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Monday, 31 October 2016
Amazon launches Prime in China
Amazon launches
Prime in China
#Amazon #launches
#Prime in #China
Elizabeth Weise
, USATODAY
1:25 p.m. EDT October 28, 2016
#SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon is bringing its popular Prime service to China.
#Chinese Prime is different from that available in other nations, with no video offering but instead a focus on no minimum, unlimited free domestic and international shipping.
#That is a nod to Chinese consumers' growing desire for products from the West, which they perceive as often being of better quality.
#Chinese Prime members will be able to shop for over 4 million international products from the #Amazon Global Store, a storefront the company launched in 2014 to cater to that interest in international goods. The most popular products for Chinese consumers to buy on Amazon are apparel, shoes, baby, toys, home, kitchen and beauty, the company said
USA TODAY
Amazon misses on earnings, stock down 5%
The #Prime China orders from Amazon’s Global Store will be processed at Amazon fulfillment centers in the United States, then flown to China and delivered to the customer’s door via Amazon’s global logistics network. Amazon says it will deliver the packages to 82 Chinese cities within five to nine days.
#Amazon has an extremely tiny footprint in China, where it is estimated to account for 1.5% of the online commerce market ,according to iResearch. In China, online sales are dominated by Alibaba and JD.com. Last year Amazon quietly launched a store on Alibaba’s Tmall site as a way to reach the Chinese market.
#The Prime service will cost 388 yuan a year, about $58.
"Launching a #unique #program designed for our Chinese customers shows our obsession with Chinese customer needs, and demonstrates our long-term commitment to growing our business in China,” said Russ Grandinetti, senior vice president of Amazon. “We will continue to innovate for customers in China to deliver more value over time.”
Amazon has been in #China since #2004 via subsidiaries but made its first major foray in 2014 with the launch of the Amazon Global Store, which allowed customers in China to order items from fulfillment centers in the United States.
The announcement comes #two weeks before #Alibaba's massive Single's Day sale, which last year did a record $14.3 #billion in sales.
Amazon launches
Prime in China
#Amazon #launches
#Prime in #China
Elizabeth Weise
, USATODAY
1:25 p.m. EDT October 28, 2016
#SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon is bringing its popular Prime service to China.
#Chinese Prime is different from that available in other nations, with no video offering but instead a focus on no minimum, unlimited free domestic and international shipping.
#That is a nod to Chinese consumers' growing desire for products from the West, which they perceive as often being of better quality.
#Chinese Prime members will be able to shop for over 4 million international products from the #Amazon Global Store, a storefront the company launched in 2014 to cater to that interest in international goods. The most popular products for Chinese consumers to buy on Amazon are apparel, shoes, baby, toys, home, kitchen and beauty, the company said
USA TODAY
Amazon misses on earnings, stock down 5%
The #Prime China orders from Amazon’s Global Store will be processed at Amazon fulfillment centers in the United States, then flown to China and delivered to the customer’s door via Amazon’s global logistics network. Amazon says it will deliver the packages to 82 Chinese cities within five to nine days.
#Amazon has an extremely tiny footprint in China, where it is estimated to account for 1.5% of the online commerce market ,according to iResearch. In China, online sales are dominated by Alibaba and JD.com. Last year Amazon quietly launched a store on Alibaba’s Tmall site as a way to reach the Chinese market.
#The Prime service will cost 388 yuan a year, about $58.
"Launching a #unique #program designed for our Chinese customers shows our obsession with Chinese customer needs, and demonstrates our long-term commitment to growing our business in China,” said Russ Grandinetti, senior vice president of Amazon. “We will continue to innovate for customers in China to deliver more value over time.”
Amazon has been in #China since #2004 via subsidiaries but made its first major foray in 2014 with the launch of the Amazon Global Store, which allowed customers in China to order items from fulfillment centers in the United States.
The announcement comes #two weeks before #Alibaba's massive Single's Day sale, which last year did a record $14.3 #billion in sales.
Amazon launches
Prime in China
#Amazon #launches
#Prime in #China
Elizabeth Weise
, USATODAY
1:25 p.m. EDT October 28, 2016
#SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon is bringing its popular Prime service to China.
#Chinese Prime is different from that available in other nations, with no video offering but instead a focus on no minimum, unlimited free domestic and international shipping.
#That is a nod to Chinese consumers' growing desire for products from the West, which they perceive as often being of better quality.
#Chinese Prime members will be able to shop for over 4 million international products from the #Amazon Global Store, a storefront the company launched in 2014 to cater to that interest in international goods. The most popular products for Chinese consumers to buy on Amazon are apparel, shoes, baby, toys, home, kitchen and beauty, the company said
USA TODAY
Amazon misses on earnings, stock down 5%
The #Prime China orders from Amazon’s Global Store will be processed at Amazon fulfillment centers in the United States, then flown to China and delivered to the customer’s door via Amazon’s global logistics network. Amazon says it will deliver the packages to 82 Chinese cities within five to nine days.
#Amazon has an extremely tiny footprint in China, where it is estimated to account for 1.5% of the online commerce market ,according to iResearch. In China, online sales are dominated by Alibaba and JD.com. Last year Amazon quietly launched a store on Alibaba’s Tmall site as a way to reach the Chinese market.
#The Prime service will cost 388 yuan a year, about $58.
"Launching a #unique #program designed for our Chinese customers shows our obsession with Chinese customer needs, and demonstrates our long-term commitment to growing our business in China,” said Russ Grandinetti, senior vice president of Amazon. “We will continue to innovate for customers in China to deliver more value over time.”
Amazon has been in #China since #2004 via subsidiaries but made its first major foray in 2014 with the launch of the Amazon Global Store, which allowed customers in China to order items from fulfillment centers in the United States.
The announcement comes #two weeks before #Alibaba's massive Single's Day sale, which last year did a record $14.3 #billion in sales.
Amazon launches
Prime in China
#Amazon #launches
#Prime in #China
Elizabeth Weise
, USATODAY
1:25 p.m. EDT October 28, 2016
#SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon is bringing its popular Prime service to China.
#Chinese Prime is different from that available in other nations, with no video offering but instead a focus on no minimum, unlimited free domestic and international shipping.
#That is a nod to Chinese consumers' growing desire for products from the West, which they perceive as often being of better quality.
#Chinese Prime members will be able to shop for over 4 million international products from the #Amazon Global Store, a storefront the company launched in 2014 to cater to that interest in international goods. The most popular products for Chinese consumers to buy on Amazon are apparel, shoes, baby, toys, home, kitchen and beauty, the company said
USA TODAY
Amazon misses on earnings, stock down 5%
The #Prime China orders from Amazon’s Global Store will be processed at Amazon fulfillment centers in the United States, then flown to China and delivered to the customer’s door via Amazon’s global logistics network. Amazon says it will deliver the packages to 82 Chinese cities within five to nine days.
#Amazon has an extremely tiny footprint in China, where it is estimated to account for 1.5% of the online commerce market ,according to iResearch. In China, online sales are dominated by Alibaba and JD.com. Last year Amazon quietly launched a store on Alibaba’s Tmall site as a way to reach the Chinese market.
#The Prime service will cost 388 yuan a year, about $58.
"Launching a #unique #program designed for our Chinese customers shows our obsession with Chinese customer needs, and demonstrates our long-term commitment to growing our business in China,” said Russ Grandinetti, senior vice president of Amazon. “We will continue to innovate for customers in China to deliver more value over time.”
Amazon has been in #China since #2004 via subsidiaries but made its first major foray in 2014 with the launch of the Amazon Global Store, which allowed customers in China to order items from fulfillment centers in the United States.
The announcement comes #two weeks before #Alibaba's massive Single's Day sale, which last year did a record $14.3 #billion in sales.
Amazon launches
Prime in China
#Amazon #launches
#Prime in #China
Elizabeth Weise
, USATODAY
1:25 p.m. EDT October 28, 2016
#SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon is bringing its popular Prime service to China.
#Chinese Prime is different from that available in other nations, with no video offering but instead a focus on no minimum, unlimited free domestic and international shipping.
#That is a nod to Chinese consumers' growing desire for products from the West, which they perceive as often being of better quality.
#Chinese Prime members will be able to shop for over 4 million international products from the #Amazon Global Store, a storefront the company launched in 2014 to cater to that interest in international goods. The most popular products for Chinese consumers to buy on Amazon are apparel, shoes, baby, toys, home, kitchen and beauty, the company said
USA TODAY
Amazon misses on earnings, stock down 5%
The #Prime China orders from Amazon’s Global Store will be processed at Amazon fulfillment centers in the United States, then flown to China and delivered to the customer’s door via Amazon’s global logistics network. Amazon says it will deliver the packages to 82 Chinese cities within five to nine days.
#Amazon has an extremely tiny footprint in China, where it is estimated to account for 1.5% of the online commerce market ,according to iResearch. In China, online sales are dominated by Alibaba and JD.com. Last year Amazon quietly launched a store on Alibaba’s Tmall site as a way to reach the Chinese market.
#The Prime service will cost 388 yuan a year, about $58.
"Launching a #unique #program designed for our Chinese customers shows our obsession with Chinese customer needs, and demonstrates our long-term commitment to growing our business in China,” said Russ Grandinetti, senior vice president of Amazon. “We will continue to innovate for customers in China to deliver more value over time.”
Amazon has been in #China since #2004 via subsidiaries but made its first major foray in 2014 with the launch of the Amazon Global Store, which allowed customers in China to order items from fulfillment centers in the United States.
The announcement comes #two weeks before #Alibaba's massive Single's Day sale, which last year did a record $14.3 #billion in sales.
Uber looks to flying cars as next big shift
Uber looks to flying
cars as next
big shift
Eli Blumenthal
, USA TODAY
12:18 p.m. EDT October 29, 2016
#Several companies are already working on flying car#prototypes. Video provided by Newsy
Newslook
#NEW YORK — While most of the auto industry is focused on getting self-driving cars rolling, Uber already has its eyes to the skies. Literally.
#In a
white paper published
this week, the company detailed plans for Uber Elevate, its new division for offering rides through flying cars.
#The company hopes to have the program up and running within a decade.
#In addition to being incredibly cool, Uber stresses the many benefits of this method of transportation in this new mode of transportation, saving time being the biggest.
USA TODAY
Self-driving truck makes first trip — a 120-mile beer run
"#Imagine traveling from San Francisco’s Marina (district) to work in downtown San Jose — a drive that would normally occupy the better part of two hours — in only 15 minutes," writes Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, and Nikhil Goel, the company's product manager for Uber Elevate and advanced programs, in the white paper.
"#What if you could save nearly four hours round-trip between São Paulo’s city center and the suburbs in Campinas? Or imagine reducing your 90-plus-minute stop-and-go commute from Gurgaon to your office in central New Delhi to a mere six minutes," they wrote.
#Plus with more people in the air, the company anticipates it loosening the burden on the roads, particularly in heavily congested areas.
#The company acknowledges that there are challenges for getting this project off the ground. As opposed to using helicopters, which are expensive and noisy, the company will instead be relying on VTOLs, or "a network of small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically."
#The VTOLs are cheaper and quieter, and their electronic basis also means they will be better for the environment than the gas-powered helicopters. Battery technology still needs to improve, and as these are flying vehicles, the company notes, there will need to be some air-traffic control mechanism in place. These vehicles also will need properly trained pilots at the controls, at least until they too become self-driving.
#Plus there's the economics. This type of flying aircraft, which is already being developed by a variety of companies including Joby Aviation, Zee.Aero and Airbus, will be pricey initially, though Uber anticipates that with scale it will drop. For the consumer, it sees prices starting out high but dropping over time due to its Uber Pool system.
#A 45-mile pool VTOL, for example, would replace a 60-mile car ride for potentially as low as $21. And the trek would be only 15 minutes.
The #company is planning an Elevate Summit for early next year to further set the wheels in motion.
As for timing, the company hopes to have vehicles ready within the next five years, with fleets deploying over the successive five years. In the interim, well, there's always those more #traditional self-driving Uber cars.
Uber looks to flying
cars as next
big shift
Eli Blumenthal
, USA TODAY
12:18 p.m. EDT October 29, 2016
#Several companies are already working on flying car#prototypes. Video provided by Newsy
Newslook
#NEW YORK — While most of the auto industry is focused on getting self-driving cars rolling, Uber already has its eyes to the skies. Literally.
#In a
white paper published
this week, the company detailed plans for Uber Elevate, its new division for offering rides through flying cars.
#The company hopes to have the program up and running within a decade.
#In addition to being incredibly cool, Uber stresses the many benefits of this method of transportation in this new mode of transportation, saving time being the biggest.
USA TODAY
Self-driving truck makes first trip — a 120-mile beer run
"#Imagine traveling from San Francisco’s Marina (district) to work in downtown San Jose — a drive that would normally occupy the better part of two hours — in only 15 minutes," writes Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, and Nikhil Goel, the company's product manager for Uber Elevate and advanced programs, in the white paper.
"#What if you could save nearly four hours round-trip between São Paulo’s city center and the suburbs in Campinas? Or imagine reducing your 90-plus-minute stop-and-go commute from Gurgaon to your office in central New Delhi to a mere six minutes," they wrote.
#Plus with more people in the air, the company anticipates it loosening the burden on the roads, particularly in heavily congested areas.
#The company acknowledges that there are challenges for getting this project off the ground. As opposed to using helicopters, which are expensive and noisy, the company will instead be relying on VTOLs, or "a network of small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically."
#The VTOLs are cheaper and quieter, and their electronic basis also means they will be better for the environment than the gas-powered helicopters. Battery technology still needs to improve, and as these are flying vehicles, the company notes, there will need to be some air-traffic control mechanism in place. These vehicles also will need properly trained pilots at the controls, at least until they too become self-driving.
#Plus there's the economics. This type of flying aircraft, which is already being developed by a variety of companies including Joby Aviation, Zee.Aero and Airbus, will be pricey initially, though Uber anticipates that with scale it will drop. For the consumer, it sees prices starting out high but dropping over time due to its Uber Pool system.
#A 45-mile pool VTOL, for example, would replace a 60-mile car ride for potentially as low as $21. And the trek would be only 15 minutes.
The #company is planning an Elevate Summit for early next year to further set the wheels in motion.
As for timing, the company hopes to have vehicles ready within the next five years, with fleets deploying over the successive five years. In the interim, well, there's always those more #traditional self-driving Uber cars.
From Russia, with snow: How Siberian weather predicts U.S. winter
From #Russia, with #snow
:
#How Siberian #weather
#predicts #U.S.
winter
http://www.cpmfun.com/67055.html
Forecasters are predicting a La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean, so those up north might want to bundle up. Video provided by Newsy
Newslook
#If you want to know just how cold and snowy our #winter will be, look no further than far away Siberia, the "#refrigerator for the Northern Hemisphere," meteorologist Judah Cohen says.
The amount of #October snow cover across that vast Russia province thousands of miles away is the key to the winter forecasts Cohen puts out for the #U.S. each year through Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a Verisk Analytics company.
An unusually snowy fall this year in the already perpetually frosty region means those in the central and eastern U.S. can expect a cold, snowy winter, Cohen says.
USA TODAY
Winter forecast: Snow boots or sandals? What's up for the season
Here's how: Snow reflects about 70% to 80% of the sun's warmth back into space, while a bare ground reflects only 20%. October is when Siberia and the entire Eurasian region sees its greatest expansion of snow cover, sometimes increasing as much as six #million square miles, larger than the total land area of the U.S., including Alaska.
#Just how snow-covered Siberia gets in fall helps Cohen formulate his forecast because that icy cold air over the region will slowly slosh into Europe and eventually into North America by mid-winter. Essentially, more snow in Siberia equates to colder air and the potential for more snow than normal in the U.S.
#The cycle also affects climate patterns, with more snow cover often resulting in the infamous polar vortex more frequently spilling frigid air down into the eastern U.S., or dipping temperatures even lower in a single cold spell. It also tends to turn the Arctic Oscillation climate pattern negative, another sign of a colder winter in the East.
#See how La Niña is expected to impact winter weather across the country.
USA TODAY NETWORK
#While the central and eastern U.S. may shiver this winter as a result of the Siberian #snow cover, the western U.S. should see a warmer-than-average winter partly #because of the La Niña climate pattern, Cohen said.
#Siberia's snow doesn't typically affect the West's winter forecast because the cold air it helps funnel down from the Arctic tends to get blocked by the region's mountains, #and it doesn't play a role in precipitation there either.
#Cohen, whose research is funded by the National Science Foundation, said he found the link between Siberia's snow cover and U.S. weather by accident. As a postdoctoral fellow, he ran global climate modeling experiments to determine the influence of unusual North American snow cover over other large-scale climate patterns.
#Instead, he found the strong relationship that now forms the basis of his predictions, which he says have been 75% accurate since he began including Siberian snow cover as a factor in winter forecasts in 1999.
#Government scientists have yet to use the technique in the official federal forecast #issued each year, instead relying primarily on the climate patterns of El Niño and La Niña. Mike Halpert, director of the Climate Prediction Center, said the agency is aware of the research on the connection between Siberian and U.S. weather, but "these relationships are still being tested."
"It is not yet clear how they might improve predictions beyond the current set of tools that we already consider," he said.
#Last winter, Cohen wasn't spot on in his forecast. His prediction that much of the country would experience warmer weather than usual panned out, but his forecast of cooler weather in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states didn't quite hit the mark. The season ended up freakishly warm coast-to-coast and was the warmest on record, NOAA reported.
#Cohen's predictions are once again at odds this year with the prediction center's forecast released last week that calls for a mild, dry winter for the southern U.S., and gives the East equal chances of a colder, snowier winter or a warmer, drier one.
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