Draft design documents filed this week with the city of Seattle provide the first public glimpse of Amazon.com’s plans for a new campus covering three city blocks on the northern edge of downtown — showing three office buildings as tall as 37 stories, ground-floor retail space, an auditorium, an outdoor amphitheater, an “awareness garden” and other… Read More…
Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter financial report on Tuesday afternoon will show how the company performed in the critical holiday shopping season and shed new light on the reception for Amazon’s revamped Kindle lineup and new Kindle Fire tablet. This much is clear: Sales are expected to soar compared with the same period a year ago, with analysts… Read More…
Amazon.com has been growing like a weed over the past year, hiring hundreds of engineers and developers at its new headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood and expanding its footprint in the city. But Amazon, like many other technology giants, is now looking elsewhere for top talent. The Boston Globe reports that the giant… Read More…
Amazon.com added more than 8,000 employees during the third quarter — a mind-numbing hiring pace for the Seattle-based online retailer. And where are they going to put all of those folks? Last month, we reported that the company was poised to take over several floors in the West 8th office building located at 8th and… Read More…
Amazon.com just reported quarterly profits significantly below Wall Street’s expectations, despite revenues that exceeded them, and the reason is spelled out in the employment data accompanying the report. The company exploded with growth during the first quarter — expanding its entire employee base by 4,200 people, or 12 percent, in just three months, bringing its… Read More…
A judge in Seattle today denied a former Microsoft general manager’s new attempt to carve out a role for himself at Salesforce.com, saying the revised job proposal would still run afoul of his non-compete agreement with the Redmond company, even if it didn’t precisely match his former Microsoft role. The preliminary injunction entered by King… Read More…
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