Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was…
Amazon Launches a Cloud Service for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
Amazon Web Services on Monday introduced cloud service for the CIA and other members of the U.S. intelligence community. The launch of the so-called AWS Secret Region comes six years after AWS introduced GovCloud, its first data-center region for public-sector customers. AWS has since announced plans to expand GovCloud. The new Secret Region signals interest…
Amazon Says it’s “Almost Ready” to Get 1,000s of Grocery Store Cashiers Fired…
Late last year we noted Amazon’s efforts to ‘disrupt’ the traditional grocery retail model by introducing small format stores that allow customers to simply walk in, pick up what they want and walk out. The concept store, dubbed AmazonGo, tracks a customer’s every move, including each item they remove from store shelves, allowing them to […]
House to Vote on Giving Amazon $53B Deal to Become Main Pentagon Supplier…
Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was requested by President Donald […]
Islamic State Is Apparently Selling Stolen Artifacts on eBay, Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp…
An increased amount of looted antiquities from the Middle East are being sold on Amazon, eBay, Facebook and WhatsApp, The Wall Street Journal reported today. Some of these antiquities are believed to be sold by Islamic State. Several art collectors told The Wall Street Journal that they received Facebook messages from strangers offering…
Rose McGowan: ‘I told you he raped me’ to Washington Post and Amazon Owner Jeff Bezos…Killed Her TV Series…
Rose McGowan is claiming that Amazon optioned a television series from her only to kill it while still in development after she voiced her concern about a possible move the company was making to bailout ‘Weinstein.’ ‘I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said […]
Microsoft Discloses DREAMer Employees in Plea for DACA Continuance…
In a plea to President Donald Trump asking him to keep an Obama-era amnesty program for young illegal aliens, Microsoft revealed that it had an invested business interest in the program continuing. While lobbying the Trump Administration to continue adding young illegal aliens to the Deferred Action for Childhood…
Amazon Cuts Prices at Whole Foods by Up to 43% on First Day…
Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market. At the Whole Foods on 57th Street in Manhattan, organic fuji apples were marked down to $1.99 a pound from $3.49 a pound; organic avocados went to $1.99 each from $2.79; organic rotisserie chicken…
Whole Foods Shareholders Vote in Favor of Amazon Takeover…
Whole Foods shareholders approved Amazon’s takeover of the grocery chain on Wednesday. The vote was a pivotal step forward in the behemoth online retailer’s move to gain firmer footing in the multibillion dollar grocery space. Amazon and Whole Foods have both said they want the $13.7 billion deal to be completed by…
Should America’s Tech Giants Be Broken Up?…
As a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, Jonathan Taplin isn’t your typical academic. Lately, though, he’s been busy writing somber tomes about market shares, monopolies, and online platforms. His conclusion: Amazon.com, Facebook, and Google have become too big and too powerful and, if not stopped, may need to be broken up…
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