By John Glenday

Amazon is planting its flag firmly in London soil with the decision to double its recruitment for research and development roles within the capital as it renews its focus on video and streaming.

The move is expected to provide a further fillip to the city’s booming tech sector with a doubling in capacity of its Shoreditch R&D base from 450 to 900 employees, spanning 15 floors of a gleaming new 600.000sq.ft base.

If the recruitment surge goes to plan Amazon will have 5,000 highly paid software development engineers, user-interface experts, data analysts and graphic designers to its books in Read full story ›

Source: The Drum