Amazon will receive staggered payouts for occupying an increasing amount of office space near National Airport, and get at least two days’ notice when someone requests information it provides to Arlington County, under an incentives agreement the County Board will vote on March 16. The $23 million agreement, which was provided to The Washington Post […]
Here’s What Amazon Has to do to Secure $23M from Virginia…
I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants from My Life. It Was Hell…
A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it’s possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one. To end my […]
Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market…
Chris Lampen-Crowell started to feel the undertow four years ago. Gazelle Sports, the running-shoe and apparel business he founded in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1985, had grown steadily for decades, adding locations in Grand Rapids and Detroit and swelling to some 170 employees. But then, in 2014, sales took a downward turn. From the outside, […]
NYC Councilman Says Union Dispute Killed Amazon Deal, Not Subsidies…
When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s blamed opponents of the Amazon tax incentive package for the company’s decision to scrap its plans to move to New York City, he might have been leaving out a crucial piece of the story – and minimizing his own culpability in the process. To wit, the Daily News reported […]
Cuomo Slams Ocasio-Cortez, Others, as Amazon Ditches New York…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lambasted politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others over Amazon’s decision to leave New York City. Opponents of the deal with the tech giant had “put their own narrow political interests above their community,” he said. “[A] small group [of] politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community […]
Amazon Pulls Out of $3B Deal to HQ2 to NYC…
Smug Politicians Scammed NYC Out of Amazon’s HQ2 and Ruined it for Everyone…
Amazon Will Pay $0 in Federal Income Taxes for 2nd Year in a Row with Profits Doubled…
Amazon will pay $0 in federal income taxes for the second year in a row after its total profits doubled from $5.6 billion in 2018 to $11.2 billion in 2019. Amazon’s corporate tax filings reveal a federal income tax rebate of $129 million, or negative one percent because of unspecified tax credits and a tax […]
Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else…
The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline: the world’s richest billionaire and a notorious labor abuser, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as a sympathetic victim. On Thursday, Bezos published emails in which the Enquirer’s parent company explicitly threatened to publish intimate photographs of Bezos and his mistress, […]
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