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It’s Official: Amazon’s HQ2 Will Be Split Between NYC and Arlington, Va.
Its new headquarters will create a total of 50,000 jobs, Amazon says.
The Other Playlists: How Behavior Impacts Songs
Since the beginning of the recording industry, the limitations imposed by format have directly influenced music, from wax cylinders to MP3s. Here we look at how the now dominant format – streaming – is reshaping music. ______________________________ Guest post from AWAL “We should get good enough that you don’t have…
Amazon Music Adds Mexico As Anderson.Paak, Future Kick Off Major US, UK Marketing Campaign [VIDEO]
Amazon Music, has begun its first ever marketing campaign in the US, UK and Germany along with a platform launch today in Mexico. Often considered the wild card in the streaming music wars, Amazon Music spots from Future and Anderson.Paak were released this week With "tens of millions of users"…
Amazon May Split HQ2 Between Crystal City, Va., and Long Island City, N.Y.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is in final negotiations and plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two East Coast cities.
SiriusXM makes home entertainment move with Amazon Echo partnership
As part of the partnership, Amazon Echo users get their first three months of SiriusXM for free
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Arithmetic Online: The Ethical Pool Solution To Streaming Royalty Allocation
Fans and artists alike are currently more than a little a displeased by the "Big Pool" method with which streaming services calculate how artists get paid. Here we explore an alternative method of calculating these royalties dubbed the "Ethical Pool Solution" which would allow listeners to direct royalties only to…
Some Amazon Workers Might Only Get a $1-Per-Hour Raise
Amazon’s pay raise won’t mean as much to everyone.
eBay Accuses Amazon of Trying to Steal Sellers
According to eBay, Amazon employees sent thousands of messages to eBay sellers to get them to move over to Amazon Marketplace. This could mean Amazon has broken California law as well as its own user agreement.
Amazon Boosts Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour
All of Amazon’s U.S. workers will benefit from the minimum wage increase, which means more than 350,000 staff spread across all of Amazon’s business ventures (including Whole Foods) should be better off beginning in November.