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  • Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. The platform, run by Amazon, offeres anyone the opportunity to earn money by completing quick, menial tasks posted by researchers: labelling images, taking surveys, transcribing receipts. These tasks can pay as little as $0.01.  Today, a reported 500k workers on Mechanical…

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  • Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has called the e-commerce giant “the best place in the world to fail.”  He has instituted a culture in which failure is not only acceptable, but is an essential part of doing business.  Amazon has had some spectacular failures over the years, costing billions of dollars.   Companies that don’t continue to experiment,…

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  • Amazon, the largest retailer on the planet with more than 100 million people worldwide with an Amazon Prime subscription, will host Amazon Prime Day, its massive annual sale for Prime members, on July 15 and 16. It is estimated that Amazon total sales could reach $5.5 to $6 billion.  Amazon Prime Day is exclusive to…

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