Save the amazon rainforests

The eventual memorandum of understanding didn’t clock in that high when it was written a year later, though. New York’s subsidies included $1.7 billion from the state and $1.3 billion from the city for a campus that would cost up to $2.5 billion and was expected to bring in around 25,000 workers over the course of 10 years. … [Read more...] about New York wanted Amazon so bad it was willing to pay part of its employees’ salaries

Spisak, who was on the front lines of the fight against Amazon, is referring to a trend of developers coming into what he calls “traditionally disinvested communities,” where corporations try to take advantage of cheap real estate–similar to what has happened in the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick in Brooklyn. The Amazon project, with its incredible scale, would have taken over a large, underdeveloped area in Long Island City, which is already an expensive neighborhood, but the ripple effects would have impacted neighborhoods around the entire borough. … [Read more...] about The war against Amazon was a war for cities–and cities won

Amazon declined to provide the Post with any screenshots of its games. But during my tour, I took some photos with the company’s permission. Here’s a blurry one of the dragon race, with the players’ faces blurred even more to respect their privacy: … [Read more...] about Here’s a glimpse of the social games played by Amazon warehouse workers

This is something of a surprise, given that the Fire is really only on sale in a big way in the U.S.–with 89% of them owned there, according to Localytics. It’s even more interesting when you realize that Amazon refuses to reveal its own sales figures, and that the Fire is an Android tablet largely in name only: Google’s platform is extremely buried beneath layers of code that bind the Fire to Amazon’s services rather than any other supplier’s. Plus, given the success of the Google Nexus 7 and the various Samsung Galaxy tablets around the world, one may be forgiven for thinking Localytics are inflating the Fire’s statistics. … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Kindle Fire Burning Up The Android Chart

According to recent stats, the Fire only achieved 54% of Android tablet sales in the U.S. in February of this year, and even if Android tablets as a market segment secured a 50% U.S. market share for the months before and after that, then grabbing 22% of the entire market would seem tricky for Amazon. Particularly since other research suggests Fire sales have tumbled in recent months, and that iPad sales have surged. … [Read more...] about Amazon Preps For New Kindle Fire, Says Older Fire Has “Sold Out”