Author: Caran Sheppard

Amazon continues to find better ways to improve the back end of their delivery system to meet customer demand and cut costs too.  The giant online retailer is opening new warehouses and distribution centers.   And they just announced they’re going to hire 5,000 home-based workers to join its customer service, teams.  The pay isn’t great at $10, but the hours are flexible and will come with full benefits, with more details and the application process here.  But in the future, it looks like Amazon will not be hiring many new shipping clerks, as that job will go to robots.  That is when...

Twitter reported its second-quarter earnings this week, and it wasn’t all good news. The online news and social networking service failed to add any new monthly active users during the June quarter. So even though Twitter posted better-than-expected earnings and revenue growth the stock tanked down 12%.  Eyeing other avenues of revenue growth without necessarily growing the user base, Twitter released a survey back in March 2017, that indicated the intention to create a  business oriented paid subscription service.  This service which Twitter is just now testing is meant to be a more automated alternative to Twitter Ads. Twitter Ads requires set up...

Adobe has announced its free multimedia software platform Flash Player, which has been widely used as an internet staple for serving up online games and video, will be phased out at the end of 2020. Adobe in coordination with tech partners like Microsoft, Mozilla Facebook, Apple and Google will bring the curtain down on the closed, proprietary Flash Player, as more secure open standards like HTML5 have become better alternatives for content.  Microsoft said in reaction to this news that it would phase out Flash from its Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers in favor of the improved performance...