Amazon
About
Amazon’s Seaport office is part of the global technology and retail company’s corporate presence in Boston. The company leased about 150,000 square feet in a building along the Fort Point Channel, in the neighborhood’s startup and tech hub, with an opening planned for 2018. The expansion was announced with plans for some 900 jobs focused on Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated assistant software. It is a workplace for employees rather than a store open to shoppers.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle in 1994 as an online bookstore, and it has grown into one of the world’s largest companies, spanning e-commerce, Prime membership, Amazon Web Services cloud computing, devices such as Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers, and the home security brand Ring. Alexa, introduced alongside the first Echo in 2014, powers voice control across many of those devices, and the Seaport office was planned as a hub for that work.
What to Know
- The office is listed in the Boston Seaport directory maintained by WS Development.
- Amazon publishes company news, product launches and community investment updates through its Amazon News site.
- Amazon runs a Prime Big Deal Days sales event in October.
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