The COMUNICANO for Thursday May 3rd 2018

Amazon held postmortem phone calls with almost all of the cities it rejected for its second headquarters shortlist, to explain why they didn’t make the cut. Now, some are trying to address those weak spots.

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Amazon.com Inc. is offering to pass along the discounts it gets on credit-card fees to other retailers if they use its online payments service, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a new threat to PayPal Holdings Inc. and card-issuing banks.

The Seattle-based retailer said more than one million small businesses in the U.S. sell their wares on its online marketplace, providing the number for the first time.

Amazon.com Inc. has started its own brand of pet products, called Wag, expanding on existing private-label efforts that include batteries, baby products, clothing and household goods.

A truly national 5G network could ensure the US retains the advantage it gained with 4G

The program, designed to secure high-risk internet users, is expanding to cover Apple’s mail, contacts and calendar apps.

Google’s venture capital arm is doing things differently to create a breeding ground for companies with a social conscience

Google Assistant now counts 5,000 supported devices, up from 1,500 in January.

This is not comforting ahead of the midterms.

Twitter is moving parts of its infrastructure out of physical data centers and onto the Google Cloud Platform. To be clear, the bulk of the social company’s infrastructure will remain in its data centers, but specific workloads will now take advantage of Google’s cloud.

I definitely won’t mention the fatal accidents, and I promise not to bring up the misleading statistics you’ve cited to defend your technology.