Amazon is ramping up its innovative hardware product testing and beefing up marketing strategies to give its nearly quarter billion customers better ways to buy its wares using Internet-connected devices. Amazon will boost staffing at its Silicon Valley hardware unit, Lab126, by at least 27 percent over the next five years, according to reports that surfaced last week. The company reportedly plans to boost full-time payroll to at least 3,757 people at the facility by 2019. Lab126 had almost 3,000 full-time employees in its 2013 taxable year.
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Amazon Cranks Up IoT Innovation Machine
Posted by: Jack M. Germain September 30, 2014 07:00 AMAmazon is ramping up its innovative hardware product testing and beefing up marketing strategies to give its nearly quarter billion customers better ways to buy its wares using Internet-connected devices. Amazon will boost staffing at its Silicon Valley hardware unit, Lab126, by at least 27 percent over the next five years, according to reports that surfaced last week. The company reportedly plans to boost full-time payroll to at least 3,757 people at the facility by 2019. Lab126 had almost 3,000 full-time employees in its 2013 taxable year.