“Councilmember Sawant’s idea for a new tax right now will be as effective in helping Seattle’s economy recover as President Trump’s European travel ban was in stopping the spread of coronavirus in the U.S.,” he said. “We’re staring at a deep recession, and the city must do everything it can to help our local economy, not harm it.” Amazon did not respond to our request to comment on the initiative.
“Despite substantial efforts to stamp out the practice, an unhealthy ecosystem is developing outside of Amazon to supply inauthentic reviews,” the suit adds. “Defendants’ businesses consist entirely of selling such reviews.”
“Be prepared for the debate to shift towards philanthropy,” said Councilmember Lisa Herbold. “There is no accountability for private philanthropy. We are in a modern gilded era and just like the original gilded era, charitable gifts don’t solve infrastructure issues or inequality.”
“Everybody hears little bits and pieces of how [our recruiting process] works and how it would be to work at Amazon. So we want folks to have that kind of one-on-one, personal experience with learning a little bit more about the process,” Flicker said.
“Could a Chinese company extract more value from this than a multinational? It’s possible because they have different expectations of profitability than multinationals so they can be happy with lower margins,” said Franck Le Deu, Hong Kong-based senior partner at consultancy McKinsey.
“Going to pre-empt the trolls here…analogy about titanic, Hindenberg, etc. followed by comment about low adoption of windows phone, then someone paid by MS will jump in and say something about the exciting future of windows phone, upset shareholder will say something about canning Ballmer, then mandatory comparison to Apple, ending with a snarky comment about how Android has more users than iOS. There done.”–GeekWire reader Thomas R.?humorously summarizing the points many readers make in the comment threads when discussing Microsoft. In this case, the news was about Brandon Watson leaving the company for Amazon.com.
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“Chinese and US negotiators further implemented the important consensus reached by the presidents of the two countries during their December meeting in Argentina, and focused their talks on the text of an agreement,” the statement said.
“Amazon is excited to be working with the Seattle Storm to bring fans and families a new way to interact with the team, get moving, and have fun with Alexa,” Kevin Burkhart, director, Amazon Alexa and Echo, said in a statement. “As a season ticket holder and Seattle Storm supporter, I’m excited to try the workouts with my family.”
“Amazon’s decision to expand in New York City is proof positive that the strong economic climate of this state, and New York’s diverse workforce and talent, are helping to attract top-notch companies from around the world,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “New York welcomes Amazon’s latest investment and expansion in New York, as we support the growth of our strong business sector and continue to create quality, high-paying jobs in the Empire State.”
“Hell yeah,” he says without hesitation.