Tag: Amazon HQ2

  • Amazon’s Selection for HQ2

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    Brendan Barry
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    Well this week Amazon finally chose not just one city for its HQ2, but two—New York and Washington. Of course Philadelphia had been angling for the site. Alas, it was not to be. So let’s work with that for this Friday post. Credit for this one is mine.

  • Tech Economies in the USA

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    Brendan Barry
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    Earlier this March the Washington Post published a piece looking at the twenty finalist contenders for the second Amazon headquarters. Specifically it explored how the cities rank in metrics that speak to a city’s technology and innovation economy. That in and of itself, while incredibly fascinating, is not noteworthy in and of itself. Though I will…