Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
Iowa AG warns of spam calls, emails regarding Amazon accounts
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is urging consumers to be vigilant if they receive unsolicited calls or emails referring to purchases, deliveries, gift cards or other issues involving Amazon or other retailers this season. Iowans …
Read MoreAmazon names Iowa top state for digital entrepreneurs
A new analysis by Amazon finds that Iowa leads the nation in the per-capita number of small and medium-sized businesses selling through the tech giant’s online platform, reports the Corridor Business Journal. Iowa is home …
Read MoreAmazon expansion part of growing D.M. tech scene, leaders say
Amazon.com is opening a
delivery station in Grimes that will employ hundreds who prepare packages
headed to customers’ doors, the company announced in November.
The delivery station,
the final stop for an order before being …
Amazon Web Services to sponsor tickets at Monetery Tech Summit
Amazon Web Services is the Community sponsor for the 2019 Monetery Tech Summit, scheduled in Des Moines May 21 and 22, organizers at Dwolla announced. Amazon Web Services is underwriting 50 tickets for students and …
Read MoreMeet the D.M. scientist behind the first true image of a black hole
“This blurry image is just the first go.”
Ken Young, a scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, watched the historic announcement of the first captured black hole image from his home right in Des …
Read MoreGood Read: How an aging population will reshape the internet
Although many older Americans have, like the rest of us, embraced the tools and playthings of the technology industry, a growing body of research shows they have disproportionately fallen prey to the dangers of internet …
Read MoreSigrid Johnson was black. A DNA test said she wasn’t.
At-home DNA test kits have transformed lives – just ask Sigrid Johnson, a 63-year-old black woman who grappled with identity when a DNA ancestry kit delivered unexpected results. The New York Times piece wrangles with …
Read MoreBezos, probably, to cities: ‘I’m sorry-ish’
The Dallas Morning News released what Jeff Bezos probably would have written to the losing cities in the saga of choosing Amazon’s H2Q (“initials+numbers = very hip/very now”) location, had he not been busy doing, …
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