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Amazon Primed: CIA Disruption, Market Share Data, Business Blueprints Launch

https://ift.tt/2HQSciz Amazon Primed' is a short recap of the larger stories that dominated the headlines this week surrounding everyone's favourite cardboard abuser, Amazon. If you want the full, deep look at what Amazon is doing every week, subscribe to 'What Did Amazon Do This Week ' newsletter (called 'Obsessive...in the very best way."). Context is everything when it comes to Amazon or you can fall down a hole of thinking that the company simply controls everything. Amazon is powerful but the company still has plenty to do in different industries and competition is increasing every day. Bloomberg's data viz team have been hard at work this week to explain it all. With less than 10% of the entire US Retail market compared to eBay (6.8%), Walmart (4.0%) and Apple (3.8%). The same cannot be said in other areas, Amazon has a stranglehold in several industries including e-books (88.9%), e-readers (83.6%), physical books (42%). Amazon already has 7.5% of the consumer electronics market with its own brand electronics. Amazon's Cloud business equates to 32% of the market but perhaps not for long if the CIA has anything to do with it (see below). Bloomberg has more data. Alexa for Business launched 'Business Blueprints', dozens of templates that will help business create private skills that require no coding. The skills will answers questions like "What’s the guest Wi-Fi password?” and “What are the hours for IT?”. Here's how it will work:

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