Jeff Bezos captured the world’s imagination when he appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and pledged to fill the skies with package delivery drones. Five years on, Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands of them. High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans […]
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Top tech companies likely to face more congressional scrutiny in 2019
There may be a push for rules to protect people’s data and ensure fair search results, and efforts to rein in the power of companies like Facebook, Alphabet and Amazon.
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Bear repellant fumes send Amazon workers to hospital
At least one of the employees at a warehouse in New Jersey is in critical condition.
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Where are the delivery drones? Amazon customers still waiting
The CEO said it would be happening by now, but battery life and privacy issues and regulatory demands got in the way.
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Queens residents skeptical about Amazon’s promises
The company is expected to hire 25,000 workers but residents say they’ve seen this before from new hotels who hire within instead of reaching out to the community.
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Incentives to lure Amazon could top $2.8 billion in New York City
In addition to nearly $1.53 billion in state tax credits and grants, the company may qualify for a city corporate income tax credit worth nearly $900 million over 12 years and a 15-year property-tax abatement worth about $386 million.
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Walmart passes Amazon as world’s largest online grocer
Local supermarkets are in third place, a survey finds.
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Amazon considering New York amid reports HQ will be split
Amazon.com Inc. has declined to comment on the reports.
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Amazon pushes coding for next generation
The company launches a program that aims to teach more than 10 million students a year how to code.
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More companies turn to streaming video, but prying users away from Netflix and YouTube won’t be easy
Walmart, AT&T and Disney are hoping to carve their own niches.