The Business First of Louisville (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Amazon.com Inc. will hold a hiring fair Saturday, Sept. 6, to fill full-time positions at its Lexington, Ky., fulfillment center. (AMZN)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Even as the global economy weakens and unemployment rises, Amazon.com Inc. is hiring by the hundreds. In the past year, Amazon added 4,000 jobs worldwide. The Seattle technology firm employs 18,400 people, or 80 percent more than in 2005.
ITBusiness.ca - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... trying to use IT to help boost their revenues, not to make internal improvements, Lanzalotto said. Amazon.com Inc. is a case in point. Amazon was one of several companies that sent recruiters to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in July, in hopes of finding the right candidates for IT jobs that it has available.
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
... connected to the Potter books and auctioned off the seventh, which was bought in December by Amazon.com Inc, the Web retailer known for selling books, for about $4 million. Bloomsbury Publishing and Scholastic will now publish editions with an introduction by Rowling, selling for $12.99, while Amazon will produce up to 100,000 collector’s edition copies, which will aim to replicate the look...
After Gutenberg (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
... … sales [of electric bikes in general] are up about 50 percent so far this year over last. Amazon.com Inc. says sales of electric bikes surged more than 6,000 percent in July from a year earlier, in part because of its expanded offerings. A few hundred dollars gets you an IZIP mountain bike from Amazon with a heavy lead-acid battery. For $1,400, you can buy a 250-watt folding bike...
