Amazon now pointing on Rome – Italy Today

The e-commerce giant Amazon to conquer the South Central with its home deliveries focusing on the 150 million euro logistics center intended to open the gates of Rome. That the peninsula is an increasingly strategic asset in Jeff Bezos design (pictured) also confirms the setting up of a research center for artificial intelligence in Turin, where it will set the stage for the landing in Italy helper Alexa voice in support of Amazon. The almost simultaneous announcement of two initiatives arrived yesterday and lays the foundation for a more rapid and efficient development of the company in the beautiful country.
A 30 kilometers from Rome, in Passo Corese (in the municipality of Fara in Sabina, in the province Rieti), will open in 2017 the stock of 60 thousand square meters destined to serve the region of la Dolce Vita and the whole area of ​​the South in general. densely inhabited provinces and where often the big brands do not come with the right support. “This new business unit will be integrated into Amazon’s network and will enable us to respond to the growing demand and deliver on our promises of fast and reliable deliveries to customers in Italy,” says Roy Perticucci, Amazon’s vice president of Europe operations. “It is not on the horizon when the Prime Now service in Rome,” has said the company, which in November 2015 opened the Milan urban distribution center (1,500 square meters) for home deliveries in a ‘ Now.
But in addition to the Prime service (delivery within 24 hours) in the municipalities served, Amazon is also focusing on the economic impact on the territory. In the new business unit of Passo Corese, the company plans to create up to 1,200 jobs within three years from start of operation.
Along with the distribution center of Castel San Giovanni (Piacenza), will allow Amazon to handle the demand both in Italy and for Europe, where the group has invested more than $ 15 billion since 2010 in distribution infrastructure for services to customers, in addition to regional data centers and research and development.
According to data disclosed by Euromonitor International 2015, Amazon has a market share of 14.2% against 23.7% in the peninsula eBay . Bezos guide instead of the e-commerce world classification with 19 percentage points against the 14 of the group Alibaba and eBay 7.7.
Yesterday the group announced that it will open a new development center in Turin to develop the artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities of Alexa, the voice assistant on Cloud-based Amazon, which supports the devices and services Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Fire Tv and Amazon Tap, already on the US market and that allow you to speak directly to their device.
The new center, which will open by the end of 2016, it will be dedicated to the advancement of speech recognition and natural language understanding. “We are happy to launch a machine learning center in Turin of direct interest to Alexa,” says Rohit Prasad, vice president and chief scientist for Alexa. “The center will play a vital role in the development of language comprehension skills.”