“Many major tech companies have major presences outside of their original home — think about Google in Seattle,” said Ed Lazowska, a fixture in the University of Washington’s Computer Science and Engineering school and champion of the department’s new multi-million dollar facility. “If Amazon can do for another city what it has done for Seattle, the country will be a better place.”
“It’s also critical that these types of jobs stay in the region,” he added.
“It’s pretty simple, actually,” Amazon director of global real estate John Schoettler said. “It would only be in an urban center and innovating city like Seattle where something like this would happen. That’s one reason Amazon is proud to be developing its urban campus in the heart of downtown Seattle.”
“It is undisputed that no one at Amazon?has taken his invention and done anything with it,” writes a lawyer for the former Amazon employee, Kivin Varghese,?in one filing.
“That is a dangerous place and this city has experienced that before,” he told GeekWire.
“Salaries are sky-high at consulting companies due to ‘barriers of entry’ in this field, which refers to employers wanting top consultants to have personal contacts, reputations and specialized skills and knowledge,” Glassdoor Chief Economist Andrew Chamberlain said in a press release. “In technology, we continue to see unprecedented salaries as the war for talent is still very active, largely due to the ongoing shortage of highly skilled workers needed.”
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“Looks like Apple just sold the Surface to end users :)” —A GeekWire reader responding to a patent application by Apple that includes a smart cover that could double as a keyboard, raising comparisons to Microsoft’s upcoming Surface tablet computer.
“Our customers have been behind us,” he said. “They’ve been looking through some of the articles and really digging down and seeing that … we are not putting them at risk.”
“The reason it’s a test is because we’re still tinkering with the business to try to make the economics acceptable,” Bezos said. “It’s an expensive service to provide. We’re basically working on it here in Seattle, seeing if we can get it to work. It’s a similar kind of operation to what HomeGrocer did 10 years ago, what Webvan did 10 years ago. We like the idea of it, but we have a high bar on what we expect in terms of the business economics for something like Amazon Fresh in terms of profitability and return on investment capital.”
“It’s sales where customers are physically selecting items in a store, versus perhaps ordering online and picking up somewhere,” Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said of the ‘physical stores’ section. “For us, that is principally going to be Whole Foods and Amazon Books. And then as we develop other formats over time, we could see other items in that category.”