Vox

APRIL 21, 2022

million people now work directly for Amazon in the US , with some in its offices and the majority in its ever-expanding network of more than 800 warehouse facilities in North America alone. That changed when Amazon started adding warehouse robots to its facilities after acquiring a startup called Kiva Systems in 2012.

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Vox

MARCH 3, 2021

Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are voting whether to unionize. Through the end of March, 5,800 workers at an Amazon warehouse in north-central Alabama have the chance to cast votes by mail to decide whether to unionize. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg/Getty Images. This is the backstory.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

CNBC reported that Amazon is seeking business development managers to “build and grow relationships with commercial and public sector enterprises” for Amazon Care , its telemedicine service currently only available to employees in Washington state. The company also sells Amazon Web Services to healthcare customers.

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Vox

APRIL 1, 2022

Former Amazon employee Chris Smalls, who founded the Amazon Labor Union, has unionized the first Amazon warehouse in the US. Workers at the warehouse in Staten Island, known as JFK8, voted in favor of being represented by Amazon Labor Union, or ALU. Seth Wenig/AP. He just handed Amazon its first US union. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2023

GeekWire first reported Thursday that the Seattle-based company will shut down three offices, including its Seattle headquarters and two warehouses in Ohio and Nevada. File Photo) The company reported $1.2 “All sales are final during Zulily’s going-out-of-business sale,” reads an FAQ page on on its website. million in 2012.

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GeekWire

MARCH 31, 2023

builds products called Energy Warehouses that can provide back-up power to the energy grid. ESS Photo) ESS fell short of its delivery targets last year and continues working to cut costs, the company reported this month. But the sector has been waiting for the U.S. Oregon battery manufacturer ESS Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

A data management platform (DMP) is a group of tools designed to help organizations collect and manage data from a wide array of sources and to create reports that help explain what is happening in those data streams. Some DMPs specialize in producing reports with elaborate infographics. Google Audience Center.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Digital transformation initiatives have picked up in the retail sector in recent years as store chains compete for brand awareness and sales in a rapidly evolving market. They were among the earliest adopters of ERP, distribution management, warehouse logistics management, and POS.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

In June 2021, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the most powerful unions in the world, published a “special resolution” about Amazon , labeling the tech giant “an existential threat” and vowing that “building worker power at Amazon and helping those workers achieve a union contract is a top priority.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Data has always been fundamental to business, but as organisations continue to move to Cloud based environments coupled with advances in technology like streaming and real-time analytics, building a data driven business is one of the keys to success. Building a semantic layer describing unified business and reporting definitions.

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GeekWire

MAY 16, 2023

.” The broader market for general-purpose robots faces challenges including battery life, manufacturing costs, and public acceptance of robots working in their midst, as detailed in a November 2022 Goldman Sachs report. based company, backed by Amazon and others, that makes humanoid warehouse robots.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

“As our CTO, Brad will help continue to improve the efficiency and sophistication of our technologies and processes by orders of magnitude, building new tools to continue to accelerate the development of AI systems,” wrote Alexandr Wang, the company’s CEO and founder, in a post Monday morning. Scale AI Photo).

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Vox

MARCH 22, 2021

The more than 5,000 workers at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse — called BHM1, it is one of more than 100 fulfillment centers across the US — are in the midst of the nation’s first attempt to unionize one of the e-commerce giant’s warehouses, where they spend long hours on their feet picking, packaging, and shipping items as quickly as they can.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Walmart, for example, reported that the number of shoppers getting their shopping delivered increased six times compared to before the pandemic. The robots use computer vision, among other AI technologies, to move freight around warehouses. We use computer vision as a key capability of our robotic solution,” he says.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2021

In order to head off more Prop 22s, there’s been talk recently from companies , researchers , and some within the labor movement of a sort of grand bargain with Lyft and Uber, whereby drivers would accept that third-category worker status and, in return, be granted what’s known as “sectoral bargaining.”

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Jobs openings have declined across most sectors of the economy, although tech has seen a recent uptick from its lowest points. Even non-consumer sectors such as cybersecurity are not immune. And certain tech sectors are still booming. Larger stalwarts such as Yelp, Lyft , Airbnb , and Uber are also cutting thousands of roles.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Taqtile builds enterprise AR software that makes everyone an expert by arming frontline workers with an intuitive tool to easily capture knowledge, perform complex tasks, and collaborate with remote experts in previously impossible ways. Second, build an MVP product and start bringing in revenue as fast as possible. scaling it).

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon’s statement continued: We work hard to build an inclusive culture that welcomes, celebrates, and values all people, but we’re disappointed if even one person has a negative experience. Around 11 percent of Amazon managers in 2020 were Black, including both corporate staff and front-line warehouse and physical store positions.

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

The BEF also gave $6 million to WE ACT , a group that works to ensure low-income communities of color have a voice in shaping environmental health policies, as well as $5 million to the climate justice group Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) to build more climate-resilient infrastructure in California. said Davies.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

Another person told Kaplan they had 50 million boxes of gloves in a warehouse in Long Beach, California. But then he discovered there were no warehouses in Long Beach that could possibly store that many boxes of gloves. Around 10PM, the guy told him the warehouse seemed sketchy. But it wasn’t magic.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon’s statement continued: We work hard to build an inclusive culture that welcomes, celebrates, and values all people, but we’re disappointed if even one person has a negative experience. Around 11 percent of Amazon managers in 2020 were Black, including both corporate staff and front-line warehouse and physical store positions.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Even users who are not AI specialists can very easily and affordably incorporate the building blocks into their own services. In the field of fulfillment, which is relevant for numerous industry sectors, we are thinking of ideas of how AI can contribute the most to taking another step away from a Tayloristic work pattern.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Implosion of the global travel industry, restaurants, traditional retail, events businesses and others sectors that relied on physical interaction, and didn’t have a digital strategy as a safety net. High school student near Seattle builds website to serve as a leading place for coronavirus information. Another month?

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2022

Meanwhile, the sector is rapidly losing workers. In a lot of cases, workers are leaving for better pay as elementary school teachers, or in other sectors, such as hospitality or warehouse work. “We More than 560,000 people worked in child care in 2019, but one-third of those jobs were lost at the start of the pandemic.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2021

Why it matters: Amazon’s treatment of employees has been under the microscope in recent months, with a closely-watched unionization movement at its warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. ” Bezos noted that Amazon is developing safety-related solutions to help protect warehouse employees from injury and improve their safety.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“By 2025, it’s estimated we’ll have 463 million terabytes of data created every day,” says Lisa Thee, data for good sector lead at Launch Consulting Group in Seattle. BI software helps companies do just that by shepherding the right data into analytical reports and visualizations so that users can make informed decisions. “The

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Data management platform definition A data management platform (DMP) is a suite of tools that helps organizations to collect and manage data from a wide array of first-, second-, and third-party sources and to create reports and build customer profiles as part of targeted personalization campaigns.

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