Marjaree Mason Center is putting out a call for donations of back-to-school supplies for the children who live in the women's shelter's safe houses. Donations can be brought to the center's main office, 1600 Main St. in downtown Fresno, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. There's also...
How Does Amazon Deliver So Fast? This Video Shows How.
I attended the grand opening of Amazon's robotics fulfillment center in Fresno on July 24. Headed to the event, I hoped to find out the secret to the company's fast deliveries to customers. As you can see from my video, it's all about teamwork involving technology and 2,500 employees.
Mayor Brand: Amazon 'Put Fresno on Corporate Map'
The opening of the Amazon Fulfillment Center in southwest Fresno last year has meant much more to the city of Fresno than the addition of thousands of new jobs, Mayor Lee Brand said Wednesday at a grand opening ceremony heralding the facility. Amazon built an 850,000-square-foot, $200 million facility that...
Fast-Growing Web of Doorbell Cams Raises Privacy Fears
The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn't see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn't hesitate. The police who keep watch over the town of 16,000 raffled off free cameras in a partnership with the...
Retail Rivals Crash Amazon's Prime Day Party
NEW YORK — The gravitational pull of Amazon Prime Day is so strong on shoppers it's benefiting other retailers as well, according to an early analysis from a key data group. On Monday, the first day of its 48-hour sales event, large retailers, those that generated annual revenue of at...
Facebook's New Currency Plan Is Under Scrutiny in Congress
WASHINGTON — Facebook's ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it's shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head of the Federal Reserve. Congress begins two days of hearings Tuesday on the currency planned by Facebook,...
Amazon, Microsoft Wage War Over Pentagon's 'War Cloud'
Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system. But Amazon's early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping away. Formally called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure plan, or JEDI, the military's computing project would...
Is Historically Low Unemployment Near in Fresno County?
Could Fresno County soon see its lowest monthly unemployment rate in more than a generation? In data released Friday by California's Employment Development Department, Fresno County had an unadjusted unemployment rate of 6.4% in May. In state records that date back to January 1990, the county's jobless rate dipped that...
NASA Looks to Manage Drone Traffic in Cities
RENO, Nev. — NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight as businesses look in the future to unleash the unmanned devices in droves above...
Amazon Offer to Employees: Quit Job, Start Delivery Business
NEW YORK — Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we'll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages. The offer, announced Monday, comes as Amazon seeks to speed up its shipping time from two days to...