{"id":11217,"date":"2014-07-14T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2014-07-12T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T03:08:55","slug":"the-secret-agenda-driving-amazons-interest-in-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-secret-agenda-driving-amazons-interest-in-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Agenda Driving Amazon\u2019s Interest In Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/071314_0305_TheSecretAg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon has asked the government for permission to experiment with drones for package delivery. Dan Frommer uncovered their true motives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon&#8217;s drone campaign is great for recruitment. Talented individuals who would normally choose to go to Microsoft or Facebook might opt for Amazon instead because of the drone program.<\/li>\n<li>It is a great bargaining tactic when it is negotiating rates with its current shipping providers. It can threaten to make them obsolete by launching its own rival service.<\/li>\n<li>The program is also giving Amazon a lot of favourable coverage, keeping it on top of people&#8217;s minds.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, some day many years into the future, drone deliveries might make a lot of business sense. Amazon is just getting into the gig early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/233802\/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-spectacle-isnt-really-about-drones\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/233802\/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-spectacle-isnt-really-about-drones\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has asked the government for permission to experiment with drones for package delivery. Dan Frommer uncovered their true motives: Amazon&#8217;s drone campaign is great for recruitment. Talented individuals who would normally choose to go to Microsoft or Facebook might opt for Amazon instead because of the drone program. It is a great bargaining tactic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/071314_0305_TheSecretAg1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11219,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions\/11219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}