CAPE TOWN – Leading online retailer Amazon.com has opened a development centre in the information technology hub of of Cape Town.
Several leading information technology firms have set up base in Cape Town. Amazon said the reasons it had decided to set up in the city was because “there is a pretty good supply of computer scientists here”.Amazon introduced many people to online shopping and its cyber-shopping revolution that threatened to demolish bricks-and-mortar stores.The centre is only the third foreign one to be created, the other two being based in India and Scotland.-Nampa-AFPAmazon said the reasons it had decided to set up in the city was because “there is a pretty good supply of computer scientists here”.Amazon introduced many people to online shopping and its cyber-shopping revolution that threatened to demolish bricks-and-mortar stores.The centre is only the third foreign one to be created, the other two being based in India and Scotland.-Nampa-AFP
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