“This isn’t only the best camera we’ve ever made, it’s the best smartphone camera anyone has ever made,” Rakowski said.
“We poured surreal amounts of money into it, yet we all thought it had no value for the customer, which was the biggest irony,” according to one former engineering head, who worked on Dynamic Perspective. “Whenever anyone asked why we were doing this, the answer was, ‘Because Jeff wants it.’”
“When Amazon bought Whole Foods, what they did was they sent the signal to the entire grocery/retail landscape that Amazon was coming,” Mehta said. “Now, for every single grocery retailer at this point in time, whether they believed it or not before, now they needed an e-commerce strategy. They needed to have same day delivery. The reality was, for the last five years, that’s what we have done. We have brought hundreds of grocery retailers online, and so we had the track record of being able to do this successfully.”
“We don’t know exactly how this is going to play out, but BMW is basically utilizing their vehicles in more ways than one now,” explains GeekWire?reporter Taylor Soper, who broke the story.
“Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011,” the company wrote.
“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division, in a statement. “The Department’s antitrust review will explore these important issues.”
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“We hope that if this goes well, if customers love it, we’d love to do it in other places,” she said.
“Welcome to Amazon” is a phrase commonly heard on the tech titan’s Seattle campus but typically reserved for new employees and office tours. That could all change if Stonecrest, Ga., gets its way.
“We admire Amazon as a company, and we take them seriously, big or small,” Salzberg said. “That being said, we are competing in a competitive and large market … We think about ourselves very differently, I think, than Amazon thinks about themselves.”
“We are creating a brand new team with the mission of collecting and organizing the nation’s real estate data,” the company writes. “This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in building Zillow’s next-generation data platform and a suite of new data products.”