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All about the content
Netflix is going head-to-head with Amazon Prime but there’s very little content duplication as the two video providers have very different approaches to acquisition, something which also defines their...
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Alibaba in the Post
Chinese retailer Alibaba can’t help aping Amazon. Now the online behemoth has gone and stumped up $265 million to acquire venerable Hong Kong newspaper the South China Morning Post, shadowing Amazon...
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Coming clean on gender pay
The SEC says should allow shareholders to vote on a proposal for gender pay equality after rejecting the retail behemoth’s request to leave the measure off its annual ballot. The move comes after...
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Gendered Amazon
Amazon has conducted a workforce survey it says demonstrates that female employees earn as much as their male counterparts. The company, which reckons women make up 39% of its global workforce and 24%...
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Retail innovation on a creep
Retail innovation will continue to creep forward in 2016 with products becoming more entrenched without being able to deliver a step change in consumption habits. Just as contactless cards have...
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Prime sports
Going head-to-head with Netflix on original video content doesn’t look to be enough for Amazon which now has its eye on the sporting prize. The online retail behemoth is reportedly looking to snag...
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Talking up Alexa
Amazon has announced a $2.5 million prize aimed at advancing conversational artificial intelligence by upping the game for its Alexa voice service. The focus is on creating a socialbot, which would be...
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Amazon drives Seattle stores
Amazon is putting the finishing touches to its new drive-up grocery store in the Ballard neighbourhood of Seattle – its home metro – with another under construction over in the city’s SoDo district. On...
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