• Hey Amazon Employees, Stop Talking To Us

    Alexia Tsotsis

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Friday, August 24th, 2012
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    Somebody at Amazon in Seattle just texted us a pic of this weird propaganda poster, posted in an elevator at Headquarters: A SECURE AMAZON BEGINS WITH YOU.

    Basically, the message here is “Don’t talk to (or in front of) tech bloggers.” I’m assuming those two little Amazon employee locks (?) are discussing Amazon’s top secret Time Machine plans. And that Hamburgler guy looking all shady up there in the left corner of that Kindle is a tech reporter, who is trying to get the AMZN Time Machine scoop for his blog, “Tech Headlines.”

    Hamburgler dude is obviously TechCrunch contributor Devin Coldewey, who somehow found out about the front-lit e-INK screen Kindle back in April.

    So will these posters actually get employees to STFU before next month’s purported launch of a Time Machine that will take Amazon back to a simpler time before the iPad new Kindle ereader and an updated Kindle Fire? Seeing as though even this got sent to us, I’m going to go with “No.”

    Also, if I ever leave TechCrunch, I’m starting a blog called “Tech Headlines.”


    Company: Amazon
    Website: amazon.com
    Launch Date: 1994
    IPO: NASDAQ:AMZN

    Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide. Amazon is one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies. Amazon directly sells or acts as a platform for the sale of a broad range of products. These include books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s...

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