Amazon is a multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It was originally founded as an online bookstore in 1994 and has since expanded into various other product categories and services. Some key facts:
- Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and cloud services provider.
- In 2017, Amazon had over $177 billion in revenue and over 600,000 employees worldwide.
- Amazon Web Services is a large cloud computing platform that has become very profitable.
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Managerial Report for Case Problem “Amazon.com lnc.”
Executive Summary
Today, Amazon is no longer the “online book-selling store” people used to be familiar with, but a very diversified company with an open platform. It not only has a third-party vendor platform that can attract numerous customers but also has achieved a good result in the logistics, film, and television industry. Moreover, Amazon is one of the first group of enterprises to enter the cloud service. Amazon’s leader Jeff Bezos proposed Amazon’s exclusive flywheel business model, which totally demonstrates his business insights and philosophy. Amazon ranks among the world’s top companies through its strengths in customer experience, logistics, cloud services, etc. Also, Amazon has been devoted to the technological area such as artificial intelligence and cloud services. Even faced with intense competition from the leading technology companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Google, Amazon has achieved excellent performance. This report will analyze Amazon’s flywheel model and its core competency, also introduce the competition between Amazon and Microsoft in cloud services and the future development direction of Amazon.
The Business Model of Amazon
Amazon has three core businesses. The first one is Amazon Prime, it is a paid membership system. When customer become a member of Amazon Prime, they can purchase any products on Amazon.com and enjoy free and fast delivery. The second one is the third-party seller platform, Individual merchants can create an online store on Amazon to sell their products. The third one is the AWS (Amazon Web Service). It’s a cloud service and offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage or databases and so on. These services help organizations move faster, lower IT costs and scale (Cloud Products, Amazon Official Website). Whether a startup or a large enterprise, they can build their company’s IT system on Amazon’s cloud service system. It’s cheaper and more stable than building your own system.
These three core business looks unprofitable at first, but in fact, they are like a small saw tooth on a huge gear. The Prime and low price product can let the customer keep purchasing on Amazon, while the cloud and logistic service keep the supplier to work with Amazon. More suppliers will attract more customers, vice versa, the more the customers purchase, the more supplier is inseparable with Amazon. These have enabled Amazon to gain more with costs fixed (like logistics and warehouse) and provide customers with a lower price and turns the huge flywheel. Turning the stationary flywheel up must spend a lot of efforts at the beginning. However, in fact, every effort will not be wasted, and the flywheel will turn faster and faster. When a high speed is reached, no more effort is required and the flywheel can maintain its original state of motion.
Amazon’s Core Competency
Amazon’s success relies on robust operations, strict management.
Amazon.com Inc is the leading internet retailer in the US and worldwide. In 2011, it had net sales of $21.9 billion and a 16.9% share of the US internet retailing market. Amazon launched its Kindle e-reader in 2007 and has since expanded its private label offerings to include electronics accessories and home goods. While facing competition from retailers like Walmart and Barnes & Noble, Amazon maintains its leading position through continuous innovation, expanding product selection, and customer-centric services like free shipping.
This document summarizes an article about how Amazon can dominate any market using 7 strategies. It discusses how Amazon will further leverage Amazon Prime as a loyalty program, fuel small businesses through services like Launchpad, expand home delivery and supply chain logistics through drone delivery, leverage artificial intelligence through Alexa, enter new industries like healthcare starting with pharmacy, expand globally especially in Asia and the Middle East, and continue strategic acquisitions that complement its platform. The document also lists 4 key areas of an Amazon business that can be outsourced including product listing, photography, managing sponsored ads/PPC, and customer support services.
Amazon started as an online book retailer and has grown to become the world's largest online retailer, offering a vast array of products. It also provides cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. Amazon is headquartered in Seattle and has operations around the world. It has acquired companies in various sectors such as healthcare, entertainment, and smart home technology to expand its business offerings.
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1) The document discusses Amazon's expansion into offline retail through the opening of physical stores like Amazon Books, AmazonFresh grocery delivery and pickup locations, and Amazon Go convenience stores with no checkout lines.
2) It provides an overview of Amazon's business segments and growth areas like AWS cloud computing. Amazon is trying to replicate its success in e-commerce by entering the large $4 trillion offline retail market.
3) The strategies and formats of Amazon's physical store concepts are described, including how Amazon Books incorporates online reviews and pricing, AmazonFresh offers grocery delivery, and Amazon Go eliminates checkout lines. Amazon aims to provide an integrated online and offline shopping experience.
Amazon launched in India in 2013 and has since established itself as a leader in e-commerce through its wide selection of products and dynamic distribution system that allows for fast delivery. The report discusses Amazon's products, services, channels of distribution both digital and physical, incentive plans for its distribution network, and the strengths and weaknesses of its approach.
Amazon is a multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It was originally founded as an online bookstore in 1994 and has since expanded into various other product categories and services. Some key facts:
- Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and cloud services provider.
- In 2017, Amazon had over $177 billion in revenue and over 600,000 employees worldwide.
- Amazon Web Services is a large cloud computing platform that has become very profitable.
1Managerial Report for Case Problem Amazon.com lnc.”Execu.docxdrennanmicah
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Managerial Report for Case Problem “Amazon.com lnc.”
Executive Summary
Today, Amazon is no longer the “online book-selling store” people used to be familiar with, but a very diversified company with an open platform. It not only has a third-party vendor platform that can attract numerous customers but also has achieved a good result in the logistics, film, and television industry. Moreover, Amazon is one of the first group of enterprises to enter the cloud service. Amazon’s leader Jeff Bezos proposed Amazon’s exclusive flywheel business model, which totally demonstrates his business insights and philosophy. Amazon ranks among the world’s top companies through its strengths in customer experience, logistics, cloud services, etc. Also, Amazon has been devoted to the technological area such as artificial intelligence and cloud services. Even faced with intense competition from the leading technology companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Google, Amazon has achieved excellent performance. This report will analyze Amazon’s flywheel model and its core competency, also introduce the competition between Amazon and Microsoft in cloud services and the future development direction of Amazon.
The Business Model of Amazon
Amazon has three core businesses. The first one is Amazon Prime, it is a paid membership system. When customer become a member of Amazon Prime, they can purchase any products on Amazon.com and enjoy free and fast delivery. The second one is the third-party seller platform, Individual merchants can create an online store on Amazon to sell their products. The third one is the AWS (Amazon Web Service). It’s a cloud service and offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage or databases and so on. These services help organizations move faster, lower IT costs and scale (Cloud Products, Amazon Official Website). Whether a startup or a large enterprise, they can build their company’s IT system on Amazon’s cloud service system. It’s cheaper and more stable than building your own system.
These three core business looks unprofitable at first, but in fact, they are like a small saw tooth on a huge gear. The Prime and low price product can let the customer keep purchasing on Amazon, while the cloud and logistic service keep the supplier to work with Amazon. More suppliers will attract more customers, vice versa, the more the customers purchase, the more supplier is inseparable with Amazon. These have enabled Amazon to gain more with costs fixed (like logistics and warehouse) and provide customers with a lower price and turns the huge flywheel. Turning the stationary flywheel up must spend a lot of efforts at the beginning. However, in fact, every effort will not be wasted, and the flywheel will turn faster and faster. When a high speed is reached, no more effort is required and the flywheel can maintain its original state of motion.
Amazon’s Core Competency
Amazon’s success relies on robust operations, strict management.
Amazon.com Inc is the leading internet retailer in the US and worldwide. In 2011, it had net sales of $21.9 billion and a 16.9% share of the US internet retailing market. Amazon launched its Kindle e-reader in 2007 and has since expanded its private label offerings to include electronics accessories and home goods. While facing competition from retailers like Walmart and Barnes & Noble, Amazon maintains its leading position through continuous innovation, expanding product selection, and customer-centric services like free shipping.
This document summarizes an article about how Amazon can dominate any market using 7 strategies. It discusses how Amazon will further leverage Amazon Prime as a loyalty program, fuel small businesses through services like Launchpad, expand home delivery and supply chain logistics through drone delivery, leverage artificial intelligence through Alexa, enter new industries like healthcare starting with pharmacy, expand globally especially in Asia and the Middle East, and continue strategic acquisitions that complement its platform. The document also lists 4 key areas of an Amazon business that can be outsourced including product listing, photography, managing sponsored ads/PPC, and customer support services.
Amazon started as an online book retailer and has grown to become the world's largest online retailer, offering a vast array of products. It also provides cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. Amazon is headquartered in Seattle and has operations around the world. It has acquired companies in various sectors such as healthcare, entertainment, and smart home technology to expand its business offerings.
University of Melbourne Amazon Position in The Offline Market Paper.docxwrite5
1) The document discusses Amazon's expansion into offline retail through the opening of physical stores like Amazon Books, AmazonFresh grocery delivery and pickup locations, and Amazon Go convenience stores with no checkout lines.
2) It provides an overview of Amazon's business segments and growth areas like AWS cloud computing. Amazon is trying to replicate its success in e-commerce by entering the large $4 trillion offline retail market.
3) The strategies and formats of Amazon's physical store concepts are described, including how Amazon Books incorporates online reviews and pricing, AmazonFresh offers grocery delivery, and Amazon Go eliminates checkout lines. Amazon aims to provide an integrated online and offline shopping experience.
Amazon launched in India in 2013 and has since established itself as a leader in e-commerce through its wide selection of products and dynamic distribution system that allows for fast delivery. The report discusses Amazon's products, services, channels of distribution both digital and physical, incentive plans for its distribution network, and the strengths and weaknesses of its approach.
Amazon aims to personalize customers' experiences by offering products that meet their preferences, providing the best online buying experience. An analysis of Amazon's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats found that it has a strong brand but faces intense competition. The external environment presents opportunities for growth in China and other markets. It is recommended that Amazon penetrate the Chinese market through new marketing strategies and programs to take advantage of online retail growth.
Managerial Vs. Financial Accounting PrinciplesStacey Troup
1) Amazon started as an online bookseller in 1995 and has since grown exponentially through strategic acquisitions and expanding into new product categories like electronics and cloud computing.
2) Jeff Bezos carefully reinvested profits to diversify Amazon's offerings, acquiring companies like Audible, Zappos, Twitch, and Whole Foods to become the largest online marketplace.
3) Amazon reached $1 trillion in market value in 2018, but shares fell in 2019 after plans for a new headquarters in New York City failed due to local opposition to tax incentives demanded by Amazon.
Amazon International assignment on Marketing Method global Adaptation and CSR...Codepace
We are a motivated and proactive team player with a passion for international business, marketing, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). My experience in the field spans over 10 years. I am currently working on an international assignment to adapt marketing methods on a global scale. This involves understanding different cultures, regulations, and requirements while ensuring that the highest standards are met.
My expertise includes being able to identify areas of improvement and provide recommendations that result in long-term growth for the organization. Additionally, my passion for CSR has enabled me to develop initiatives that align with our company’s values and goals. These projects have made an impact both locally as well as globally by promoting sustainable development practices and fostering relationships across various countries.
1. Amazon started in 1995 as an online bookstore and has since expanded into various product categories like electronics, fashion, toys, and home goods. It has grown to be one of the largest online retailers in the world.
2. The document outlines Amazon's history and milestones from 1995 to present day. Key events include launching international sites in the UK and Germany in 1998, acquiring Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion in 2017, and achieving $10.88 billion in sales in the third quarter of 2006.
3. Today, Amazon has over 76 million active customer accounts worldwide and employs tens of thousands of people across its global offices, fulfillment centers, and other facilities. It continues to
Amazon.com - Company Analysis (OD & HRM)Nikhil Saraf
This document provides an overview of Amazon.com, Inc. including its business description, products and services, global presence, financials, competitors, and recent milestones. It also analyzes Jeff Bezos as the entrepreneur who founded Amazon and established its culture of metrics, low prices, and continuous innovation. The document discusses Amazon's shift to using software-based recommendations and its focus on proprietary technology and infrastructure to gain a competitive advantage.
The document provides information about Amazon, the largest online retailer. It discusses Amazon's founding in 1994, products and services offered including Amazon Prime, Amazon Online Shopping, Amazon Echo, and Amazon Pay. It also provides key leadership appointments and details about Amazon's devices like Kindle Fire and Fire Phone. The document summarizes Amazon's growth and success competing against other major retailers like Walmart.
Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and initially focused on online book sales, but has since expanded into multiple business areas including e-commerce, cloud computing, and AI services. It generates revenue primarily through retail sales, subscriptions, and its Amazon Web Services division. While retail remains the largest source of revenue, AWS is growing rapidly and generates all of Amazon's profits. Amazon's business model focuses on investing in technology and logistics to improve the customer experience and drive the growth of its flywheel model, which aims to use low prices and wide selection to attract more customers, sellers, and products.
The document provides an analysis of Amazon Inc., including its vision, organizational structure, value chain, and external environment. It discusses Amazon's strategy of investing aggressively to get big fast, focusing on convenience, price, customer service and selection. PEST analysis indicates political, economic, social and technological factors present opportunities for innovative marketing strategies. SWOT analysis identifies Amazon's strengths in profitable operations and customer data usage, as well as weaknesses in shipping costs and lack of physical presence.
0Strategic Plan ResearchDavid LeonardUnivers.docxdurantheseldine
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David Leonard
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Amazon: Who they are and where are they going?
Amazon is a multinational technology company that leads in online retail, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital streaming services. Originally envisioned as a global bookstore, the company has become a significant company today. The company adopts a functional business strategy (Chen, 2022). It is at drawing customers into Amazon and ensuring they stay through serving customers in a friction-free shopping experience
The vision of a company directs the company toward its long-term goals. The vision statement of Amazon focuses on dominating online retail from a global perspective. Amazon's mission statement states that the company strives to offer the best available range of products at the lowest price possible. Umar, 2022). Theoretically, a mission statement should enumerate the feasible approach that it should apply to achieve its vision. Amazon's mission aims at using its services and product pricing to attract customers.
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Amazons Internal and External Environments briefly.
The company's internal environment promotes its ability to execute its business strategies, focusing on core competence. The organization has a hierarchical management structure. This type of management facilitates the stability of executives and hence facilitates the comprehensive implementation of the business strategy (Chen, 2022). The external environment of Amazon comprises the political, legal, social, environmental, and technological aspects that affect the business structure. The social and technological factors are beneficial to the entity. The company must revise its policies to be free from litigation (Chen, 2022). The firm is at risk of high competition from new entrants, suppliers' bargaining power, and substitute services and products.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Amazon prioritizes its social and environmental effects in its business strategy. The company champions environmental sustainability programs, where it donated 2 billion in 2020 to promote zero carbon emissions worldwide. The company promotes a transparent and equitable supply chain to promote wage equity, worker safety, vendor transparency, gender equity, and environmental sustainability (Yu et al., 2022). The company is keen on avoiding labor and environment violations by conducting rigorous third-party assessments and in-house evaluations to ensure that supply chain patterns are cognizant of global standards and practices.
The company is dedicated to having a diverse and equitable workforce. The company draws its staff from institutions that serve an ethnically diverse population. The company promotes black colleges, women's colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, and other institutions promoting minority groups. The company has inclusive criteria that serve people with disabi.
Amazon.com is an American international e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1994, it is the world’s largest online retailer.
Amazon started as an online bookstore and has since expanded into many other product categories and business lines. It uses a business model of low prices, vast selection, and convenience for customers. The report analyzes Amazon's lines of business, business models, and e-commerce strategies. It finds that Amazon utilizes various intensive growth strategies like market development, market penetration, product development, and diversification. Its overarching generic strategy is cost leadership to offer competitive prices and gain market share.
The document compares the business models of Amazon and Alibaba. It finds that while Amazon generates more total revenue, much of its revenue comes from its cloud services business AWS which has high margins. In contrast, Alibaba generates most revenue from its core commerce activities like online marketplaces, avoiding inventory and fulfillment costs. As a result, Alibaba achieves higher operating margins than Amazon despite its significantly lower total revenue. Overall, the document concludes that Alibaba's business model of acting as a platform generates stronger profits than Amazon's model which includes first-party fulfillment services.
In early June 2013, Amazon launched their Amazon India marketplace without any marketing campaigns. In July 2013, Flipkart announced a funding of $ 1 Billion immediately after which, Amazon said it will invest $ 2 Billion in India to expand business. Amazon came up with a dynamic distribution system because of which they were able to deliver the products in as less as a day. This was their USP along with the wide variety of products. This is a report that sheds light on the products and services of Amazon India, discussion on the channels adopted by them, the ATL and BTL promotions and finally the evaluation of the channel effectiveness.
The document discusses how financial institutions are increasingly adopting cloud computing on AWS to transform their business and operations. It provides examples of major banks and financial organizations around the world that have migrated applications, workloads, and even core systems to AWS to take advantage of capabilities in areas like data analytics, artificial intelligence, security and compliance. Open banking is also driving more organizations to leverage AWS for API and platform development.
Strategies adopted by amazon during the recession along with generic business...Md. Nazmus Sakib
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Amazon Corporate Social Responsibility
Jeannette Stanley
University of Phoenix
January 14, 2022
Corporate Social Responsibility
Company description
In this case, we'll consider Amazon as our company. Amazon.com Inc. is the globe's premier e-commerce and cloud based company (Chaffey, 2021). The firm provides a wide range of items, including those for the home, cosmetics, gaming, electronics, and health. It sells things directly to clients or via a third-party provider that distributes them to them. Currently the single greatest e-retailer in the US as per Statista, having gross earnings of close to 387 billion USD in 2020. The mission statement of Amazon is to provide ease and a good pricing selection to its consumers both physically and virtually. Its objective is to use internet technologies to connect the world's biggest markets, and the approach has proven to be successful so far.
Environmental analysis
Competitive forces
Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Netflix, and Google are Amazon's key rivals. Amazon's E-books, movies, and Amazon Prime are basically cash cows, providing the company with the highest margins above its rivals as per the BCG matrix. Online services on Amazon, Kindle, and VOD are all question marks since, with the digital revolution, they have become outdated. Electricals and other household goods items are Amazon's standouts, not just because of their rapid progression, but because of Amazon's huge market share in these categories.
Economic forces
Taxing and inflationary rates, general and industry-specific GDP expansion, rates of unemployment and alterations in currencies are all economic variables that have a direct impact on Amazon's revenue flow and advancement possibilities.
Political forces
Political safety or volatility in the United States, the effect of domestic market advocacy, and the government's stance toward e-commerce and retailing sectors in particular are political variables that affect Amazon (Sadq et al., 2018). Amazon has an inverse impact in governance in a lot of places due to the extent and magnitude of its corporate activities.
Legal forces
Various rules and regulations apply to Amazon's commercial activities. Antitrust statutes, laws to do with discrimination, laws to do with consumer protection for e-commerce enterprises, and privacy laws are just a few of the legal issues that might influence Amazon.
Technological forces
Amazon's foundation is technology. To serve its clients, Amazon is investing on technology in the form of cloud services (amazon application server).
Social forces
The firm will profit from the rising trend of online buying and greater consumption. The appeal of Amazon amongst youngsters and elderly individuals who do not want to leave their homes is due to its easy accessibility of items and doorstep shipment (Chaffey, 2021). Furthermore, the pace at which employment prospects are dwindling as Amazon relies on tech to substitute workers poses a risk.
Current target ...
Introduction to AWS Travel by Massimo MorinSameer Kenkare
The document discusses how AWS is helping companies in the travel industry innovate through leveraging data, machine learning, and personalization. It highlights trends in travel like connected customer experiences and operational efficiency. Examples are given of airlines like Qantas using AWS to gain customer insights and Ryanair rebuilding applications on AWS to personalize travel experiences. The conclusion encourages travel companies to focus on differentiating through customers and having an ambitious innovation plan using AWS's 13+ years of experience.
Amazon.com started as an online bookstore in 1994 and has since expanded to sell a wide variety of products online and offline. It has headquarters in Seattle and operates websites in many countries around the world. To strengthen its position in China, Amazon could pursue a market penetration strategy by further utilizing its existing investments and relationships with local merchants to offer more localized products to Chinese consumers. This would make use of Amazon's skills and reduce financial risks compared to entering a new market.
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From designer clothing and top brand shoes to home goods and jewelry, Amazon has set themselves apart from other online retailers by becoming an online superstore that offers consumers the ability to purchase just about anything that they can imagine in one place. Recognizing the rapid growth of internet use, in 1994 Jeff Bezos left his job as the Vice President of a Wall Street brokerage firm to begin selling books over the internet. “Get Big Fast” was not only Bezos’ mantra, it became Amazon’s strategic business model. (Lashinsky, 2016) Amazon initially began in Bezos’ garage, but within 2 month’s had sales of over $ 20,000 per week. As Amazon grew and began offering additional products, they purchased several fulfillment centers to expedite the shipping of their most popular items. But Amazon realized that these fulfillment centers alone would be enough to differentiate them from other online superstores. So in 2005 Amazon launched Amazon Prime, a yearly fee that allows consumers to receive their orders using 2-day shipping at no additional charge catapulting its success. In the past 22 years, Amazon has established itself as one of the most successful retailers in the world with 80 distribution centers worldwide.
Amazon’s growth strategy was simple yet effective. They wanted to become the singular place where consumers could locate and purchase almost anything available.in the retail market; and that strategy has proven very successful over the past 2 decades. Among Amazon’s bestselling items are Lego’s, Levi’s jeans, Play Station game cards and the Amazon Fire Stick, an HDMI streaming stick that allows users to enjoy thousands of channels and games “including access to over 250,000 TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO NOW, Hulu, and more”. (Amazon, N.D.) Amazon has found some fierce competition in companies such as Walmart, Target and Big Lots, but they continue to outperform their competitors in every way. When Amazon initially went public in 1997, just two years after its inception, stock shares were offered at a mere $ 18 per share. (Public, NASDAQ:AMZN). Increasing approximately 43% its original price, Amazon’s stock is now trading at $ 772.44 per share. A long way from its humble beginnings as an online bookstore operated out of Bezos’ Bellvue, Washington garage, Amazon now employs over 240,000 employees worldwide. Amazon’s impressive Seattle, Washington headquarters occupy (3) – 37-story office buildings and (3) dome shaped buildings. (Elmer-DeWitt, 2016) “The executive team at Amazon’s Headquarters is comprised of Officers and Directors.” (Amazon.com, N.D.) Bezos still acts as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors; In addition to Jeffrey Blackburn, Sebastian Gunningham, Andrew Jassey, Steven Kessel, Diego Piacentini, Thomas Szkutak and Jeffrey Wilke as the company’s Senior Vice President’s and Shelley Reynolds and David Zapolsky as the Vice President’s. (Am ...
This document summarizes the agenda for the July 2019 Canberra AWS User Group meeting. The agenda includes discussions on new AWS features from the past month, upcoming AWS training courses, recently released whitepapers, and other events. The main presentation will be from Kieran MacGillicuddy of IP Australia on the cloud computing landscape at IP Australia. Attendees are also encouraged to provide feedback to help shape future user group meetings.
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Option #2:
Researching a Leader
Complete preliminary research on the Internet and/or using online library databases. Compose a 1 PAGE summary of sources and an overview of each source.
Post any questions or comments about the content or requirements of the Portfolio Project to the questions thread in the Discussion Forum.
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Option 1: Imperialism
The exploitation of colonial resources and indigenous labor was one of the key elements in the success of imperialism. Such exploitation was a result of the prevalent ethnocentrism of the time and was justified by the unscientific concept of social Darwinism, which praised the characteristics of white Europeans and inaccurately ascribed negative characteristics to indigenous peoples. A famous poem of the time by Rudyard Kipling, "White Man's Burden," called on imperial powers, and particularly the U.S., at whom the poem was directed, to take up the mission of civilizing these "savage" peoples.
Read the poem at the following link:
Link (website):
White Man's Burden (Links to an external site.)
(Rudyard Kipling)
After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis:
Select a specific part of the world (a country), and examine imperialism in that country. What was the relationship between the invading country and the native people? You can select from these examples or choose your own:
Belgium & Africa
Britain & India
Germany & Africa
France & Africa
Apply social Darwinism to this specific case.
Analyze the motivations of the invading country?
How did ethnocentrism manifest in their interactions?
How does Kipling's poem apply to your specific example? You can quote lines for comparison.
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0
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The company is dedicated to having a diverse and equitable workforce. The company draws its staff from institutions that serve an ethnically diverse population. The company promotes black colleges, women's colleges and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, and other institutions promoting minority groups. The company has inclusive criteria that serve people with disabi.
Amazon.com is an American international e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1994, it is the world’s largest online retailer.
Amazon started as an online bookstore and has since expanded into many other product categories and business lines. It uses a business model of low prices, vast selection, and convenience for customers. The report analyzes Amazon's lines of business, business models, and e-commerce strategies. It finds that Amazon utilizes various intensive growth strategies like market development, market penetration, product development, and diversification. Its overarching generic strategy is cost leadership to offer competitive prices and gain market share.
The document compares the business models of Amazon and Alibaba. It finds that while Amazon generates more total revenue, much of its revenue comes from its cloud services business AWS which has high margins. In contrast, Alibaba generates most revenue from its core commerce activities like online marketplaces, avoiding inventory and fulfillment costs. As a result, Alibaba achieves higher operating margins than Amazon despite its significantly lower total revenue. Overall, the document concludes that Alibaba's business model of acting as a platform generates stronger profits than Amazon's model which includes first-party fulfillment services.
In early June 2013, Amazon launched their Amazon India marketplace without any marketing campaigns. In July 2013, Flipkart announced a funding of $ 1 Billion immediately after which, Amazon said it will invest $ 2 Billion in India to expand business. Amazon came up with a dynamic distribution system because of which they were able to deliver the products in as less as a day. This was their USP along with the wide variety of products. This is a report that sheds light on the products and services of Amazon India, discussion on the channels adopted by them, the ATL and BTL promotions and finally the evaluation of the channel effectiveness.
The document discusses how financial institutions are increasingly adopting cloud computing on AWS to transform their business and operations. It provides examples of major banks and financial organizations around the world that have migrated applications, workloads, and even core systems to AWS to take advantage of capabilities in areas like data analytics, artificial intelligence, security and compliance. Open banking is also driving more organizations to leverage AWS for API and platform development.
Strategies adopted by amazon during the recession along with generic business...Md. Nazmus Sakib
The assignment reflects the generic strategies of Amazon.com. it undertakes to highlights the financial performance of Amazon during the recession and reasons behind the success of that time. Finally, it focuses on the lessons for a manager from its strategies.
1Amazon Corporate Social ResponsibilityJeannette StaTatianaMajor22
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Amazon Corporate Social Responsibility
Jeannette Stanley
University of Phoenix
January 14, 2022
Corporate Social Responsibility
Company description
In this case, we'll consider Amazon as our company. Amazon.com Inc. is the globe's premier e-commerce and cloud based company (Chaffey, 2021). The firm provides a wide range of items, including those for the home, cosmetics, gaming, electronics, and health. It sells things directly to clients or via a third-party provider that distributes them to them. Currently the single greatest e-retailer in the US as per Statista, having gross earnings of close to 387 billion USD in 2020. The mission statement of Amazon is to provide ease and a good pricing selection to its consumers both physically and virtually. Its objective is to use internet technologies to connect the world's biggest markets, and the approach has proven to be successful so far.
Environmental analysis
Competitive forces
Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Netflix, and Google are Amazon's key rivals. Amazon's E-books, movies, and Amazon Prime are basically cash cows, providing the company with the highest margins above its rivals as per the BCG matrix. Online services on Amazon, Kindle, and VOD are all question marks since, with the digital revolution, they have become outdated. Electricals and other household goods items are Amazon's standouts, not just because of their rapid progression, but because of Amazon's huge market share in these categories.
Economic forces
Taxing and inflationary rates, general and industry-specific GDP expansion, rates of unemployment and alterations in currencies are all economic variables that have a direct impact on Amazon's revenue flow and advancement possibilities.
Political forces
Political safety or volatility in the United States, the effect of domestic market advocacy, and the government's stance toward e-commerce and retailing sectors in particular are political variables that affect Amazon (Sadq et al., 2018). Amazon has an inverse impact in governance in a lot of places due to the extent and magnitude of its corporate activities.
Legal forces
Various rules and regulations apply to Amazon's commercial activities. Antitrust statutes, laws to do with discrimination, laws to do with consumer protection for e-commerce enterprises, and privacy laws are just a few of the legal issues that might influence Amazon.
Technological forces
Amazon's foundation is technology. To serve its clients, Amazon is investing on technology in the form of cloud services (amazon application server).
Social forces
The firm will profit from the rising trend of online buying and greater consumption. The appeal of Amazon amongst youngsters and elderly individuals who do not want to leave their homes is due to its easy accessibility of items and doorstep shipment (Chaffey, 2021). Furthermore, the pace at which employment prospects are dwindling as Amazon relies on tech to substitute workers poses a risk.
Current target ...
Introduction to AWS Travel by Massimo MorinSameer Kenkare
The document discusses how AWS is helping companies in the travel industry innovate through leveraging data, machine learning, and personalization. It highlights trends in travel like connected customer experiences and operational efficiency. Examples are given of airlines like Qantas using AWS to gain customer insights and Ryanair rebuilding applications on AWS to personalize travel experiences. The conclusion encourages travel companies to focus on differentiating through customers and having an ambitious innovation plan using AWS's 13+ years of experience.
Amazon.com started as an online bookstore in 1994 and has since expanded to sell a wide variety of products online and offline. It has headquarters in Seattle and operates websites in many countries around the world. To strengthen its position in China, Amazon could pursue a market penetration strategy by further utilizing its existing investments and relationships with local merchants to offer more localized products to Chinese consumers. This would make use of Amazon's skills and reduce financial risks compared to entering a new market.
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From designer clothing and top brand shoes to home goods and jewelry, Amazon has set themselves apart from other online retailers by becoming an online superstore that offers consumers the ability to purchase just about anything that they can imagine in one place. Recognizing the rapid growth of internet use, in 1994 Jeff Bezos left his job as the Vice President of a Wall Street brokerage firm to begin selling books over the internet. “Get Big Fast” was not only Bezos’ mantra, it became Amazon’s strategic business model. (Lashinsky, 2016) Amazon initially began in Bezos’ garage, but within 2 month’s had sales of over $ 20,000 per week. As Amazon grew and began offering additional products, they purchased several fulfillment centers to expedite the shipping of their most popular items. But Amazon realized that these fulfillment centers alone would be enough to differentiate them from other online superstores. So in 2005 Amazon launched Amazon Prime, a yearly fee that allows consumers to receive their orders using 2-day shipping at no additional charge catapulting its success. In the past 22 years, Amazon has established itself as one of the most successful retailers in the world with 80 distribution centers worldwide.
Amazon’s growth strategy was simple yet effective. They wanted to become the singular place where consumers could locate and purchase almost anything available.in the retail market; and that strategy has proven very successful over the past 2 decades. Among Amazon’s bestselling items are Lego’s, Levi’s jeans, Play Station game cards and the Amazon Fire Stick, an HDMI streaming stick that allows users to enjoy thousands of channels and games “including access to over 250,000 TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO NOW, Hulu, and more”. (Amazon, N.D.) Amazon has found some fierce competition in companies such as Walmart, Target and Big Lots, but they continue to outperform their competitors in every way. When Amazon initially went public in 1997, just two years after its inception, stock shares were offered at a mere $ 18 per share. (Public, NASDAQ:AMZN). Increasing approximately 43% its original price, Amazon’s stock is now trading at $ 772.44 per share. A long way from its humble beginnings as an online bookstore operated out of Bezos’ Bellvue, Washington garage, Amazon now employs over 240,000 employees worldwide. Amazon’s impressive Seattle, Washington headquarters occupy (3) – 37-story office buildings and (3) dome shaped buildings. (Elmer-DeWitt, 2016) “The executive team at Amazon’s Headquarters is comprised of Officers and Directors.” (Amazon.com, N.D.) Bezos still acts as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors; In addition to Jeffrey Blackburn, Sebastian Gunningham, Andrew Jassey, Steven Kessel, Diego Piacentini, Thomas Szkutak and Jeffrey Wilke as the company’s Senior Vice President’s and Shelley Reynolds and David Zapolsky as the Vice President’s. (Am ...
This document summarizes the agenda for the July 2019 Canberra AWS User Group meeting. The agenda includes discussions on new AWS features from the past month, upcoming AWS training courses, recently released whitepapers, and other events. The main presentation will be from Kieran MacGillicuddy of IP Australia on the cloud computing landscape at IP Australia. Attendees are also encouraged to provide feedback to help shape future user group meetings.
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Option #2:
Researching a Leader
Complete preliminary research on the Internet and/or using online library databases. Compose a 1 PAGE summary of sources and an overview of each source.
Post any questions or comments about the content or requirements of the Portfolio Project to the questions thread in the Discussion Forum.
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Option 1: Imperialism
The exploitation of colonial resources and indigenous labor was one of the key elements in the success of imperialism. Such exploitation was a result of the prevalent ethnocentrism of the time and was justified by the unscientific concept of social Darwinism, which praised the characteristics of white Europeans and inaccurately ascribed negative characteristics to indigenous peoples. A famous poem of the time by Rudyard Kipling, "White Man's Burden," called on imperial powers, and particularly the U.S., at whom the poem was directed, to take up the mission of civilizing these "savage" peoples.
Read the poem at the following link:
Link (website):
White Man's Burden (Links to an external site.)
(Rudyard Kipling)
After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis:
Select a specific part of the world (a country), and examine imperialism in that country. What was the relationship between the invading country and the native people? You can select from these examples or choose your own:
Belgium & Africa
Britain & India
Germany & Africa
France & Africa
Apply social Darwinism to this specific case.
Analyze the motivations of the invading country?
How did ethnocentrism manifest in their interactions?
How does Kipling's poem apply to your specific example? You can quote lines for comparison.
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Option Wireless LTD v. OpenPeak, Inc.Be sure to save an elec.docxmccormicknadine86
Option Wireless LTD v. OpenPeak, Inc.
Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answers before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, you should answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format.
Your response should be a minimum of four (4) double-spaced pages; refer to the Length and Formatting instructions below for additional details.
In complete sentences respond to the following prompts:
Summarize the facts of the case;
Identify the parties and explain each party’s position;
Outline the case’s procedural history including any appeals;
What is the legal issue in question in this case?
How did the court rule on the legal issue of this case?
What facts did the court find to be most important in making its decision?
Respond to the following questions:
Are there any situations in which it might be a good idea to include additional or different terms in the “acceptance” without making the acceptance expressly conditional on assent to the additional or different terms?
Under what conditions can a contract be formed by the parties’ conduct? Why wasn’t the conduct of the parties here used as the basis for a contract?
Do you agree or disagree with the court’s decision? Provide an explanation for your reasoning either agree or disagree.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 12-80165-CIV-MARRA
OPTION WIRELESS, LTD., an Irish limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. OPENPEAK, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant. ______________________________/
OPINION AND ORDER
THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff’s Counterclaim (DE 6). Counter-Plaintiff OpenPeak Inc. filed its 1 Memorandum in Opposition (DE 8). Counter-Defendant Option Wireless, Ltd, replied. (DE 12). The Court has carefully considered the briefs ofthe parties and is otherwise fully advised in the premises. I. Introduction2 In July 2010, Counter-Plaintiff OpenPeak Inc. was producing a computer tablet product for AT&T. (DE 4 ¶ 5). Seeking embedded wireless data modules for the tablet, Counter-Plaintiff submitted a purchase order to Counter-Defendant Option Wireless, Ltd, for 12,300 units of the modules at the price of $848,700.00. (DE 4 ¶ 4). Section 9 of the purchase order, labeled “BUYER’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS,” provided that [a]ll purchase orders and sales are made only upon these terms and conditions and those on the front of this document. This document, and not any quotation, invoice, or other Seller document (which, if construed to be an offer is hereby rejected), will Option Wireless, Ltd. v. OpenPeak, Inc. Doc. 19 Dockets.Justia.com 2 be deemed an offer or an appropriate counter-offer and is a rejection of any other terms or conditions. Seller, byaccepting any orders or deliverin.
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Option A: Land Shark
When is a shark just a shark? Consider the movie
Jaws
. What could the shark symbolize in our culture, society, or collective human mythology other than a man-eating fish? Why? Support your answer.
Next, think about a theatrical staging of
Jaws
. Describe the artistic choices you would make to bring
Jaws
the movie to Broadway. What genre would you choose? Describe at least three other elements of production and how you would approach them in your staging of
Jaws
as a stage play or musical.
Create
a response to these concepts in one of the following formats:
350- to 700-word paper
Apply
appropriate APA formatting.
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Option 3: Discuss your thoughts on drugs and deviance. Do you think using drugs is deviant behavior? Why do you think alcohol and tobacco are legal drugs and their use is not considered deviant when they are addictive, physically harmful, and socially disruptive?
No quotes or references needed.
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OPTION 2: Can we make the changes we need to make? After the pandemic, we are in a time of significant upheaval and transition. We are all more keenly aware that economic shifts and transformations can happen suddenly and dramatically. As the World shut itself down in March 2020, it makes us all aware that we can change behavior globally and as a matter of will. In the U.S., people began to quarantine themselves ahead of government action more often than as a result of government mandates. Write a cohesive 1-2 page single-spaced document that answers the following questions.
2a. Reflecting on the profound changes we have all seen in the past year, how does that change your views regarding what might be possible with regard to energy use, carbon reductions, or other major transformations that might be needed to impact the type of climate change Earth has been experiencing.
2b. Reflect on the type of transformations that would be involved to address global warming. Now that you have seen the recent major transformations, does this make you believe that global warming threats can prompt the type of major economic and industrial changes needed to reduce the impacts that have been anticipated with increasing climate changes?
2c. What are the "experts" saying about the possibility of these transformations in light of what they have seen during the pandemic? Are researchers more or less optimistic about our global ability to reduce green house gases and control climate change after seeing the impact of the pandemic? Be sure to include REFERENCES both at the end of the text and in the text, like (Author, year)
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Option 1: You will create a PowerPoint (or equivalent) of your presentation and add voice over.
Option 2: If you are unable to add voice over to your PowerPoint, you will create a PowerPoint (or equivalent) of your presentation. Next, you will use
Screencast-o-
Matic
(or a similar program) to create a video recording of your screen and voice as your present the information. Third, you will upload the video presentation to
YouTube
so your instructor can view it. If you choose this option, you will submit your article as well as the PowerPoint (or equivalent) file and the link to the YouTube presentation to complete this assignment.
Guidelines:
The presentation must include both audio (your voice explaining the information) and visual (PowerPoint presentation including text and/or images). Videos should not be used within the presentation.
The presentation should include the following three aspects:
An overview of your specific topic and its importance and application in current society. Include historical information as appropriate to understand your topic.
Identification, discussion, and
critical evaluation
of the most frequently used assessment instruments related to your topic. Include the typical settings and purposes for which assessment instruments are used.
Discussion of the ethical, cultural, and societal issues concerning the use of psychological tests and assessment as related to your topic.
The presentation must be 15 minutes long (no more than 20).
The presentation must include information from at least 10 scholarly sources (if used, the course textbook does not count as one of these 10 sources).
APA style citations should be used within the presentation. A reference section (in APA style) should appear at the end of the presentation.
Resources:
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Option A: Description of Dance Styles
Select
two styles of dance, such as ballet, modern dance, or folk dance.
Describe
each style of dance, and
include
the following:
History and development of the style
Discussion of your understanding of the use of line, form, repetition, and rhythm in each piece
Description of what the movements of both styles communicate to you in terms of mood
Description of how artistic choice can affect the viewer in the selected style
Submit
your assignment in one of the following formats:
700- to 1,050-word paper
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Option #2
Provide several slides that explain the key sections of your strategy you will use in the final Portfolio Project. Provide section headers and a brief description of each.
FINAL PROJECT GUIDE
In a 6- to 10-page paper, as the local Union President, design a managing union handbook for union relationship building and a process that favors union employees as well as identifying key components of the bargaining process that can easily be sold to your union members. Apply theory and design systems and policies throughout your work covering:
Contextual factors (historical and legislative) that have impacted and still impact the union environment;
policies that create a more sustainable union model;
management strategy for union collective bargaining that includes: innovative wage, benefit, and non-wage factors; and
employee engagement and involvement strategies that take into consideration the diverse and changing labor force.
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Option 2: Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude
Explain how and why slavery developed in the American colonies.
Describe in what ways the practice of slavery was different between each colonial region in British North America.
Analyze the differences between slaves and indentured servants.
Writing Requirements (APA format)
Length: 1-2 pages (not including title page or references page)
Use standard essay writing process by including an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
1-inch margins
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page
References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source)
No abstract is required
In-text citations that correspond with your end references
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Option 2: Art
Select any 2 of works of art about the Holocaust. You can select from the following list or conduct additional research on Holocaust art. Make sure to get approval from your instructor if you are selecting something not on the list. Click on the link to see the list:
Link: List of Artists/Artworks
Write an analysis of each artwork, including the following information:
Identify the title, artist, date completed, and medium used.
Explain the content of the artwork - what do the images show?
How does the artwork relate to the bigger picture of the Holocaust?
How effective is the artwork in relating the Holocaust to viewers?
LIST OF ARTISTS AND ARTWORK
Morris Kestelman:
Lama Sabachthani [Why Have You Forsaken Me?]
George Mayer-Marton:
Women with Boudlers
Bill Spira:
Prisoners Carrying Cement
Jan Hartman:
Death March (Czechowice-Bielsko, January 1945)
Edgar Ainsworth:
Belsen
Leslie Cole:
One of the Death Pits, Belsen. SS Guards Collecting Bodies
Doris Zinkeisen:
Human Laundry, Belsen: April 1945
Eric Taylor:
A Young Boy from Belsen Concentration Camp
Mary Kessell:
Notes from Belsen Camp
Edith Birkin:
The Death Cart - Lodz Ghetto
Shmuel Dresner:
Benjamin
Roman Halter:
Mother with Babies
Leo Breuer:
Path Between the Barracks, Gurs Camp
Leo (Lev) Haas:
Transport Arrival, Theresienstadt Ghetto
Jacob Lipschitz:
Beaten (My Brother Gedalyahu)
Norbert Troller:
Terezin
Anselm Kiefer:
Sternenfall
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Option #1:
Stanford University Prison Experiment: Causality, Controlling Patterns, and Growth Mode
Revisit Philip Zimbardo's (1971) Stanford University Prison Experiment. Analyze the experiment in terms of causality, controlling patterns, and its growth mode.
What lessons can be learned from this experiment that can be generalized to business social systems, such as organizational design/organizational structures?
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
· Be 5 pages in length.
· Be formatted according to APA
· Include at least five scholarly or peer-reviewed articles
· Include a title page, section headers, introduction, conclusion, and references page.
Reference:
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation
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BY THE 1970s, psychologists had done a series of studies establishing the social power of groups. They showed, for example, that groups of strangers could persuade people to believe statements that were obviously false. Psychologists had also found that research participants were often willing to obey authority figures even when doing so violated their personal beliefs. The Yale studies by Stanley Milgram in 1963 demonstrated that a majority of ordinary citizens would continually shock an innocent man, even up to near-lethal levels, if commanded to do so by someone acting as an authority. The "authority" figure in this case was merely a high-school biology teacher who wore a lab coat and acted in an official manner. The majority of people shocked their victims over and over again despite increasingly desperate pleas to stop.
In my own work, I wanted to explore the fictional notion from William Golding's Lord of the Flies about the power of anonymity to unleash violent behavior. In one experiment from 1969, female students who were made to feel anonymous and given permission for aggression became significantly more hostile than students with their identities intact. Those and a host of other social-psychological studies were showing that human nature was more pliable than previously imagined and more responsive to situational pressures than we cared to acknowledge. In sum, these studies challenged the sacrosanct view that inner determinants of behavior--personality traits, morality, and religious upbringing--directed good people down righteous paths.
Missing from the body of social-science research at the time was the direct confrontation of good versus evil, of good people pitted against the forces inherent in bad situations. It was evident from everyday life that smart people made dumb decisions when they were engaged in mindless groupthink, as in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by the smart guys in President John F. Kennedy's cabinet. It was also clear that smart people surrounding President Richard M. Nixon, like Henry A. Kissinger and Robert S. McNamara, escalated the Vietnam War when they knew, and later admitted, it was not winnable. They were .
Option A Gender CrimesCriminal acts occur against individu.docxmccormicknadine86
Option A: Gender Crimes
Criminal acts occur against individuals because of gender – some of these are labeled as hate crimes in the U.S. (consider cases of violence against transgendered and homosexual individuals) and others occur across cultures. Choose two other types of “gender crimes” and discuss what these acts reveal about deep-seated cultural values and beliefs. One possibility is to examine bride burning or dowry death in India.
Submit a paper (750-1250 words) that explores gender crimes. Provide at least three references cited within the text and listed in the references section.
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opic 4 Discussion Question 1 May students express religious bel.docxmccormicknadine86
opic 4: Discussion Question 1
May students express religious beliefs in class discussion or assignments or engage in prayer in the classroom? What are some limitations? Support your position with examples from case law, the U.S. Constitution, or other readings.
Topic 4: Discussion Question 2
Do all student-led religious groups have an absolute right to meet at K-12 schools? If not, discuss one limitation under the Equal Access Act. May a teacher be a sponsor of the club? Can the teacher participate in its activities? Why or why not? Support your position with examples from case law, the U.S. Constitution, or other readings.
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Option 1:
Choose a philosopher who interests you. Research that philosopher, detailing how they developed their ideas and the importance of those ideas to the progress of philosophy and human understanding. Keep in mind that you should be focusing on their philosophy, not simply their biography, although some basic details of their life not related to philosophy may be needed, especially when it involves experiences that influenced their thinking.
Option 2:
Look at a specific Philosophical movement. Explain the ideas important to that movement (such as existentialism and positivism) and the influence they had. I am pretty flexible on what you can do with this one, so if you have an idea, don’t hesitate to ask!
Requirements
The typed body of your paper must be a minimum of 1500 words.
It should be typed, 12 point, double spaced. A minimum of three sources must be used,
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Option #1The Stanford University Prison Experiment Structu.docxmccormicknadine86
Option #1:
The Stanford University Prison Experiment: Structure, Behavior, and Results
Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford University Prison Experiment could be described as a system whose systemic properties enabled the behaviors of the system's actors, leading to disturbing results.
Analyze the situation. What were the key elements of the system? How did the system operate? Why did the participants behave as they did? What lessons can be learned from this experiment about systems in relation to management?
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Be six pages in length.
Be formatted according to the APA
Include at least seven scholarly or peer-reviewed articles.
Include a title page, section headers, introduction, conclusion, and references page.
Reference:
Zimbardo, P. G. (2007).
Revisiting the Stanford prison experiment: A lesson in the power of situation (Links to an external site.)
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Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(
30), B6.
BY THE 1970s, psychologists had done a series of studies establishing the social power of groups. They showed, for example, that groups of strangers could persuade people to believe statements that were obviously false. Psychologists had also found that research participants were often willing to obey authority figures even when doing so violated their personal beliefs. The Yale studies by Stanley Milgram in 1963 demonstrated that a majority of ordinary citizens would continually shock an innocent man, even up to near-lethal levels, if commanded to do so by someone acting as an authority. The "authority" figure in this case was merely a high-school biology teacher who wore a lab coat and acted in an official manner. The majority of people shocked their victims over and over again despite increasingly desperate pleas to stop.
In my own work, I wanted to explore the fictional notion from William Golding's Lord of the Flies about the power of anonymity to unleash violent behavior. In one experiment from 1969, female students who were made to feel anonymous and given permission for aggression became significantly more hostile than students with their identities intact. Those and a host of other social-psychological studies were showing that human nature was more pliable than previously imagined and more responsive to situational pressures than we cared to acknowledge. In sum, these studies challenged the sacrosanct view that inner determinants of behavior--personality traits, morality, and religious upbringing--directed good people down righteous paths.
Missing from the body of social-science research at the time was the direct confrontation of good versus evil, of good people pitted against the forces inherent in bad situations. It was evident from everyday life that smart people made dumb decisions when they were engaged in mindless groupthink, as in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by the smart guys in President John F. Kennedy's cabinet. It was also clear that smart people su.
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Open the file (Undergrad Reqt_Individual In-Depth Case Study) for instruction which is
blue highlighted
and I already
highlighted yellow
for the section that you need to answer which is
SECTION 2.
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uploaded 2 articles that you need to read to answer the questions
and Pay attention to (Individual In-Depth Case Study Rubric).
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onsider whether you think means-tested programs, such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), create dependency among its recipients. Then, think about how the potential perception of dependency might contribute to the stigma surrounding welfare programs. Finally, reflect on the perceptions you might have regarding individuals who receive means-tested welfare and how that perception might affect your work with clients.
By Day 4
Post
an explanation of whether means-tested programs (TANF, SNAP, and SSI) create dependency. Then, explain how the potential perception of dependency might contribute to the stigma surrounding welfare programs. Finally, explain the perceptions you have regarding people who receive means-tested welfare and how that perception might affect your work with clients.
Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for
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Operations security - PPT should cover below questions (chapter 1 to 6)
Compare & Contrast access control in relations to risk, threat and vulnerability.
Research and discuss how different auditing and monitoring techniques are used to identify & protect the system against network attacks.
Explain the relationship between access control and its impact on CIA (maintaining network confidentiality, integrity and availability).
Describe access control and its level of importance within operations security.
Argue the need for organizations to implement access controls in relations to maintaining confidentiality, integrity and availability (e.g., Is it a risky practice to store customer information for repeat visits?)
Describe the necessary components within an organization's access control metric.
Power Point Presentation
7 - 10 slides total (
does not include title or summary slide
)
Try using the 6×6 rule to keep your content concise and clean looking. The 6×6 rule means a maximum of six bullet points per slide and six words per bullet point
Keep the colors simple
Use charts where applicable
Use notes section of slide
Include transitions
Include use of graphics / animations
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Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
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3. Company Overview
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon or 'the company') is a retailer that
offers its products through online and
physical stores. The company offers a range of merchandise,
including books, apparel, electronics, home
and garden tools, toys and baby games, sports and outdoor
products, automotive and industrial products
and other general merchandise products. It also provides
services that includes web services, order
fulfillment, publishing, advertising and co-branded credit cards
services. The company manufactures and
sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets,
Fire televisions (TVs) and Echo. Amazon
markets its products through its website, www.amazon.com.
Amazon also operates through various
international websites. It has business presence across North
America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The
company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the US.
The company reported revenues of (US Dollars) US$232,887
million for the fiscal year ended December
2018 (FY2018), an increase of 30.9% over FY2017. In FY2018,
the company’s operating margin was
5.3%, compared to an operating margin of 2.3% in FY2017. In
FY2018, the company recorded a net
margin of 4.3%, compared to a net margin of 1.7% in FY2017.
The company reported revenues of US$63,404.0 million for the
second quarter ended June 2019, an
increase of 6.2% over the previous quarter.
Key Facts
5. offers a range of merchandise, including books, apparel, home
and garden tools, toys and baby games,
sports and outdoor products, automotive and industrial products
and other general merchandise products.
It also sells electronic devices, such as Fire tablets, Kindle e-
readers, Echo devices and Fire TVs.
Moreover, it offers a membership program called Amazon
Prime, which provides customers unlimited free
shipping option on over 100 million items, access to unlimited
streaming of thousands of movies and TV
episodes, and other benefits. The company also provides
advertising services and order fulfillment
services to its consumers.
The company operates through three business segments: North
America, International and Amazon Web
Services (AWS).
The North America segment focuses on retail sales of consumer
products (including from sellers) and
handles subscriptions through North America-focused online
and physical stores. This segment also
includes export sales generated from the online stores. In
FY2018, the North America segment reported
revenue of US$141,366million, which accounted for 60.7% of
the company's revenue.
The International segment includes the retail sales of consumer
products (including from sellers) and
subscriptions from internationally focused online stores. This
segment also includes export sales from
international online stores (including export sales from their
respective sites to customers in the US,
Canada and Mexico), but excludes export sales from North
American online stores. In FY2018, the
International segment reported revenue of US$65,866 million,
6. which accounted for 28.3% of the
company's revenue.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) segment includes global
sales of compute, storage, database, and
other AWS service offerings for start-ups, enterprises,
government agencies, and academic institutions. In
FY2018, the AWS segment reported revenue of US$25,655
million, which accounted for 11% of the
company's revenue.
Amazon serves four primary customer sets: consumers, sellers,
developers and enterprises, and content
creators. The company also develops and produces media
content. Amazon fulfills customer orders
through its fulfillment centers and delivery networks that it
operates in North America and other foreign
countries; co-sourced and outsourced arrangements in certain
countries; and digital delivery. Amazon
serves sellers by offering programs that enable them to sell their
products on their websites and also on
Amazon's websites. The company earns fixed fees, per-unit
activity fees and interest on such
transactions. The company serves developers and enterprises
through AWS, which provides a broad set
of global compute, storage, database, and other service
offerings. Amazon serves content creators such
as authors and independent publishers through Kindle Direct
Publishing, an online platform that allows
independent authors and publishers to select a royalty option
and make their books available in the
Kindle Store. The company also offers its own publishing arm,
Amazon Publishing. It also offers programs
that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, application
developers, and others to publish and sell content.
8. Indian E-Commerce rules.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In January, the company introduced local restaurant delivery
service in Nashville city in Tennessee, the
US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2019
In January, the company opened a distribution center in Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In January, the company partnered with Sexy Hair to distribute
Sexy Hair products on Amazon.com.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In January, the company introduced new products and tools
under its Key by Amazon offering for Prime
members in the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
10. Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2019
In February, Amazon agreed to acquire Eero, a developer of
internet routers.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2019
In February, Amazon.com and GM announced its plan to invest
in electric vehicle maker Rivian.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In January, the company's subsidiary, Amazon Web Services
and Bsquare entered into an agreement to
accelerate Internet of Things adoption.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In February, Amazon announced to launch UPI payments in
India to accelerate adoption of merchant
payments.
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13. retail business that will act as a seller of
groceries and other packaged food products to local ecommerce
marketplace.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2019
In April, Amazon acquired the mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero
for US$97 million.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2019
In April, Amazon acquired Boulder, Colorado-based warehouse
robotics startup Canvas Technology.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In April, the company extended their partnership with retail
company Casino Group in France
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2019
In April, Amazon acquired warehouse robotics startup Canvas
Technology.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
15. Year: 2019
In April, Amazon invested US$28 billion in its India unit,
Amazon Seller Services.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2019
In June, the company announced its plans to invest in Ninjacart,
a business-to-business agricultural
marketing platform.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In June, Amazon launched a free in-store pick-up service in the
US called, Counter to collect packages
from the customers.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In July, Amazon introduced business prime service in the UK to
make easier and convenient purchases
to the customers.
Stake Sale
Year: 2019
In July, Amazon.com announced the sale of minority stake
Deliveroo, a UK-based food delivery firm by
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In August, Amazon.com opened its two Amazon Go stores in
New York City and San Francisco, the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In August, Amazon.com and the Pittsburgh Health Data
Alliance entered into a partnership to use
machine learning to advance healthcare innovation.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In August, Amazon partnered with AutoGrid for AWS to bring
artificial intelligence-powered distributed
energy management to AutoGrid's energy-industry customers.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2019
In August, Amazon's AWS announced its plans to set up a cloud
infrastructure in Israel based on local
data centers.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2019
In August, Amazon announced to open a new fulfillment center
in Utah, the US.
20. Corridor, Austin, Texas, the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In August, the company's AWS and NASA collaborated with
KBR for fully autonomous vehicles utilizing
reinforcement learning, an advanced machine learning
technique.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In August, Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings, an affiliate
of Amazon, signed a new strategic
agreement with Cargojet to provide Air-Transportation
Services.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2019
In August, Amazon opened a 4-star store at Westlake Avenue,
Seattle, Washington, the US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2019
In August, the company opened a 4-star store at Westlake
Avenue, Seattle, Washington, the US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
22. In September, Amazon.com announced the opening of a new
delivery station in Goodyear, Arizona, the
US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In September, Amazon introduced the new Prime subscription
service in Brazil.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2019
In September, Amazon and Morrisons entered into an agreement
to expand delivery services in the UK.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2019
In September, the company has launched its local delivery
service in Israel.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In September, the company has introduced its PayCode service
and Cash services in the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
25. Year: 2019
In September, Amazon.com opened its new operations in Israel.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In September, the company introduced a new Alexa API, to
simplify custom voice commands for Alexa.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In September, Amazon in partnership with Discovery launched a
new streaming video app, Food Network
Kitchen.
New Products/Services
Year: 2019
In September, Amazon launched the new Echo Earbuds with
Bose noise-cancellation technology.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2019
In September, the company acquired a US-based cloud startup,
INLT.
Plans/Strategy
27. Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In January, Amazon opened its new Head Quarter building, The
Spheres, in Seattle, the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In January, Westpac partnered with company for voice
technology through its Alexa Skill.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In January, the company opened the new store, Amazon Go, in
downtown Seattle, the US.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In January, the company plans to release a software
development kit, the Virtual Dash Button Service,
that makes easy to implement virtual versions of Amazon Dash
Buttons for brands.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In January, Bonitasoft partnered with Amazon Web Services
29. websites.
New Product Approvals
Year: 2018
In February, the company launched the new AR (Augmented
Reality) feature for its Android users.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2018
In February, Amazon agreed to acquire a connected-doorbell
startup, Ring Inc, for a value at US$1
billion.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In February, the company introduced its Prime Music service in
India.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In February, the company plans to introduce Fulfillment By
Amazon (FBA) services in Australia to support
local businesses store and to sell their goods to customers
through FBA program.
New Products/Services
32. Vietnamese exports.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In March, the company announced the launch of JuvaLips.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In March, Amazon expanded its presence to Australia for
Northland retailers and suppliers.
Product Recall
Year: 2018
In March, the company plans to recall around 260,000 portable
chargers that posses a fire and burn risk.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In March, Amazon and JPMorgan partnered to create a new
current-account-like product.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In March, Amazon.com plans to open its new fulfillment centre
in St Peters, Missouri, the US.
34. Year: 2018
In April, the company and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
partnered for the fight against childhood
cancer through a new service, Alexa Donations.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In March, Amazon entered into a distribution agreement with
Casino Group for Amazon’s high-speed
delivery service.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In April, the company plans to open a distribution center in
Monroe County, New York, the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In April, AWS launched a new Amazon S3 storage class,
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
One Zone-Infrequent Access (Z-IA).
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In April, the company plans to launch one up HomePod to its
Echo product portfolio, supporting for music
automation.
36. In April, the company entered into a partnership with Best Buy
to offer New Fire TV Edition Smart TVs in
the US and Canada.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In April, Cox Automotive announced its plans to move its
infrastructure to company's Amazon Web
Services.
Patent Grant
Year: 2018
In April, Amazon secured a patent for a system that tracks and
identifies Bitcoin users and to feed their
details to law enforcement agencies.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In April, Amazon Web Servers launched its blockchain template
for Ethereum and Hyperledger fabric.
New Products/Services
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39. In April, Amazon and Volvo partnered to provide delivery of
packages into customers’ cars in the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In May, Verizon's Oath selected Amazon's AWS as its preferred
public cloud provider to expand its use of
AWS to migrate legacy workloads and to build new cloud-based
applications.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In May, the company announced its plan to opne a fulfilment
centre in Sydney, Australia.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In June, the company along with AliExpress, eBay and Rakuten-
France entered into an agreement with
the European Commission to combat the list of dangerous
products on Europe’s online shopping sites.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2018
In June, the company agreed to acquire PillPack, an online
pharmacy.
41. In July, Amazon and Major League Baseball (MLB) entered into
a partnership to provide real time data-
driven insights on live games using machine learning and AI.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In July, the company and Hyundai Motor planned to open a
virtual showroom on Amazon platform.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In May, Amazon and NASA together formed outposts in France
for the development of air traffic control
systems specifically for drones.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In July, the company collabrated with SSC Napoli football club
to introduce an integrated ‘brandstore’ on
the company's Amazon digital retail platform.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In July, Amazon Video announces new TV shows and movies
for August 2018.
Contracts/Agreements
43. In February, NAS Insurance Services introduced Momentum, an
insurance product for online sellers like
Amazon.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In August, Amazon launched Merch by Amazon service in the
UK and Germany.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In June, the company and RedAwning Group paired up to
introduce RedAwning Smart Concierge.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In August, the company and Whole Foods Market launched the
grocery pickup services in Virginia Beach
and Sacramento, California.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In June, Amazon opened its second Oklahoma fulfillment center
in Tulsa.
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Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In August, the company to launch its new delivery service
center in Austin, Texas.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In August, the company announced to open a new Amazon Go
store in downtown Seattle, Washington,
the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In August, Amazon expanded its Tire Purchase and Installation
Program with Sears Auto Center to
provide full-service tire installation for customers.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In August, the company introduced its Prime membership for
CAD 7.99 per month in Canada.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
48. Year: 2018
In August, the company planned to acquire a minority stake in
Spencer’s Retail.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In August, the company launched fashion and sports stores in
Brazilian marketplace.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2018
In September, the company and Samara Capital planned to buy
supermarket chain More from Aditya
Birla Group (ABRL).
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In August, Amazon Music introduced new voice commands for
Alexa.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon.in introduced a link for a Hindi option
on its e-commerce portal for users.
Contracts/Agreements
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New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon and Whole Foods launched delivery of
natural and organic products from Whole
Foods Market through Prime Now in Charlotte, Las Vegas,
Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Oklahoma
City, Phoenix, Raleigh, Seattle, Tucson, New York City, Los
Angeles and Dallas/Ft. Worth.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon launched two new product categories to
expand its offering in Australia.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon launched Amazon Charts, a weekly
bestseller list which shares the most read and
sold books across all formats each week in Canada.
Contracts/Agreements
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53. new three-row large SUV, Ascent, and Amazon products
together.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In September, the company introduced its AWS Storage
Gateway hardware appliances such as Amazon
Simple Storage Service, Amazon Elastic Block Store, and
Amazon Glacier.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon and Audi partnered to equip Amazon
Alexa powered dashboard in Audi vehicles.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In September, the company and Audi partnered to equip
Amazon Alexa powered dashboard in Audi
vehicles.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In September, the company opened up Amazon 4-Star store,
with its highly rated items, in New York.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
55. to Prime subscribers in India.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In September, the company announced its plans to launch Echo
smart home devices and companion
device in Indian.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon opened a non-food retail store, Amazon
4-star, offering toys, books, Amazon
devices, household & kitchen products, and games.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In September, the company introduce its One-Day Sale for PC
Gamers.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In September, the company announced its plan to construct
warehouse and distribution centre at Metro
Vancouver district, Deltaport, Canada.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
57. Pickup service to Whole Foods stores in eight
US cities.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon made an agreement with Monoprix, a
retail chain in France, to offer its products
through Amazon's Prime Now service.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In October, the company announced to establish a US$80
million distribution centre in South Carolina,
the US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In October, the company expanded its Whole Foods delivery
through Prime Now service to Cleveland,
North and Central New Jersey, Annapolis, Louisville, and
Pittsburgh.
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59. New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In October, the company announced to soon launch an ad-
supported streaming service for Fire TV users
through its subsidiary, Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In October, the company opened its second Amazon Go store in
Chicago.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, the company partnered with Audi to install home
chargers for the buyers of its its electric
vehicle, E-tron.
Contracts/Agreements
61. Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon announced its plans to acquire 7% to 8%
minority stake in Future Retail for around
US$338million.
Others
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon invested in two renewable initiatives; the
US recycling scheme and a solar project in
the UK.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon entered into a partnership with BuzzFeed to
launch a book club to create new
revenue streams.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
62. Year: 2018
In October, the company expanded its footprints with new call
centers in India.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, the company and American Express introduced the
Amazon Business American Express
Card, with no annual credit card fee.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In September, the company launched the new Amazon global
store in Saudi Arabia, to purchase products
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64. Year: 2018
In October, Amazon opened Fashion pop-up strore at Baker
Street in London.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon opened its first cashier-less Amazon Go
store in San Francisco, the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, the company and SiriusXM entered into a
partnership to offer three free months of SiriusXM
radio subscription to the echo customers.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon launched the new Kindle Paperwhite with a
66. cities in the US.
Financing Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon made an investment in tado, an intelligent
home climate management company.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon announced its plans to launch its new
fashion service in the UK, try before you buy.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon provided its voice assistant, Alexa to the
Charlotte Marriott City Centre in North
Carolina.
Contracts/Agreements
67. Year: 2018
In September, Amazon and Iridium Communications partnered
for developing a satellite-based network,
CloudConnect, for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, the company and Vitality signed a partnership for
its Active Rewards programme.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In November, the company and ParcelPal expanded their
partnership to operate in the state of
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69. New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In November, the company announced the launch of mini-FedEx
to deliver packages to Prime members.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In November, Amazon partnered with Western Union to launch
new payment method for online shoppers
to buy items from abroad.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In November, Amazon to provide free shipping on all US
holiday customer orders.
Plans/Strategy
71. Year: 2018
In November, the company selected New York and Northern
Virginia, the US for its second headquarters.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In November, the company's Amazon Fashion launched Prime
Wardrobe, the try before you buy
shopping service.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In November, Amazon launched the new Manuka Honey based
energy/hydration drinks and energy gels.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In November, the company and Allegion's brand, Schlage,
72. partnered for the delivery of integrated smart
home solutions to homeowners.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In November, the company announced its plans to launch an
Alexa Smart Home pop-up store at Eaton
Centre, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In October, the company approved the expansion of
commercial-stage pharmaceutical company Innovus
Pharmaceuticals to Japan.
Contracts/Agreements
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74. US$5billion for the expansion at Seattle and to
open a new operations centre of excellence in Nashville, the
US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In November, the company opened a distribution center in North
Little Rock, Arkansas, the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In November, the company and Viacom International Studios
signed a deal for streaming rights in Latin
America.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In November, Amazon entered into a partnership with Fintonic
to offer its Spanish customers a zero
76. In November, Amazon and S2 Capital signed a partnership with
Zego for extending its novel smart
apartment platform to thirty thousand S2 apartment units in
three years.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In November, the company signed a deal with Apple to sell
iPhones, iPads, Watches on its e-commerce
platform.
Product Recall
Year: 2018
In November, the company recalled its pushchairs, which may
injure a child.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
77. In July, the company invested US$33.5 million in its Indian
payments arm Amazon Pay India.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In May, the company announced its plans to open a new
fulfillment center in Tucson, Arizona, the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In May, Amazon Web Services introduced a new fully managed
graph database service, Amazon
Neptune that helps to build applications on highly connected
datasets.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
79. Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In March, Amazon announced its plans to launch a debit card,
expanding into the financial market in
Mexico.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In June, Amazon Alexa and GoGet Carshare partnered for
enabling carshare users with Alexa-enabled
device to book a vehicle by voice.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In June, the company introduced its fourth own brand fashion
line Meraki.
New Products/Services
81. Year: 2018
In June, the company entered into an alliance with McDonald's
to enable customers to shop on
McDelivery through one-click purchase using Amazon Pay.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2018
In June, the company plans for the first Alabama fulfillment
center in Alabama, the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In June, the company announced the availability of its Echo and
Alexa products in France.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In June, Vodafone UK and Amazon paired up to offer Amazon
82. Prime Video as part of its mobile plan.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In April, the company and Filtrete, a brand from 3M paired up
to integrate the company's dash
replenishment with Filtrete smart air filter line.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In May, the company opened its first fulfillment center in
Oklahoma, the US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In November, the company opened a new pop-up store in
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
84. New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In June, Amazon launched the all-new Fire HD 10 Kids Edition
under Fire tablet lineup.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In December, the company announced to expand its Amazon air
operation at Chicago Rockford
International Airport, the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In June, Amazon introduced the Show Mode, a full-screen
visual through the hands-free Alexa
experience for Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets.
Contracts/Agreements
86. Year: 2018
In December, the company introduced a compact version of its
cashier-less Amazon Go food stores at its
Seattle office in the US.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In December, the company to open a new fulfillment centre in
Leduc County, Alberta province, Canada.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In December, the company introduced the Amazon Prime Now
pickup service at Whole Foods stores.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
87. In December, the Group expanded its contract with Air
Transport Services Group to lease and operate
ten additional Boeing 767s for Amazon.com Services, to extend
leases for twenty 767 aircraft ATSG to
Amazon, and to extend the operating agreement for the Amazon
Air network.
New Products/Services
Year: 2018
In June, the company announced its plans to launch Prime
subscription service in Australia.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In September, the company and Corcoran partnered to launch an
agent-curated smart and stylish home
accessories collection.
Plans/Strategy
89. In October, Amazon partnered with Arcadia Power to install a
new Smart Home Device through a
subscription basis.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In April, Amazon Pay partnered with Airpay, an omnichannel
payments platform to authorize merchants to
accept Amazon Pay payments.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2018
In September, Amazon opened a new Fulfillment Centre on
Tsawwassen First Nation Lands at Deltaport.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2018
In October, Amazon partnered with Harley-Davidson to sell
Harley's apparel and riding gear on
91. Management Changes
Year: 2018
In June, the company appointed Atul Gawande as the Chief
Executive Officer of newly formed healthcare
company Heven, a joint venture of the Amazon, Berkshire
Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
Amazon introduced a new voice ordering service, which enables
its customers to voice-order their next
meal from Amazon Restaurants on their Alexa-enabled devices
including the Amazon Echo and Echo
Dot. This new Alexa skill allows the customers to reorder from
any restaurant available on the service in
over 20 cities by saying, ‘Alexa, order from Amazon
Restaurant’.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
92. Year: 2017
The company announced plans to open a one million square feet
fulfillment center in Colorado. It is the
first fulfillment center in Colorado.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
Live Nation Entertainment, one of the leading live
entertainment and ticketing companies, selected AWS
as its public cloud infrastructure provider and is moving its
global information technology infrastructure to
the AWS Cloud.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
AWS launched Amazon Chime, a new unified communications
service that makes meetings easier and
efficient. Amazon Chime allows its customers to start high-
quality video and audio meetings with one-
click, enabling them to join a meeting, chat, and share content
94. rooftops to generate clean energy. The
company plans to install solar systems on 50 fulfillment facility
rooftops worldwide by 2020.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
The company launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime
Now, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
Amazon entered into an agreement to acquire SOUQ.com, one
of the e-commerce leaders in the Middle
East. The acquisition allows the company to offer its services
for millions of customers in the Middle East.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
AWS introduced Amazon Connect, a self-service, cloud-based
95. contact center service that enables any
business to deliver better customer service at lower cost.
Amazon Connect is based on the contact center
technology.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
AWS plans to open an infrastructure region or a data center in
Stockholm, Sweden by 2018.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
The company announced the availability of high-performance
far-field microphone array and voice
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97. Amazon Lex, an artificial intelligence (AI) service for building
applications that can have conversations
using voice and text, was made available to all customers by
AWS.
Others
Year: 2017
AWS introduced Amazon Redshift Spectrum, a new feature that
enables Amazon Redshift customers to
run SQL queries against exabytes of their data in Amazon S3.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
AWS launched Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator, a fully
managed in-memory cache that can reduce
Amazon DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to
microseconds.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
99. AWS services from within Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform both on-premises and in the
cloud.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2017
In May, the company expanded its operations with the addition
of seven new warehouses in India.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In March, the company launched AmazonFresh Pickup click and
collect grocery services in the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In May, Samsung announced to sell its new 360-degree camera
at a cost of US$229 and it is available at
online platforms such as -Mobile, Verizon, Best Buy, Amazon,
100. AT&T, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, and
ShopSamsung app.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In May, American Express launched the new Amex skill for
Amazon Alexa, at its Innovation Showcase
event in New York.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In June, the company plans to open its first Oregon fulfillment
center in Troutdale.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In June, the company plans to open a new fulfillment center in
North Haven.
102. Year: 2017
In July, the company acquired e-commerce firm Souq for
US$580 million.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In July, Amazon signed an agreement to acquire Whole Foods
for a consideration of US$13.7 billion.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In June, the company to construct a facility at Salt lake City
valued US$200 million.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In July, the company planned to open new office in the Seaport
104. Financing Agreements
Year: 2017
In July, the company invested in its payments entity, Amazon
Pay India, with INR130 crore.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In June, the company opened up a Hub Warehouse in Wynwood,
US.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In February, the company planned to expand in the UK by
hiring 5,000 additional staff.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
105. In April, the company launched the Echo Look, a new device
with artificial-intelligence powered speakers
that includes a camera to take videos and photos of their outfits.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In March, the company launched Prime membership in Mexico.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In September, the company launched streaming services that
compete with Apple and Spotify.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In April, the company launched Amazon cash for the unbanked
and underbanked customers.
New Products/Services
107. Year: 2017
In March, the company launched an Indian entertainment
channel, Heera in the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In February, the company opened a bookstore in the San
Francisco Bay area.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2017
In February, the company open two customer service facilities
in Coimbatore, Noida.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In April, the company planned to launch an online emporium
with full-fledged retail presence in Australia.
109. Year: 2017
In May, the company launched new Fire tablets, Fire 7 and the
Fire HD.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In May, the company expanded its prime reading service to
Prime subscribers in the UK.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In May, the company launched UK pay-TV service.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In May, the company planned to enter UK and Europe’s retail
industry with check-out free supermarkets.
110. New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In May, the company expanded OTT channel subscriptions to
the UK, Germany.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In June, Bango enabled a new payment option for Amazon
customers in Japan.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In June, the company announced that it will receive an approval
from FDI for its proposal of investment in
retail of food products in India.
112. In June, the company rolled out its first payments integration on
Instagram.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In June, the company expanded its Dash button service with 20
new brands.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In June, the company planned to introduce a new service that
translates multiple languages.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In June, the company launched a new, China-Specific Kindle E-
reader.
Contracts/Agreements
114. Year: 2017
In June, the company and Olive Garden signed a partnership for
new food services.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In July, the company launched its own wine brand with king
vinters.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In July, the company planned to invest US$260 million in its
Indian unit.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In July, the company initiated selling of spectacles with snappy
delivery.
115. Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In January, Amazon planned to open Brick & Mortar Bookstore
in New York City.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In July, the company's Treasure Truck facility expanding to
other US cities.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In July, the company partnered with Coway to develop a hi-tech
water purifier.
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in Singapore.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2017
In July, the company opened location in Westwood with added
benefits for Prime members.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2017
In August, the company confirmed plans to set up a fulfilment
centre in Melbourne in Australia.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In July, the company launched its second fulfilment centre in
Lucknow.
119. Year: 2017
In August, the company launched high-volume hiring for new
Michigan warehouse.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In February, Amazon Development Centre plans to establish
two customer service facilities, in
Coimbatore and Noida, the US.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In August, the company opened packing and shipping warehouse
in Salem, India.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2017
120. In August, the company opened its second Oregon fulfillment
center in Salem, India.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In August, the company plans to open a new fulfillment center
in North Randall, Ohio, the US.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In August, the company and DTS to launch the first DTS Play-
Fi-enabled wireless speakers with Amazon
Alexa Voice Service (AVS).
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
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122. featuring the highest-resolution Paperwhite
Display.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In October, Amazon,NTT Communications, PCCW Global,
PLDT, Facebook signed a partnership with
SoftBank to construct and operate JUPITER a Trans-Pacific
Submarine Cable System that will connect
Japan, Philippines and the US .
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In September, the company launched a dirt cheap 4K Fire TV.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In September, the company entered into a partnership with
Dabur India, to launch ayurveda e-
124. Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In November, Best Buy announced a partnership with Amazon
for voice shopping through Alexa.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In November, Amazon opened its drones facility in Cambridge,
England.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In November, Amazon introduced two new furniture brands
such as Rivet and Stone & Beam feature.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
125. In October, Amazon announced that the availability of Alexa,
Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot services in
India.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In November, Amazon opened its new 60000 sq ft development
centre in Cambridge, the UK.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In November, Amazon paired up with Calvin Klein on holiday
Pop-ups.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
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Year: 2017
In December, Amazon partnered with Bsquare Corporation, and
Microsoft to help drive powerful industrial
IoT data visualizations.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In December, Amazon launched the latest version of their Linux
offering, Amazon Linux 2.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In May, Deposco extended its integration with Amazon for the
Seller Fulfilled Prime program.
Contracts/Agreements
129. Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2017
In November, the company opened a new shipping center in
Israel.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In November, the company introduced the new AWS
PrivateLink to access third-party SaaS applications
from Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In November, Amazon launched the new fully managed
intelligent threat detection service, Amazon
GuardDuty.
Contracts/Agreements
130. Year: 2017
In November, the company and Voysis partnered to create an
artificial intelligence voice assistant that
aims to license to retailers to help them compete.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2017
In October, the company plans to open Liquor Bar in Tokyo,
Japan.
New Products/Services
Year: 2017
In September, Amazon introduced the new addition to the Echo
portfolio, Echo Spot.
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132. In September, the company opened its first fashion imaging
studio, Blink, in Gurgaon, India.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In May, Amazon and DataArt signed an agreement to integrate
Amazon Alexa with DataArt’s open source
IoT data platform, DeviceHive.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2017
In April, DiagnosisAI launched the Alexa, Ask Doctor Dex
(DexMD) skill for Amazon Alexa.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
The company launched Prime Reading, which gives Prime
members access to unlimited selection of
books, magazines and comics at no additional cost.
134. Year: 2016
The company announced plans to introduce new features to
Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The new
features enable customers to use their voice to search for
favorite content, find the best subscription
deals, and also see recommendations for popular programming
from applications including Netflix, HBO
GO and HBO NOW. Amazon plans to build a new 253 MW
Amazon Wind Farm in Scurry County, Texas.
It is expected to open in 2017.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2016
Amazon opened a fulfillment center in Edgerton, Kansas. The
company opened a fulfillment center in
Shakopee, Minnesota.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2016
AWS announced the availability of Amazon Kinesis Analytics,
135. a new service that enables developers to
gain actionable insights from streaming data. The company
announced Amazon Vehicles, a car research
destination and automotive community, where customers can
view specifications, images, videos, and
customer reviews for various car models on Amazon.com. In
addition, customers can ask questions about
their vehicle and find parts and accessories that fit their current
car.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2016
The company opened a fulfillment center in Obetz, Ohio.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2016
The company announced plans to open a new fulfillment center
in Kansas City, Kansas; and
Sacramento, California. Amazon announced plans to open a new
fulfillment center in Houston, Texas. It
is the seventh fulfillment center to be opened in Texas.
137. Amazon opened The Mark Cuban Collection
(www.amazon.com/exclusives) on Amazon Exclusives,
which gives customers direct access to innovative new products.
Georgia.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2016
The company announced plans to open two new fulfillment
centers in Edwardsville, Illinois. Amazon
announced that Prime Now service in Atlanta will deliver food
from local restaurants, including Aviva by
Kameel, Chai Pani, Flip Burger, Flying Biscuit, Grindhouse
Killer Burgers, and Varasano’s Pizzeria,
among others. The company announced plans to open a new
fulfillment center in Braselton,
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
The company launched Amazon Video Direct (AVD), a new
self-service program that enables creators
and storytellers to make their video content available to
138. Amazon customers. Amazon introduced
Handmade, a store that comprises over 20,000 handmade items
(accessories, baby, and toys and
games, among others) crafted and sold directly from artisans.
Amazon launched Prime Now service in
Manhattan, which will deliver food from local restaurants,
including Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, Burger
Joint, ilili, John’s of Bleecker Street, Junior's Restaurant &
Cheesecake, Momofuku Milk Bar, Num Pang
and Sarabeth’s Tribeca, among others. AWS introduced X1
instances for Amazon EC2. X1 instances
offer more memory than any other SAP-certified cloud instance.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
The company launched Kindle Oasis, an eight generation of
Kindle, which is thinner and lighter Kindle
ever. AWS announced the availability of two new low-cost hard
disk drive (HDD)-backed storage options
for Amazon EBS.
New Products/Services
140. Year: 2016
Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in
Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. This is
the company’s sixth fulfillment center in Texas. Amazon
announced plans to open two fulfillment centers
in Florence and Carteret, New Jersey.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
Amazon launched two new Alexa-enabled devices: Echo Dot
and Amazon Tap. Echo Dot is a hands-free,
voice controlled device, which uses the same far-field voice
recognition as Echo, whereas Amazon Tap is
a portable bluetooth and Wi-Fi speaker. AWS introduced AWS
Database Migration service, which
enables customers to migrate their production Oracle, SQL
Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
databases from on-premises datacenters to AWS with virtually
no downtime.
Plans/Strategy
141. Year: 2016
Amazon.ca introduced two new unlimited cloud storage plans
with Amazon Cloud Drive. These plans
enable customers to securely store their existing content
collections and automatically upload unlimited
new content. The company announced plans to open a new
fulfillment center in San Bernardino,
California.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2016
The company signed a multi-year production agreement with
American Girl, a premium brand for girls and
subsidiary of Mattel, to produce four live-action specials and
options to produce multiple seasons of
episodic content. The company, in partnership with Brita,
launched first Wi-Fi-enabled Brita Infinity
pitcher, which automatically orders a new filter through
Amazon Dash Replenishment.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
143. Amazon acquired Twitch Interactive, a live video platform for
gamers. Through this acquisition, the
company strengthened its market position in the gaming
industry.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2016
The company announced that Prime Now service in Dallas will
deliver food from local restaurants,
including Blue Goose Cantina, Deep Sushi, Ellen’s Southern
Kitchen, Fireside Pies, Greenville Avenue
Pizza Company, Grub Burger Bar, and Terilli’s Restaurant and
Bar, among others.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2016
Amazon announced the availability of Fire, its fastest selling
tablet, in new colors and more storage
options.The company also announced that Prime Now service in
San Francisco will deliver food from
144. local restaurants, including Big Chef Tom’s Belly Burgers,
Buca di Beppo, DOSA, The Monk’s Kettle,
Nick’s Crispy Tacos and Pressed Juicery, among others.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2016
Amazon opened a new fulfillment center in Fall River,
Massachusetts. The company opened a fulfillment
center in San Marcos, Texas.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2016
Brother printers, a General Electric washer, and the Gmate
SMART blood glucose monitor joined DRS
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146. New Products/Services
Year: 2016
Amazon announced that Prime Now service in San Diego will
deliver food from local restaurants,
including Carnitas’ Snack Shack, Dumpling Inn, Rubicon Deli,
T Deli, Tajima and Tandoori Hut, among
others.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
Amazon Prime introduced Prime Music, allowing its members to
have unlimited, advertisement-free
access to more than a million songs without additional cost to
their membership
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
Amazon.ca launched a new ‘Business, Industrial and Scientific
Supplies’ store
148. games to the wide compute and storage of
the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
Kindle launched Singles Classics with essays and stories by
well-known authors.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
The company announced a new feature to Kindle: Page Flip,
which helps in the navigation of pages.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
The company introduced new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice
Remote, which provides access to more
than 300,000 movies and TV episodes.
149. Plans/Strategy
Year: 2016
Amazon announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in
Coppell, Texas, and Monee, Illinois.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2016
AWS acquired NICE, one of the leading providers of software
and services for high performance and
technical computing.
New Products/Services
Year: 2016
In June, the company expected to launch music service for echo
users soon.
New Products/Services
151. In August, the company launched a 4G VoLTE ready Bingo 50+
smartphone.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2016
In November, the company launched Prime streaming video in
Canada.
Commercial Operation
Year: 2016
In October, the company planned to provide Internet service
with Prime bundle in Europe.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2016
In November, the company extended its partnership with
Morrisons to launch same day delivery service.
New Products/Services
153. Year: 2016
In December, the company planned to launch a live TV package
in 2017.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2016
In November, Amazon plans to enter Singapore in early 2017.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2016
In June, AWS and C3 IoT partnered for creating an integrated
enterprise stack for deployments.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
Amazon launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in
Baltimore, Maryland. The company
154. introduced Amazon Fire tablet in China. The company launched
Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition, which is the
combination of all-new Fire HD 8, a year of Kindle Unlimited
with access to more than one million books,
and a limited edition leather cover. It also comprises Blue
Shade, a new feature that adjusts and
optimizes the display on Fire HD 8 tablet to reduce blue light
exposure before bedtime. The company
introduced its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Austin,
Texas.
Plans/Strategy
Year: 2015
The company announced plans to open two fulfillment centers
in Obetz and Etna, Ohio.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2015
Amazon expanded its Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery to
Chicago and Orlando, as well as new locations
in the New York City, Northern New Jersey and Philadelphia
156. customers to transfer any type or any size of data to the AWS
Cloud quickly and cost-effectively. AWS
Snowball transfers terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of
AWS, whereas Amazon Kinesis
Firehose is a fully managed service for loading streaming data
into AWS. AWS announced two new
database services: AWS Database Migration service and
Amazon RDS for MariaDB. AWS Database
Migration service enables customers to transfer production
databases to AWS without any interruption,
whereas MariaDB is available as a managed service in AWS.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
AWS introduced a new platform, AWS Internet of Things (IoT).
This platform enables devices such as
cars, turbines, sensor grids and light bulbs, among others, to
connect to AWS services so that companies
can store, process, examine, and act on the volumes of data
generated by connected devices on a global
scale. The company launched its one-hour delivery service,
Prime Now, in Portland, Oregon; San
Antonio, Texas; and San Francisco Bay area, California.
157. New Products/Services
Year: 2015
AWS launched Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-powered business
intelligence service that enables all
employees to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and
to quickly get business insights from their
data. Amazon QuickSight, which integrates automatically with
AWS data services, makes use of a new,
Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (SPICE) to
execute advanced calculations and render
visualizations.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2015
Amazon expanded Kindle Scout, its reader-powered publishing
platform, to authors and readers outside
the US, including Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and
India.
159. Amazon introduced Fire TV and Fire TV stick in Japan.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
The company launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime
Now, in Los Angeles. Amazon launched its
first Amazon Fire TV, which offers more than 3,000 channels,
applications and games. It also provides a
new Fire TV stick with voice remote. The company introduced
new Fire HD tablets, which feature a wide
screen, thin and light design, quad-core processor, stereo
speakers with Dolby audio, front- and rear-
facing cameras, and micro secure digital (microSD) card. Fire
HD also launched Fire operating system
(Fire OS) 5 ‘Bellini’, with an updated user interface.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2015
General Electric, Samsung, August, Gmate, Oster, Obe, Petnet,
CleverPet, Sutro, Thync, and Sealed Air
160. joined the Amazon Dash Replenishment Service (DRS)
program. The program enables connected
devices to automatically order physical goods from Amazon
when supplies are running low. It also
provides convenience and ease for both customers and device
makers. Amazon and CBS, a mass media
company, announced a new multi-year, multi-series agreement
to make Prime Video the exclusive
subscription streaming home for three new CBS summer series
through 2018.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
The company introduced Amazon Launchpad, a new program
that offers a streamlined onboarding
experience, custom product pages, a complete marketing
package, and access to Amazon's global
fulfillment network. The program enables the startups to launch,
market, and distribute their products to
hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe.
Amazon launched its one-hour delivery
162. Year: 2015
AWS announced that enterprise software providers such as
Looker, Qlik, Sumo Logic, and Works
Applications declared themselves 'all-in' with AWS as the core
infrastructure platform that powers their
Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
AWS introduced Amazon API Gateway, a new fully managed
service that enables AWS customers to
create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
AWS introduced AWS Device Farm, a
new service that enables mobile application developers quickly
and securely test their applications on
smartphones, tablets, and other devices to enhance the quality
of their Android and Fire OS applications.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2015
163. AWS partnered with Community Energy, a developer of
renewable energy with a long history in solar and
wind energy, to construct an 80 MW solar farm in Accomack
County, Virginia, called Amazon Solar Farm
US East. This new solar farm is expected to start generates
approximately 170,000 MWh of solar power
annually.. It is the largest solar farm in the state of Virginia,
with all energy generated delivered into the
electrical grids that supply both current and future AWS Cloud
datacenters.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2015
AWS contracted with EDP Renewables, one of the global
leaders in the renewable energy sector and the
fourth largest producer of wind power in the world, to construct
and operate a 100 MW wind farm in
Paulding County, Ohio, called the Amazon Wind Farm US
Central. This new wind farm is expected to
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165. application for Apple Watch in Canada, China, France,
Germany, Japan, the US and the UK. The
application is designed for the on-the-go customer and it offers
a custom-made Amazon experience with
voice search and quick tap features including 1-Click purchase
and save to wish list. Amazon launched
Amazon Business (www.amazon.com/business), a new
marketplace on Amazon.com with new features
and unique benefits tailored to businesses.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
Amazon Cloud Drive launched two new unlimited cloud storage
plans, including Unlimited Photos Plan
and Unlimited Everything Plan. Through these plans, customers
can securely store their existing content
collections and automatically upload unlimited new content,
including photos, videos, movies, music, and
files. The company launched Amazon Home Services, a new
marketplace for on-demand professional
services.The partnership enables prime members in the US to
enjoy the selection of films from Bleecker
Street through the Amazon Instant Video application for TVs,
166. connected devices and mobile devices, or
online at Amazon.com/PIV without additional cost to their
membership.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
The company introduced Amazon Giveaway, a new self-service
tool, designed to modernize the time-
tested radio giveaway. Amazon.ca introduced Kindle Unlimited,
a new subscription service which allows
customers to freely read as much as they want from over
750,000 Kindle books, for only C$9.99 ($7.98)
per month.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2015
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168. independent power companies in the US, to support the
construction and operation of a wind farm in
Benton County, Indiana, called the AWS Wind Farm. This new
wind farm is expected to start generating
about 500,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind power annually.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2015
AWS acquired Elemental Technologies, a provider of software-
defined video solutions for multiscreen
content delivery. This acquisition strengthens the company's
position in the media and entertainment
industry.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2015
Amazon and Bleecker Street, an independently-financed film
distribution company in the US, entered into
a multi-year content licensing agreement.
Contracts/Agreements
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services through AWS cloud.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2015
Amazon announced that Prime Now service in Los Angles will
deliver food from local stores, including
Sprouts Farmers Market, Bristol Farms, Sprinkles Cupcakes,
Fresh & Easy, Erewhon Organic Grocer and
99 Ranch Market.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2015
Amazon.ca introduced its Wearable Technology store
(www.amazon.ca/wearabletechnology). The new
store, which offers products in wearable technology including
activity trackers, smart watches, and
wearable cameras, features several products from top brands
including Jawbone, Garmin, Fitbit and
Motorola, as well as products from emerging brands like Lumo
171. and Spire.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2015
Prime Now expanded its delivery options in Chicago, to include
groceries, prepared meals and baked
goods from local stores such as Plum Market, Sprinkles
Cupcakes, and My Fit Foods.
Corporate Changes/Expansions
Year: 2015
The company announced that Prime Now service in Seattle will
deliver food from local restaurants,
including Cactus, Wild Ginger, Skillet, Marination Station,
Re:public, Cafe Yumm!, Ten Mercer, and
Mamnoon.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
173. Year: 2015
AWS introduced Amazon WorkMail, an email and calendaring
service in the cloud. With Amazon
WorkMail, users can send and receive email, manage contacts,
share calendars, and book resources
using the same email applications (Microsoft Outlook, their
Web browser, or their native iOS and Android
email applications) without buying and managing email server
software.
New Products/Services
Year: 2015
The company launched the Collectible Coins store, a
marketplace that gives customers direct access to
more than 10,000 US coins from over 75 dealers.
Acquisitions/Mergers/Takeovers
Year: 2014
Amazon acquired comiXology, a company that operates in the
174. comic book and graphic novel industry.
comiXology offers a wide variety of digital comic book content
from over 75 of the top publishers and top
independent creators. This acquisition significantly increased
the product offering of the company.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2014
Amazon and Giunti, an Italian bookstore chain, announced an
exclusive agreement to launch a new
bookstore model, as well as to offer Giunti customers access to
a wide selection of Amazon products.
Contracts/Agreements
Year: 2014
Amazon announced that as part of its licensing agreement with
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Distribution, Prime Instant Video became the exclusive online-
only subscription home for streaming all
192 episodes of the award-winning series 24.