Jeff Bezos’ elves were busy. On Thursday morning, just three days before Christmas, a crew of Amazon employees darted around the company’s warehouse on the fifth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. They roamed the narrow aisles to fill brown paper bags with new orders of toiletries, Amazon devices and canned foods. Workers then …
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Can’t wait to shop at an Amazon supermarket? Well, you may have to wait a very, very long time. Two days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon plans to open “more than 2,000 brick-and-mortar grocery stores under its name,” the company knocked down the idea as false. “It’s absolutely not correct,” Amazon spokeswoman Pia Arthur said in an …
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The “Person of the Year” is boiling on social media. This morning, Facebook and Twitter feel like the family dinner that turns to chaos the moment someone brings up politics. Time Magazine has selected Donald Trump as 2016’s Person of the Year. US presidents have been a fixture of the feature since it began, but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s opponents …
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Apple may have courage, but that doesn’t mean it will tackle original programming on a Netflix-like scale. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services, said the original shows Apple is developing today are going to stay limited. “You’re not seeing a huge number of them,” he said. “The real opportunity for us is to make it …
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