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Incentives are drawing high-paid tech workers, and challenging how we think about local economic development...

E-commerce titan Amazon (AMZN) unveiled some pretty exciting innovations that could help it make a push toward the $2 trillion market cap mark — a level that was within reach less than a year ago. Undoubtedly, Amazon Web Services continues to grow at a rapid rate. However, new services such as "Buy with Amazon Prime" open up the firm's logistics and payments solutions to the world. Shares have been treading water alongside the rest of the broader market of late. Retail could find itself on the r...

Amazon , which has been talking of "investing in drone technology" for years, recently announced that residents of Lockeford, California would be the first to receive their online orders by drone. "For these deliveries, the drone will fly to the designated delivery location, descend to the customer's backyard, and hover at a safe height," Amazon said at the time. While the announcement was made on June 13, Amazon is yet to name the exact day that someone from Lockeford will be able to order, say, some dish soap or a camera tripod and have it drop from the sky and on their lawn...

Amazon.com Inc is pausing the construction of six new office buildings in Bellevue and Nashville to reevaluate the designs to suit hybrid work, the tech giant said on Friday...