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Take Amazon Prime, mix it with Pinterest and add a dash of Instagram. The result is Amazon Spark , a new shopping-focused “social network” aimed at getting hardcore Amazon users to spend evenmore money with the e-commerce giant. The service launched

The Guardian

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In some US states, nearly one in three Amazon workers are on food stamps. Sanders would rightly tax companies whose employees require federal benefits

Newsweek

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A star engineer resigned over Amazon’s treatment of warehouse workers and the firing of whistleblowers during the pandemic. What kind of problems do you foresee for the company resulting from this chain of events? Amazon made some mistakes handling s

Newsweek Europe

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A star engineer resigned over Amazon’s treatment of warehouse workers and the firing of whistleblowers during the pandemic. What kind of problems do you foresee for the company resulting from this chain of events? Amazon made some mistakes handling

Apple Magazine

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The giant Amazon warehouse in Chesterfield County is constantly bustling with activity. At about 1.2 million square feet — roughly the size of 28 football fields — the fulfillment center stores, packages and ships what Amazon officials would only des

NPR

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At a time of mass work from home and many moving to spacious suburbs, Amazon is funding a large expansion of corporate real estate and jobs in six U.S. cities.

The Atlantic

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Thirty years ago this week, the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN, the European scientific-research center. Suffice it to say, the idea took off. The web made it easy for everyday people to create and link together

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The giant Amazon warehouse in Chesterfield County is constantly bustling with activity. At about 1.2 million square feet — roughly the size of 28 football fields — the fulfillment center stores, packages and ships what Amazon officials would only des

Fast Company

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In a departure from its retailing roots, Amazon begins providing online infrastructure to other companies. Amazon Web Services establishes a new industry—that’s now a $30 billion business. Still unprofitable and battling established behemoths such as

The Atlantic

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On September 28, 2018, tech died. That’s according to a widely circulated eulogy prepared by Vincent Deluard, a strategist at INTL FCStone, a financial-services company. “If technology is everywhere, the tech sector no longer exists,” he wrote. “If t

TIME

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It seems everyone’s talking “disruption” today, especially in corporate America, where it basically describes individuals and companies challenging conventional ideas to reshape various sectors of the economy. Disruption, however, is only a by-produc

TIME

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THE WORD AMAZON has become as synonymous with Seattle as it is with South America, but on Nov. 13, the e-commerce giant confirmed reports that it would establish two new headquarters in the metro areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. It’s a bi

Apple Magazine

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Amazon will hire another 100,000 people to keep up with a surge of online orders. The company said that the new hires will help pack, ship or sort orders, working in part-time and full-time roles. Amazon said the jobs are not related to its typical h

The Atlantic

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There’s a lot that has to happen from the time you click “Place Your Order” on Amazon.com to the time that item arrives on your doorstep a day or two later. There are Amazon workers who have to grab the item from the bin where it’s kept, workers who

The Atlantic

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Well, that didn’t take long. Amazon announced today that it was “not moving forward” with the plans to build out a massive corporate office, which it called HQ2, in Long Island City, Queens. The announcement followed months of intense opposition by a

The Atlantic

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Some time later this year, Amazon could become the first trillion-dollar company in American history. Its valuation has already doubled in the last 14 months to about $800 billion, and Jeff Bezos, its founder and CEO, is officially the richest man on

Apple Magazine

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Hundreds of people showed up Wednesday for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon customers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. Though it’s common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff i

NPR

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has for the first time disclosed the number of paying members in a letter to shareholders. It also illustrates the vast multi-dimensional scope of Amazon's business.

Business Today

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This is something we keep reminding ourselves at Amazon, every day. In his latest shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos talks about an interesting incident at the company all hands meeting, when he was asked what Day 2 looks like. "Day 2 is static. Followed

Manhattan Institute

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With the rapid spread of Covid-19, working from home is having a moment. With most major cities now under stay-at-home orders and nonessential businesses closing down across the country, millions of Americans are working remotely for the first time.

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Amazon closed its warehouses in France for several days after a court ordered the company to limit deliveries to essential goods such as food and medical supplies. The company’s decision to close its six warehouses in the country followed a ruling by

Manhattan Institute

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Opponents of the Amazon deal declare victory as the company cancels its New York plans—and the city waves goodbye to 25,000 jobs.

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Nike is ending a sales partnership with Amazon less than a month after the athletic gear company named an e-commerce veteran as its new chief executive. The company says it wants to create a more direct customer experience, but the announcement Wedne

Manhattan Institute

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Since my university has gone online, I’ve been teaching remotely. The tools are excellent. I conduct my classes using Socratic methods, and when I call on a student, everyone in class sees his or her classmate at the center of the screen, answering m

The Atlantic

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How can local businesses compete with a company so local it lets people shop from their couches?

Working Mother

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Online shopping is addictively convenient. Amazon’s quick deliveries and on-point pricing leave many working moms clicking “Buy Now” without hesitation. It's all too easy for multiple packages to pile up. So we totally understand why Texas-based wife

TechLife News

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Hundreds of people showed up Wednesday for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon customers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. Though it’s common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff i

NPR

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Amazon avoided the prospect of a first unionized warehouse in America, where it's now the second-largest private employer. The vote in Alabama had prompted new interest in unions across the country.

NPR

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ProPublica's Alec MacGillis has written an economic history of the country, shaped by stories of people living and working in Amazon's shadow as their home cities and states transform around them.

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Amazon is suing the attorney general of New York in a bid to stop her from suing the company over its coronavirus safety protocols and the firing of one of its outspoken workers. In the lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court, Amazon said Attorney Ge