skyrocket

A spate of government policies have tried to temper Vancouver's housing prices, to little avail. Now Amazon.com Inc. may give Canada's costliest market another boost. The Seattle-based company plans to increase its Vancouver workforce five-fold to 5,000 by 2022 – mostly high-tech positions, said ...

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Amazon to add 2000 jobs, new office in Boston

Amazon has unveiled plans for a major expansion in Boston's Seaport District. The Seattle-based company announced Tuesday that it will bring 2,000 technology new jobs into the city in fields that include robotics, cloud computing and machine learning. The expansion would more than double the ...

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Signal says Amazon, Google will no longer help it evade censorship

But Amazon soon made the announcement that it would turn off its domain fronting service, too. "With Google Cloud and AWS out of the picture, it seems that domain fronting as a censorship circumvention technique is now largely non-viable in the countries where Signal had enabled this feature," Signal ...

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Amazon announces plans to expand Boston creating 2000 more tech jobs

SEATTLE — Amazon today announced plans to expand its Boston Tech Hub and create an additional 2,000 technology jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics engineering. Amazon's teams based in the Boston metropolitan area primarily focus on Alexa ...

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Amazon expansion includes new office, 2000 jobs in Boston

Amazon has unveiled plans for a major expansion in Boston's Seaport District. The Seattle-based company announced Tuesday that it will bring 2000 new technology jobs into the city in fields that include robotics, cloud computing and machine learning. Boston is also among 20 finalists to land ...

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The story of an Amazon employee completely forgetting his car shows how intense the company's ...

The early days of Amazon were brutal. As Brad Stone writes in his 2013 book, "The Everything Store," there was no explicit rule that you couldn't take a day off on the weekend, but the assumption was that you wouldn't. This was in the mid-90s, after venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers ...

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The One Thing President Trump And Bernie Sanders Agree On Is Amazon

President Trump and Bernie Saunders agree on hardly anything. But, on Monday, Saunders tweeted, "You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero." The President's five tweets in early April knocked Amazon's stock price down about 14%. Now that the attack is bipartisan, could it ...

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Amazon now offers Alexa-centric home security with no fees

Amazon is now offering Alexa-centric home security packages to customers in select areas, complete with professional installation. Costs start at $575, with no monthly fees. Most include an Echo Dot smart speaker to control everything using voice commands, as well as Alexa-friendly gadgets like the ...

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Amazon, Not Waiting for HQ2, Announces Projects in Boston and Vancouver

In Boston, Amazon confirmed on Tuesday that it would move into 430,000 square feet in WS Development's Seaport project, bringing 2,000 jobs in machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. That will double its technology work force in the metropolitan area.

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Amazon plans more Prime perks at Whole Foods

The new perks will bring the might of Amazon's membership program to the grocery industry, folding Whole Foods into a network other grocers will struggle to compete with. It will give Amazon vendors, many of which are niche and small, special access to Amazon's vast shopper base. Roughly 75 ...

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What's New on Amazon Prime: May 2018

Amazon's latest high-profile project is an adaptation of the Australian novel by Joan Lindsay, which was in turn made into an influential Peter Weir film in 1975. This new version, adapted by Beatrix Christian and Alice Addison and starring Natalie Dormer, goes a bit longer — the mini-series covers six ...

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Amazon Bends the Knee to Autocrats, Threatens to Cut Off Signal for Using Anti-Censorship ...

Amazon officially announced it's increased focus on stamping out domain fronting on Friday. The statement followed closely behind a similar move by Google. On Monday, Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike posted a communication from Amazon's team informing the privacy-focused company that it must ...

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Amazon shoppers: Watch out for 'empty box' scam

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - Scammers often hide behind a trusted name, and Amazon is the latest target. Some customers have reported getting a delivery they paid for but when they open the box, there's nothing inside. It's an attempt to circumvent Amazon's guarantee policy and it's working. A lot of buyers ...

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The Best TV Shows and Movies New to Netflix, Amazon and More in May

Peter Weir's 1975 movie adaptation of the novel by Joan Lindsay was an unambiguous classic about ambiguity, but this six-part Amazon Original television series is in some ways an even stranger nightmare vision. The year is 1900. Three Australian boarding school girls and one of their teachers, out ...

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How Long Can Amazon's Ingenious Antitrust Avoidance Last?

President Trump's attacks on Amazon.com may affect the short-term direction of the stock but are having little impact on the business of the e-commerce juggernaut. The company's first quarter earnings were a blowout that sent the stock to a new all-time high. Amazon is an amazing company that started ...

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Amazon plans more Prime perks at Whole Foods, and it will change the industry

Amazon is planning new Whole Foods benefits for its Prime members, sources told CNBC. The new perks will bring the might of Amazon's membership program to the grocery industry, folding Whole Foods into a network other grocers will struggle to compete with. It will give Amazon vendors, many of ...

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Get a Grip On Amazon's One-Day Yost Vise Sale

Amazon's squeezing prices today with their Yost vise Gold Box deals. Inside, you'll find both bench vises and smaller, portable clamps marked down to great low prices. Even if you don't think you need any of the heavy duty stuff, it's worth picking up a few small spring and bar clamps to add to your ...

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Amazon Unveils Prime Book Box for Kids

Amazon's newest subscription service, a Prime book box for kids, makes it easier (and cheaper) for you to fill your kid's bookshelf with fresh material, month after month.

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Amazon pushes Signal creators to change their anti-censorship tool

For years, Open Whisper Systems has used clever tricks to circumvent censorship of its Signal messaging app on the part of countries trying to silence political dissent. Those methods are getting it into hot water, however. Amazon has warned OWS that Signal's anti-censorship system violates AWS ...

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Learn how to make serious money on Amazon

Amazon sellers can make bank. Roughly 50 percent of the tech giant's revenue comes from third-party sellers like your future self. If you don't know where to start, check out Udemy, an online learning and teaching website with more than 65,000 courses on practically any subject. I found classes to help ...

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Airport Trust Negotiating To Bring Amazon Fulfillment Center To Oklahoma City

Sarah Terry-Cobo: Hi Jacob, it's great to be here. McCleland: I want to talk today about the Oklahoma City Airport Trust's efforts to get Amazon to open a fulfillment center here. But before we get into what we know about these efforts, give us a little background here. What is an Amazon fulfillment center?

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Trade Me wants Government to rethink approach to Amazon tax

Trade Me could suffer from the introduction of an Amazon tax, with GST likely to be slapped on many new goods sold through its online marketplace. Kiwi retailers are celebrating a proposal by the Government to make foreign firms levy GST on sales they make to New Zealanders, for example through ...

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Amazon's Best Books of May: Today's Releases

Amazon's Best Books of May: Today's Releases. Erin Kodicek on May 01, 2018. Share. Today's releases include a memoir for anyone who has ever wanted to join the circus (or not), Paula McLain highlights another Hemingway wife, and the latest literary offering from David Duchovny (yes, that guy from ...

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'Hi, It's Amazon Calling. Here's What We Don't Like in Your City'

Amazon.com Inc. has made about 200 phone calls to cities the retail giant rejected for its second headquarters. Some of the cities say they are learning from the disappointing phone conversations and making changes. Cincinnati and Sacramento, Calif., are restructuring workforce development ...

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Amazon reportedly makes offer for a majority stake in Indian e-commerce player Flipkart

Amazon's bid is a counter to Walmart, which is reportedly in advanced talks to become the largest shareholder of Flipkart. Several reports earlier this year said the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company could invest between $10 billion and $12 billion for the entire purchase, but the primary investment ...

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Amazon offers to buy 60 percent stake in India's Flipkart: CNBC-TV18

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy a 60 percent stake in Indian online retailer Flipkart, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, citing sources. ... Amazon's bid is likely to be on par with Walmart Inc's bid for the Indian e-commerce company, CNBC-TV18 reported. Flipkart's investors ...

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Does LA really need 50000 new rent-hiking, freeway-clogging Amazon workers?

To the editor: Why is the city of Los Angeles trying to lure Amazon to build its second headquarters there when the company's location in the L.A. Basin would negatively impact the quality of life of most current residents? ("Amazon second headquarters: L.A. mayor is in 'aggressive pursuit of this ...

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Amazon closes anti-censorship loophole on its servers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is cracking down on domain fronting, a practice that some folks use to get round state-level internet censorship of the likes seen in China and Russia (among other countries). Domain fronting essentially enables access to a blocked (censored) domain by making the request ...

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Why These 4 Retailers Are Amazon-Proof

Retailers not named Amazon have had a rough go during the e-commerce giant's rise to dominance. Yet the fear instilled by Amazon's numerous assaults on the retail sector is actually starting to make a number of competitor retailers like Target Corp. (TGT), O'Reilly Automotive Inc. (ORLY), TJX ...

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Report: Amazon just offered to buy a 60% stake in India's Flipkart

That's according to sources who spoke with CNBC-TV18 (via Reuters). Amazon's offer is reportedly a move to counter Walmart's bid to become the largest shareholder in the Indian e-commerce firm. Walmart's global team was expected to come to India as soon as next month to close the deal, but with ...

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Amazon to introduce some intriguing new Prime perks for Whole Foods shoppers

It's been about 8 months since Amazon acquired Whole Foods for a whopping $13.7 billion and we've already seen the online retail giant implement few subtle changes to the nationwide supermarket chain now under its control. Though not all the changes have been received warmly, that might be ...

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Take a look inside the massive new Amazon facility in Kansas City, Kansas

If you live in the Kansas City metro, the chances are high that the Amazon Prime package on your doorstep came from Amazon's newest fulfillment center in Kansas City, Kansas. The $300 million facility near I-70 and the Turner Diagonal held its grand opening Tuesday, although it has already shipped ...

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3 Lessons All Leaders Should Learn From The Letter to Shareholders By Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Continuing an annual tradition, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos used his recent letter to shareholders to do more than convey the generic platitudes that most other annual reports contain. He pulls back the curtain at Amazon and explains some of what drives the extraordinary performance of his company (in ...

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Amazon's Audible gallops into the Kentucky Derby

Amazon has gotten into the grocery business, streaming sports and now … horse racing. The internet giant is sponsoring a horse in Saturday's Kentucky Derby. The reason? The horse's name is Audible. Just like the audiobook company Amazon owns. "We started seeing Audible pop up in news feeds ...

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'Pac-Man' on Amazon's Alexa isn't at all like 'Pac-Man'

Pac-Man might never have left the public eye, but with Wreck-it Ralph, Pixels and Ready Player One, the iconic elder statesman of gaming is now in front of people that may have never touched an arcade joystick. To that extent, Pac-Man's latest 'game' makes sense — it's arriving on Amazon's Alexa as a ...

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I'm betting on Amazon to get to $1 trillion first, says VC

I'm betting on Amazon to get to $1 trillion first, says VC. 2 Hours Ago. Following Apple's earnings report, Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners founding partner, discusses her view on the race to a trillion-dollar market cap and what she sees for the future of smartphone. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

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Verizon's Oath is 'doubling down' on Amazon's cloud

When Verizon's Oath division was looking to consolidate its Yahoo, AOL and other brands into the public cloud, Amazon Web Services emerged as the obvious choice, in part because that's where start-ups house their data. And Oath plans to do deals. "It's highly unlikely that the start-up system runs in ...

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Signal could get kicked out of Amazon Web Services

Encrypted messaging service Signal received a curious email from Amazon Web Services. The representative at Amazon is saying that Signal is violating the terms of service by using domain fronting to avoid censorship. Signal isn't necessarily the most popular messaging app. But chances are you've ...

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Amazon Is Prepping These Perks for Whole Foods Customers

Amazon could be working on ways to make it more attractive to shop at Whole Foods. The tech giant is developing a range of perks that Amazon Prime members will be able to take advantage of when they shop at Whole Foods, CNBC is reporting. Chief among the perks will be a 10% discount on ...

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With HQ2, Amazon Hopes to Avoid the Problems It Has Faced in Seattle

According to the New York Times, Amazon officials have asked local leaders in several HQ2 contenders how they would ensure the company avoids the image problem it has in its first home, Seattle. Out in Washington, Amazon has certainly had a positive impact on the economy, but it's also blamed for ...

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Beware these fake Amazon phone numbers

Lets say you have a problem with an Amazon order. Or maybe there's an issue with your Amazon Prime account (or you have decided to drop it) and you need help. Unfortunately, scammers are ready to take advantage of you in your moment of frustration and steal your account information. Be careful ...

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Amazon, Google Block Trick That Let Encrypted Chats Flow

Using the technique, a party monitoring someone's internet traffic might see a request for a domain within Amazon Web Services - the so-called "front" domain - but not be able to trace the true destination of the traffic, which could be funneled invisibly to a different service that's on the same network.

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Is Whole Foods Preparing to Give Amazon Prime Members 10 Percent Off?

At the end of March, Prime account holders got reason to breathe easier about the fact that Amazon keeps jacking up the price of their memberships: Bezos & Co. appeared to be toying with giving them exclusive Whole Foods grocery discounts. At the time, CNBC retail reporter Lauren Hirsch got tipped ...

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Amazon Is Prepping These Whole Foods Discounts for Prime Members

Amazon could be working on discounts to make it more attractive for Prime members to shop at Whole Foods. The tech giant is developing a range of perks that Amazon Prime members will be able to take advantage of when they shop at Whole Foods, CNBC is reporting. Chief among the Amazon Prime ...

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Amazon offers to buy 60 per cent stake in India's Flipkart: report

Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy a 60 per cent stake in Flipkart, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, threatening to complicate Walmart Inc's bid to buy a majority stake in the Indian online retailer. Sources told Reuters earlier this month that Walmart was likely to reach a deal to buy a ...

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Amazon Offers To Buy Majority Stake In Flipkart

According to sources, Amazon wants to buy 60 percent of Flipkart, CNBC reported. While Walmart is reportedly far along in talks with Flipkart, Amazon's offer will likely match Walmart's. According to reports earlier in 2018, Walmart was considering investing $10 billion to $12 billion for the entire deal.

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Inside Amazon Prime's Price Hike

Late last week, Amazon announced that it would be increasing the price of Amazon Prime by $20, to $119 a year. The hike was explained as being commensurate with increases to Prime's value—the service provides free two-day shipping, access to free music and videos, and other perks. Investors ...

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Almost half of Amazon Prime members we surveyed say they'll drop the service, but the company ...

Merry Gangemi, who has been an Amazon Prime user since 2014, plans to drop her membership because Amazon is raising the annual membership fee to $119 from $99. "I feel like I'm paying more for the same or less," the retiree in Vermont told Yahoo Finance. Gangemi buys books and watches TV ...

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Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship

While the Signal team is considering options to provide the same service without Amazon or Google domain-fronting, it doesn't look like there's an immediate solution on the horizon. "In the meantime, the censors in these countries will have (at least temporarily) achieved their goals. Sadly, they didn't ...

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Amazon and Walmart may battle for India's Flipkart

Amazon is reportedly seeking to take a 60% stake in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, which would challenge Walmart's interest in the company. News of Amazon's offer comes days after reports that Walmart was close to a deal of its own for Flipkart. Walmart has been expanding its online offerings and is ...

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Amazon Is Having A Major Sale On All Your Favorite Chocolates Today

Amazon Is Having A Major Sale On All Your Favorite Chocolates Today ... Amazon's Grocery Deal of the Day is all about chocolate. Scroll down for the best deals from Hershey's, M&M's, Lindt, and more. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. 1 M&M's Milk Chocolate Mini's 24-Pack. Amazon.

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Amazon Alexa Wants To Be Your Kid's Lego Playmate

Amazon, like Lego, has noticed that many Alexa adopters are parents. The company has been encouraging developers to create skills appropriate for children; there are now skills for Sesame Street, SpongeBob, and more (the "games" category includes a variety of trivia quizzes and drinking games, ...

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Amazon's pique over head tax pauses construction, could spook developers

"I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head-tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building," Amazon Vice President Drew Herdener ...

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Amazon blocks domain fronting, threatens to shut down Signal's account

Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network's architecture to conceal the actual destination of encrypted Internet traffic. At the same time, Amazon issued a warning to the ...

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Amazon pauses plans for Seattle office towers while City Council considers business tax

Amazon has paused construction planning on a new downtown Seattle tower as the City Council considers a new tax on large employers to address homelessness, a company executive said Wednesday. The retail giant also may sub-lease rather than occupy space in a skyscraper under construction at ...

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Amazon not to blame for ghost malls?


These are the 5 best Amazon deals you can get right now

But, if you're stuck inside your home or the office like me, you can still do some online shopping at least. Plus, it's way easier to find deals online than checking the sale section at every store you walk into. Right now, Amazon has tons of deals and price drops so you can shop to your heart's content.

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Is Washington, DC, worthy of Amazon HQ2? We tested the nation's capital to find out

For two days last week, I did my best to experience Washington, D.C., as someone from Amazon would. I spent time in all four neighborhoods floated by the district as potential HQ2 sites — getting a sense for each place, understanding the potential, and assessing whether D.C. would make sense as ...

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An Amazon HQ2 Rejection Pushed Cities to Make These Changes

After rejecting them, Amazon contacted several cities that had applied in order to explain why they hadn't been chosen for its HQ2. For many, it was a wake-up call on their city's shortcomings that has led to changes, reports The Wall Street Journal. In Cincinnati and Sacramento, the cities are working on ...

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Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts to Adopt Payment System

But big stores such as Amazon and Walmart Inc. have long been able to negotiate lower rates for themselves based on their massive sales volume. Now, Amazon is offering to pass its discount along to at least some smaller merchants if they agree to embrace its Amazon Pay service, said the people, ...

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Amazon is now planning new perks for Prime members

Amazon is now planning new perks for Prime members. 2 Hours Ago. Amazon is raising its Prime membership fee $20 to $119 on May 11. Here are the perks customers get with Prime. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

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Amazon is reportedly offering discounts to retailers for using its payment service

Amazon is offering its discounted credit card fees to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay, the company's online payments service, according to Bloomberg. The report on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter, said Amazon has offered the discounts to a number of smaller sellers with higher ...

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Amazon fires back at Seattle's proposed head tax, pauses construction projects

"I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building," says Amazon Vice President Drew ...

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Amazon Pauses Seattle Expansion While City Debates New Taxes

Amazon.com Inc. said it's pausing construction planning on a new office tower in Seattle pending the outcome of a city council vote on a new tax on employees. The company also said it's considering subleasing office space it has already leased in another downtown corporate high rise under ...

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The Amazon effect could potentially leave all Americans neighborless

A considerable amount of discussion has taken place since President Trump took an aggressive stance confronting Amazon as being "too huge." But a more important question is how we as a society feel about the impact of the entire online tsunami. The rapidly increasing trend to purchase items online ...

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Amazon makes bid to spoil Walmart-Flipkart deal: report

The news underscores how Amazon is laser focused on winning India's fledgling e-commerce market. The offer could be a ploy to block Walmart from bringing its expertise in logistics and supply chain management to Flipkart, people familiar with the matter said. Reuters reported last month that Walmart ...

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Amazon suspends construction in Seattle while the city considers a new tax on its biggest businesses

Amazon informed builders working on the 17-story Block 18 project to halt construction until the Seattle City Council votes on the tax. Amazon is also considering sub-leasing its massive Rainier Square office project to another company, rather than occupying it itself, pending the city's decision.

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The Median Amazon Employee's Salary Is $28000. Jeff Bezos Makes More Than That in 10 Seconds

Just how rich is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos? Well, let's put it this way: According to MONEY's calculations, it takes him just under nine seconds to earn what Amazon's median worker does in a year. This revelation comes courtesy of a new federal rule that requires public companies to disclose the pay ratio ...

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Amazon Raises Stakes in Walmart-Flipkart Deal by Offering $2 Billion Breakup Fee

The battle to dominate the $50 billion Indian e-commerce market heated up on Wednesday, May 2, when Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN - Get Report) one-upped Walmart Inc. (WMT - Get Report) by offering Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd., the "Indian Amazon," a $2 billion breakup fee, should the country's ...

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Amazon flexes muscles over Seattle tax threat, halting construction on a new office tower

Amazon, the dominant employer in the city, said it's pausing construction planning on a new office tower in Seattle and is considering subleasing office space it has already leased in another downtown corporate high-rise under construction. The two projects would house about 7,000 employees.

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Report: Amazon halts Seattle construction amid head tax proposal

Amazon could be making its counter argument. It is halting plans to expand in Seattle, citing the head tax as the deterrent. The online retailer has planned new office space in Seattle, along with up to 8,000 new jobs. But The Seattle Times reports that Amazon has told its developers it is halting its project ...

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Amazon pausing Seattle construction because of business tax proposal

Amazon Vice President Drew Herdener said in a statement distributed to media that not only is the retail giant halting construction on its 405,000-square-foot "Block 18" development just north of downtown at Seventh and Blanchard, it's "evaluating options" to sublease its 722,000 square feet office space ...

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Amazon halts Seattle construction project ahead of tax vote

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has halted construction planning on a new high-rise building near its headquarters while it awaits the outcome of a Seattle city proposal to tax worker hours. The Seattle City Council is considering a "head tax" on high-grossing businesses to raise about $75 million a year for ...

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Amazon Echo or Google Home? For US households, that's changing

Amazon has got a major first-out-of-the-gate advantage, with 66.6% of smart speaker users talking to Alexa on one of Amazon's now multiple devices, including the Echo, the Dot and the Show. Google's catching up. In 2018 eMarketer estimates 29.4% of smart speaker users will be talking to a Google ...

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Amazon plays tough ahead of Seattle tax vote that could cost it $20 million

"I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased [Rainier] Square building," Amazon Vice President Drew ...

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Amazon Halts Seattle Construction Project Ahead of Tax Vote

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, file photo, large spheres take shape in front of an existing Amazon building, behind, as new construction continues across the street in Seattle. Amazon said Wednesday, May 2, 2018, it is pausing construction on a new high-rise building in Seattle while it awaits ...

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Amazon will offer more Whole Foods discounts for Prime members, report says

It's the latest integration between Amazon's Prime membership program and Whole Foods, following Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of the Austin, Texas-based grocer last year. Amazon in February rolled out free 2-hour delivery from Whole Foods for Prime members. That month it also extended the ...

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Somehow, Amazon is still selling the SNES Classic for $80 today

No guarantees. But last we checked, Amazon was still selling the remarkably-hard-to-find-unless-you-subscribe-to-deal-alerts Super Nintendo Classic Edition (SNES Classic) miniature game console, with its collection of 21 mostly fantastic preinstalled SNES classic games, for the regular, non-scalper ...

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Amazon Pauses Huge Development Plans in Seattle Over Tax Plan

Late Wednesday morning, Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, said that "pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning" on a large building in downtown Seattle that was scheduled to begin construction later this year. Mr. Herdener also said ...

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LSA18: Amazon's Alexa Team Invites Local Search Players to Participate

Amazon's Alexa team reached out to the Local Search community at LSA 18, discussing the ins- and- outs of preparing local search for voice search, and helping local search players understand the opportunity of working with the Alexa voice search business.

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Amazon halts Seattle growth, flexing muscles on tax threat

Amazon.com Inc. is playing hardball with its hometown of Seattle as the city council nears a vote on a new tax targeting large employers to address homelessness and housing affordability.

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Cloud Computing Powers Amazon's Mammoth Results

Expectations were high going into Amazon.com's (NASDAQ:AMZN) first-quarter financial release. Last quarter's stellar report was at the high end of the company's own forecast, and it also beat analysts' expectations. The biggest revelation for 2017's fourth quarter was the standout performance of ...

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What's inside the Amazon facility in Aurora? The company shares a peek inside its first fulfillment ...

Can you picture 27 football fields side by side? That's the size of Amazon's first Colorado fulfillment center, which opened in Aurora last September. On Wednesday, the company opened its doors to The Denver Post for a tour. The 1-million-square-foot facility, which can be seen from Interstate 70, has ...

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Why Amazon passed on Rochester

The Wall Street Journal said that Amazon was very specific with some cities that didn't make the cut. According to the paper, staff told Detroit leaders that their city needs a better transit system. Amazon staff told Orlando that it needed more local tech companies. Berkeley Brean: "What did Amazon tell you ...

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Amazon's Advertising Business Is Killing It

One of the standout segments from Amazon.com's (NASDAQ:AMZN) first-quarter earnings report was its "other revenue" line item that totaled $2.03 billion. Amazon doesn't break down its other revenue category, but says it "primarily includes sales of advertising services, as well as sales related to our ...

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Here are the 3 main things to know about Amazon's new expansion in Boston

It's hardly HQ2, but Amazon is making a major expansion in Boston. The sprawling retail giant announced Tuesday that it plans to hire 2,000 workers for a new office in the city's Seaport, as it continues to bolster its growing presence in Massachusetts. Amazon already employs a growing workforce of ...

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Amazon to Affordable Housing: Screw You

Amazon has a big middle finger today for all the affordable housing proponents out there. According to a Wednesday report in the New York Times, Amazon—Seattle's largest employer with 45,000 staff in the city—has abruptly decided to halt a "huge" two-building, 7,000 employee expansion plan there ...

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Amazon to offer retailers discount to adopt its payment system

Amazon to offer retailers discount to adopt its payment system. 11 Hours Ago. CNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports that Amazon will offer a discount to retailers who adopt its payment system. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

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Amazon selects Southwest Sydney for new fulfilment centre

It's the second Australian facility Amazon has, with the first located in Dandenong South, Victoria. "We are thrilled to be establishing our next fulfilment centre in Sydney and working with incredible people in the local community around Moorebank. Sydney represents another important development for ...

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Amazon launches Wag, its own line of pet products

Like some other Amazon private-label brands, Wag products are available to purchase only by Amazon Prime subscribers, who pay an annual fee to free two-day shipping and other benefits, such as access to music, movies and TV shows. The prospect of buying pet food online has a checkered past, ...

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Amazon Threatens Seattle Over New Tax That Would Help the Homeless

Amazon has suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle, pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would fund programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless. The company, which already employs more than 40,000 people in ...

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Amazon Launches Dog Food Brand Because It Hasn't Disrupted Enough Industries Yet

Amazon's first offering under the new line is its own line of dog food. Intuitively named Wag, the food comes in several different varieties, with primarily protein sources including chicken, beef, salmon, lamb, and turkey. The line comes in puppy or adult formula and is sold in five-, 15-, and 30-pound bags.

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Amazon halts plan for office tower in Seattle over proposed tax

"Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainer Square building," Amazon's Vice President Drew Herdener said in a ...

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Amazon halts plan for an office tower in Seattle over a proposed tax on top businesses

Amazon.com said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses. Amazon's decision puts a question mark on more than 7,000 new jobs at those buildings ...

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Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag; Starts With Food

Dog food is a difficult item to sell profitably online because it's heavy and expensive to ship. It appeals to Amazon as a product pet owners purchase frequently, keeping the online marketplace top of mind during buying decisions. It is also a major staple for grocery stores and retail competitor Walmart Inc.

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Petco and PetSmart Beware: Amazon Is Muscling Into Pet Products With Its Own Brand

Amazon (amzn, -0.89%) has started its own brand of pet products, called Wag, expanding on existing private-label efforts that include batteries, baby products, clothing and household goods. The Wag brand launched Wednesday with dry dog food and Amazon plans to expand the selection to include ...

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Cities hoping to win Amazon's HQ2 should watch what they wish for

Cities across the country have been aggressively courting Amazon's proposed HQ2 facility — a massive office development that promises to bring thousands of good-paying jobs to the winner — with an array of tax breaks and other subsidies that have, naturally, attracted their share of critics. But over ...

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Exclusive: Walmart.com Redesigns As The Anti-Amazon

Amazon's unstoppable growth has set the entire world of retail back on its heels, but at least one company has the footprint to stand in its way. With $500 billion in annual sales and 4,700 locations across the world, Walmart is still more than three times the size of Amazon in yearly revenue–and it's not ...

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Amazon Studies Body Sizes to Get That Perfect Clothing Fit

The invite comes from Amazon's new 3-D body scanning unit, an outgrowth of its acquisition last year of computer vision startup Body Labs. Accurately predicting how a pair of jeans or a suit will fit is a Holy Grail for retail. Technology to model a human body and how clothing will look on it has a wide ...

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Using The Tax Savings Tailwind To Gain On Amazon

Last year's overhaul to the U.S. tax system promises to inject billions of dollars in savings into the retail industry this year. Traditional retailers who have long paid a nearly 35 percent rate in corporate taxes on their profits will soon have more cash in hand as the tax rate drops to 21 percent. And while ...

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Amazon Prime Video's growth outpaces Netflix in UK

Amazon's efforts to challenge the supremacy of Netflix are starting to pay off, with Prime Video proving to be the fastest-growing video-on-demand service in the UK last year. New series of The Grand Tour and Transparent, as well as hefty cross-promotion of Prime Video to regular Amazon shoppers, ...

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Earth Bank of Codes

In light of its rich biodiversity and the risk of savannization of the Amazon, we will start our partnership with the Earth BioGenome Project and the World Economic Forum in the Amazon Basin through the Amazon Bank of Codes. The Amazon Bank of Codes as a first step in the systems transformation for ...

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Amazon Says More Than a Million US Small Businesses Sell on Its Site

The disclosure comes as the retail giant and its chief executive, Jeff Bezos, have drawn increased scrutiny in recent weeks, including tweets by President Donald Trump criticizing Amazon for its impact on traditional retailers and tax issues. Amazon's rapid growth—it is now the second-largest company ...

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Both cetaceans in the Brazilian Amazon show sustained, profound population declines over two ...

Obligate river dolphins occur only in the rivers of Asia and South America, where they are increasingly subject to damaging pressures such as habitat degradation, food competition and entanglement in fishing gear as human populations expand. The Amazon basin hosts two, very different, ...

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Amazon puts Seattle expansion on pause over tax proposal

Amazon is extremely unhappy over a Seattle tax proposal that would set it back between $20 to $30 million a year that it halted its major expansion plans in its home city. According to The New York Times, the e-commerce giant has put the construction planning of a building it was going to build ...

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Amazon Is Finally Helping Developers Turn Alexa Skills Into Money

Just six months after Amazon revealed the AI-infused Alexa service and Echo smart speaker in November 2014, it began welcoming third-party developers onto its nascent voice platform. They responded in force. In January of 2016 there were 130 Alexa skills; five months after that, the number had ...

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Jeff Bezos doesn't care if you think Amazon is too powerful

On Tuesday, Amazon abruptly suspended construction on the buildout of additional office real estate in its hometown of Seattle. The company said it was waiting to see how the city council votes this month on a proposal that would tax Amazon and other big Seattle employers about $500 per local ...

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Russian Censor Gets Help From Amazon and Google

Google and Amazon have failed the test of whether they'd sacrifice their commercial interests in Russia (and other authoritarian regimes) to some higher principle. As the messenger Telegram tried to use the companies' cloud services to dodge a Russian ban, the two U.S.-based giants ended so-called ...

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Amazon finally opens up Alexa to developers to make money off third-party skills

Amazon offers over 25,000 Alexa skills from third-party developers, but nearly all of them have one thing in common: they're free, leaving developers without a way to make money off them. That's changing today: Amazon finally opening up the smart assistant to anyone to sell one-time in-skill purchases ...

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Amazon puts Seattle office tower on hold over affordable housing tax plans

The internet shopping giant has announced it is reconsidering its plans for a new office building in downtown Seattle, reports Reuters. The building would have housed 7,000 new jobs and supported additional businesses. So why is Amazon doing this? The company isn't happy with a proposed tax on ...

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Watch out, Alexa! Google is catching up to Amazon in the smart home wars

In January, Amazon boasted of 4,000 smart home device integrations for its Alexa voice assistant, but hasn't updated that figure since. Regardless of who's ahead, the rivalry has created a steeper hill for other companies like Apple and Samsung to climb as they try to build up their own voice assistants.

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Amazon opens up in-skill purchases to all Alexa developers

Amazon today launched in-skill purchasing to all Alexa developers, along with Amazon Pay for skills. That means developers have a way to generate revenue from their voice applications on Alexa-powered devices, like Amazon's Echo speakers. For example, developers could charge for additional ...

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Why is Amazon backing a horse in the Kentucky Derby?

Amazon (AMZN) bought the audiobooks app of the same name in 2008 for $300 million. The horse Audible is not named for the Amazon subsidiary. (It's a reference to an audible in football, when the quarterback changes the planned play.) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, is not one of ...

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Amazon Studies Body Sizes to Get That Perfect Clothing Fit

According to job postings for the division, the Amazon team is currently creating statistical 3-D models of human bodies, which it will then match to images and videos of people via deep-learning algorithms and other tactics. That will have a "wide range of commercial applications" for Amazon customers, ...

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Amazon halts Seattle expansion over city tax proposal

Even as Amazon continues to grow at a staggering rate, it is pumping the brakes on its long-planned hometown expansion. The retail giant threw down the gauntlet this week when it announced that it would stop construction on a new building because of a proposed city tax. The new law is designed to ...

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Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal

On Tuesday, Moxie Marlinspike, founder of the secure messaging app Signal, posted a letter sent to him from Amazon threatening to suspend the company's AWS account for using a technique called domain-fronting on its network. The technique is used to protect messages sent via the Signal's ...

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These are the 5 best deals on Amazon right now

The original Amazon Echo smart speaker is iconic, but when Amazon announced the second-gen. model (our favorite Echo) last year, the first-gen quietly vanished. Today, it's back for a brief but exciting flash sale. You can get a certified refurbished model for $65, which is $15 less than usual (when it's ...

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Charting Amazon on Earnings Pop, Prime Rate Hike

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is the online shopping leader, but the stock has recently been challenged by numerous tweets sent out by President Trump. One important notion is that the U.S. Postal Service does not charge Amazon enough for last-mile delivery in locations where Fulfillment Centers are ...

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Business Briefs: Spotify, Amazon, Cambridge Analytica

Spotify shares plunged after the streaming service reported earnings for the first time since going public. Spotify reported a loss of $49 million as it invests in research and continues to add staff. According to Cheddar, Spotify has 170 million subscribers, 75 million of which pay for the service. Amazon is ...

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Bernie Sanders says Amazon paid no federal income tax in 2017. He's right

Amazon's 2017 tax return is not public, and a company spokesman did not return our request for comment. So to find the answer, experts told us to look at the company's annual filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company could face stiff penalties from the SEC for misleading reports ...

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Amazon unveils new ways for developers to earn money from Alexa Skills

Developers building "skills" for Amazon's Alexa platform now have new ways to make money off their voice-enabled technologies. Amazon today announced general availability for in-skill purchasing, which lets developers sell digital content — like one-time purchases or subscriptions — directly within a ...

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Amazon says 1 million US small businesses sell on its marketplace

Amazon's disclosure on Thursday, timed to Small Business Week, comes as the company's impact on the global economy and competing retailers remains a subject of widespread debate. Among President Donald Trump's recent Twitter salvos aimed at the company was the contention that Amazon was ...

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Amazon ranks New York third for entrepreneurship

New York ranks third in the nation for entrepreneurship, according to Amazon. The e-commerce giant released a list of the top 10 most entrepreneurial states based on the number of small- and medium-sized businesses per capita that sell products on Amazon. The company claims that half of the items ...

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Sprouts says it ended Amazon Prime partnership as of May, cuts sales target

Natural food grocer Sprouts Farmers Market told analysts Thursday morning that it ended its delivery partnership with Amazon Prime as of May 1, and its transition to Instacart will have a slight drag on its sales. Sprouts had an 18-month partnership with Amazon for 15 of its stores, which it used as ...

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Amazon lets every Alexa developer offer in-skill purchases

Now that it's easier to ask Amazon's Alexa follow-up questions, it's only natural that its shopping options are getting a boost. Soon you'll be able to ask Alexa to buy even more things, as Amazon opened up in-skill purchasing to all developers today. While some microtransaction applications are obvious ...

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Amazon's pet play: Tech giant unveils in-house dog food brand Wag

The Wag name dates back to Amazon's $545 million acquisition of Quidsi, parent company to sites like Diapers.com as well as pet supply site Wag.com. Amazon shut down the Quidsi unit last year because the tech giant couldn't get it to make money. Market research firm Packaged Facts estimated that ...

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Amazon is reportedly scanning people's bodies so it can sell you clothes

Amazon knows your name, your address, your credit-card details, and what milk you like in your coffee — now it wants to know the shape of your body. According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is inviting people to a New York office to have the shape and size of their bodies scanned. Participants ...

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Apple, Facebook, Amazon Surge While Broad Market Suffers

Amazon's quarterly profit rose mightily to $1.6 billion including a stellar performance of the company's cloud computing business known as Amazon Web Services for the second consecutive quarter of a "remarkable acceleration" in growth that the market also celebrated. Revenues jumped 43% while ...

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Lack of Public Transportation Turns off Amazon in Its Search for a Second HQ

Among Amazon's requirements are a population of at least a million people, public transportation, a major airport with connections to its current Seattle headquarters, and a large pool of technical talent in the area. Amazon will bring up to 50,000 jobs to its second headquarters' home and is aware that ...

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Amazon, awaiting new Seattle tax vote, puts brakes on city expansion

Amazon has but the brakes on what is called its Block 18 project, which along with another Amazon office project would bring about 7,000 new Amazon jobs to downtown Seattle. The city council scheduled to vote May 14 on taxing Amazon and other businesses to pay for more affordable housing and ...

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Amazon, the Elephant in the Antitrust Room

While regulators and a federal judge ponder that question, the great disrupter — Amazon — is already raising prices. Last week it said its Amazon Prime service, which includes its extensive video offerings along with free shipping and other benefits, would cost $119, a 20 percent increase from the ...

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Amazon Finally Opens Alexa's Cash-Generating Features to All Developers

Amazon, looking to further popularize its Alexa platform with companies and developers, is giving coders new ways to make money. The online retail giant said Thursday that its developers can now earn cash by building Alexa skills that integrate online subscriptions or specialized content. Skills is the ...

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Is Amazon serious about slowing its Seattle growth? Tech and community leaders weigh in

There are two ways to read Amazon's surprise announcement that it will pause construction on one big Seattle office tower and reconsider moving into ...

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This is how small and mid-sized retailers survive – and thrive - in an Amazon world


Amazon hosts local small-business discussion, talks about working together

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Amazon officials hosted a discussion Thursday to help local mayors and small-business advocates learn about opportunities for ...

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Amazon is finally cashing in on Alexa

Amazon is making its play to monetize its virtual personal assistant, Alexa, while it still dominates the category's market share. A series of new features announced this week pivot Alexa from a personal virtual assistant to a more capable salesperson for brands looking to sell services and products via ...

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Clash at Amazon HQ: Construction workers shout down councilmember over plan to tax big business

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant asked reporters to join her in front of Amazon's iconic Spheres as she implored her colleagues not to back down on the so-called "head tax" despite Amazon's announcement that it will pause some of its growth plans pending the Council's decision.

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Now Amazon wants to feed your dog

Amazon is also a risk to Colgate-Palmolive (CL)'s Hill's brand, Mars' Pedigree line and Nestle SA's Purinam. Pedigree is the market share leader, according to Euromonitor. Amazon's move into the market may put even more pressure on brick-and-mortar specialty stores like Petco and PetSmart. Sales at ...

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than 1M small businesses sell via Amazon

More than 1 million US small businesses sell their products via Amazon, the e-commerce company reported. Amazon reported in the past that about 2 million third-party sellers use the site worldwide, but this marks the first time the company has reported its numbers regarding small businesses in the US.

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Alexa Skill Builder's Guide

Learn how you can make money with your Alexa skill. Download our guide to learn best practices for creating engaging, premium experiences. You'll also learn which products best meet your needs. Download our guide and get started today. Please note: You will also receive this PDF guide via email.

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Will Seattle's Plan for a Progressive Tax Scare Amazon Away?

A Seattle proposal to levy an extra "progressive tax" on the city's biggest businesses has provoked Amazon to halt construction on a new downtown office building. It's the latest indication that, as cities compete to host Amazon's second headquarters, the relationship between the company and the home ...

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Amazon And Its Real Estate Effect

Is Amazon so big that it can change the real estate game in a way that might suit Amazon? Consider that the eCommerce giant has had some pull with major cities — the ones who didn't make the cut for being a finalist in the competition on offer by the company as it seeks a site for its second ...

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Outside Amazon Spheres, iron workers shout down Kshama Sawant over proposed head tax

The debate over Seattle's proposed business tax to pay for affordable housing and homeless services took a confrontational turn Thursday when dozens of iron workers crashed a rally by Councilmember Kshama Sawant at the Amazon Spheres. It was a surreal scene, occurring one day after Amazon ...

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Amazon's fight with Seattle gives second headquarters cities a taste of their future

SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon and Seattle are in a showdown over who should pay for the civic woes that can come from fast growth, high salaries and a housing crunch. The e-commerce giant has paused construction of its newest tower in its headquarters city after the City Council proposed a tax on the ...

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Amazon Making Offer That Merchants Can't Refuse?

Amazon is said to be giving merchants a break on payment card fees if they use Amazon Pay for online transactions. The following Bloomberg story ...

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Will Amazon lose customers by raising Prime prices? Netflix and McDonald's may hold the answer.


Free Food Isn't Enough -- How Amazon Beats Google In Innovation

When it comes to innovation, on-line retailer Amazon beats Alphabet, the parent company of search engine Google, by a mile. That's according to a recent Drucker Institute survey, which assigns Amazon an innovation score of 166.3, almost twice Amazon's score of 95, helping Amazon occupy the top ...

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Amazon fights Seattle tax proposal

Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge and FBN's Deirdre Bolton on Amazon's fight against Seattle's proposed head tax.

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Amazon looks to help its sellers with better software tools

Over the past six months, Amazon has brought together makers of software for sellers in a new invite-only advisory group called the Marketplace Developer Council, according to a person familiar with the group. This council will work directly with Amazon to guide the company's future work creating ...

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Digging Into Another Winning Quarter for Unstoppable Amazon

The company's profit more than doubled in Q1, and it feels secure enough about the enduring appeal of Amazon Prime to raise its prices for the service by $20 a year. And below the headline results, there's only more good news. The Fools consider where the e-commerce leader is headed from here.

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Amazon is avoiding its China mistakes in India

Amazon has been in China for 14 years, but it hasn't been able to beat homegrown rivals like JD.com and Alibaba. It is determined not to make the same mistakes in India. The big picture: India has the world's fastest growing e-commerce market. To make sure it dominates, Amazon is over-investing ...

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'No head tax!!' Hard hats shout down Sawant at noisy conference outside Amazon

each time Sawant tried to speak in favor of the measure, which would charge Amazon and other large Seattle employers 26 cents per hour per employee to fund a homeless initiative. The conference, held outside Amazon's Spheres, was intended to show support for the head tax and opposition to ...

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Amazon threatens Seattle development project over city's tax proposal

"I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head-tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainer Square building," Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener ...

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Walmart reportedly triumphs over Amazon with approval of $15 billion deal for majority stake in ...

The board of Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has approved a deal to sell a roughly 75 percent stake in the company to a group led by Walmart for $15 billion, according to a report. Japan's SoftBank will sell its entire 20-plus percent stake in Flipkart, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing unnamed sources, ...

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DC Un-United: Amazon's Second HQ Pits City Vs. Its Suburbs

Several major metropolitan areas, like Denver and Dallas, came together with their neighbors to create a unified pitch to woo Amazon. But the Washington metro area — the city and two of its suburbs in Northern Virginia and Maryland's Montgomery County — is sitting on three of the coveted spots vying ...

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Amazon and Google bow to Russian censors in Telegram battle

In this case, Russia would have had to block google.com or amazon.com–a significant portion of the internet–from its citizens just to block Telegram messages. Sadly, Russia didn't have a problem with that, and because of that Google and Amazon have begun implementing measures that will block ...

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Puppy stolen by Amazon delivery driver returned to owner after he emailed Jeff Bezos

A puppy that was stolen by a driver delivering Amazon parcels in England has been reunited with its owner. Businessman Richard Guttfield, 51, said his black miniature schnauzer Wilma had gone missing after a driver dropped off a package of dog food. Guttfield said it was only after he emailed ...

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How did we get here? A look back on Seattle's head-tax plan and Amazon's response

This is how an idea by a handful of Seattle City Council members evolved to eventually roil one of the world's largest online retailers, Amazon. Over months, The Seattle Times has reported on the so-called "head tax" proposal and what people are saying about it, from early discussions at City Hall to ...

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Walmart Beats Amazon in $15 Billion Flipkart Battle

That would seal a Walmart triumph over Amazon.com Inc., which has been trying to take control of Flipkart with a competing offer. Flipkart's board ultimately decided a deal with Walmart is more likely to win regulatory approval because Amazon is the No. 2 e-commerce operator in India behind Flipkart ...

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Amazon wants tax incentives, Texas knows the drill

Seattle-based Amazon is searching for a location for its planned second headquarters, or HQ2. In recent months, site selection teams have been visiting the 20 metro areas in North America (19 in the U.S., plus Toronto, Canada) that were selected as finalists from a field of 238 cities and regions that ...

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Battle Of The Titans: Walmart and Amazon Fight To Gain Control Over Flipkart

According to trade reports, both Walmart and Amazon are vying for control of Flipkart, India's large on-line retailer. First, Walmart bid $18 to $20 Billion. Then Amazon, according to the Economic Times of India, followed with a higher bid of $22 to $23 Billion. While Walmart is keen on acquiring a 60% ...

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Attention Boston: Amazon hates taxes so much it's threatening to move jobs out of Seattle

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, has been using his Twitter account in recent days to argue against the head tax. "Insane what Seattle's considering - Seattle Business Head Tax Proposal Threatens Thriving Tech Sector," Jassy tweeted on April 26 with a link to a Tax Foundation report ...

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Amazon.com Is Going All-In on Amazon Pay

Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is reportedly offering discounts to merchants who use its in-house payments processing service, Amazon Pay. Analysts say Amazon appears to be taking a familiar approach to disrupting the payments industry by sacrificing profits in an effort to gain market share from ...

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Amazon Abruptly Shuts Down Google Shopping Program

After a year and a half of competing in Google Shopping auctions, Amazon suddenly stopped bidding on Google's Product Listing Ad (PLA) format last ...

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Amazon Gives ADF the Boot from Its AmazonSmile Program: Here's


Howes: A glimpse of GM's future – Amazon junk in trunk

The consummate diplomat parried the "junk in the trunk" riff before delivering her money quote: "There's much more opportunity with Amazon and others," Barra said, according to a transcript of the first-quarter earnings call. "It definitely provides an opportunity for General Motors to generate revenue and ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Why Amazon Rejected Omaha

Omaha and other cities are finding out why Amazon rejected them for the site of its second headquarters. Box Office Preview Summer 2018. The summer box office of 2018 looks to bring a wide variety of films that are sure to peak everyone's interest with a film or two. First Birthdays, 5-04. First Birthdays ...

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Amazon is reportedly scanning people's bodies to sell them clothes

Amazon is reportedly scanning people's bodies to sell them clothes. CLOSE. Amazon not only knows your name, address, credit card number and your preference in toilet paper but now it wants to get to know your body. Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more. Buzz60.

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Walmart Takes on Amazon With $15 Billion Bid for Stake in India's Flipkart

Walmart is near a deal to invest around $15 billion for a roughly 75% stake in Flipkart Group, India's largest e-commerce company, according to a person familiar with the matter. It would be a big bet by Walmart that India will be a source of growth at a time when Amazon is gaining ground in the country.

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Podcast: Downtown Seattle Association's Jon Scholes on Amazon and case against head tax

Podcast: Downtown Seattle Association's Jon Scholes on Amazon and case against head tax ... Amazon's threats to scale back job growth over Seattle's proposed "head tax" on larger businesses have ratcheted up debate over the tax, which would raise $75 million a year to address homelessness.

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Amazon And Its Optionality Premium

Amazon shareholders have priced in an optionality premium into the stock price. Amazon's optionality premium comes from Jeff Bezos' ability to constantly generate new growth potential beyond existing business model or "dare to think outside the box". Amazon's price multiples have routinely traded ...

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Jeff Bezos intervened to help a desperate Amazon customer find his stolen dog

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos intervened to help reunite a British customer with his stolen dog. Wilma, a Schnauzer, went missing last week and was found in the home of a delivery driver who was employed by a company contracted by Amazon. Wilma's owner, Richard Guttfield, had emailed Bezos directly ...

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Buy Alibaba, Not Amazon: Short-Seller Citron

Citron Research's Andrew Left, known for his short bets against companies such as Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRX), broke with his usual mode this week to praise Alibaba Group (BABA). According to the investor, BABA is a much better deal than its U.S. counterpart, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN).

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Amazon Fires Warehouse Worker Who Took Unauthorized Breath

CARTERET, NJ—Saying the longtime warehouse associate blatantly disregarded company protocol regarding permitted inhalation, Amazon spokespeople confirmed the firing of one Thomas Gilman for taking an unauthorized breath during an overnight shift Friday. "We run a tight ship at this [Amazon] ...

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A Puppy Went Missing after an Amazon Delivery. The Dog's Owner Emailed Jeff Bezos to Get Her ...

Businessman Richard Guttfield noticed that Wilma, his black miniature schnauzer puppy, went missing after an Amazon driver dropped off a bag of dog food to his United Kingdom residence in Marsworth, Buckinghamshire. In the end, it took an email to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to get the pup back home.

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Amazon Is Hitting New Highs

In Jeff Bezos' April 18th letter to shareholders, the CEO announced several noteworthy milestones Amazon (AMZN-US) has accomplished with regard to its recent initiatives. Among these accomplishments are Prime subscriptions reaching over 100 million users, increased AWS revenue, continuing ...

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Walmart takes fight with Amazon to India: Looking to buy stake in Flipkart, reports say

Owning Flipkart would be one of the starkest examples of Walmart's pitched battle with Amazon moving overseas. Much of their volleying has occurred here in the U.S., with Walmart going after the e-commerce giant by revamping its website, ramping up the speed with which shoppers can get items ...

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Amazon's Jeff Bezos rescues a puppy, well sort of

Guttfield, 51, said he alerted Amazon about the issue but claimed the company started to take his concerns seriously only after he emailed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose email address is widely known as jeff@amazon.com. No, Bezos -- who's the world's richest person -- didn't fly to Britain and, after ...

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Flipkart Board Backs Walmart Offer Over Amazon

The Bentonville, Arkansas retailer bested Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) which made its own offer for Flipkart. (See more: Amazon Makes Formal Offer for ...

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Bankers: Banking Not Profitable Enough For Amazon

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and other technology companies are setting their sights on the financial services market as they look for the next industry to ...

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Retail Roundup: Amazon Offers Convenience, Shucks Low Prices

It's no surprise then that Amazon.com (AMZN) is one of his top retail picks. Lee likes that Amazon has demonstrated its ability to be a successful ...

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Amazon may be the next big test to see if consumers will open pocket books even wider

That might be good news for Amazon, which is hoping not to stall its own blockbuster growth with a recently announced price increase. The retail giant announced its profits more than doubled to $1.6 billion in the most recent quarter. It also revealed a long-held secret and subject of great speculation: ...

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Odds and Ends: A New Web, Team Fandango-Google, Amazon's Seattle Problem, Bullish Tech ...

The proposed tax, which would cost Amazon more than $20 million, has prompted the city's largest private employer, with more than 45,000 people, to temporarily halt construction of a a 17-story tower on its Seattle campus and possibly sublease its space in a major downtown development. The two ...

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9 Best Amazon Hacks to Help You Save Even More Money

More consumers turn to Amazon to do their online shopping than anywhere else. According to a report by eMarketer, a market research company, Amazon's share of e-commerce sales in the U.S. was expected to be a colossal 43.5% in 2017. EBay's sales were the next highest with a share of 6.8%.

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Amazon Tussles With Seattle as It Seeks a Second Home

Amazon, the second most valuable company in the world, netted $3 billion last year. Seattle's proposed "head tax" would impose an approximately $500-per-employee fee on companies with annual revenue in the city of $20 million or more, costing Amazon about $22.5 million per year based on its ...

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Alibaba battling Amazon, JD.com in Southeast Asia

Amazon brought Prime to Singapore in 2017, and its AWS cloud service is also available there. JD.com Inc. JD, +1.26% invested in a Vietnamese e-commerce company earlier this and has a presence in both Indonesia and Thailand. Tencent Holdings Ltd. 0700, -0.57% meanwhile, has made some bets ...

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Has Amazon ended its Google Shopping campaigns?

It looks like after a year and a half of running Google Shopping campaigns, Amazon has stopped bidding on product listing ads. According to data ...

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Walmart, Amazon And Disney Declare War On Healthcare -- And You Can, Too


Alibaba Is Getting Treated Like Amazon, and 10 Other Takeaways From Its Earnings


This week in Amazon-o-mania: Blowback in Seattle, DC frenemies, cities strengthen HQ2 ...


Walmart Set To Seal $15 Billion Flipkart Deal In Big Blow To Amazon

Former Amazon employees founded Flipkart, and SoftBank reportedly had favored a sale to Amazon. But Flipkart's board reportedly believes Walmart could close a deal more quickly and smoothly. An Amazon-Flipkart pact could face regulatory hurdles, because Amazon is already India's No. 2 online ...

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Prime time to assess value of Amazon Prime

Amazon has revolutionized the way Americans shop and reshaped the retail environment. How would we get by without the convenience and inventory of the largest e-commerce site offering "earth's biggest selection" of just about everything under the sun? Or the perks that come with Prime ...

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Amazon plays hardball with Seattle over "eat the rich" tax

As other cities lobby to bring Amazon to town, the retailer is finding less love these days in Seattle, its home turf. Amazon this week abruptly pulled the plug on a large expansion in Seattle, saying it would await the outcome of a proposed business tax. The tax would pay for affordable housing and ...

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The Inevitable Clash Between Seattle and Amazon Has Begun

On Wednesday, Amazon responded. Pending the May 14 council vote, a spokesman said, the company would put on hold the construction of one new downtown office tower, and threatened to merely sublet, rather than lease, in another. The ultimatum comes as some Seattleites fret about their biggest ...

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Dog stolen by Amazon driver returned after email to Bezos CNBC


Amazon's tax fight explained, and why it could have a huge effect in Seattle and among HQ2 ...

A representative of a Seattle iron worker's union takes the mic at an event at Amazon's headquarters. The event was organized by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who supports the tax, but attracted Seattleites from the union and elsewhere who oppose it. (GeekWire Photo / Monica ...

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Jeff Bezos Helped an Amazon Customer Find His Stolen Puppy

Guttfield, a resident of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, noticed his 11-month-old miniature schnauzer, Wilma, was missing last Friday. Since his dog's disappearance coincided with an Amazon delivery at his home, Guttfield quickly correlated the two events and started badgering Amazon to investigate ...

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Life without HQ2: How cities are dealing with Amazon's rejection

But many of the cities involved in the 238 bids Amazon received for its second headquarters and the $5 billion in investment and 50,000 jobs that could come with it didn't let their dreams of transformation die with rejection. The Wall Street Journal checked in with a few cities coping with not being on ...

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A driver for Amazon stole a customer's puppy in shocking stunt that highlights one of the biggest ...

An Amazon customer in the UK finally got his dog back after the company tracked it down to the home of a driver who had recently made a delivery to the customer's home.

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A driver for Amazon stole a customer's puppy in shocking stunt that highlights one of the biggest ...

An Amazon customer in the UK finally got his dog back after the company tracked it down to the home of a driver who had recently made a delivery to the customer's home. The driver, who was not an Amazon employee, allegedly entered the customer's home unauthorized through an unlocked door, the ...

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Amazon's hard schooling of Seattle may not penetrate the civic skull

I love Seattle and so would be open to paying a $500-per-year "head tax" on myself to help with affordable housing. Amazon does not love Seattle (I'm distinguishing here between the corporation and its employees). Amazon the corporation can take us or leave us — as it so explicitly demonstrated this ...

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How serious is Amazon's threat to Seattle?

Even if Amazon upped and left, or reduced operations in Seattle, Nickelsburg says the city wouldn't be in a bad place. "Truth is, we have a robust economy," she said. "We have giants in biotech, the tech industry…" In fact, it may help startups if Amazon had less of a footprint in the city. They may actually ...

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Why Amazon's Audible Is Cheering a Horse in the Kentucky Derby

Twenty horses will meet on the track at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. But only one of them, however, has social media support and sponsorship deal with audio books app Audible—acquired by Amazon in 2008 for $300 million. The horse's name is Audible, and according to the ...

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Man reaches out to Jeff Bezos after Amazon driver stole his dog — and got results

A puppy stolen by a British Amazon driver was reunited with her owner after the pooch's "dad" reached out directly to CEO Jeff Bezos. Richard Guttfield said his black schnauzer Wilma went missing after an Amazon driver dropped off dog food at their home in Marsworth, Buckinghamshire. A distraught ...

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Amazon backing horse in Kentucky Derby

(CNN) - One of the horses in Saturday's Kentucky Derby is named Audible. At 7-1 odds, he's even one of the favorites. And he now has one of the biggest companies in America rooting for him: Amazon, thanks to its ownership of the company Audible. Amazon (AMZN) bought the audiobooks app of the ...

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Amazon Might Be Done with Jeffrey Tambor—But Netflix Apparently Isn't

Amazon might have fired Jeffrey Tambor following claims of sexual harassment, but Netflix is apparently not of the same mind. The actor, who has vehemently denied accusations of inappropriate behavior on the set of Transparent, will appear in Arrested Development Season 5. A Netflix representative ...

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If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon

Take a quick look at Alexa's list of top U.S. websites, and you'll see Google, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Amazon in the top five. No surprises there. But as a quick Google Trends search reveals, Fortnite has become a hotter search term than Reddit. What some might see as a flash-in-the-pan ...

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Joyce Azria's New Line Rohb Adapts to Amazon

While some brands may see Amazon as a black hole or point of no return, Azria thinks it's an opportunity to expand her retail universe, which includes occasion dresses, activewear and jewelry extensions for Avec Les Filles, a low-caffeine energy drink called Miron that's also sold on Amazon Prime, and ...

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Amazon vs. the head tax: An absurd initiative

I applaud Amazon's pushback on this ridiculous initiative. It's absolutely absurd and the city of Seattle, King County, the state of Washington and other "distribute the wealth" organizations just don't get it. You run Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google out of town, see what homeless problem you'll ...

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Amazon is launching a new virtual assistant for kids — what could possibly go wrong?

Now, tech giant Amazon is introducing the Echo Dot Kids Edition, a child-focused version of its Echo smart speaker. But while that news might come as a relief for some parents, there may also be cause for concern — not the least of which is the security of kids' data, especially given recent revelations of ...

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Amazon, Shunned by Flipkart for Walmart, Is Still a Major Contender in India

That decision came two days after Amazon tried to block the Flipkart-Walmart deal with a $2 billion breakup fee, considered especially high by those who follow acquisitions. Under the proposed Flipkart-Walmart deal, reported Bloomberg, SoftBank Group Corp. will sell all of its more than 20% stake in ...

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Here's what a mid-level salary looks like at Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, and other big tech ...

A middle-of-the-pack employee at Facebook makes more than 8 times as much as Amazon's median employee. The revelation of that stark difference comes courtesy of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which required companies to disclose the ratio between their ...

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Amazon suspends construction in Seattle over possible tax increases

Amazon has put the kibosh on a one-million-square-foot expansion of its Seattle headquarters pending a City Hall vote to raise taxes on the company. The proposal would tax companies with $20 million or more in annual gross revenue, to the tune of about $500 per employee, with the proceeds going ...

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Amazon vs. head tax: The Gilded Age?

In Amazon's $4 billion corporate headquarters, just the panes of glass in the spheres cost $26 million. So it seems like Amazon could afford to pay a $21 million head tax earmarked for affordable housing and homeless services ["Amazon issues a threat over Seattle's head-tax plan," Page One, May 3].

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Everything you need to know about the Amazon Echo

The Amazon Echo is the biggest tech breakout in recent memory -- a voice-activated, internet-connected "smart speaker" with a built-in virtual assistant named Alexa that can answer your questions, follow your instructions and control your smart home devices. As Amazon likes to put it, the Echo is a Star ...

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Amazon's Audible gallops into Kentucky Derby

CNBC's Eric Chemi reports on Amazon sponsoring a horse coincidentally named Audible, a company owned by Amazon, for the Kentucky Derby. UP NEXT. NOW PLAYING: Video. Amazon's Audible gallops into Kentucky Derby. CNBC Logo CNBC. UP NEXT. Bezos makes the median Amazon ...

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Amazon's Audible gallops into Kentucky Derby

Amazon's Audible gallops into Kentucky Derby. 12 Hours Ago. CNBC's Eric Chemi reports on Amazon's audiobook company, Audible, which sponsored a Kentucky Derby horse, coincidentally named Audible. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

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The tax debate comes to a head: Shame on Amazon and the iron workers

Shame on Amazon and Jeff Bezos for trying to bully the city into dropping a modest tax on the most wealthy in order to fund survival needs of the poorest ["Amazon issues a threat over Seattle's head-tax plan," Page One, May 3]. And shame on the Ironworkers Union leadership for siding with the ...

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Amazon vs. Seattle's proposed head tax: Is the honeymoon over for Durkan?

The Seattle City Council is considering a business tax on the largest companies to help provide affordable housing for low income and homeless individuals. ["Amazon issues a threat over Seattle's head-tax plan," Page One, May 3.] Newly elected Mayor Jenny Durkan has yet to answer reporters' ...

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Amazon vs. the head tax: An excellent idea

I think the head tax is an excellent idea. While I understand that cities like Seattle need to be accountable to their budgets, I also understand that large companies are hiring astronomical amounts of employees, who are moving to the area and driving up costs for home purchase and rentals. This is ...

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Could an Anti-DACA Lawsuit Squash Texas' Bid for Amazon HQ2?

That, at least, is the fear Mitchell Schnurman, a business columnist for the Dallas Morning News, has. Schnurman's column, Texas AG Ken Paxton just made it harder for Dallas to attract Amazon HQ2, argues that the overtly pro-immigration and socially progressive Amazon could see the lawsuit as a sign ...

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Potential job openings if Amazon chooses Indy for headquarters

Teacher Maggie Samudio said her students wanted Amazon to know, Indiana deserves this chance. "It would make them smile and make them (Amazon) think, wow, even children are thinking about this," said Samudio. "They even said when we grow up, that would be an opportunity for us or members ...

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The 5 best Amazon deals you can get this weekend

However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. Mother's Day is only one week away. If you haven't yet found Mom that perfect gift, check out thew best deals we found on Amazon. Any one of these could be perfect for her. And if you already ...

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Amazon Prime and Costco charge the same price for an annual membership — here's which one ...

Costco and Amazon are two of the largest retailers and both have loyal user bases. Memberships for each company cost (just about) the same, so if you are deciding on one or the other, it is important to look at what each has to offer. Costco's Gold Star Executive Membership costs $120 while Amazon ...

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Amazon Wants the Keys to All Your Stuff

Not content to have only the keys to your front door, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) also wants the keys to your car. Following the start of the in-home delivery service called Amazon Key, the online retail giant is launching a service that will deliver packages to your car, whether the trunk or other cargo ...

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Amazon Prime and Costco charge the same price for an annual membership — here's which one ...

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Amazon Executives Talk Prime, Advertising, and AWS

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) continued to reward investors, producing another standout performance in the first quarter, which obliterated expectations and sent shares soaring to record heights. The company produced net sales of $51 billion, up 43% year over year, generating earnings of $3.27 per ...

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Buffett targets CEO for Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan healthcare venture soon

OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday said he hoped a chief executive would be found within a couple of months for the healthcare company being set up by Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM.N) to lower patient costs.

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Amazon executives visit Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH - Executives from Amazon have visited Pittsburgh to see what the city has to offer. The announcement of where Amazon's second headquarters will be, otherwise known as HQ2, has created a lot of buzz around the country.

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What To Watch On Amazon Prime That's New This Week

Streamline recommends "Orphan Black" as the show you should watch on Amazon Prime this week. Amazon adds Season 5 of the show on May 12. It's the final season of "Orphan Black," which ended in 2017. Tatiana Maslany won multiple awards for her portrayal of multiple characters on this show, ...

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Dog stolen by Amazon delivery driver found after owner emailed Jeff Bezos

(Meredith) – A dog has been reunited with her owner after she was allegedly stolen from her home by an Amazon delivery driver. Richard Guttfield of Marsworth, England realized his 11-month-old miniature schnauzer Wilma was gone after a truck delivered an Amazon package to his home April 27.

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Buffett: Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan healthcare initiative to have a CEO in 'a couple of months'

The healthcare initiative that could upend the insurance industry announced by Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase could have its next chief executive within the next two months, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said on Saturday. Buffett said during the company's annual ...

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Cities should think twice before taking Amazon's advice

Two hundred and eighteen cities may have lost out on their bid to secure Amazon's second headquarters, but they're not done trying to please the ecommerce giant. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has made calls to roughly 200 of the cities who didn't make the list of the final 20 ...

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Buffett targets CEO for Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan healthcare venture soon

OMAHA, Neb., May 5 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday said he hoped a chief executive would be found within a couple of months for the healthcare company being set up by Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Amazon.com Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to lower patient costs. Speaking at the annual ...

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Puppy stole by Amazon delivery driver returned after email to CEO Jeff Bezos

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Dollar Tree is one of the only chains that Amazon can't beat — and it runs the most appalling store ...

Dollar Tree is opening 650 stores this year in the midst of the biggest wave of retail bankruptcies and store closures in decades. The company is largely immune from the threat of Amazon due to the combination of value, convenience, and "treasure hunt" shopping experiences that it offers customers, ...

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A man's dog was stolen from his home by an Amazon delivery driver

Businessman Richard Guttfield came home from work recently to every pet owner's ultimate nightmare. An Amazon delivery driver had stolen Wilma, Guttfield's black miniature schnauzer, after dropping off a bag of dog food at Guttfield's home. Per CNBC, Guttfield had a difficult time getting Amazon to ...

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Mike Olson's Bullish Musings On Activision, Amazon And Netflix

By the analyst's estimates, that "sticky" subscriber base compounds a $20 Prime price increase and a generally higher purchase volume of Prime members relative to non-Prime shoppers to yield $1.2 billion in potentially high-margin, incremental revenue. "Amazon obviously had a really strong quarter ...

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Amazon unsuccessfully approached UK supermarket Waitrose in 2017: Sunday Times

"These times are ripe for speculation, but there has been no approach to the partnership by Amazon regarding Waitrose, and nor would I expect there to be," Mayfield said. Britain's retail sector was rocked last week when it emerged that Sainsbury's (SBRY.L) was seeking to take control of Walmart's ...

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Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JPMorgan Are Close to Hiring a CEO for Their Healthcare Venture

The joint healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan in January will soon announce new CEO to lead the company, Warren Buffett revealed at his company's annual meeting Saturday. "We're making a lot of progress, and I think we'll probably have a CEO within a couple ...

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Amazon, Seattle Go to War Over Proposed Tax

Amazon, a company with cities throwing money at its feet all over the country, has decided to halt construction on an expansion in its hometown over a ...

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UPDATE 1-Buffett targets CEO for Berkshire-Amazon-JPMorgan healthcare venture soon

(Adds Munger comment on pharmacy benefit managers). By Jonathan Stempel. OMAHA, Neb., May 5 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday said he hoped a chief executive would be found within a couple of months for the healthcare company being set up by Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Amazon.com Inc ...

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Warren Buffett: I was wrong on Google and Amazon, Jeff Bezos achieved a business 'miracle'

Warren Buffett says he made mistakes by not investing in two dominant technology companies, Alphabet and Amazon. Alphabet is the parent company of search engine Google. "I made the wrong decisions on Google and Amazon," he said at the Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual shareholder meeting ...

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Amazon flexes political muscle, sending message to city officials here and elsewhere

The e-commerce titan and Seattle's biggest single property-tax payer is on a collision course with a majority of the City Council over the proposed head tax. Amazon has played hardball with plenty of municipalities, but here it's an unfamiliar turn in the relationship.

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Amazon plans to use 3-D Body scanners on you

Amazon wants to get to know your body and how it works through scanning technology that will offer an insight into the nuances of your fluctuating weight. According to the Business Insider, Amazon published an online survey asking people to take part in their new project to scan your body in an effort to ...

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Amazon's arrival in NZ will be speeded-up by GST change

If Amazon opened a fulfillment centre in Auckland or the Waikato offering a full range of its products locally and its Amazon Prime free two-day shipping service, that would have "major implications" for retailers, media players, telcos, property companies and technology firms, the brokerage said then.

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Amazon Owns Part of Audible Horse & Could Give Away Free Book

Once Audible clinched his spot in the Kentucky Derby, Amazon wanted to up their partnership. The challenge was the NHRSA has a rule that the horse's outfit can only be for owners. According to the Courier Journal, Amazon had to purchase a stake in the horse, and plans to sell it back at some point.

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Warren Buffett: Jeff Bezos is working miracles with Amazon, but I don't bet on miracles

Warren Buffett: Jeff Bezos is working miracles with Amazon, but I don't bet on miracles. Yahoo Finance Video• May 5, 2018. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger discuss why they're not investing in big tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, Tencent and Alibaba — noting that he doesn't see Apple as ...

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Justify Wins Kentucky Derby, Amazon-Backed Audible Places Third

Audible, the Amazon-backed horse, shares a name with the audio book company owned by Amazon, although it was not named for the company. According to a report by CNN, the horse's name is derived from a football reference. However, Amazon still actively cheered for Audible on its social media ...

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Venture Capital Deals Of The Week: New Fund, Tech Company Take On Amazon's Alexa

SoundHound created the voice recognition platform Houndify that can work in any platform to provide a neutral alternative to Amazon's Alexa or Google's Assistant. SoundHound has collected voice data for over a decade to help build its recognition engine and has opened that tech up to developers for ...

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Amazon Unsuccessfully Approached UK Supermarket Waitrose in 2017: Sunday Times

LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon made an unsuccessful informal attempt to buy upmarket British supermarket chain Waitrose late last year, the Sunday Times ... Citing an unidentified source, the newspaper said Amazon's vice president of special projects, Ajay Kavan, approached an unnamed director of ...

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Revealed: Amazon eyed move to buy Waitrose

Amazon tried to open talks with the John Lewis Partnership over a possible acquisition of the Waitrose grocery chain late last year, The Sunday Times can reveal. One of Amazon's most senior executives in Britain made contact with a director of the partnership and pushed for a more formal meeting.

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Prominent Christian Legal Group Barred From Amazon Program While Openly Anti-Semitic Groups ...

Amazon has barred Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom from taking part in their Amazon Smile program; Amazon allows the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to determine which groups are and aren't allowed to take part in Amazon Smile; Openly anti-Semitic organizations remain in ...

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The homegrown 'My Food Bag' version for your pets says it can hold out against Amazon's effect

"Realistically it will take [Amazon] a few years after they come to New Zealand to really settle into the market. And New Zealanders appreciate local products and enjoy knowing about the products they consumer and the people behind the company. Amazon is a faceless giant," Rennell said.

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Consider the probable effects of Amazon HQ2 on seniors

The placement of Amazon's second headquarters (HQ2) will be determined sometime in the not-so-distant future. The follow-up question is: How will this affect seniors and all those on fixed incomes? Pittsburgh is considered a good place to retire. People who are already here and retired should be ...

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12 Anti-Aging Secrets From The Amazon

If you want to take care of your body and stay healthy and youthful naturally, look no further than the Amazon rainforest. This incredible cornucopia of biodiversity is so teeming with life, us humans can hardly keep up. We are still discovering new species all the time, as often as every two days, and many ...

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Meet Ransom, Amazon Atlas and Ultra-Violet and find out how Scottish kids got their unique names

And at just six months old, Amazon Atlas Spruce Harris is already living up to his globe-trotting name. The Edinburgh-born tot has visited Denmark, Switzerland, Australia and Fiji. Primary school teacher Anneliese, 36, said: "We get a lot of people asking us if he is named after Amazon.com – but we just ...

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SNP's new minimum alcohol pricing law has HUGE Amazon 'loophole'

On the day the new legislation came into force north of the Border, we were able to purchase two boxes of drink for considerably less than it would now cost in Scotland. Our order from online shopping giant Amazon was dispatched from Doncaster in South Yorkshire, therefore avoiding the minimum ...

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Amazon Mother's Day Sale: Save Big on Fire TV and Echo

Mother's Day is rapidly approaching and if you're still searching for a gift, Amazon has a sale just for you. ... is taking up to $70 off a wide selection of its hardware — so whether you're shopping for your mom or your wife/soon-to-be-mom, you're bound to find something they'll like in Amazon's sale.

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Amazon reportedly tried to buy British supermarket Waitrose last year — but it was immediately ...

Amazon tried to buy British supermarket chain Waitrose in 2017, according to the Sunday Times. The directors of the John Lewis Partnership, which Waitrose is part of, reportedly did not want to discuss it. The chairman of the partnership denies they were approached by Amazon.

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Amazon eyed buying Waitrose but was held off by John Lewis Partnership

Amazon considered an acquisition of Waitrose last year, but was blocked from entering formal talks, reports suggest. A senior executive at the online shopping giant's UK arm pushed for a meeting with the John Lewis Partnership but was "shut down" by the board, the Sunday Times reported today.

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Sunday Papers: Amazon eyed move on Waitrose

The Sunday Times: Amazon wanted to take over Waitrose grocery chain late last year and opened talks with the John Lewis Partnership over a deal, but the retailer's board shut down the move. The Sunday Telegraph: Phil Swash, head of GKN's automotive arm responsible for more than half the ...

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Sales tax bonanza for towns with an Amazon warehouse has other cities eyeing a cut

Amazon does collect sales tax, thanks to a landmark deal with the state a few years ago that paved the way for the giant company to establish a string of 'distribution centers' to service such orders, and the state gets most of those revenues. However, online sellers typically have tax-sharing agreements ...

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Colombian high court grants personhood to Amazon rainforest in case against country's government

Their lawsuit, led by the a human rights organization Dejusticia, focused on the rights of the Amazon rainforest itself. After listening to the case, last month the Colombian Supreme Court granted personhood to the portion of the rainforest within the country's borders, giving it rights under law. "It's important ...

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Amazon reportedly tried to buy British supermarket Waitrose last year — but it was immediately ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon made an unsuccessful informal attempt to buy upmarket British supermarket chain Waitrose late last year, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. Citing an unidentified source, the newspaper said Amazon's vice president of special projects, Ajay Kavan, approached an ...

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Amazon delivery man steals puppy, CEO Jeff Bezos unites it with the owner

A puppy that was stolen by a man delivering Amazon parcels was reunited with the owner after he sent an email to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Businessman Richard Guttfield's black miniature schnauzer puppy, Wilma, went missing after the delivery man delivered a bag of dog food to his residence in ...

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Talking Apple to Amazon, what happened at Buffett's 'Woodstock of Capitalism'

NEW YORK – Thousands of Warren Buffett acolytes descended on Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday for Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, otherwise known as the Woodstock of Capitalism. Buffett and longtime business partner Charlie Munger fielded questions for about five hours from journalists ...

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John Lewis denies Waitrose takeover approach by Amazon

John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has rejected reports it ruled out formal talks with Amazon after the tech giant had eyed Waitrose supermarkets as a takeover target last year. According to a Sunday Times report, a senior executive from the US tech giant pushed for a formal meeting, but was blocked by JLP's ...

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Here are all of the Amazon Prime ebook benefits

When you subscribe to Amazon Prime you get access to a number of benefits that allow you to read ebooks for free or loan them out to friends if you live in the United States. Every day online blogs and news media make reference to Prime Reading or the Kindle lending library. What do all of these ...

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Catch up on some great digital games with Amazon's Xbox One sale

Today, you can get up to 75% off a selection of digital Xbox One video games from Amazon. The sale ends May 19. There are dozens of games on sale here, though, so be sure to look through the whole list for any you might be interested in. There's a lot of DLC available in this sale as well, so go catch ...

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Amazon has big discounts on its Echo, Kindle, and Fire hardware for a limited time

Amazon has launched a new sale that includes nearly all of its own hardware, including the Echo Dot, Fire Tablet, Fire TV Sticks, Kindle E-readers, and more. This promotion brings the Echo Dot back down to just $39.99, the Fire TV Stick down to $29.99, Fire Tablets for $39.99, and Kindle E-readers to ...

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In Amazon HQ2 battle, Raleigh shares lowest tax bite among 20 finalists

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – In the ongoing selection battle to determine where Amazon HQ2 and its 50,000 jobs will land, the Research Triangle region has a bottom-line profit advantage over its competitors for the Internet giant to consider. Taxes. A new report published by The Seattle Times about ...

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Business Briefs: Earnings reports, Cannes Film Fest, Amazon

They get rewarded with Amazon gift cards. Amazon will use its new 3-D body scanning unit developed after acquiring Body Labs in October. And Gina Gershon has been lighting up the big screen since she starred in "Showgirls" as a teen. Soon she will be making her debut at Café Carlyle in New York ...

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Amazon raising the price of Prime is a huge bet on itself

Amazon has increased the price of a yearly subscription of Prime in the United States by $20, to $119. Any price increase carries the risk of alienating customers, but reputation experts say the company likely has nothing to worry about as long as it keeps up its high level service.

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Amazon circling UK grocery sector?

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) made an unsuccessful informal attempt to buy Britain's Waitrose late last year, according to the Sunday Times, but the supermarket chain has denied reports of the takeover approach. The U.K. retail sector was rocked last week when it emerged that Sainsbury's was seeking to ...

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Warren Buffett Says He Was Wrong About Google and Amazon

Revered investor Warren Buffett admitted at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting Saturday that "I made the wrong decisions" when he passed up investments in Amazon and Google (now Alphabet). It's a mistake he made because he stuck to his longtime investing principles—and that ...

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The Best Amazon Echo Accessories Under $50

The Best Amazon Echo Accessories Under $50 ... Amazon's various Alexa-powered smart speakers are pretty good on their own, but a number of ...

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Amazon raising the price of Prime is a huge bet on itself (AMZN)


How Amazon Plans To Dominate The Private Label Market

Amazon already has the loyalty of 100 million Prime members, a most dedicated audience that paid $99 for the privilege, though soon it will go up to ...

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Why It's Not Crazy to Buy a Mall Giant in the Age of Amazon

Odd as it may sound, Unibail is buying Westfield as a bulwark against Amazon. Investors who can afford to take a long-term view might do well to go ...

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Echo Dot with Alexa as low as $29.99 (Black Friday price)

The Echo Dot Smart Speaker with Alexa is on sale at Amazon right now for only $39.99 and if you buy 2, they are only $29.99 each! That's as low as ...

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Is Amazon About To Get Hit Hard From Some Prime Churn Pain?

Why recent surveys concerning possible churn by Amazon Prime subscribers shouldn't be considered reliable or accurate. What the data and ...

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For Mom: Amazon has discounts on Echo, Kindle, Fire devices and more

Just in time for next week's Mother's Day celebration, Amazon has cut the prices on a number of its own devices ranging from Echo smart speakers to Kindle eReaders and Fire tablets. For example, the second generation Amazon Echo Dot will cost you $39.99, a $10 or 20% discount from its usual ...

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Amazon made moves to buy Waitrose from John Lewis Partnership, claims report

A senior executive at Amazon reportedly pushed to open talks with the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) to buy out Waitrose. According to the Sunday Times, Amazon informally met with John Lewis bosses to discuss acquiring the grocery chain late last year. However the proposal was shut down by the ...

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I've been using my $120 Amazon 10" Fire HD Tablet for 5 months and love it

I tried an earlier Amazon tablet when I wanted to see what the world of Android was like. I quickly jailbroke that tablet and really enjoyed it. Without the world of Apple-connectedness I could use the tablet as a recreational device, and could avoid work and business communications. After a while Gmail ...

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John Lewis denies Amazon held takeover talks for Waitrose

Reports emerged over the weekend suggesting that one of Amazon's directors had made contact with a John Lewis director over a potential tie-up, but that talks were "shut down" by the board. Analysts have long suggested that Amazon could seek to buy one of the UK's established grocery chains as an ...

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These big Echo, Fire TV and Kindle deals bring Dots down to $30

Amazon made sure we knew just how many skills Alexa had this past week, and today there are deep discounts across a range of Alexa-powered devices to make the most of those talents. The retailer is running a limited-time sale across its Echo, Fire tablet, Fire TV, and other hardware, while if you're in ...

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Columbus Discovers the Amazon

Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person. Amazon is on a tear—sales grew 43% last quarter—and may soon pass Apple as the world's most valuable company. Amazon has ruptured retail, floated in the cloud, and even made superhero TV shows like "The Tick." But what makes Mr. Bezos tick? Sure, he ...

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Walmart makes $15B bid to compete with Amazon in India

Walmart's $15 billion bid to buy a 75 percent ownership stake in the Indian e-commerce platform, Flipkart, which was founded by two former Amazon ...

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Amazon is starting to scan customers' bodies in the name of online shopping

Things with Amazon are about to get really intimate. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, the online retailer, which already knows ...

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Amazon sent packing over talks on Waitrose takeover: Internet giant reportedly snubbed by John ...

Waitrose bosses rebuffed an attempt by Amazon to enter takeover talks, it has emerged. The internet giant reportedly tried to open talks with the John Lewis Partnership, which owns the supermarket chain, but the approach by Amazon executive Ajay Kavan was 'shut down' by the John Lewis board last ...

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Business Briefs: Earnings reports, Cannes Film Fest, Amazon

And the Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Tuesday. Aamazon wants to change its understanding of your body size. The company is inviting people to have their bodies measured for small changes in shape and size over the course of 20 weeks. They get rewarded with Amazon gift cards. Amazon will use ...

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Amazon's Mothers Day Sale Has Some Great Cord Cutting Deals

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Amazon gets a free pass

But the editorial made an egregious omission by failing to note that Amazon, whose chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, owns The Post, has also complied with authoritarian regimes. Amazon's Chinese affiliate joined Apple last year in warning users to stop using tools such as virtual private networks ...

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Warren Buffett Says He Missed On Amazon, Google – Calls Cryptocurrency "Rat Poison Squared"

The Oracle of Omaha admits that his investment crystal ball was cloudy on at least two tech companies, Amazon and Google. Speaking at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting on Saturday, Buffett said he bet wrong when it came to the technology giants, which represent two of the largest ...

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Why Alibaba Is More Profitable Than Amazon

Alibaba and Amazon are in the right business at the right time. And they both have their own formulas of success that have delivered hefty returns to their stockholders. Alibaba shares have gained 63.97% in the past twelve months and 146.15% over the last two years, while Amazon's shares have ...

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Amazon Just Slashed Its Fire TV & Echo Dot Prices Once Again

Either way, Amazon has you covered today with a surprise sale. Both of the company's best-selling devices have been discounted beginning on Sunday, making it the perfect time to hop into Amazon's ecosystems, expand your collection, or bring mom up to speed. The Fire TV Stick drops to just $29.99 ...

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Hear what your friends really think of you by dropping in on their Amazon Echo

Last year, Amazon released the touchscreen-equipped Echo Show, which allowed users to make voice calls through their Echo devices for the very first time. Shortly after that, Amazon rolled out yet another feature, Drop In, which allows users to drop in on their friends' and family members' Echo devices ...

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Warren Buffett: I was wrong on Google and Amazon, Jeff Bezos achieved a business 'miracle'

"I made the wrong decisions on Google and Amazon ," he said at the Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual shareholder meeting on Saturday. "We've looked at it. I made the mistake in not being able to come to a conclusion where I really felt that at the present prices that the prospects were far better than the ...

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CASE STUDY: Seed & Sprout Optimistic About Growth On Amazon Marketplace

A ready-made audience and global logistics infrastructure present a huge opportunity for small businesses that sell their products on Amazon. That's the view of Sophie Kovic, founder of online retailer Seed & Sprout, who is confident Amazon's marketplace in Australia will deliver significant sales volume ...

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Amazon Hardware On Sale, Just In Time For Mother's Day: Grab Discounts For Echo, Kindle, And ...

Amazon is offering discounts on a variety of Echo, Kindle, and Fire devices, just in time for husbands and sons who are looking for Mother's Day gifts. Like with all Amazon sale promos, the online retailer did not reveal how long the discounted prices will last. This means that interested customers will ...

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Retail: Is the beauty industry 'Amazon-proof'?

"You don't need lipstick, lipstick needs you," reads the bubblegum pink sign posted on one of many doors to Manhattan's Javits Center — the 1.8m-square-feet glass fortress that is the busiest convention centre in the US. Inside, hairdressers offer complimentary styling, courtesy of Target, the discount ...

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How to set Amazon Alexa as the default voice assistant on the Google Pixel 2

Note: While these instructions are for the Pixel 2, users with phones from Samsung, Sony, and other companies have confirmed that you can change the assistant to Alexa. The exact steps to do so will be slightly different than those below depending on the device.

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Amazon will 3D scan your body to give you exact size of clothing

Now, Amazon is reportedly going a step ahead to physically scan your body to show you the clothing which fits you perfectly. ... These volunteers will visit twice a month in order to allow Amazon a better understanding of the changing human body, Digital Trends reported. In turn, Amazon will give them ...

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The Creepiest Amazon Alexa Stories Ever

The Creepiest Amazon Alexa Stories Ever. Unable to load video. The Amazon Echo with Alexa is great, but it can act a little funny sometimes. These are Ranker's best stories involving Alexa. Published: 5:00 AM EDT May 7, 2018. Updated: 5:08 AM EDT May 7, 2018 ...

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How Walmart Beat Out Amazon For India's Flipkart, And Softbank Stands To Profit

In an annual report to shareholders last month, Chief Executive Bezos touted Amazon India as the fastest-growing online marketplace in the country. The geography emerged with the highest adoption of its subscription service worldwide: "Prime added more members in India in its first year than any ...

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Markham launches cheeky new ad campaign in bid to attract Amazon's 2nd HQ

No question it's a gimmick. Road-side signs as people enter the city of Markham now have a little something extra — a smaller. bright orange sign underneath proclaiming it the "Possible Future Home of Amazon HQ2". The word "possible" is made to look hand-written in a purposely harder-to-read lighter ...

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