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Online Shopping in the Middle of the Ocean

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 30, 2022October 19, 2022

There’s no Amazon same-day delivery service for people living on the remote islands of French Polynesia, so locals launched their own e-commerce business and courier service to fill the gap. HM Coursier Express initially delivered anywhere: within Tahiti, to other islands, and also abroad. In the first year, Henriou built up a client base of […]

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The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.”

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Inside Amazon’s Huge Gamble on the Next Game of Thrones

by Peter Rubin October 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“And so these books, with their gauzily painted or starkly heraldic covers, their comical abundance of pages published for the delight of furtive young boys and girls curled up reading by themselves in bookstore corners, waiting eagerly for their authors to publish the next installment (picture me here one more time, a child again, sleepy-eyed […]

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She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 21, 2021January 25, 2023

“At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.”

Posted inStory

All that Glitters

by Longreads February 4, 2021October 12, 2022

Greed, grift, and murder in the black market for gold.

Posted inQuotes

Is the Cure for Cancer Locked in Shrunken Heads from the Amazon?

by Seyward Darby January 5, 2021October 12, 2022

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?

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The Cost of Convenience

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 19, 2020October 19, 2022

“South Korea’s Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.”

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The Inside Story of MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60-Billion-Dollar Woman

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 6, 2020October 19, 2022

Stephanie Clifford explores the life of MacKenzie Scott: Amazon’s first employee, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, and one of the richest women in the world who is reimagining tech philanthropy.

Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Feature, Story

Sleeping with Amazon

by David Gutowski July 7, 2020November 25, 2022

Sometimes it’s not who you work with, but who you work for.

Amazon frown
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Highlight, Technology

Defrauding the Competition

by Catherine Cusick January 8, 2019October 19, 2022

As competitors prank each other into account suspensions, the business of reinstating Amazon Marketplace businesses is booming.

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