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This is some bold and disruptive plan for the future: Amazon reveals plan for huge, city-center drone-delivery towers (Ethan Baron)

A barrage of patent applications from e-commerce giant Amazon showcases a futuristic, hive-like drone-delivery tower fed by 18-wheelers and full of robots, as the company plans solutions to two major drone problems: noise, and the possibility they could fall out of the sky.

It turns out that for Amazon, its current enormous warehouses — which it calls “fulfillment centers” — located on the outskirts of cities like Tracy are not ideal for serving the urban customers that make up a large portion of its market…

Source: Amazon reveals plan for huge, city-center drone-delivery towers

June 27, 2017 0

Great Comparison of Amazon’s Alexa approach vs. Microsoft, Google, Facebook: Amazon’s Operating System (Ben Thompson)

It was apparent on day one that the Echo was a much more compelling product than the Fire Phone:

The physical device (the Echo) was simply a conduit for Alexa, Amazon’s new personal assistant. And critically, Alexa was a cloud service, the development of which Amazon is uniquely suited to in terms of culture, organizational structure, and experience.
The Echo created its own market: a voice-based personal assistant in the home. Crucially, the home was the one place in the entire world where smartphones were not necessarily the most convenient device, or touch the easiest input method: more often than not your smartphone is charging, and talking to a device doesn’t carry the social baggage it might elsewhere…

Source: Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

January 6, 2017 0

“Changing Everything” in Retail? Amazon launches Amazon Go, a mind-blowing brick-and-mortar grocery store with no checkouts (Paul Sawers)

Amazon has launched its own grocery store in Seattle, as the commerce giant looks to shine a light on a new “checkout free” shopping experience.Located at 2131 7th Ave, Amazon Go is limited to a new 1,800 square feet of retail space and is only open to the company’s employees during the beta program, but it is expected to open to the public in early 2017…

Source: Amazon launches Amazon Go, a mind-blowing brick-and-mortar grocery store with no checkouts | VentureBeat | Business | by Paul Sawers

December 6, 2016 0

Great Overview on the M&A Race for AI: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple Grab and the Artificial Intelligence Startups they have grabbed

Over 60% of the AI companies acquired in the last 3 years had VC backing. There have been 4 major acquisitions already in 2016.

More than 20 private companies working to advance artificial intelligence technologies have been acquired in the last 3 years by corporate giants competing in the space, including Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Yahoo, Facebook, Intel, and, more recently, Salesforce. There have been 4 major acquisitions already in 2016…

Source: Race For AI: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple Grab Artificial Intelligence Startups

April 13, 2016 0

This is a Must-Watch: Scott Galloway from NYU Stern School in a crazy high-speed DLD2016 Presentation on the Gang of Four: Apple / Amazon / Facebook / Google

Scott Galloway, who is a professor of Marketing and Brand Strategy at the NYU Stern School of Business, will discuss “The Gang of Four” (Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon), their victims, and the strategies that led them onto a path to a trillion dollar market cap…

January 20, 2016 0

2014 vs. 2015 Profits of The Internet Giants Infographic: So profitabel sind die Tech-Riesen (Statista)

Die Grafik bildet den Gewinn von ausgewählten Tech-Unternehmen ab.

Source: • Infografik: So profitabel sind die Tech-Riesen | Statista

November 7, 2015 0

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