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Already one of the country’s biggest employers, Amazon plans to grow its full-time U.S.-based workforce from 180,000 in 2016 to over 280,000 by mid-2018, and with over 10,000 military veterans already work at Amazon and last year the company pledged to hire and train an additional 25,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney thinks Amazon is in a good position to continue to grow as a company, here are his remarks as a presenter for Business Insider's Ignition conference.

After years of writing about supply chains, Jim Tompkins is building out an ambitious e-fulfillment network for retailers and e-tailers, a collaboration, or rather an alliance, that will allow retailers to compete in “post-click logistics.”

Most of today’s retailers and their supply chain advisors understand the shift in retail sales to the online channel but, for many years, the inclusion of gasoline, groceries, and automobile sales in U.S. retail sales numbers masked the true extent of eCommerce penetration.

The e-commerce giant has been awarded a patent that describes a logistics technology it calls "airborne fulfillment center" which essentially is an airship that's capable of flying at altitudes of 45,000 feet or more that would house items the company sells through its online marketplace.

This report aims to pull back Amazon’s cloak of invisibility, it shows how the company’s tightening grip is stifling competition, eroding jobs, and threatening communities - it presents new data; draws on interviews with dozens of manufacturers, retailers, and others; and synthesizes a broad body of previous reporting and scholarship.

Amazon says they had the best holiday season ever - shipping more than one billion items around the world, Forbes reports Amazon sold enough Alexa devices and 4K TVs to reach the peak of Mount Everest more than nine times.

The high tech companies that have focused on ecommerce and fulfillment are expanding across the supply chain, leveraging vast amounts of capital to expand their future business.

Union pilots who fly products for Amazon.com Inc. are taking concerns about pay, working conditions and staffing shortages directly to online shoppers with a digital marketing blitz that suggests the internet retailer may struggle to deliver holiday gifts on time.

A Business Insider report said Amazon is at work on an app expected to be released in the summer of 2017, which was billed in the report as “Uber for trucking, that matches truck drivers with shippers looking to move freight, while also removing “the need for a third-party broker, which typically charges a commission of about 15% for doing the middleman work.”

Amazon is reportedly building a mobile app that matches truck drivers with shippers, a new service that would deepen its presence in the $800 billion trucking industry, and possibly go head-to-head with companies like Convoy.

Amazon has started a Prime Air drone delivery trial in the UK working with two shoppers who can now order their goods by drone, over time Amazon plans to expand the trial to a dozen or more, and later to hundreds of shoppers who live within a few miles of its first Prime Air fulfillment center around Cambridge, England.

Using the same technologies as in self-driving cars, Amazon is testing a grocery store in downtown Seattle that lets customers walk in, grab food from the shelves and walk out again, without ever having to stand in a checkout line.

AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS, you can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck.

While the holiday shopping and shipping seasons are in full swing, unwelcome delayed shipments could be an uninvited guest at the table, with 250 pilots at ABX Air, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), on strike since early this morning.