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Social Media Newsfeed: Snapchat Ads at American Music Awards | Facebook at Work
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Snapchat Debuts New Ad Format With American Music Awards Stream (Ad Age) A month after introducing its first ad product, Snapchat...
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TeleRead Links: Amazon drones and butterflies in the sky; Authors Guild urges...
Amazon proposes a delivery drone flight plan (Engadget) It’s basically a mirror of the current (and exceedingly safe) system employed by the FAA for commercial airliners. What’s more, Amazon wants to...
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New York to Partner with Amazon on Ebooks
New York City’s Department of Education (DOE) is set to approve a $34.5 million contract with Amazon to create an ebook marketplace for the city’s 1,800 public schools. Amazon will provide the school...
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New Amazon drone commercial for hoped-for delivery service: Your own Amazon...
One of the great functions of science fiction is to predict the future, right? Well, chalk up another one for Vernor Vinge. The new Amazon commercial with former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson plays...
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Ouch! No Amazon drone delivery for me, due to D.C. area security restrictions?
Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service is a long way from reality thanks to regulators, despite all the hoopla such as this video. And now the Patch newspapers say the area 30 miles around...
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Amazon VP Paul Misener discusses the Prime Air drone delivery program
Yahoo has an interview with Amazon VP for global public policy Paul Misener, going over how the Amazon Prime Air program will work. There’s not a whole lot of new information there (see an earlier...
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The iEye: The product that could save Apple – but probably won’t
This concept bears no relation to the hilarious “iEye” spoof over at Uncyclopedia – “the content-free encyclopedia” – which “describes a bionic visual data management system device produced by Apple...
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Domino’s New Zealand tries out a robotic delivery vehicle
When it comes to autonomous delivery vehicles, Amazon may be in for some competition. Domino’s Pizza is trying out its own drone delivery vehicle in New Zealand—but it’s aiming a little lower than...
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A hive of delivery drones
If Amazon does start using delivery drones, how is the infrastructure to support them going to work? FastCoDesign looks at a design concept for a skyscraper to support an immense drone delivery...
View ArticleKobo parent Rakuten tests drone delivery in Japan
Strange as it might seem, Amazon isn’t the only e-book-related company testing delivery drones for physical goods. TechCrunch has an article about Rakuten, the parent company of Kobo and Overdrive,...
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