This week in GAFAnomics #37
Amazon outsourcing FBA / Your vision is your strategy / Facebook’s censorship dilemma
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Amazon is growing too fast to build enough fulfillment centers, so it started to let selected sellers who have excess warehouse capacity handle their own Prime fulfillment. How amazon raised the standard for logistics:
1- improve logistics yourself. Lead by example & raise customer expectations
2- Handle logistics for members of your platform.
3- Let them do it using your standards and your label.
— Curated by Kevin Echraghi
Telegram just launched a medium competitor. http://telegra.ph/. An anonymous blog platform that lets you share blogposts easily on Telegram.
It’s fascinating to see how these start-ups (like Snap. Inc, Slack) expand starting from their vision, not from their assets. — Curated by Louis Moullard
Facebook is willing to try just about anything to get its platform back into China, where it is only a tiny challenger to social behemoths like WeChat or Weibo. According to 3 employees, it is building a censorship software for its Chinese operations. So basically, in the US context of the fake news controversy, Facebook presents itself as a “nonpartisan information source”, and at the same, it is building a censorship tool on its Chinese website. Do as I say, not as I do. — Curated by Joachim Renaudin
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