Amazon delivery drone may use lights and music when it shows up at your home

If you didn't already know it, Amazon really wants to deliver stuff to your door using unmanned aerial vehicles , commonly known as drones. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos unveiled a prototype of the Prime Air delivery drone in 2013, and several redesigns later, the company is surely coming close to a platform that it hopes will transform its delivery operation.

Cleveland Was Set To Give Amazon At Least $120 Million In Benefits Before Getting Rejected For HQ2

The city of Cleveland offered to give Amazon and its employees at least $120 million in benefits if the tech giant chose them as its location for the highly-anticipated second headquarters. Those incentives include discounted public transit fares for Amazon workers, which could be only part of the offering since Cleveland.com and local station WKYC were only given 27 pages of the full pitch.

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So what's it going to be, America: a democratic republic, or Trumpistan? A nation governed by the rule of law, or an oversized kleptocracy, whose maximum leader uses the decayed shell of government to punish his political enemies and reward friends and family? In another way of putting it, the United States government increasingly resembles a professional wrestling spectacle - all scripted feuds and melodramatic revenge plots enacted by a cast of alternately sinister and clownish figures skirting the edge of self-parody. According to The Washington Post, President Trump has personally intervened with the postmaster general in a fruitless effort to double the rates Amazon.com pays the U.S. Postal Service to ship packages.

Analysis: If Trump really wants to go after Amazon, he has options

President Donald Trump is livid with Amazon, attacking the company on Twitter and accusing it of taking advantage of the U.S. government to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors. President Donald Trump is livid with Amazon, attacking the company on Twitter and accusing it of taking advantage of the U.S. government to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors.

Report: President Trump is Fixated with Amazon – Wants to Change Its Tax Treatment

Axios is reporting that Trump wants to "go after" the e-commerce giant, citing five sources who have talked about Amazon with him. Trump has discussed altering the company's tax treatment because several of his friends told him Amazon is hurting their businesses and "killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers," according to Axios.

Ferne McCann discusses the aftermath of Arthur Collins’ acid attack

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Public Cynicism Enables Costly Political Hypocrisy

The political hypocrisy of crony capitalism - touting market capitalism while making taxpayers fund corporate welfare - is a rare and unfortunate case of bipartisan consensus. Republicans openly embrace it, but many Democrats also fall prey to government-guaranteed corporate capitalism when they believe it to be politically expedient.

Amazon opens bidding to US cities for $US5b ‘HQ2’

Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would build a $US5 billion second headquarters in North America, kicking off a competition between cities and states to offer tax cuts and incentives that could bring 50,000 new jobs. The largest e-commerce company said it intended to create "HQ2", a headquarters that would be a "full equal" to its Seattle office, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement.

Amazon under investigation for selling goods to Iranian embassy

Amazon.com is under federal investigation for possibly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran, the online giant said Friday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company says it sold and delivered about $34,000 worth of products - including books, software, consumer electronics, musical instruments and jewelry - to an Iranian embassy, as well as to others with links to the Iranian government, between January 2012 and June 2017.

Trump reopens fight on internet sales tax

In a tweet Wednesday criticizing the Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Trump called the publication "the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes ." Amazon in April started collecting sales taxes on purchases in every state that levies a sales tax.

Jeff Bezos to build Alabama rocket engine factory

A private spaceflight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to build a powerful new rocket engine in Alabama for space flight, the company and state officials announced Monday. Blue Origin President Robert Meyerson said his company is seeking a production contract with United Launch Alliance, a private company that provides satellite launches for the U.S. government and others.

Amazon Sues Former Exec Over Suspicions He Took Trade Secrets To New Startup

JANUARY 28: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos participate in the opening ceremony of the newspaper's new location January 28, 2016 in Washington, DC. Kerry and Bezos worked to help free Post reporter Jason Rezaian after he spent 18 months in an Iranian prison after he was jailed and tried in secret for espionage.