"""The New York Times"" in which they stated that the city should ""not offer incentives and giveaways to an internet giant known for squashing small businesses"". ""Politico"" reported that the Long Island City location will be built on land intended for 1,500 affordable homes, to which State Senator Michael Gianaris said, “the more we learn about this deal, the worse it gets.” Amazon HQ2 Amazon HQ2 is a planned new corporate headquarters in Long Island City, New York and Crystal City, Virginia for online retailer and tech company Amazon in North America, to supplement the existing Seattle headquarters. Amazon announced"
"Amazon (company) Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon (), is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington. It has been called one of the Big Four or ""Four Horsemen"" of technology along with Apple, Alphabet and Facebook due to its market capitalization, disruptive innovation, brand equity and hyper-competitive application process. It is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, and started as an online bookstore but later diversified to sell video"
"city of Stonecrest, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, voted to de-annex of land for Amazon to establish its own city named ""Amazon"" around its headquarters. Sly James, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, purchased 1,000 products from Amazon, which he donated to charity. James wrote 5-star reviews for each one of them, in which every review mentioned positive attributes of Kansas City. Primanti Brothers, a chain of sandwich shops based in Pittsburgh, offered free sandwiches to Amazon employees if they chose the city as their second headquarters. The city of Birmingham, Alabama erected several giant Amazon boxes and dash buttons around"
"Journal"" reports. The selections of New York City and Northern Virginia for the HQ2 sites were confirmed early on November 13, 2018. Amazon made the official announcement later that day. In Amazon's announcement, a joint press release was presented by the Northern Virginia bidders that Amazon’s HQ2 neighborhood location would officially be renamed ""National Landing"", which encompasses not only Crystal City but also the nearby areas of Pentagon City and Potomac Yard. Amazon also announced that downtown Nashville, Tennessee, would be the new ""Center of Excellence"" for its operations business, adding 5,000 new jobs. The subsidies given to Amazon in"
"media claimed that Amazon.com was in final talks with the government of New York State to construct one of two campuses for its proposed Amazon HQ2 at Queens West in Long Island City. The other campus would be located at National Landing in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia. Both campuses would have 25,000 workers. The selection was confirmed by Amazon on November 13, 2018. In 1870, the villages of Astoria, Ravenswood, Hunters Point, Dutch Kills, Middletown, Sunnyside, Blissville, and Bowery Bay were incorporated into Long Island City. Dutch Kills was a hamlet, named for its navigable tributary of Newtown Creek, that"
"Day 1 (building) Day 1, also known as Amazon Tower II and Rufus 2.0 Block 19, is a office building in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, located at the intersection of Lenora Street and 7th Avenue. It is part of the three-tower complex that serves as the headquarters of Amazon. The name ""Day 1"" previously belonged to two buildings on Amazon's South Lake Union campus, but both structures have since been renamed. The building's east facade features a large sign reading ""Hello World"". The construction project was the most expensive in the city to finish in 2016 amidst"
"Opus Center Opus Center is a set of four office buildings built in Downtown Seattle. The structures, completed in 2000 or 2001, are four, nine and eleven stories tall, and two of them are constructed on a lid over the underground Chinatown transit station, completed in 1985. Until 2011 it was the headquarters of Amazon.com. The building's engineering is unusual because of the placement over the transit tunnel, and for other reasons. Part of the structure is cantilevered over the 1985 load-bearing columns that did not match the later building's design. Because of the tunnel, four buildings are designed as"
"in Northern Virginia. Amazon Director of Economic Development Mike Grella wrote on Twitter that the leaker responsible for informing the newspapers was violating a non-disclosure agreement. Grella also criticized media outlets for speculating on the winning bid for HQ2 based on the travel patterns of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns ""The Post"". On November 5, 2018, it was speculated that Amazon was finalizing plans to divide HQ2 evenly among two locations: Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, Long Island City in Queens, New York City or Dallas, Texas. Amazon declined to comment on the ""New York Times"" and ""Wall Street"
"August 8, 2018 story in Bloomberg Businessweek, Amazon has about a 5 percent share of U.S. retail spending (excluding cars and car parts and visits to restaurants and bars), and a 43.5 share of American online spending in 2018. The forecast is for Amazon to own 49 percent of the total American online spending in 2018, with two-thirds of Amazon's revenue coming from the U.S. Amazon launched the last-mile delivery program and ordered 20,000 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Vans for the service in September 2018. In November 2018, Amazon announced it would open its highly sought-after new headquarters (HQ2) in Crystal City,"
"that he would begin conversations with Amazon about their long-term plans for the city, while the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce characterized the announcement as a ""wake-up call"" to Seattle to improve the city's business climate. Comparisons were made to Boeing's decision to move their corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, which came as a surprise to Seattle. Moody's Analytics published an analysis of bidding metropolitan areas and determined that Austin, Texas, ranks highest among Amazon's criteria, followed by Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Rochester, New York. The ""New York Times"" also completed an analysis which found Denver to be"
"Amazon.com. The Washington Post Company agreed to adopt a new corporate name once the sale was finalized. It adopted Graham Holdings Company as the new name effective November 29, 2013. Amazon.com was not involved in the sale. Nash Holdings LLC, a company owned by Bezos, closed the purchase of the newspaper and affiliated publications on October 1, 2013. Graham Holdings Company retained ownership of WaPo Labs, its technology innovation group, since rebranded as Trove. Since 1950, the company had been based in the Washington Post building in Washington, D.C., which was sold off separately in 2014. Its new headquarters are"
"In October 2017, the city of Phoenix proposed that Amazon.com locate its ""second headquarters"", expected to employ 50,000 people, at the Park Central location. Park Central Mall has its own ""Central at Osborn / Midtown Station"" stop on the Valley Metro Rail system. Park Central Mall Park Central Mall was the first shopping mall in Phoenix, Arizona. It is located in Encanto Village, on Central Avenue and Osborn Road. Today it exists as a mixed-use, business park primarily occupied by regional administrative offices for non-profit hospital operator Dignity Health (formerly known as Catholic Healthcare West), and regional offices for UnitedHealth"
"Amazon Go Amazon Go is a chain of grocery stores operated by the online retailer Amazon, with four locations in Seattle, Washington, three in Chicago, Illinois, and one in San Francisco, California. The stores are partially-automated, with customers able to purchase products without being checked out by a cashier or using a self-checkout station. The first store, located in the company's Day 1 building, opened to employees on December 5, 2016, and to the public on January 22, 2018. The flagship store has prepared foods, meal kits, limited groceries, and liquor available for purchase. According to a promotional video published"
"the relocation of the Amazon.com headquarters to nearby Denny Triangle. After the completion of design work and environmental cleanup in 2015, the substation's cost was revised to $210 million because of unexpected soil contamination and the need for newer electrical equipment. The substation will be funded by Seattle City Light through regular rates as part of their six-year Strategic Plan. The Denny Substation will have an initial capacity of 50 Megavolt-ampere (MVA), and could increase to 405 MVA with facilities expansions. An underground distribution network, scheduled to be completed in 2020, will direct electricity from the substation to the Denny"
"Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (; born Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amazon. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has"
"Public Power Association, 1776, Eastern Foundry, TechShop, PBS since 2006 and more. On November 5, 2018, it was claimed that Amazon.com was in final talks to construct one of two campuses for its proposed Amazon HQ2 in Crystal City. The other campus would be located in Long Island City in Queens, New York City. Both campuses would have 25,000 workers. The selections of Crystal City and Long Island City for the HQ2 sites were confirmed on November 13, 2018. In Amazon's announcement, a joint press release was presented by the Northern Virginia bidders that Amazon's HQ2 neighborhood location would officially"
"as a brick-and-mortar retailer. The acquisition was interpreted by some as a direct attempt to challenge Walmart's traditional retail stores. In 2018, for the first time, Jeff Bezos released in Amazon's shareholder letter the number of Amazon Prime subscribers, which is 100 million worldwide. In 2018, Amazon.com contributed to the Wikimedia Endowment. In November 2018, Amazon announced it would be splitting its second headquarters project between two cities. They are currently in the finalization stage of the process. The company was founded as a result of what Jeff Bezos called his ""regret minimization framework"", which described his efforts to fend"
"promises to terminate California affiliates. According to the Performance Marketing Association, there were 25,000 Amazon affiliates based in California. However, on Amazon's website, under ""United States Subsidiaries,"" listed are four California locations for A2Z Development Center Inc. - ""an innovative customer-centric software development company"" - including in San Francisco and Cupertino, where the Kindle was designed; a search engine company called A9.com in Palo Alto; and, in San Francisco, Alexa Internet, another Amazon search company. Due to its opposition to rules that would require the company to collect sales tax, Amazon.com is facing a boycott from a coalition of California"
"A9.com A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon that develops search engine and search advertising technology. A9 is based in Palo Alto, California, with teams in Bangalore, Beijing, Dublin, Iași, Munich and Tokyo. A9 has development efforts in areas of product search, cloud search, visual search, augmented reality, advertising technology and community question answering. A9 was created by Amazon.com in 2003 as an independent company aimed at producing technology for search and advertising. They moved into the building previously used by the DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. One purpose of A9.com was to leverage algorithms, and the name"
"Doppler (building) Doppler, also known as Amazon Tower I, and Rufus 2.0 Block 14, is a office building in Seattle, Washington that houses the corporate headquarters of Amazon. It is part of the three-tower campus that Amazon is developing in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, located at the intersection of Westlake Avenue and 7th Avenue near the Westlake Center and McGraw Square. The tower houses 3,800 employees. The tower's name, Doppler, refers to the internal codename of the Amazon Echo voice-controlled speaker that launched in 2014. The Amazon campus, designed by Seattle architecture firm NBBJ, was approved by the Seattle Department"
"National Landing National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria that has been announced as one of two locations for Amazon.com, Inc.'s HQ2 headquarters project. While redevelopment efforts in the area had already begun as early as 2014, the cross-jurisdictional neighborhood was branded and announced as ""National Landing"" in 2018 as a part of local economic development plans to bring Amazon HQ2 to the area. The announcement also included plans to build a graduate-school satellite university campus"
"labor rights, and satisfactory working conditions of select Amazon workers. On July 17, 2018 he was designated the ""wealthiest person in modern history"" by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, ""Fortune"", ""MarketWatch"", ""The Wall Street Journal"", and ""Forbes"". In 1992, Bezos was working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan, New York, when he met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle, who was a research associate at the firm; they were married a year later. In 1994, they moved across the country to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon. He and his wife are the parents of four children: three sons, and one daughter adopted from"
"companies on Fortune 500's 2017 list of the United States' largest companies (based on total revenue) are headquartered in Seattle: Internet retailer Amazon.com (#12), coffee chain Starbucks (#131), department store Nordstrom (#188), freight forwarder Expeditors International of Washington (#429) and forest products company Weyerhaeuser (#341). Other Fortune 500 companies commonly associated with Seattle are based in nearby Puget Sound cities. Warehouse club chain Costco (#16), the largest retail company in Washington, is based in Issaquah. Microsoft (#28) is located in Redmond. Furthermore, Bellevue is home to truck manufacturer Paccar (#164). Other major companies headquartered in the area include Nintendo of"
"off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time. In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began to work on a business plan for what would become Amazon.com. On July 5, 1994, Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington State with the name Cadabra, Inc. He later changed the name to Amazon.com, Inc. a few months later, after a lawyer misheard its original name as ""cadaver"". In September 1994, Bezos purchased the URL Relentless.com and briefly"
"completed in 2009. At the time of completion, the Turnberry Tower was tallest residential building in the Washington metropolitan area. In 2017, Nestle USA chose 1812 N Moore in Rosslyn as their US headquarters. In 2018, Amazon.com, Inc. announced that it would be splitting its ""HQ2"" second headquarters project between Arlington and Long Island City, New York. The Arlington HQ2 site is planned for the Crystal City neighborhood, anchoring a broader area of Arlington and the City of Alexandria that was simultaneously rebranded as National Landing. Arlington County is located in northeast Virginia and is surrounded by Fairfax County and"
"Orlando has publicly stated it will no longer use the technology. The announcement of Amazon's plan to build a second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, was met with 238 proposals, 20 of which became finalist cities on January 18, 2018. In November 2018, Amazon was criticized for narrowing this down to ""the two richest cities"", namely Long Island City and Arlington, Virginia which are in the New York metropolitan area and Washington metropolitan area respectively. Critics, including business professor Scott Galloway described the bidding war as ""a con"" and stated that it was a pretext for gaining tax breaks and insider information"
"all of Manhattan. By mid-2016, it had been expanded in the United States to include parts of Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, Nashville, Portland, San Antonio, and Tampa. Outside of the United States, it has expanded to parts of the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, and Singapore. To meet the on-demand needs of Prime Now, Amazon further launched Amazon Flex, a platform for independent contractors to provide delivery services. In October 2017, Amazon.com added an option for Prime members to get in-home deliveries by its Amazon Flex contractors, who gain entry using a one-time code. The"
"by shape, and find visually similar items on Amazon.com, Zappos.com, Endless.com, and other retail sites. A9's advertising technology group began delivering sponsored link advertisements on the Amazon.com retail Web site in 2003 and continued to manage this program for Amazon properties. A9 also invests in display advertising technology, including technology for Amazon's ad-supported e-reader, the Kindle with special offers. A9.com A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon that develops search engine and search advertising technology. A9 is based in Palo Alto, California, with teams in Bangalore, Beijing, Dublin, Iași, Munich and Tokyo. A9 has development efforts in areas of product search,"
"Amazon Spheres The Amazon Spheres are three spherical conservatories on the headquarters campus of Amazon in Seattle, Washington, United States. Designed by NBBJ and Landscape Architect Site Workshop, the three glass domes are covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panels and serve as an employee lounge and workspace. The domes, which range from three to four stories tall, house 40,000 plants as well as meeting space and retail stores. They are located under the Day 1 building on Lenora Street. The complex opened to Amazon employees and limited public access on January 30, 2018. The spheres are reserved mainly for Amazon employees,"
"campus and a twice-monthly weekend reservation program. Amazon Spheres The Amazon Spheres are three spherical conservatories on the headquarters campus of Amazon in Seattle, Washington, United States. Designed by NBBJ and Landscape Architect Site Workshop, the three glass domes are covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panels and serve as an employee lounge and workspace. The domes, which range from three to four stories tall, house 40,000 plants as well as meeting space and retail stores. They are located under the Day 1 building on Lenora Street. The complex opened to Amazon employees and limited public access on January 30, 2018. The"
"In 2000, the University of Washington relocated its medical and bioscience campus to South Lake Union. Subsequently, the area has become a hub for some of the West Coast's leading science organizations including Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Battelle, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle Children's Hospital and PATH. In 2007, Amazon.com announced it would relocate its global headquarters to South Lake Union. Amazon's relocation has accelerated residential housing growth and entrepreneurial activity in the neighborhood. Cortex Innovation Community in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, is the largest innovation hub in the midwest region. It has"
"Douglas Hofstadter's ""Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought"". In the first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states and over 45 countries. Within two months, Amazon's sales were up to $20,000/week. In October 1995, the company announced itself to the public. In 1996, it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its initial public offering of stock on May 15, 1997, at $18 per share, trading under the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol AMZN. Barnes & Noble sued Amazon on May 12, 1997, alleging that Amazon's claim to be ""the world's largest"
"In February 2015, the service was extended to include all of Manhattan. By mid-2016, it had been expanded in the United States to include parts of Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, Nashville, Portland, San Antonio, and Tampa. It has also expanded to certain cities in the United Kingdom, including London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, and Liverpool. Other cities around the world with Prime Now include Milan, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Tokyo, Osaka, Kawasaki, Yokohama, and Singapore. Amazon Restaurants is an online food ordering service available in 20 metro areas throughout the United States. As of January 2018,"