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Jeff Bezos Shares Amazon's First Job Posting
Friday, August 23, 2019 - 7:33am | 525Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) not too long ago was a small startup and Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of the company's first ever job ad. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos posted an add on Aug. 22, 1994 on an online public bulletin board and discussion network called Usenet. The job add...
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Investors Back GrubHub As Amazon Shuts Down Restaurants Business
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - 10:11am | 246Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S, according to Geekwire. “As of June 24th, we will discontinue the Amazon Restaurants business in the US,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement to GeekWire. In November, Amazon...
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A Canadian City Is Technically The Best Fit For Amazon's HQ2
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 8:21am | 394Read More...From a data-driven point of view, it doesn't make sense for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to open its second headquarters in an American city like Detroit. Rather, Amazon will be best off looking north of the border to Canada, according to GeekWire. GeekWire assumed that the following four...
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E-Commerce Strategy May Be The Key To Survival
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 12:45pm | 429Read More...The importance of e-commerce sales in the retail world has hit an all-time high. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT)'s high profile purchase of jet.com to take on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) $111 billion e-commerce empire highlights how key an online strategy is for a brick-and-mortar business....
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Did Apple Just Add To Its Stable Of AI Startups With Turi Acquisition?
Monday, August 8, 2016 - 9:39am | 279Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has bought machine learning and artificial intelligence startup Turi, according to a report on GeekWire. GeekWire, citing sources to the deal, said the consideration was at around $200 million, marking a huge outcome for the original investors and early shareholders. The...
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Home Shopping Stocks Fall Amid Speculation Of Amazon Fire's Entrance Into E-Commerce
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 1:11pm | 414Read More...GeekWire reported that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has "quietly" rolled out an e-commerce functionality on its Fire TV devices, which may lead to a full scale shopping channel. The report added that a "source with knowledge of the situation" confirmed the experiment has been performing above...
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T-Mobile Launches Video Calling As Part Of A Push To Roll Out Its Own New Features
Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 2:19pm | 364Read More...Starting Thursday, T-Mobile US Inc (NYSE: TMUS) customers can now place video calls through select handset devices. T-Mobile's customers equipped with a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ can make use of T-Mobile Video Calling, a VoLTE-powered feature, according to a company released...
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After The Surge: 5 More Food Products Amazon Could Resurrect
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 12:17pm | 939Read More...Following a Facebook Inc campaign aimed at convincing The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) to bring back its long-discontinued '90s era Surge soft drink, the company did so, albeit in a controlled way. Surge was reintroduced to the public exclusively on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN...
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Surface Revenue Falls Below Microsoft's $900 Million Write-Down (MSFT)
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 10:06am | 571Read More...Unsold inventory for Microsoft's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Surface RT tablet recently led to a write-down totaling $900 million. That number turned out to be greater than the amount of revenue earned on the entire Surface product line. According to GeekWire, total Surface revenue reached $853 million on...
