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I know Montreal! I visited EXPO '67 at age 7. I apologize for not mentioning that city. And Calgary and Edmonton for that matter. But, seriously, when US citizens think of Canada, Toronto and Vancouver do come to mind first. I can't control that!
Maybe in the Pacific Northwest, but not in the eastern US. Where I'm from, it's Toronto and Montreal. Vancouver is almost an afterthought. I mean, Montreal is only 45 miles from the state of New York. Its NHL team is legendary, and the city is intensely connected to the Northeastern metropolises in every way imaginable: business, sports, higher education, leisure. For much of the history of Canada, Montreal was the country's premier city. And while Quebec's language laws of the 1970's helped Toronto surge past Montreal, at the same time it helped create a massive need in Montreal for people to create French-language media and entertainment. This has resulted in a huge creative and tech element in Montreal that can't be overstated.
Amazon's decision to pick Toronto as the only HQ2 candidate in Canada is totally understandable, but it would be a mistake to completely dismiss Montreal's prominence and stature. It is a thoroughly cosmopolitan and very artistic city filled with a highly educated workforce of people proficient in two major world languages.
“Y’know, Amazon is very PR savvy, ok,” says Boyd. “We’re a nation that loves lists, we love top twenty lists, right?”
But it’s not all PR. The corporate relocation specialist says Philadelphia earned its spot on the list.
“I don’t think all of these twenty cities are necessarily on equal footing,” he says. “I mean some are real long shots here, that Philadelphia enjoys a big advantage over.”
Washington may be the city to beat, says Boyd. The Greater Washington Metro area has three sites on the finalist list: Northern Virginia, Montgomery County, Md., and DC itself.
But Philadelphia may have a leg up on its competitors. Amazon is expanding aggressively into pharmaceuticals. And for years now, the eds and meds sector has been the region’s biggest economic driver. If Amazon wants to run this new pharma division out of HQ2, then Philly might offer just the right prescription.
The reason Amazon has made Bezos the wealthiest man in the world has nothing to do with "tech"....it's that he was the first to use tech to make brick and mortar more efficient, with gobs of help from the postal service.
I still don't see Amazon as a tech company, it's basically a giant pizza-delivery company at this point.
They host half of the internet. Admittedly, that’s a bit of an overstatement, but AWS has a 42% share of the world’s cloud storage. AWS is, by far, the most profitable division of Amazon. It is very much a tech company, and anyone whith even a passing familiarity with the tech sector knows that.
They host half of the internet. Admittedly, that’s a bit of an overstatement, but AWS has a 42% share of the world’s cloud storage. AWS is, by far, the most profitable division of Amazon. It is very much a tech company, and anyone whith even a passing familiarity with the tech sector knows that.
Are you referring to Amazon Drive? You can't even use it to view files, only photos. You're really stretching here.
Yes you can store some photos in a cloud but the bulk of the servers in the world are now Linux processors. I can tell you really don't know what you're talking about.
The fact that Wall Street views the #1 competitor to Amazon as Walmart and the fact that Walmart is always watching Amazon shows that Amazon is simply a high tech Walmart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is. That being said, there will be a large need for HR people, financial managers, project managers, sales reps, post sales reps, lawyers, and more lawyers in the new HQ2. I can't overstate the lawyers, they really are going to need lawyers as I imagine the same kind of lawsuits that plagued MS in the 90's to start plaguing Amazon as it expands.
Right now the hipsters view Bezos in some kind of awesome light, but I can't imagine the richest man in the world to not undergo the same fate that Bill Gates went through. The public demonized Bill Gates in the 90's.
Are you referring to Amazon Drive? You can't even use it to view files, only photos. You're really stretching here.
Yes you can store some photos in a cloud but the bulk of the servers in the world are now Linux processors. I can tell you really don't know what you're talking about.
their cloud is their most profitable portion of their business widely unseen or unknown to the typical public a lot of their of their retail is not all that profitable
they plan to be profitable in pharmaceuticals and will be a large focus in the coming years
their cloud is their most profitable portion of their business widely unseen or unknown to the typical public a lot of their of their retail is not all that profitable
they plan to be profitable in pharmaceuticals and will be a large focus in the coming years
They may very well be profitable in their cloud business but it is not "the backbone" of the internet, that is ridiculous.
I agree about the pharmaceuticals area. I just purchased a 6 month supply of zyrtec for $30. That's even cheaper than my insurance. Still, that's again an area they are competing against Walmart, which is known for cheap pharmaceuticals.
Are you referring to Amazon Drive? You can't even use it to view files, only photos. You're really stretching here.
Amazon has done their due diligence and got most of the major companies to sign agreements with them to be their public cloud provider.
The days of each company having their own data centers are coming to an end.
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"For industry leaders like Comcast Cable, the quest to anticipate and exceed consumers’ media and entertainment needs is never ending,” said AWS leader Mike Clayville in a statement. “Comcast Cable’s goal has always been to stay a step ahead of the competition. In order to do that, they wanted solutions that were agile, flexible and ready for what’s next. Together, AWS and Comcast Cable collaborated to enable them to confidently move core business workloads, build new applications with ease, and gain the agility they required by using AWS.”
Are you referring to Amazon Drive? You can't even use it to view files, only photos. You're really stretching here.
Yes you can store some photos in a cloud but the bulk of the servers in the world are now Linux processors. I can tell you really don't know what you're talking about.
The fact that Wall Street views the #1 competitor to Amazon as Walmart and the fact that Walmart is always watching Amazon shows that Amazon is simply a high tech Walmart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is. That being said, there will be a large need for HR people, financial managers, project managers, sales reps, post sales reps, lawyers, and more lawyers in the new HQ2. I can't overstate the lawyers, they really are going to need lawyers as I imagine the same kind of lawsuits that plagued MS in the 90's to start plaguing Amazon as it expands.
Right now the hipsters view Bezos in some kind of awesome light, but I can't imagine the richest man in the world to not undergo the same fate that Bill Gates went through. The public demonized Bill Gates in the 90's.
Wal mart is watching Amazon because they are threatened by them. Amazon is a multi faceted company.
Are you referring to Amazon Drive? You can't even use it to view files, only photos. You're really stretching here.
Yes you can store some photos in a cloud but the bulk of the servers in the world are now Linux processors. I can tell you really don't know what you're talking about.
The fact that Wall Street views the #1 competitor to Amazon as Walmart and the fact that Walmart is always watching Amazon shows that Amazon is simply a high tech Walmart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is. That being said, there will be a large need for HR people, financial managers, project managers, sales reps, post sales reps, lawyers, and more lawyers in the new HQ2. I can't overstate the lawyers, they really are going to need lawyers as I imagine the same kind of lawsuits that plagued MS in the 90's to start plaguing Amazon as it expands.
Right now the hipsters view Bezos in some kind of awesome light, but I can't imagine the richest man in the world to not undergo the same fate that Bill Gates went through. The public demonized Bill Gates in the 90's.
I’m referring to AWS (Amazon Web Services) which hosts more of the web than most people know. Amazon has obscene server capacity to accommodate their Cyber-week/Christmas shopping traffic. They only need a fraction of that capacity, most of the year, so they decided to start leasing it, and AWS was born. For some text start ups, AWS is their single greatest expense.
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