Ben Fox Rubin

Articles by Ben Fox Rubin

Why Amazon's dream of a New York City headquarters imploded

February 15, 2019

Not long ago -- three months to be exact -- Amazon's giant HQ2 project was considered a national prize.

The largest e-commerce company in the world had planned to create a second major campus outside its Seattle mothership as it worked toward even more expansion. City leaders across the country clamored for the attention of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in their quest to land the $5 billion development and its promise of 50,000 high-paying jobs.

Then...

What Amazon's Alexa will tell us in 2019

January 25, 2019

Ry Crist and Ben Fox Rubin

A motorcycle helmet? Yep, that works with Alexa. The Rachio 3 sprinkler controller? That, too. How about that guy over there playing a Roland keyboard? OK, we'll be here all day if we keep this up.