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Amazon HQ2 is bad news for NYC's renters

Amazon will be building a 4 million-square-foot campus in Long Island City that will create 25,000 jobs. Here's what all those jobs will mean for the New York City neighborhood's housing market.

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  New social platform called 'Masse' could change the way consumers shop

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  Amazon Alexa is now a witness

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Wall Street disenchanted with Apple

Tech stocks take a beating with Apple leading the way. Yahoo Finance's Seana Smith, Adam Shapiro, Dan Roberts and Randy Frederick - Vice President of Trading and Derivatives, Schwab discuss.

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  Amazon HQ2's 50,000 jobs will cost New York and Virginia $4.2 billion

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  Why an Amazon job costs New York more than Virginia

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NY, VA spending big to land Amazon's HQ2

Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Dan Howley, Dion Rabouin, and Cooper Smith of Gartner L2 discuss implications of Amazon’s new locations.

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  How Amazon's HQ2 could help all tech workers in DC and NYC

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  Shakeups at the White House

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Yahoo Finance Live: Market Movers

Yahoo Finance's LIVE stock market coverage and analysis.

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  The great Amazon swindle

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  The Morning After: Alcohol in your Keurig

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Plastics company owns much of land Amazon wants in Queens

According to Amazon.com Inc.'s agreement with city and state officials, the Jeff Bezos-led company will construct HQ2 on a site that is partially owned by the plastics company Plaxall. The proposal from Amazon seems to use both Plaxall-owned land and property currently overseen by the city, the report continued. “We have seen firsthand in Seattle how the company has worked to integrate its campus and employees into the surrounding community, and we know Amazon intends to execute a similar vision here,” Plaxall said in a statement (h/t Times Ledger).

A look at what's in Amazon's new deal with Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regularly awards grants, tax breaks and other goodies to businesses that move to the state or expand their operations, sometimes even for small projects that produce just a dozen or so jobs.

Amazon's NYC HQ2 could fill 3 Empire State Buildings (down from 5)

Amazon.com Inc.'s Long Island City headquarters is expected to take up 8 million square-feet of space upon completion.

Amazon HQ Move Criticized by New York City Council, U.S. Senator

About 250 people huddled against the cold wind in Long Island City Wednesday, near the East River site where Amazon plans to move in. U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand later used a Twitter posting to join the chorus of critics. The gathering in Queens included dozens of elected officials, including City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents the district that includes Long Island City and who said he’d been shut out of any negotiations and only learned the deal had been consummated by reading about it in the newspaper.

Why Ford Teamed Up With Walmart to Test Self-Driving Deliveries

It's a deal with big implications for both.

Amazon could turn two pricey real estate markets into unaffordable ones

Amazon’s search for a new headquarters (or possibly just an elaborate fishing expedition for 238 cities’ valuable data) ended with the company choosing New York’s Long Island City and Crystal City in northern Virginia, it announced today (Nov. 13). The ecommerce giant also said it plans to open an operations center with 5,000 jobs in…

Amazon VP says billions in tax incentives didn't sway HQ2 decision

Amazon.com Inc. senior VP Jay Carney downplayed the generous tax incentives New York City offered the Jeff Bezos behemoth in an interview with CNBC. "If you look at some of the proposals that were put forward by the cities that released them publicly, you can find out very quickly that incentives did not drive this process for us," Carney said. "Our number one criterion for us was the availability of existing talent and the possibility of recruiting and luring new talent to come." Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) confirmed yesterday that it planned on splitting its second headquarters between two cities — Queens, New York and Crystal City, Virginia.

A JEDI contract protest has been emphatically denied

The decision to structure the lucrative and high-profile program as a single award — the main point of contention — doesn't violate federal procurement regulations.

Amazon paid extra to tick off all the boxes on its HQ2 wish list

It may have been too costly for Amazon to launch headquarters in less expensive cities, a site selection expert said.

Helipad? More like 'hell no' NYC Council Speaker tells Amazon

According to a 32-page memorandum, New York City permitted the Seattle-based e-commerce giant to build a helipad