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Welcome to the Post-Email Enterprise: what Skype Teams means in a Slack-Leaning World
Work technology vendors very commonly — for decades — have suggested that their shiny brand-new tools will deliver us from the tyranny…
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What’s a Store For?
The first e-commerce transaction—a music CD, pizza, or weed, depending on who you ask—took place around thirty years ago. That means that…
Read MoreAmazon’s celebration of ‘record’ holiday weekend sales is short on details
Amazon is touting a record holiday shopping weekend thanks to the increasing popularity of its tablets, e-readers, streaming devices, and other hardware. Yet,…
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Amazon Books should be the future of brick-and-mortar retail chains
Earlier this month, Amazon opened a bookstore in a mall that used to house a Barnes & Noble. Much has been written…
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Amazon is reportedly running a secret shipping operation in Ohio
Amazon is steadily expanding its delivery infrastructure, whether it’s by driving items to consumers in select cities or testing a secretive drone…
Read MoreAmazon’s disingenuous plan to remove Fire TV’s competition grows
Earlier this month, reports indicated that Amazon planned to stop selling the Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast products through its online marketplace. While…
Read MoreAmazon hits back against NYT report on working environment
It’s been a few months since the New York Times published an in-depth look at what it’s like to work in Amazon’s…
Read MoreFrom warehouse to cubicle farm: Exploring Amazon’s employee feedback system
Evidence that Amazon is starting to treat its white-collar workers the same as the laborers in its distribution warehouses continues to mount.…
Read MoreAmazon will stop selling Apple TVs and Chromecasts. So what?
Although it seems pretty cut and dry, there are folks in tech media that feel Amazon shouldn’t actually stay competitive, as businesses…
Read MoreA eulogy for Oyster, the indie ebook startup not afraid of Amazon
Ebook subscription service Oyster is dying, and it’s taking my hope of avoiding Amazon right along with it. The reading service debuted…
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As Webstore winds down, Amazon hands Shopify a win
Online merchants are getting a pretty good deal as the largest online retailer is teaming up with the top eCommerce platform. Shopify…
Read MoreUnflattering news you may have missed due to yesterday’s Apple event noise
Apple events are the gifts that keep on giving. It’s handy for us tech bloggers because it gives us a chance to dust…
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Tech workers aren’t disloyal, they’re under appreciated
It’s become something of a cliché to note that tech workers bounce between jobs faster than a pinball rebounds against the confines…
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Don’t be surprised at how Amazon treats its workers
I awoke the other morning to seemingly every tech news outlet under the sun — and dozens of tech reporters on Twitter — discussing…
Read MoreMIT wishes it could deliver acceptance letters via drone
MIT wants prospective students to know that it’s fully aboard the drone bandwagon, parlaying an army of delivery drones (and computer-generated imagery) for…
Read MoreFor retailers the buy-or-build cloud decision looms large
If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the…
Read MoreCloud options mean decisions, decisions for IT buyers
Much has been written about cloud consolidation, with M&A roiling the cloudscape over the past few months: Cisco bought Metacloud, EMC bought Cloudscaling, HP snapped up…
Read MoreFormer White House spokesman Jay Carney joins Amazon
Amazon has a new head of corporate affairs. Politico is reporting that President Barack Obama’s former White House press secretary Jay Carney…
Read MoreFAA plan would bar delivery by drone, “micro drone” rule possible
The troubled skies over the U.S. drone industry cleared a bit on Sunday, as the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a new plan to…
Read MoreWhy this Apple TV fan has come to prefer Amazon’s Fire TV
While many anxiously await Apple’s new groundbreaking iWatch, Amazon’s Fire TV sets its sights on replacing Apple’s hobby device. Even for the most devout Apple addicts that cant live without their Apple TVs will find the Fire TV to be a worthwhile replacement.…
Read MoreGoogle had its biggest quarter ever for data center spending. Again
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company’s earnings report released last week. The…
Read MoreAmazon continues to reach into your server room
Microsoft already has a huge presence in most companies’ server rooms. And it hopes to keep it that way or at least, persuade…
Read MoreConfirmed: Amazon is buying Annapurna Labs
Amazon has indeed agreed to purchase Annapurna Labs, a super-stealthy Israeli company that is reportedly working on new chip technology. Talks were first…
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