There are 20 US cities bidding to host Amazon’s HQ2 – but the winner will have its work cut out to make the most of the prize.
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ATMs, self-scan checkouts, automated calls, digital therapists … no wonder we’re all lonely.
Amazon, like the entire tech sector, has suffered from a lack of diversity in its workforce. This trend is likely to continue when it opens a second headquarters in one of 20 cities.
Good Girls Revolt, One Mississippi and I Love Dick are all female led dramas cancelled by Amazon.
Urban retail space is being transformed yet again. Predictions of the demise of physical retailing in the face of online competition overlook its resilience over two centuries of disruptive innovations.
Here in the business and economy team at The Conversation, we love charts. This year we’ve made plenty of good ones with academics.
Predicting human behavior is big business. But science may never be able to do so with perfect certainty.
It can be a tough gig as a female comedian.
Retailers are banking on some of our behavioural and emotional traits to get us to sign up to subscription boxes.
The arrival of Amazon in Australia may signal a change in how we navigate industrial relations and workers rights.
Australia Post has begun conducting experiments with mail delivery robots. With Amazon launching today in Australia, all eyes will be on whether these prototype robots will actually deliver.
Amazon this week purchased the global rights to J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings to turn it into a television series. What are the implications for Australia’s content and its global reach?
Dave Lewis has dragged the supermarket clear of an accounting scandal. Now for the hard bit …
There are good reasons why business has not been as successful as sports teams at implementing algorithmic decision-making.
Amazon has a reputation for avoiding tax overseas, and early indicators are that this trend will continue in Australia
Retailers should design online strategies to fit their desired customers’ characteristics.
Uber’s business model suggests something has to give – either its imperial ambitions or its presence in markets which hold it to account.
They are contesting the maps that deny them territorial rights.
Amazon has pledged to continue slashing prices at Whole Foods now that it’s acquired the organic food mecca. Will that mean more affordable organic food for more people – delivered overnight?
Retailers and shopping centre operators need to entice customers to stores, leading to some interesting experiments.
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