“Amazon has developed a successful business that offers consumers a comprehensive service, including for e-books,” says Margrethe Vestager, EU commissioner for competition policy, in a statement. “Our investigation does not call that into question. However, it is my duty to make sure that Amazon’s arrangements with publishers are not harmful to consumers, by preventing other e-book distributors?from innovating and competing effectively with Amazon. Our investigation will show if such concerns are justified.”
“Companies pay the drivers to do the work of employees but treat them as independent contractors, denying them basic amenities like healthcare benefits [and] worker compensation,” Herbold said.
“Going forward, we have big plans for transforming this service as a home for conversations, collaboration, and activity surrounding user/team/organization documents,” the job posting reads.
“Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading,” said?Russ Grandinetti,?Amazon?Vice President, Kindle Content. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with Kindle,?Amazon?has helped expand reading around the world. In addition, both?Amazonand Goodreads have helped thousands of authors reach a wider audience and make a better living at their craft. Together we intend to build many new ways to delight readers and authors alike.”
“In many ways, this can and should be a defining moment for the Seattle community,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said in an interview with GeekWire. “It’s a great opportunity to show the nation that we aspire to be a real city and region of inclusion.”
“Bad actors like those in this case detract from the flourishing community of honest entrepreneurs that make up the vast majority of our sellers,” Amazon said in a statement, adding that the company “has systems in place to detect suspicious behavior by sellers or employees.”
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“Current CAPTCHA tests are designed to be difficult for a bot and simple for a human-user to answer; however, as artificial intelligence improves, bots are more capable of using techniques such as optical character recognition to resolve current CAPTCHAs in similar manners as human-users,” the patent filing explains. “By providing a CAPTCHA challenge from a library or set of challenges that are designed in a manner that causes or likely causes a human-user to trivially get the answer to the challenge wrong, [the Turing Test via Failure] helps to confirm that a user is a human-user, as a bot would answer the challenge correctly.”
“Dogs tend to look like scary wolves when they are made into large installations. Dragons and horses, on the other hand, are already known to be large and have a ‘the bigger the merrier’ effect,” he added.
“Goddess first, Amazon second,” she said.
“Amazon grew to over 100 million U.S. Prime members in the quarter,” said Josh Lowitz, CIRP co-founder. “Membership growth has slowed, but continued steadily in the holiday quarter. U.S. membership grew 10 percent in the past year, slower than before, but still significant on a huge base and after years of rapid growth. Membership doubled in three years, and almost quadrupled in five years, from 26 million members in December 2013.”