Tag: Amazon
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...
How virtual worlds can recreate the geographic history of life
Robert K. Colwell, University of Connecticut and Thiago F. Rangel, Universidade Federal de Goias
The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host...
Amazon’s Whole Foods deal could still be reversed thanks to forgotten...
Ramsi Woodcock, Georgia State University
Amazon formally takes ownership of Whole Foods after the Federal Trade Commission signaled on August 23 that it wouldn’t stop...
Poised to make its next big move, Netflix isn’t in the...
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
Netflix has been in the headlines a lot recently, and not in a good way.
There’s news about competitor Amazon launching...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
