“Google, Amazon and Redmond, Wash.- based Microsoft all provide similar services, and for the most part users are picking one based on their previous experience as well as on incentives those providers give.
“Right now Google and Microsoft are behind Amazon, but just because they had a late start. With Google and Microsoft's control on businesses/enterprises, my hunch is that they will quickly catch up to Amazon and stay competitive,”
“Large enterprises will make multi-cloud a strategic business imperative. Companies have been burnt by putting too much reliance on one vendor for multiple software needs. Having learnt that lesson, large enterprises are enterprises are wary of doing the same with cloud vendors like AWS.”
“Large enterprises will make multi-cloud a strategic business imperative. Companies have been burnt by putting too much reliance on one vendor for multiple software needs. Having learnt that lesson, large enterprises are enterprises are wary of doing the same with cloud vendors like AWS.”
In 2017, Amazon removed an inordinate number of 1-star reviews from the listing of former Presidential candidate Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton's newest book, What Happened. The book carried a 4.9 out of 5 rating as of Friday, September 15, 2017.[75]
Allegations have been made that Amazon has selectively deleted negative reviews of Scientology-related items despite compliance with comments guidelines. 👀 Rock54: Caution(BBR-MD5:1341adc37120578f18dba9451e6c8c3b)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies#Removal_of_competitors'_products A study at Cornell University in that year[69] asserted that 85% of Amazon’s high-status consumer reviewers “had received free products from publishers, agents, authors and manufacturers.” By June 2011, Amazon itself had moved into the publishing business and begun to solicit positive reviews from established authors in exchange for increased promotion of their own books and upcoming projects.[70]
Warehouse conditions In September 2011, Allentown, Pennsylvania's Morning Call interviewed 20 past and present employees at Amazon's Breinigsville warehouse, all but one of whom criticized the company's warehouse conditions and employment practice. Specific investigatory concerns were: heat so extreme it required the regular posting of ambulances to take away workers who passed out,[95] strenuous workloads in that heat, and first-person reports of summary terminations for health conditions such as breast cancer.[96] The Morning Call also published, verbatim, Amazon.com's direct response to a query by OSHA,[97] where amazon.com detailed its response when heat conditions reach as high as 114 °F (46 °C), including water and ice treatment, electrolyte drinks, nutrition advice, and extended breaks in air conditioned rooms.[98] Five days after the Morning Call article was published, Amazon stated that it had spent $2.4 million "urgently installing" air conditioning at four warehouses including the Breinigsville facility.[99] However, the original investigator states that when he checked back with current employees for his September 23 follow-up story, "they told him nothing had changed since his original story ran."[100]
In 2017, Amazon removed an inordinate number of 1-star reviews from the listing of former Presidential candidate Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton's newest book, What Happened. The book carried a 4.9 out of 5 rating as of Friday, September 15, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies Removal of competitors' products On October 1, 2015, Amazon announced that Apple TV and Google Chromecast products were banned from sale on Amazon.com by all merchants, with no new listings allowed effective immediately, and all existing listings removed effective October 29, 2015. Amazon argued that this was to prevent "customer confusion", as these devices do not support the Amazon Video ecosystem. This move was criticized, as commentators believed that it was meant primarily to suppress the sale of products deemed as competition to Amazon Fire TV products, given that Amazon itself had deliberately refused to offer software for its own streaming services on these devices, and the action contradicted the implication that Amazon.com was a general online retailer.[25][26][27]
In May 2017, it was reported that Apple and Amazon were nearing an agreement to offer Amazon Video on Apple TV, and allow the product to return to the retailer.[28] Amazon Video launched on Apple TV December 6, 2017.[29]
Amazon has since suppressed other Google products, including Google Home (which competes with Amazon Echo), Pixel phones, and recent products of Google subsidiary Nest Labs (despite the Nest Learning Thermostat having Alexa support). In retaliation, Google announced on December 6, 2017 that it would block YouTube from the Amazon Echo Show and Amazon Fire TV products.[30][31][32][33] In December 2017, Amazon stated that it intended to start offering Chromecast again, but as of March 2018, it has not actually done so. Meanwhile, Nest stated that it would no longer offer any of its future stock to Amazon until it commits to offering its entire product line.[34]
The EU competition watchdog opened an investigation into the case in June last year, saying Amazon’s e-books contracts with publishers giving it terms as good as those for its rivals may make it difficult for other e-books distributors to compete.
The focus is on Amazon’s e-books in English and German. The company is the biggest e-book distributor in Europe, while the market is growing rapidly.
The profits of this company are created through user activity in Country B, but are taxed in Country A because that is where the company’s headquarters are.
Sometimes, companies will install their headquarters in Country A on purpose if the tax rate is lower in that country - even if they don’t have many users there.
Accounting Standards Codification 730-10-55-1 lists activities that "typically would be considered" R&D, while ASC 730-10-55-2 lists those that typically wouldn't be. Amazon's argument was that its people tend to work simultaneously on things on both lists, so it couldn't separate the two. This did not initially convince the SEC's Thompson, who responded on Nov. 24:
Accounting Standards Codification 730-10-55-1 lists activities that "typically would be considered" R&D, while ASC 730-10-55-2 lists those that typically wouldn't be. Amazon's argument was that its people tend to work simultaneously on things on both lists, so it couldn't separate the two. This did not initially convince the SEC's Thompson, who responded on Nov. 24:
Bob Bryan: Amazon avoids paying federal taxes using a variety of tax credits and tax exemptions that are legal and built into the U.S. federal tax code. Some of these can include the research and development tax credit which allows them to deduct some of the costs of new investments and also a big one for this past year was the ability to deduct stock-based compensation of executives.
The SEC's Jan. 22 response, this time from Mara L. Ransom, assistant director of the Office of Consumer Products, was: "If you are unable to identify or estimate research and development costs, please explain in detail the reasons for your inability. "
Accounting Standards Codification 730-10-55-1 lists activities that "typically would be considered" R&D, while ASC 730-10-55-2 lists those that typically wouldn't be. Amazon's argument was that its people tend to work simultaneously on things on both lists, so it couldn't separate the two. This did not initially convince the SEC's Thompson, who responded on Nov. 24:
Bob Bryan: Amazon avoids paying federal taxes using a variety of tax credits and tax exemptions that are legal and built into the U.S. federal tax code. Some of these can include the research and development tax credit which allows them to deduct some of the costs of new investments and also a big one for this past year was the ability to deduct stock-based compensation of executives.
Warehouse conditions In September 2011, Allentown, Pennsylvania's Morning Call interviewed 20 past and present employees at Amazon's Breinigsville warehouse, all but one of whom criticized the company's warehouse conditions and employment practice. Specific investigatory concerns were: heat so extreme it required the regular posting of ambulances to take away workers who passed out,[95] strenuous workloads in that heat, and first-person reports of summary terminations for health conditions such as breast cancer.[96] The Morning Call also published, verbatim, Amazon.com's direct response to a query by OSHA,[97] where amazon.com detailed its response when heat conditions reach as high as 114 °F (46 °C), including water and ice treatment, electrolyte drinks, nutrition advice, and extended breaks in air conditioned rooms.[98] Five days after the Morning Call article was published, Amazon stated that it had spent $2.4 million "urgently installing" air conditioning at four warehouses including the Breinigsville facility.[99] However, the original investigator states that when he checked back with current employees for his September 23 follow-up story, "they told him nothing had changed since his original story ran."[100]
