In South India, Amazon Builds Its Largest Office Yet (nytimes.com) 20
As Amazon signals its growth in India with its office in Hyderabad, its largest in the world, local business owners are pushing back. From a report: The austere building is hardly distinguishable in the landscape of glass and concrete buildings making up Asia's Silicon Valley, as Hyderabad, India, is known. It is one of Amazon's latest developments, the online retailer's largest office building in the world. With plans to cement its place as the center of gravity around which online retail revolves, Amazon has turned to India, the world's fastest-growing market for internet users. And it has picked Hyderabad, a city of nearly 10 million in India's south, as its base of operations there. But the project faces challenges, including pushback from local businesses and politicians.
Hyderabad has emerged in a few short years as a technology and financial center and a beacon for young talent. The city, which saw the biggest surge in tech office space last year, is already a base in India for other multinational tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple, which spent $25 million for the development of its offices there. "Hyderabad is a known software tech talent center, and the government has been an enabler for us to have a campus this size," said Minari Shah, an Amazon spokeswoman. "This is an important confirmation of how India continues to be important to Amazon."
Hyderabad has emerged in a few short years as a technology and financial center and a beacon for young talent. The city, which saw the biggest surge in tech office space last year, is already a base in India for other multinational tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple, which spent $25 million for the development of its offices there. "Hyderabad is a known software tech talent center, and the government has been an enabler for us to have a campus this size," said Minari Shah, an Amazon spokeswoman. "This is an important confirmation of how India continues to be important to Amazon."
News Flash (Score:2)
Business owners don't like competition?
So we have to think about it, if consumers can save money by buying things cheaper and more conveniently .. should they be allowed to do that? Or, are we concerned that business owners might become poor or broke? Why not tax amazon and pay the business owners a charitable donation? Banning Amazon is the same thing as giving a charitable donation to the business owners. In addition, giving consumers no option but to support an inefficient local business is a form of coe
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That's a step towards the future feared by many, where "wealth" is stamped out by some machines somewhere, and the people who own them are fabulously wealthy and powerful. The rest of us serve no real role, except as consumers, and dep
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So is the solution to reduce production by forcing companies to hire people, or is the solution that the government taxes the companies and uses that money to provide Universal Basic Income so that people can buy shares in and own those companies? If we reduce production that implies things are unavailable to some.
Donâ(TM)t be like the people who think the rent crisis can be solved by increasing salaries, while at the same time preventing new housing starts and developments. If you donâ(TM)t have
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Yeah, they called it a sign of how important India is, as if Amazon were their government already.
Office building? (Score:2)
Really? Does anyone use those anymore?
Amazon builds largest office yet (Score:2)
It's true, I've seen it! It's huge!
It's a single room, 1km square in size with a 200m ceiling!
Asia's Silicon Valley, - Hyderabad? (Score:4, Informative)
Asia's Silicon Valley, as Hyderabad, India, is known.
Not really. Taiwan does the manufacturing. Singapore does the banking. Hyderabad does sweat shop IT.
You have to invent new stuff to be Silicon Valley.
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Yes, it is Bangalore.
I have a colleague that works in Silicon Valley but saved his pennies to buy a block in Hydreabad twenty years ago.
He says he made more money from that block than from his Silicon Valley salary.
Beginning of the end, methinks. (Score:2)
Prepare to say goodbye to working for Amazon in IT in the U.S.. Who needs the hassle of obtaining H1-B visas and then having to pay employees a salary that barely allows them to live in the U.S. when you can let simply hire them overseas, have them work
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I suspect they'll keep a set of core "architects" in the US to handle large clients, conferences and such. Some management will also remain, everyone that can be replaced with cheap labor will go.
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Amazon are customer focused, they know they are not going to build world class products with third world staff. Being totally customer focused is literally what made Amazon a huge success and IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tata, and so on over-promise and under-deliver.
I REALLY LOVE FUCK (Score:1)
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