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Amazon's Strategy Behind the Drone Attack -- New Markets, Entrenched Advantages

2013-12-02 17:29:42| Wireless - Topix.net

Amazon's announcement of plans for 30-minute delivery by aerial drone is not just excellent PR on the eve of Cyber Monday .

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German Worker Strike Threatens Amazon's Holiday Cheer

2013-11-25 18:57:05| TechNewsWorld

Workers at Amazon in Germany are striking yet again in an effort to coax the company into better pay and conditions. Hundreds of workers at two Amazon centers, one in Bad Hersfeld and one in Leipzig, walked out on Monday. At the heart of the strikes -- there have been a handful of short strikes by Amazon workers in Germany this year -- is Amazon's classification of itself as a logistics company.

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Kinesis: Amazon's cloud opens to the Internet of things

2013-11-18 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News

The phrase "Internet of things" doesn't appear anywhere in the product description for Amazon's newly announced

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NASA shares satellite and climate data on Amazons cloud

2013-11-13 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ars Technica: NASA has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services that the agency hopes will spark wider collaboration on climate research. In an effort that is in some ways parallel to Google's Earth Engine, NASA has uploaded terabytes of data to Amazon's public cloud and made it available to the anyone. Three data sets are already up at Amazon. The first is climate change forecast data for the continental United States from NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) climate simulations, scaled down to make them usable...

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