Tag: Amazon
How much is your data worth to tech companies? Lawmakers want...
Samuel Lengen, University of Virginia
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies...
Amazon is turning 25 – here’s a look back at how...
Venkatesh Shankar, Texas A&M University
A quarter of a century ago, on July 5, 1994, a company, which shared a name with the world’s...
Online shopping: why its unstoppable growth may be coming to an...
Ralf Seifert, IMD Business School and Richard Markoff, EPFL- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Many people probably...
Why some counties are powerhouses for innovation
Christopher Boone, Arizona State University
By the time the application window closed, Amazon had received 238 proposals from cities and regions throughout North America looking...
Why cities should stop playing Amazon’s game and quit offering companies...
Amihai Glazer, University of California, Irvine
New York City should count its blessings.
Amazon’s decision to walk away from its plan to build a new headquarters...
3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but...
Singles Day shows China’s global retail power
Venkatesh Shankar, Texas A&M University
Nov. 11, or 11/11, has been celebrated as Singles Day – a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day for single people...
Amazon and other ‘superstar’ companies could give all American workers a...
Carolin Schellhorn, St. Joseph's University
The latest employment data, released on Oct. 5, point to a persistent economic puzzle: The unemployment rate is the lowest...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
