by DCG Rocco and his owner/Photo from Facebook Just another hazard of having that device in your home. From Fox 5 NY: A parrot has fallen in love with his owner’s Amazon Alexa — but keeps using it to order shopping. …
So I listened to Bongino podcast yesterday. The last 10 minutes he breaks down who he thinks is in trouble & why. He also mentioned Amazon Cloud contractors & their involvement in accessing our NSA database. Start at 49:50 https://omny.fm/shows/the-dan-bongino-show/ep-861-dont-believe-the-michael-cohen-media-hype …
Deirdre Bosa for CNBC reports, After a search that’s lasted nearly 10 months, Airbnb finally has a CFO. The home-sharing start-up is announcing Monday that Dave Stephenson will join Airbnb as chief financial officer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJlYDEztTBk Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/airbn…
Break Amazon up. It’s too big and treats employees like slaves AC
‘Electric shocks & broken bones’: Amazon workers to protest ‘inhuman’ conditions on Black Friday Amazon warehouse workers are set to protest ‘inhuman’ working conditions in planned demonstrations across Europe on Black Friday. Hundreds of Amazon employees are working with the …
Jade Scipioni for FOX Business reports, On the heels of Amazon’s mega announcement of building two more second headquarters in New York City and Arlington County, Virginia, and investing more than $5 billion to create jobs for more than 50,000 …
Prof. Richard Wolff explains why the $3 billion subsidy for one of the world’s largest corporations is a terrible waste of public money When really all of theses places should have said no, we are not going to pay a …
Amazon workers urged to walk out on Black Friday in protests over online giant’s ‘inhumane’ treatment of staff Amazon warehouse walkers could walk out over Black Friday as sales set to soar Staff say there have been ‘broken bones’ and …
Amazon’s bid includes the New York-based YES Network, which is partly owned by Yankee Global Enterprises. Apollo Global Management, KKR, Blackstone, Sinclair Broadcast and Tegna are also making first-round bids for the regional networks, sources tell CNBC. Fox, which was …
As stated many times that these devices are really deep state listening stations has been confirmed in a double murder case. via techcrunch: A New Hampshire judge has ordered Amazon to turn over two days of Amazon Echo recordings in a double …
The rabid bidding war among American cities to be the location for Amazon’s new “headquarters” was essentially a scam. Bezos always knew where Amazon was going: right next door to his buddies at the Pentagon, with another location in New …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTRwmrN9uqQ New Yorkers are infuriated the only infrastructure improvement they will see from the city’s deal with Amazon is apparently a helipad for Jeff Bezos and his lieutenants at HQ2 (and-a-half). It’s not the biggest item in the memorandum of …
via arstechnica: Over the last year, Amazon has dangled in front of cities the possibility that they could host the company’s “second headquarters”—a massive $5 billion facility that would provide 50,000 white-collar jobs. On Tuesday, Amazon confirmed what had been widely reported: nobody would be …
NY taxpayers to pay $48,000 per Amazon HQ job New York state is kicking in more than $1.5 billion in taxpayer-funded incentives for getting half of Amazon’s second headquarters located in a section of Queens. The Seattle-based company made its long-awaited …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I’m already fatigued and disgusted with Christmas promotions. They’re everywhere now, including every other ad on television. I’ve come to loathe the holiday season because of the extreme materialism and consumerism into which it has degenerated. …
We are looking at [antitrust] very seriously,” Trump said. “Look, that doesn’t mean we’re doing it, but we’re certainly looking and I think most people surmise that, I would imagine.” Trump said others have also considered action against tech companies …
Bold move, gonna shave off quite a bit of Walmart’s top line this quarter since a big appeal of their eCommerce business is offering Free Shipping to customers without the need to buy a membership. Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/11/05/amazon-drops-25-minimum-free-shipping-through-holiday-season/1889512002/ Target …
by Geoffrey Grider Amazon is staffing up for the holiday rush with around 100,000 additional hires. As big as that number sounds, it’s actually fewer people than the e-commerce giant added in either the 2016 or 2017 holiday seasons, when …
Nov 3, 2018 – Two persons died in a partial building collapse at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in southeast Baltimore. http://marygreeley.com/?p=77273 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROwMESqAqew “It Just Sounded Like Bombs” – At Least 2 Dead As Amazon Warehouse In Baltimore Collapses Update: 2 …
by Scorface Lyft is five times cheaper to acquire than Uber. It has 35% of ridesharing marketshare in America and is rapidly growing in Canada—two of Amazon’s biggest market. Currently, no major Western ridesharing platform is profitable. That’s because it …
Do you think GE will be bailed out eventually, or it will turn around on its own? The stock market was up today but there were a couple stocks that continued to be under heavy pressure. Amazon has been the …
TECH STOCKS VOLATILE… Bezos Loses $19 BILLION! (Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezos is still the world’s richest person, but he’s a lot closer to No. 2 Bill Gates than just a few months ago. The Amazon.com Inc. founder lost $19.2 …
Is there any cause for concern that HALF of U.S. stocks are in a bear market? Or that doesn’t matter because this time is different? The stock market has been patiently waiting for Amazon and other mega corporations to report …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are dropping this morning following disappointing results from Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG.L) and negative earnings guidance from European large-cap stocks US stocks index futures are declining and are pointing to a sharp decline to the start of …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSeOAZ5j9s After the #QuestOfRandomClues Wikileaks publishes AmazonAtlas which shows the locations of Amazon’s hidden data centres: https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/do…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Xe9QClQBk Pete Saunders for Forbes reports, Thirteen months into the international derby that is the Amazon HQ2 selection process, it seems the end of the sweepstakes is near. It’s been a dizzying year-plus for the giant online retailer. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: …
There have been 440 accidents at firm’s UK sites since 2015 alone, according to Freedom of Information data STAFF at an Amazon warehouse were forced to work in sub-zero conditions, according to shocking claims revealed today. Workers at the facility …
By Max Gulker via AIER.org: Many people assume that to raise wages, big companies must be dragged along by government policy. Amazon’s eye-opening announcement yesterday suggests otherwise. The online retail giant announced it would raise its company minimum wage to fifteen dollars per …
Data center equipment run by Amazon Web Services and Apple may have been subject to surveillance from the Chinese government via a tiny microchip inserted during the equipment manufacturing process, according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek report on Thursday. The claims …
by 83wonder I’ve paid for prime since it was available, and lately I’ve noticed it’s gotten increasingly worse with shipping. FYI – Prime doesn’t mean you will get an item in 2 days, it means you should get the item 2 days after it ships, …