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March 16, 2023, 11:06 a.m.One Redditor: “I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app.” It doesn’t matter whether they’re for your Kindle or in print — starting this week, Amazon is no longer selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Publishers were…
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) – Amazon.com (AMZN.O) plans to launch its first internet satellites to space in the first half of 2024 and offer initial commercial tests shortly after, the company said Tuesday, as it prepares to vie with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others to provide broadband internet globally.Amazon’s satellite internet unit, Project Kuiper, will…
Amazon S3 is the best place to build data lakes because of its durability, availability, scalability, and security. Hundreds of thousands of data lakes are built on S3, storing diverse sets of unstructured data for use in analytics pipelines, machine learning training, business intelligence, and more. Often, these tasks build on top of open-source analytics…
Amazon employees are fighting it out about the company’s planned return to the office in Slack channels, according to Insider.First, employees created a Slack channel to fight against the policy. Then, a pro-office return group was formed, the outlet reported. Amazon announced on February 17 that it had “conclude[d] that we should go back to…
Dive Brief: Amazon is permanently closing eight Go convenience stores — two in Seattle, two New York City and four in San Francisco — on April 1, a spokesperson from the company said in an email. Despite these closures, the company will “continue to open new Amazon Go stores,” and is “working closely with all…
Online retailing giant Amazon has so many “traveling salesman optimization” NP hard problems is it crazy. In fact, Amazon has nested, or chained, NP hard problems. Figuring out how to get an item from bin 23 in warehouse 42 across the country by myriad possible routes to your doorstep with the least time (or the…
On January 3, 2023, the 5,000 students who attend Technological University Dublin returned from their winter holiday to their cold suburban campus in Tallaght. At a time of year when the temperature often falls to near freezing, they would have rushed through the revolving door into the toasty, enveloping air of the main building’s glass…
Amazon will require its employees to work from the office at least three days a week, effective May 1.CEO Andy Jassy told employees Friday the executive team made the decision earlier this week. The announcement comes after nearly three years of experimenting with different models of fully remote work and a hybrid system of in-person…
Project funded by Amazon will use plots around wind turbines to grow seaweed and test its ability to sequester CO2 (North Sea Farm 1) Published Feb 16, 2023 5:50 PM by The Maritime Executive Internet giant Amazon is providing $1.6 million in funding for the development of the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm, which will be…
An ex-Amazon manager said leadership had to rate a certain number of employees as “least effective.” He said he defended an employee who senior leaders placed in this category despite performing well. Shortly after, the ex-manager learned he was on Pivot, Amazon’s performance-improvement program. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite…
Cloud giants Google and Amazon Web Services’ latest financial results indicate the cloud computing adoption is finally slowing as customers press pause amid the economic downturn taking place across much of the West. Amazon Group’s overall sales grew 9 percent to reach $149.2 billion in the fourth quarter, while its AWS sales increased 20 percent…
Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse in Arizona. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP Amazon packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon warehouse in Arizona. Ross D. Franklin/AP After a long run of surging profits from pandemic-era shopping sprees, Amazon is feeling the hangover. The retail…
Image: Getty Images (Getty Images)Amazon’s prime members plateaued last year according to a Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) report released this week. The number of subscribers has been in decline since July of last year, according to the CIRP, which claimed in the first six months of the year, Amazon Prime did not add net…
homenewsMarketsAmazon NFT Initiative Coming Soon: ExclusiveWorld’s largest retailer has been hovering at the edges of Web3 tech for some timeJanuary 26, 2023 08:32 pmSundry Photography/Shutterstock.com modified by BlockworksMON – WED, SEPT. 11 – 13, 2023Permissionless is the brainchild of Blockworks and Bankless. Over 5,500 people attended the inaugural event in 2022, making Permissionless the world’s…
Jan 24 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Tuesday it is offering a $5 monthly subscription plan for U.S. Prime members that will cover a range of generic drugs and their doorstep delivery, furthering the ecommerce giant’s push into healthcare.The program, named RxPass, includes more than 50 medications addressing over 80 chronic conditions such…
Reuters/Rick Wilking/File PhotoAmazon has radically transformed small businesses in both the U.S. and China, making them dependent on the e-commerce giant while also obscuring their existence, according to a new report published Wednesday by Data & Society.The foundation-supported research institute spent over a year interviewing 40 current and former merchants on Amazon, who described a…
Amazon on Tuesday announced a new prescription perk for U.S. Prime members, hoping to boost subscriptions and attract users to its pharmacy service.The add-on, called RxPass, will allow Prime members to get as many drugs as they need from a list of 50 generic medications to treat more than 80 common chronic conditions, such as…
Amazon on Wednesday commenced the latest wave of job cuts in its corporate workforce in what’s poised to be the largest round of layoffs in the company’s history.Employees were notified of the cuts in emails sent by Doug Herrington, the company’s worldwide retail chief, and human resources head Beth Galetti, CNBC confirmed. Amazon said earlier…
Amazon on Wednesday commenced the latest wave of job cuts in its corporate workforce in what’s poised to be the largest round of layoffs in the company’s history.Employees were notified of the cuts in emails sent by Doug Herrington, the company’s worldwide retail chief, and human resources head Beth Galetti, CNBC confirmed. Amazon said earlier…
