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Jeff Bezos Christens New Texas Wind Farm in Ridiculous Twitter Video
The second richest man in America smashed a champagne bottle on top of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine.
The second richest man in America smashed a champagne bottle on top of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine. Today is HQ2 deadline day, and with the eyes of the world on Amazon, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos tweeted out a video of him standing atop a giant wind turbine, and christening it by smashing a champagne…
Amazon Will Now Deliver Medications to Your Doorstep
Amazon Pharmacy will launch in more than 50,000 pharmacies in 45 states
Amazon is launching an online pharmacy that delivers prescription medication to your doorstep, the Seattle-based company announced Tuesday. The announcement comes one day after the company said it would launch a grocery delivery service, and is further proof that Amazon is increasingly broadening its scope to become involved in more aspects of consumers’ lives. Amazon…
Amazon Starts Delivering Groceries
Program launches in five cities, including Seattle
In some cities, Amazon will now deliver groceries straight to your garage. Amazons new Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery program allows eligible Amazon Prime members to receive groceries stored securely in their garages. Groceries come from Amazon-owned Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh. The grocery program is available in select areas of Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles…
Report: Amazon’s Whole Foods Plans Instacart Competitor
Amazon is reportedly seeking gig workers to shop for and deliver food
Seattle-based Amazon is reportedly recruiting gig workers to fulfill online grocery orders for Whole Foods customers. The program, called Shop and Deliver, will take drivers through an online tutorial on how to pick out, pack and handle groceries, according to a Bloomberg report. Whole Foods, which was purchased by Amazon in 2017 for $13.7 billion,…
Amazon to Bring 10,000 Jobs to Bellevue
The new jobs are in addition to the 15,000 the tech giant announced it would bring to Bellevue last February
Amazon announced Friday that it will bring 10,000 more jobs to Bellevue in the next few years as it increasingly distances itself from its Seattle headquarters. To make room for the new hires, Amazon has leased 2 million square feet of office space in downtown Bellevue from Vulcan, a Seattle-based real estate company. The properties…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Battle Climate Change
The billionaire entrepreneur says it will take worldwide collective action to save the Earth
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is intent on ensuring the planet remains a viable platform for life and business in the future. To that end, Bezos announced on Monday, Feb. 17, the creation of the Bezos Earth Fund, indicating that he will commit $10 billion initially to support the work of groups fighting the devastating impact…
Northern Virginia Housing Prices Have Soared Since Amazon Chose Arlington as its HQ2
The Seattle Amazon effect now extends to the company's East Coast HQ2 location, Realtor.com says
If the Amazon effect on housing prices in Seattle is still a question mark in some circles, a just-released study by Realtor.com seems to pour cold water on those doubts. The real estate platform assessed the impact on Arlington, Virginias housing market a year after Amazon chose the East Coast metro as its second headquarters…
New York Leaders Revive Amazon HQ2 Bid
Their support of the deal is trumpeted in an open letter published in the New York Times
Amazons decision last month to abandon efforts to develop another headquarters, or HQ2, in Long Island City, Queens, has gotten the full attention of some New York City power brokers who are hoping to convince the Seattle company to reconsider its decision. Those Big Apple movers and shakers made public their desire to bring Amazon…
Report: Whole Foods to Rebrand 365 Stores
The chain, which is owned by Amazon, is virtually abandoning its small-store format
Whole Foods Market wont build any more small-format 365 stores. According to Yahoo Finance, the grocery chain which Seattle-based Amazon purchased for $13.7 billion in 2017 said it would keep its existing 12 Whole Foods 365 stores open. There are no Whole Foods 365 stores in Washington state since Whole Foods closed its store at…
Amazon Isnt as Hip as Microsoft Among the Nations Youngest Job Seekers
Glassdoor study takes a look at the cities, jobs and employers that are making the grade with Gen Z
A study just released by Glassdoor, one of the largest online job and recruiting sites, sheds some light on the cities, employers and jobs that are attracting Americas newest class of workers, the so-called Gen Z and millennial generations, and it appears Seattle-based Amazon is losing ground on that front to Microsoft when it comes…
Amazon HQ2 Odds: Northern Virginia Tops New List
Betting site Bovada has a cluster of five cities with the best odds to land Amazon's second headquarters.
Its been 174 days since Amazon announced its plans for HQ2 on Sept. 7. The deadline for proposals came on Oct. 19, and four days later, the company announced that it had received a total of 238 proposals. About three months later, that list was narrowed down to 20 finalists. And now, 40 days later,…