by WSBsh*tposter Since Google got fined is Amazon next? I think Jeff Bezos is very smart, it’s hard to pin down an extremely obvious anti-trust issue for Amazon because it doesn’t make that much a profit unlike Google, but rest …
by IlCaneEUnaMucca This is a trap a lot of people fall into (myself included): just because it’s a “good deal” doesn’t mean you “saved” money by buying it, it’s still money that you spent! This might be obvious to most people …
Amazon acquires Whole Foods, KR down 11 %, COST down 8% Amazon acquires PillPack, CVS, WBA, RAD all down +11% Amazon considers making its own networking switches, CSCO down +4% Bubble? https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1017568943286910976 h/t phileo99
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It owns 33% of the internet “cloud,” 49% of US e-commerce, and is elbowing into other sectors. Amazon (AMZN) is a Goliath in very different sectors. One is the internet cloud, a booming business. Amazon Web …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhukioARSuM They care called “Smart” so that you will want them. They advertise them as life will be easier for you. Smart = stay away Lisa
Wolf here: Amazon is a mega-force in online retail. The “Amazon effect” is everywhere. But even for Amazon (AMZN), it’s hard to make money on its online retail operations. Amazon, through its division AWS, also owns a big part of …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Brick & Mortar Meltdown: Dog of the Dow on 3rd Day in the Dow. It was a melancholic but symptomatic day for the US economy when a once mighty industrial company that manufactures big complex things, …
by EquityTom Watch out FedEx, UPS, DHL and the U.S. Postal Service: Amazon is building its own last-mile delivery service. The e-commerce behemoth announced on Thursday its new Delivery Service Partners program — designed to let entrepreneurs run their own local delivery networks of …
by Thinker Nearly 20 groups of Amazon shareholders are pressuring the tech company to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement. In a letter delivered to CEO Jeff Bezos late Friday, the shareholders, many of whom are advocates of …
Atul Gawande named CEO of Buffett-Dimon-Bezos joint venture from CNBC. Dr. Atul Gawande will lead the joint health-care venture between Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Amazon CEO Jeff …
by stockboardasset Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos recently became the world’s wealthiest man. Bezos’ fortune is mostly tied to Amazon’s inflated stock price trading at a nosebleed price/earnings ratio of approximately 265, with a market cap around $811 billion (as of June 08). …
by Jesse Stocks powered higher today, based on the same non-reasons for which they were higher on Friday. Amazon, Apple and Microsoft all reached new all time highs. While the cash Nasdaq may have reached a new all time high, …
The secret to stopping the robot apocalypse? Popcorn butter. Amazon’s fleet of automated warehouse robots, now more than 100,000 machines strong, is working alongside human employees to help meet the e-commerce giant’s massive fulfillment demand. The company’s robots carry inventory …
At Business Insider’s IGNITION conference, Scott Galloway gave a blistering presentation on why “The Big Four” — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — should be broken up. Galloway is a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business …
by Thinker People Power Puts Anything It Wants Out of Business – Support Lies or Truth – You Have a Choice! What many are finding isn’t real, now seeing much worse. How many times can you be lied to and …
less than a month after pausing all Google PLA campaigns, Amazon reactivates its bidding on Google’s Shopping Ads Well that was fast. After pausing its U.S. Shopping campaigns at the end of April, Amazon is once again popping up in …
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by WilliamNyeTho The buffettisms are to buy stocks that are: For a great price In an industry that you are capable of understanding Have a great competitive advantage Have great management Buffett, for the past few decades, has made it publically …
Amazon is partnering with police agencies and intelligence agencies to provide them facial recognition technology that can track and surveil the entire public. The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) is ringing alarm bells trying to get people to take notice …
Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker …
by stockboardasset Amazon has been marketing its facial recognition platform, called Rekognition, a deep learning-based image and video analysis, to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando, according to recent documents acquired by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California. The ACLU …
Amazon should be boycotted for partnering with Big Brother government surveillance. Amazon is not hard up for the money that they desperately need this government contract. This technology is going to be used against average Americans the most, not undocumented …
By Bob Shanahan On Tuesday, I wrote about the spike in homelessness on the West Coast and the insurmountable problem politicians face in tackling this troubling issue. There is no clear cut solution, but something needs to be done. California …
The city attempts to wring more money from its employers rather than fix its housing problems. Well. Amazon already is doing a great deal to fend off homelessness. For starters, it is employing tens of thousands of people—thereby providing them …
Last year an American company microchipped dozens of its workers. In a “chip party”, employees lined up to have a device implanted under the skin between their thumb and forefinger. At first, Todd Westby, the CEO of Three Square Market, …
Guest post by lucid-n0nsense Google, Facebook and Amazon have denied using data coming from private conversations, but pay attention to their exact words. They always says they do not use “recordings” (which does not include real-time keyword recognition) or they …
Amazon wants in on the digital advertising (and they have LOTS of shopping/product-searching data to mine), and Google is partnering with Wal-Mart and Target for e-commerce. Google doesn’t have just search data, they have whole browsing history, geographic movements (Maps), …
by DCG That device is ALWAYS listening and recording you. It won’t be doing that in my home. I get that people enjoy new technologies but are you so lazy that you can’t get up to turn off the lights? From Daily Mail: Amazon.com …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYjOXGaSV4s Peter Hasson for the Western Journal reports, Amazon has barred prominent Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom from participating in its Amazon Smile charitable program, which allows nonprofits to recoup a small fraction of the money their supporters spend …
via businessinsider: Some Amazon Prime customers are fuming, claiming the company has repeatedly delayed their shipments and backtracked on the two-day-shipping guarantee that comes with membership. But the data shows that Amazon has actually sped up the process of getting packages to customers. It’s …