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Amazon is a ripoff
The idea that a company can do anything to create or perpetuate a monopoly so long as its prices go down and/or its quality goes up is directly to blame for the rise of Big Tech.
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Amazon: Not coming into offce limits promotion prospects
We know who's been naughty and who's been nice, says box-shifting-cum-cloud-computing biz
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Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’
Amazon’s senior leadership is losing patience with remote work, even if they don’t have a good reason.
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The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives.
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Amazon is working on displays that Apple and Samsung can’t match
When Amazon unveiled the unique display panel of its Paperwhite Kindle e-reader, it revealed two impressive facts: The first is that Amazon's internal hardware engineering team is more sophisticated than Amazon's line of decent but not so revolutionary tablets and e-readers would suggest. The second is that the company had been incubating the display tech...
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Amazon bundles print and e-books
Amazon has announced plans to offer buyers of printed books a copy of the text in digital form for free or at a discounted price.
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Jeff Bezos wants to delight you
Jeff Bezos has a big laugh. It's a shotgun; a booming sound that reverberates through a room. It can be a little scary, actually. It is not subtle, gentle, or otherwise restrained. But when he does laugh — which is often — it is a laugh trained squarely on the room. Not inward, but outward. A laugh that says: there's fun to be had, so join in.
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Author pleads: Please don't buy my new novel on Amazon
Jaime Clarke, a Boston-based author and independent bookstore owner, sends out a public plea for readers to resist buying his new novel from the e-commerce giant.
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Inside Amazon’s 'gladiator culture'
For someone who supposedly learned the value of kindness at a young age, Jeff Bezos can be pretty ruthless. “Why are you wasting my life?” he once asked an engineer after a presentation.
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Amazon increases free shipping minimum to $35
Amazon has offered free shipping to US customers for over a decade now on all eligible orders above $25, but that's changing today as the online retailer bumps up its minimum order requirement to $35.
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Amazon Stock May Be Up, but the Company Still Doesn’t Make Any Money
That glowing new bestseller, that Friday stock bump, that rosy Christmas outlook—they can’t hide that after 20 years, the company still hasn’t managed to turn a profit. Daniel Gross on whether it ever will.
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Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff
You're on Amazon.com. You're buying, say, a toaster, and you're checking out the customer reviews. You assume the people writing these reviews are people like you — people who wanted a toaster, went online and bought one. As it turns out, a lot of reviews on Amazon are written by people who are nothing like you.
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Jeff Bezos' Wife Trashes The New Book On Amazon, Gives It 1 Star, Says Lots Of Facts Are Wrong
Jeff Bezos' wife left a devastating review of the big new book about Amazon by Bloomberg Businessweek writer Brad Stone. On Amazon (naturally) she gave the book 1 star titling her review, "I wanted to like this book."
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Amazon’s Smile Program Encourages Philanthropy at Christmas
You might not expect the e-tailing behemoth to inspire the rest of us to give a little extra at Christmas, but the Smile program could change the contours of seasonal charity.
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Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air
Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can...
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Amazon Drones - 60 Minutes TV Show (Video)
Amazon's secret R&D project aimed at delivering packages to your doorstep by "octocopter" mini-drones with a mere 30-minute delivery time; then, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon remembers his 1999 interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Amazon drones: nine ways it could go horribly wrong
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled plans for Amazon Prime Air, which allows the online retailer to use unmanned drones to deliver small packages. Daniel Johnson speculates on nine ways the new delivery service is a disaster waiting to happen
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Jeff Bezos had to take 60 meetings to raise $1 million for Amazon, giving up 20% to early investors
Amazon.com almost didn’t make it out of the gate, with a young Jeff Bezos encountering a common entrepreneurial challenge: raising money. In an interview with Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes, Bezos recalls those early days in 1995 when things were touch and go.
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Amazon drones are 'fantasy,' says eBay CEO
In the race to deliver online shopping purchases faster, drones don't impress eBay's CEO. "We're not focusing on long-term fantasies, we're focusing on things we can do today," John Donahue said in a televised interview with Bloomberg TV Friday morning.
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This $40,000 TV Is The New Thing To Ridicule With Delightful Amazon Reviews
It's not every day that the Internet's commenters can all decide together which product on Amazon is most in need of derision by way of product reviews. This time it's not a gallon of whole milk or...
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