9 Best Articles in 2020
André Staltz
The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
André Staltz
~11 min read · 1056 saves · From 2017 · André Staltz The Web began dying in 2014, here's how Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three…
Esquire
Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted
Esquire
20+ min read · 526 saves · From 2018 · Scott Galloway · Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.
TechCrunch
Why Amazon is eating the world
TechCrunch
~14 min read · 453 saves · From 2017 · I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress. But the past month was a..
Stratechery
Amazon’s New Customer
Stratechery
7 min read · 417 saves · From 2017 · The key to understanding Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is to understand that Amazon didn’t buy a retailer: the company bought a customer.
Guardian Tech
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
Guardian Tech
4 min read · 406 saves · Jan 21st · Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
WIRED
How Amazon Rebuilt Itself Around Artificial Intelligence
WIRED
~18 min read · 394 saves · From 2018 · The Alexa voice platform and other deep learning projects have made Amazon an AI leader.
WIRED UK
The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
WIRED UK
20+ min read · 386 saves · From 2018 · If you have ever bought anything on Amazon, subscribed to Spotify or paid for a Lyft ride, you may be surprised to learn that software company Stripe may have processed your payment. Unlike PayPal, the $20 billion startup operates quietly in the background and won’t show up on your credit card bill. In Wired magazine, British journalist Steven Armstrong provides a colorful portrait of the company’s founders and their mission to facilitate e-commerce around the world.?
Visual Capitalist
The Jeff Bezos Empire in One Giant Chart
Visual Capitalist
5 min read · 366 saves · From 2017 · With a fortune largely tied to his 78.9 million shares of Amazon, the net worth of Jeff Bezos continues to be on the rise. Just days ago, Amazon shares reached all-time highs after the company’s…
tbray.org
Bye, Amazon
tbray.org
4 min read · 359 saves · Apr 29th · Tim Bray · May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making…
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The Washington Post
Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful
The Washington Post
8 min read · 48 saves · Dec 10th · The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful.
Axios
Five tech giants are harder to slay than one
Axios
2 min read · 31 saves · From 2011 · Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are all competing with one another.
aboutamazon.com
Amazon becomes the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy
aboutamazon.com
2 min read · 30 saves · Dec 10th · The company’s total renewable energy investments to date will supply 6.5 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity—enough to power 1.7 million U.S. homes for one year.
Bloomberg
Amazon has turned a middle-class warehouse career into a?McJob
Bloomberg
10 min read · 29 saves · Dec 17th · Amazon.com Inc. job ads are everywhere. Plastered on city buses, displayed on career web sites, slotted between songs on classic rock stations. They promise a quick start, $15 an hour and health…
aws.amazon.com
Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications
aws.amazon.com
5 min read · 25 saves · Dec 16th · We want to make it easier and more cost-effective for you to add maps, location awareness, and other location-based features to your web and mobile applications. Until now, doing this has been…
The Guardian
Jeff Bezos became even richer thanks to Covid-19. But he still won't protect Amazon workers
The Guardian
3 min read · 17 saves · Dec 13th · Robert Reich · The pandemic has made clear that corporations need more – not fewer – incentives to protect workers
