The Guardian
Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate, workers say
4 min · · Revealed: emails show group of employees who called for stronger climate action by the company were told they risked dismissal · Shared by 53, including Katja Evertz, Tristan Harris, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, ExApologist, @grzewap@mastodon.social, 💥 Katie Martell, Ray Monk
Adweek
Amazon’s 5 Biggest Flubs of 2019
2 min · · From HQ2 to Amazon Marketplace, the company will not emerge from 2019 unscathed. · Shared by 10, including Real Marsha Wright®, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
CNN
Fake and dangerous kids products are turning up for sale on Amazon
12+ min · · The listing on Amazon described it as a "4 in 1 Baby car seat and Stroller" and featured images of a popular brand called Doona, including a photo of the US President's daughter, Ivanka Trump, with… · Shared by 16, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, DHH
Benedict Evans
What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%?
8 min · · Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion every year? Running the numbers, Amazon has about 35%… · Shared by 56, including Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Steven Sinofsky, Florian Graillot, Sachin Rekhi, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jane Friedman, Carl Morris, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer
Inc.
Amazon Uses a Secret Process for Launching New Ideas--and It Can Transform the Way You Work
3 min · · It's called "working backwards." Here's why it's brilliant. · Shared by 319, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Oscar MacDonald, Tauno, Tom Connor, Thomas Telandro, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Real Marsha Wright®, René Pfitzner, Scott Berkun, Jacob Jarnvall, Christian P. Stobbe, Scott Galloway, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Katja Evertz
The Verge
Amazon is delivering half its own packages as it becomes a serious rival to FedEx and UPS
3 min · · Amazon Logistics keeps growing at a rapid clip · Shared by 18, including John Nosta, Thomas Power, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
CNBC
Watch out UPS. Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is already delivering half of its packages
2 min · · Amazon is already delivering about half of the packages in the U.S., Morgan Stanley estimates. · Shared by 16, including LARRY ELKAN, Sachin Rekhi, Mark Hasebroock, Craig Mod
Gizmodo
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
12+ min · · As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to… · Shared by 103, including Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, Matthias Lampe, Faik Ersoy, Paul Kedrosky, Thomas Power, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Josep M. Ganyet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Desmond Williams
MarketWatch
How Amazon created AWS and changed technology forever
8 min · · Launched the year before Apple Inc. introduced the iPhone, AWS has changed technology in a similarly outsize way. If Apple helped cement the mobile age,... · Shared by 36, including Shelly Kramer, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Daniel Newman
The New York Times
Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City
Summary · 20+ min · · If Amazon built a fulfillment center in your city, would that be good – or bad? It depends who you ask, but an examination of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, may provide a more informed answer to the question. In Baltimore, Amazon isn’t focused only on ecommerce. In Baltimore, Amazon is involved with sports teams, government contracts, surveillance and security. In this New York Times article, journalist Scott Shane explores the pros and cons of the Amazonian city. If Baltimore is the city of the future, would you want to live there? · Shared by 81, including Scott Monty, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Peter Shankman, getAbstract, Emily Badger, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Scott Galloway
Reveal
Behind the Smiles
20+ min · · Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed. · Shared by 38, including Ami Measel, Thomas Power, Jane, publici
NBC News
Shortcuts and a need for speed: Inside Amazon's delivery ramp up
11+ min · · NBC News spoke with 18 people in 11 states who detailed safety problems across the e-commerce giant’s delivery operation as the company aggressively ramped up its delivery volume. · Shared by 10, including @augieray@mastodon.social, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
TechCrunch
Amazon launches medication management features for Alexa
2 min · · As Amazon moves further into the healthcare market, the company today is rolling out a medication management feature for Alexa owners. The feature will allow customers to set up their own medication… · Shared by 44, including 🇺🇦 Eugene Borukhovich, Thomas Power, Daniel Lawniczak, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Ahier, Daniel Jörg, Esther Schindler, Luca M. Sergio
Gizmodo
Exclusive: Amazon's Own Numbers Reveal Staggering Injury Rates at Staten Island Warehouse
5 min · · Since opening in September 2018, Amazon’s massive fulfillment center on New York’s Staten Island has garnered a reputation as grueling and unsafe, even among a logistics network broadly criticized as… · Shared by 15, including #MuskOut (not parody), 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, John Koetsier
The Atlantic
Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Permanently Maiming Employees
20+ min · · Speedy robots. Constant surveillance. Ruthless quotas. A new investigation into why the injury rate for Amazon’s warehouse workers is sky-high. · Shared by 62, including DHH, Thomas Power, MarieDenee, Casey Newton, Scott Galloway, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, René Clausen Nielsen, AisleOne
TechCrunch
Amazon launches a Dash Smart Shelf for businesses that automatically restocks supplies
1 min · · Amazon may have stopped selling its Dash buttons for consumers, but it’s not done with dedicated Dash hardware: The company is launching its new Amazon Dash Smart Shelf today. Aimed at small… · Shared by 13