Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories, referred to as "The Everything Store". Today, Amazon is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Wikipedia
Website: www.aboutamazon.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:AMZN
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- Apr 14: Faircamp v1.3 - an open, static-server alternative to Bandcamp - now includes full support for hosting podcasts. All you need is static hosting somewhere, like Amazon S3 or equivalent.
- Apr 7: It’s an all-time high for Amazon Cloudfront, which is now serving over 62% of all new podcast episodes.
- Apr 3: Tempted to just host your own show on Amazon AWS? Here are the costs in doing so.
- Mar 17: The host of Under the Influence, Terry O’Reilly, has a face ten stories high - or, at least, did last week in Times Square, New York City, as part of a campaign by Amazon Music. Here’s what it looked like in video form. In other news - free chocolate!
- Mar 3: Amazon’s Wondery has cut what the company calls “a small number” of jobs - though one person speaking to Reuters suggests the number of affected people is “dozens and dozens”, which Amazon denies. Both content and advertising teams have been affected. This is in addition to the closure of its operations in Brazil and Mexico, a story Podnews broke on Feb 13.
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