“The economics don’t work” to give the Kindle away, Amazon’s Jay Marine tells AllThingsD.com’s Tricia Duryee in an interview. Pressed on whether the device might still be offered free to a special segment of Amazon customers, such as Amazon Prime members, Marine is less absolute but says people shouldn’t get their hopes up.
“The challenge is these things have grown so fast, unbelievably fast. And there’s a lot of figuring out to do. So, I don’t think they are the Hulu hoop … but there is so much room for optimization and there is so much room for being much more selective about targeting users and what categories they go into. The reason, I think, there is going to be a long-term resonance is that these are sort of post-2008 phenomena — after the great recession hit, a large cohort of this country and Europe and most other parts of the world, a lot of consumers were financially squeezed. So, someone who offered better value was really compelling. And Groupon and Living Social and the like created really good value propositions, and for certain cohorts of products — typically products that have gross margins associated with them — it was a win-win for everybody. Then, everyone else jumped in and you found a lot of people who got bad customers, and didn’t like it. But there is still a large base of benefit there, and … I think they will get better…. My take is that it has grown so fast that there is going to be a winnowing out period, but there is really something there.”
“Racist family members can use Amazon to buy products that help them expose their children to messages and symbols of hate, helping normalize racist beliefs from a young age,” the report says.
“Many detractors have argued that spending valuable resources on panda conservation is wasteful,” said lead author of the study Wei Fuwen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “Our analysis contradicts this view and demonstrates clearly the great value of the panda, both for its cultural and intrinsic value, and for the ecosystem services provided by panda reserves.”
“I’m proud that Amazon is one of the most innovative companies, and that means we can be a leader on climate,” said Roshni Naidu, an Amazon product manager, in a press release. “As a leader, we need to reach zero first and not be a company who slides in at the last possible deadline. A clean energy future means that Amazon must hit zero emissions by 2030 at the latest. This walkout is about telling our business and political leaders that we demand urgent action at the scale of the crisis.”
“Sometimes I don’t know if I’m checking my woman at the door or my Latino at the door,” Feinzaig said.
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“The patent talks about everyday inventory items, including a mug, dwarf figurine and rubber ducky,” the company said. “The intention was simply to illustrate a robotic arm moving products, and it should not be taken out of context.”
“Providing for customers and protecting employees as this crisis continues for more months is going to take skill, humility, invention, and money. If you’re a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat, because we’re not thinking small,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in?a lengthy statement as part of the company’s most recent quarterly earnings report.
“The challenge is that security is a very asymmetric game,” said Dawn Song, a UC Berkeley computer science and engineering professor who attended the event. “Defenders have to defend across the board, and attackers only need to find one hole. So in general, it’s easier for attackers to leverage these new techniques.”
“The show must go on” for Amazon as the tech giant gears up for a huge holiday shopping season in the midst of the pandemic. That also happens to be the title of a new ad from the company featuring a touching nod to crisis we’re living through.