“There’s a battle already going on in Pittsburgh between the government that supports businesses like the Pittsburgh Penguins and Uber and Google and all these other companies coming into town, and the people who lived here for so long who can no longer afford to live in Pittsburgh or even in the Pittsburgh region,” he said. “If Amazon comes here, it will accelerate the battle and it won’t accelerate it necessarily in our favor.”
“Think of this as the beginnings of a generic platform for anyone who wants to have voice input or voice control for their application, but doesn’t have the scientific wherewithal to do that,” DeVore said. The company is “creating a developer-facing platform that allows any developer to put a conversational voice control layer on their software.”
“This is presumably another large block of space that gets them through the interim period until the new buildings on the new campus can be completed and ready for move in,” said Matt Christian, executive director of brokerage Cushman & Wakefield/Commerce in Seattle.
“We want Prime Air to succeed, and that’s why it’s our responsibility to expose the ticking time bomb behind the marketing hype and let customers and investors know what’s really going on” said Capt. Michael Griffith, a long time pilot for Prime Air, in a news release. “Our airlines are hemorrhaging pilots at a record rate, and with customers counting on us to deliver, Amazon can’t afford to ignore the substandard pay and conditions that continue to undermine our operations. The busiest time of the year is fast approaching, and Amazon should urge our airlines to work with pilots to address the staffing crisis and get Prime Air on track.”
“Yes! This is the nerdiest presidential campaign in history! We did it, Seattle!” Yang joked. “We weren’t quite there until that moment, but then you just did it!”
“We believe in the future which is coming very soon. We want to work together with others,” Xiong said.
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“Traffic has become intolerable over the past year in the Mercer corridor and lower Queen Anne,” wrote GeekWire reader Scott Moore in response to the news of more Amazon.com buildings. “While the Mercer construction is partly to blame, it seems likely Amazon’s continued expansion will out-strip any benefits that improvement will provide.?It’s all well and good to see development and new jobs coming to Seattle, but without a comprehensive approach to transportation we’re going to be looking at more gridlock.”
“You can become the best and the most knowledgeable in that niche category, and you can run with it,” said Boyce, author of The Amazon Jungle: The Seller’s Survival Guide for Thriving on the World’s Most Perilous E-Commerce Marketplace. “And when you step on a landmine, not if. If you know how to put the pieces back together, after that happens, you can survive on Amazon. It is a very, very narrow path that’s getting narrower by the day.”
“They often hand out pieces of paper,” said Mike McSherry, CEO of healthcare technology company Xealth. “They’ll [turn] their computer screen and do an Amazon search with the patient… They’ll hand out photocopies of products. Then it’s left to the patient to shop online or walk into a Walgreens store and discern: ‘Hey, does this look like the knee brace they recommended for me?'”
“We have always placed a high value on the role that libraries can play in connecting our authors with our readers,” a Penguin Group spokesperson said in a statement to the site. “However, due to new concerns about the security of our digital editions, we find it necessary to delay the availability of our new titles in the digital format while we resolve these concerns with our business partners.”