“The UK is a leader in enabling drone innovation — we’ve been investing in Prime Air research and development here for quite some time,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s Vice President of Global Innovation Policy and Communications. “This announcement strengthens our partnership with the U.K. and brings Amazon closer to our goal of using drones to safely deliver parcels in 30 minutes to customers in the U.K. and elsewhere around the world.”
“Our objective and why we’re partnering in this way is to make all of those (infrastructure) choices seamless and invisible to the customer,” Gelsinger said in the press conference.
“Now [Amazon] is of the size that perception matters and there is a cost to not doing philanthropy,” said Sandi Lin, a former senior manager at Amazon who left in 2013 after more than three years. Lin, who is CEO and co-founder of the local startup Skilljar, said philanthropy can boost the company’s reputation and serve as a recruiting tool.
“I’m the luckiest guy in the world,” says Fotheringham of his role at the helm of Kymeta. “I have a job that allows me to leverage everything I’ve learned over the entire arc of my career.”
“I’d argue that even the B2B companies focused on cloud/enterprise have to have more B2C DNA to be successful,” Liu said. “At the end of the day, it’s still end-users that have to use these products.” Liu added that “Seattle is a good a place as any in the world to build a consumer-tech company,” but even still he’d love to see more activity.
“Over the course of the author’s reporting, Amazon facilitated meetings for him with?more than?half a dozen senior?Amazon?executives, during which he had every opportunity to inquire about or fact-check?claims made by former employees. He chose not to. I met in person with him on at least three occasions and exchanged dozens of emails where he only checked a few specific quotes. He had every opportunity to thoroughly fact check and bring a more balanced viewpoint to his?narrative, but he was very secretive about the book and simply chose not to.”
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“I’m really proud — I just learned yesterday that we were recognized as having the highest availability of any cloud over the course of 2016,” Greene said on stage. She paused before adding with a chuckle, “I think 2017 will be promising, too.”
“The Mojio skill for Alexa lets customers simply use voice to track vehicle location, trip distance and fuel levels,”?Paul Bernard, director of the Alexa Fund said in a statement. “By unlocking data insights from the car, we see opportunity for Mojio to continue innovating with Alexa to bring customers more delightful voice-powered experiences.”
“No matter which country you live in, we all experience the magic mirror,” Schoberl said. “On social media, other people’s lives seem more perfect than our own. Women are prettier, younger and thinner, men are more buff and more successful.”
“The explosion of data is going to be beyond what we’ve ever seen before,” Tomsen Bukovec said.