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The other day I ordered some new batteries for my Sony A600 digital camera. I put in the order on Amazon mid-day and, roughly 24 hours later, I was charging up my new camera batteries. Could an Amazon Prime Air drone have gotten them to me faster? Sure, if Amazon…
Amazon has been experimenting with putting Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled video cameras inside of its delivery vehicles to watch the drivers and provide them with feedback on their driving. In fulfillment centers, employees’ activities are closely monitored. They’re only allowed a certain number of bathroom breaks (so workers sometimes resort…
I previously wrote in length about how Amazon and Flipkart are skirting India’s e-commerce laws by engaging in predatory pricing and hurting offline retailers and small sellers on their platform in the process.
My main argument in that piece was that Amazon and Flipkart repeatedly find their way around India’s…
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Tyler Rodriguez, an Amazon third-party seller based in Florida, has seen his import costs from China triple since the start of the pandemic. He’s…
The question isn’t what’s going to get automated. It’s what’s going to get automated last.
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In his new book, Fulfillment, Alec MacGillis writes of an Amazon distribution center in Sparrows Point, Maryland that sits on land once occupied by a Bethlehem Steel plant. The story underscores how dramatically the U.S. economy has transformed in recent years. Instead of making things, many of our biggest companies…
Last week, Amazon announced it would expand Amazon Care — its employee-only health care service — to the public. The service lets you chat with nurses, move to video, arrange home visits, and get medication prescribed. Amazon delivers the medicine.
The company began piloting Care internally in September 2019, and…
I live in the curious intersection of art, design, and code. For the past two years, I’ve worked with a small group of artists to develop Alexa, Call Mom!, an immersive storytelling installation using Amazon’s Alexa platform. Our project is far from the type of third-party apps you typically see…
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On July 1, Amazon will have a new CEO. Andy Jassy, who is replacing Jeff Bezos, helped build the company’s cloud business from scratch, cementing its servers as a cornerstone of the internet.
But not all of Jassy’s work has been inside Amazon. The incoming CEO is also a commissioner…
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