Amazon is buying Wi-Fi device maker Eero, helping the online retailer expand its line of smart home gadgets. The news came on the same day when a top official in New York defended a deal bringing 25,000 jobs from Amazon to New York City.
Read MoreAmazon may not build a new campus in New York City for 25,000 works after all. So could North Carolina get back in the running for the jobs?
Read MoreAmazon is trying to win over its “future neighbors” in New York City, where its received a less-than-enthusiastic welcome from some locals after it announced plans to establish a headquarters in Queens. A print advertisement ran in the Saturday editions of the local newspapers, the Daily News and the New York Post. It’s also posted online. “Happy New Year from your future neighbors at Amazon,” the ad reads. The company said it hopes to have a “long and mutually beneficial partnership between New Yorkers and Amazon.” It pledged that the 25,000 jobs that will be added over 10 years...
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2019 is shaping up to be a promising year for economic development across North Carolina, says the head of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina.
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“New York City continues to be a great source of diverse, world-class talent,” Ruth Porat, Google’s chief financial officer, said in a statement Monday. “That’s what brought Google to the city in 2000, and that’s what keeps us here.”
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Google is spending more than $1 billion to expand operations in New York City.
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This generation’s biggest technology companies — including Apple, Amazon and Google — have long been tied to their hometowns. Now these giants are increasingly outgrowing their West Coast roots.
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When a sharply divided political leadership of North Carolina issues a joint statement about anything, you know that they have been devastated by something. A hurricane, for example. And Apple’s decision not to build a new corporate campus in RTP.
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With the non-news news from Apple this week, some in our area are feeling stung this year by the three A’s – that’s Army, Amazon and Apple – and their apparent rebuff of the Triangle. Let me be the first to re-affirm the technology leadership exhibited by this great community.
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