Eugene Kim
Chief Tech Correspondent at Business Insider
Chief Tech Correspondent @businessinsider covering Amazon. Email: [email protected] or [email protected].
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4 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Eugene Kim |Henry Blodget
Amazon staff demanded Cursor. They may be about to get it. According to internal Slack messages, reviewed by Business Insider, several Amazon employees inquired about using the AI coding assistant Cursor at work. In response, an HR manager wrote that Amazon is in talks with Cursor's team to formally adopt the popular development tool "asap."The HR manager added that the two companies are addressing "a few high priority security issues" before deploying Cursor's AI tool.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Eugene Kim |Henry Blodget
Call it an "Everything Store," just without the clutter. Amazon has been getting rid of billions of product listings deemed "unproductive" through a confidential project called "Bend the Curve," according to an internal planning document obtained by Business Insider. The document reveals that Amazon planned to remove at least 24 billion ASINs, or unique product listings, from its marketplace.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Monica Melton |Emma Cosgrove |Tim Paradis |Eugene Kim
Companies are shedding bloated layers of management in an attempt to reduce bureaucracy. Some employees are applauding the move, known as flattening the middle, in the hopes of getting faster and boosting efficiency. Microsoft said Tuesday it's slashing around 6,000 employees.
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3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Eugene Kim |Henry Blodget
When Amazon unveiled its new Vulcan touch-sensing warehouse robot last week, it framed the technology as a way to make frontline jobs safer and easier. What the company didn't mention is a broader ambition: Using Vulcan and its expanding fleet of warehouse robots to reduce its need to hire a lot more human labor. An internal document obtained by Business Insider reveals Amazon's long-term vision of automating many warehouse tasks.
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3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Alistair Barr |Eugene Kim |Henry Blodget
Amazon is going back to FedEx after falling out with UPS. According to an internal document obtained by Business Insider, Amazon signed a new partnership deal with FedEx in late February to handle some parts of its package deliveries. The FedEx deal gives Amazon "cost favorability" compared to UPS, the document said, indicating the retail giant stands to save money from the transition.
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New: Amazon sees Vulcan and its warehouse robots as key to slowing hiring growth over the next decade. Some say automation is needed to address growing costs and possible labor shortages in Amazon’s warehouses. https://t.co/wJHseIoSKd
RT @SleeperSFGiants: JUNG HOO LEE HOMERS ON KOREAN HERITAGE NIGHT 🔥 https://t.co/ct2OlrAz1p
RT @emmacos: We’re in the midst of a trade war and Amazon and FedEx are in headlines together again…. Anyone know what year it is? Im lost.