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Amazon’s Alexa wants to be your office assistant, too

by Reema Khrais
Nov 30, 2017
Amazon announced plans to bring its Echo devices into conference rooms and cubicles through a platform called Alexa for Business. The new feature comes through Amazon’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, not its retail side, and it’s the company’s latest move in the competitive voice assistant space. To start, Alexa for Business will let […]
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The U.K. imported Black Friday in its full glory — fights included

by Jana Kasperkevic
Nov 24, 2017
British shoppers enjoy Black Friday deals … without Thanksgiving.
A sign for Black Friday deals is displayed in a shop window on Oxford Street on November 22, 2016 in London, England.
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Is the Amazon Key a sign of our lock-less future?

by Amy Scott and Kristin Schwab
Nov 8, 2017
Maybe those metal keys will stay in your junk drawer forever.
Amazon's Cloud Cam works with the Key.
Image via Amazon
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Is Amazon finally poised for a complete retail takeover?

by Adriene Hill and Sean McHenry
Oct 27, 2017
Spencer Soper of Bloomberg thinks the online store's future lies in the business marketplace.
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CVS-Aetna merger would help the drugstore take on Amazon

by Marielle Segarra
Oct 27, 2017
The massive e-tailer may be getting into the pharmaceutical industry.
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Amazon might go Canadian for its second headquarters

by David Brancaccio
Oct 27, 2017
Applicants weren't limited to the U.S.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might be embracing Amazon next year.
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Now Amazon wants to leave a package inside your house

by Aaron Schrank
Oct 26, 2017
You’ve maybe noticed more packages piling up at people’s doorsteps as we buy more stuff from companies like Amazon. Now comes Amazon Key, a service that allows delivery people to open your front door and drop that package inside while you’re gone. Sounds sketchy, but it’s starting in 37 cities next month.  Click the audio […]
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After losing out on a headquarters bid over a decade ago, Dallas created a thriving downtown to woo corporations

by Lauren Silverman
Oct 24, 2017
Boeing’s rejection of Dallas as a corporate headquarters location 16 years ago helped spur the city's current growth in the arts.
Development of the Dallas Arts District was spurred in part by the city's failed bid to get Boeing to locate its headquarters in the city. The district now draws more than 1.5 million visitors a year. 
Photo courtesy of Jerome Weeks, KERA News
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Are Amazon delivery lockers your apartment building’s next amenity?

by Aaron Schrank
Oct 19, 2017
Amazon locker systems will be installed in apartment buildings across the U.S.
An Amazon delivery locker system, which routes Amazon shipments to a publicly-accessible locale, is viewed in a grocery store on November 2011 in New York City.
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How much are 50,000 Amazon HQ2 jobs worth?

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 17, 2017
Call it “enticing” or “incentivizing.” Call it “begging” or “groveling.” What’s clear is the bidding war between cities and states to host Amazon’s second national headquarters is racing to its deadline Thursday. The offers of tax incentives, subsidies, favorable zoning, job training and all the rest are piling in. A few billion here, a few […]
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