The online retail giant had an eventful Prime Day, with strikes, boycotts, demonstrations—and of course, billions of dollars in profit.
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Amazon to Seattle: The Housing Crisis Is Not Our Problem
If this is how Amazon treats its first hometown, what does that mean for cities competing for its new headquarters?
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Amazon, President Trump says, isn’t paying enough in taxes
Here’s one of his tweets from earlier today: I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of […]
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Amazon’s Race to the Bottom Puts Chicago Transit at Risk
Chicago’s massive Amazon HQ2 incentive package could hit the city’s transit budget hard.
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Up Against Big Tech
The old challenges of concentrated economic and political power now confront us in new forms.
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Amazon Warehouses May Leave Cities Worse For Wear
A new report finds that localities with Amazon warehouses haven’t seen an overall boost in employment.
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Amazon, City Killer?
Amazon has whittled down the list of contenders for its second headquarters. Are those metropolitan areas ready for seismic socioeconomic upheaval?
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Boston’s Amazon HQ2 Fantasies Take Off
Who needs one million square feet of office space in Boston’s Seaport District? Amazon might. The Boston Globe reported Thursday that real-estate industry executives “with knowledge of the talks” dished that Amazon is in the market for one, maybe two office buildings in the bustling and picturesque waterfront neighborhood. (The Boston Business Journal first reported […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Other Tech Bubble
How tech companies became detached from urban life and its problems—even when the city is their home.
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Will Amazon Swallow the Postal Service?
They’re exploring Sunday delivery, but only for packages sent by the online shopping behemoth. If they’re going to be fair, they have to open it up to other retailers.