{"id":78045,"date":"2018-04-26T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/jeff-bezos-v-the-world-why-all-companies-fear-death"},"modified":"2018-04-26T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:22:23","slug":"jeff-bezos-v-the-world-why-all-companies-fear-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/jeff-bezos-v-the-world-why-all-companies-fear-death","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos v the world: why all companies fear \u2018death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-v-the-world-why-all-companies-fear-death.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rain Design isn\u2019t the first company to fall victim to the aggressive techniques Amazon uses to achieve market dominance. Although its retail site is the most visible of its business strands, the $740bn company has quietly stretched its tentacles into an astonishing range of unrelated industries. Google and Facebook might have cornered the online advertising market, but Amazon\u2019s business successes now include groceries, TV, robotics, cloud services and consumer electronics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>With its profound knowledge of its customers, Amazon can move into almost any sector \u2013 striking fear into the hearts of rivals. And the $740bn company is \u2018just getting started\u2019<\/p>\n<p>By <a rel=\"author\" class=\"\" itemprop=\"sameAs\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/olivia-solon\"> Olivia Solon<\/a> and <a rel=\"author\" class=\"\" itemprop=\"sameAs\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/julia-carrie-wong\"> Julia Carrie Wong<\/a> in San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>Tue 24 Apr 2018 11.32 EDT Last modified on Tue 24 Apr 2018 17.00 EDT.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/apr\/24\/amazon-jeff-bezos-customer-data-industries\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/apr\/24\/amazon-je...industries<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain Design isn\u2019t the first company to fall victim to the aggressive techniques Amazon uses to achieve market dominance. Although its retail site is the most visible of its business strands, the $740bn company has quietly stretched its tentacles into an astonishing range of unrelated industries. Google and Facebook might have cornered the online advertising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}