Dave Farber
2018-11-20 22:00:39 UTC
Date: November 21, 2018 at 4:54:12 AM GMT+9
Subject: The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Citiesâ Data - In These Times
Hi Dave,
For IP, if you want.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21571/the-hq2-scam-how-amazon-used-a-bidding-war-to-scrape-cities-data
"Amazon now has a treasure trove of non-public information about Americaâs future, in addition to knowing how much cash cities are willing to part with to land an Amazon facility. And it got all that, along with a giant PR benefit from the bidding war, for free.
If you knew a city was going to build a road in a particular place, you could make a lot of money buying up the real estate there. Imagine that on a national scale and you can see how Amazon will grow far wealthier from the data it collected than even the raw dollars extracted from HQ2âs big winners. In fact, this was the real reason Amazon orchestrated the whole charade."
Cheers,
--
José MarÃa (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org
-------------------------------------------Subject: The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Citiesâ Data - In These Times
Hi Dave,
For IP, if you want.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21571/the-hq2-scam-how-amazon-used-a-bidding-war-to-scrape-cities-data
"Amazon now has a treasure trove of non-public information about Americaâs future, in addition to knowing how much cash cities are willing to part with to land an Amazon facility. And it got all that, along with a giant PR benefit from the bidding war, for free.
If you knew a city was going to build a road in a particular place, you could make a lot of money buying up the real estate there. Imagine that on a national scale and you can see how Amazon will grow far wealthier from the data it collected than even the raw dollars extracted from HQ2âs big winners. In fact, this was the real reason Amazon orchestrated the whole charade."
Cheers,
--
José MarÃa (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org
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