Amazon’s West African Entrance

Bottomline: Last week, Amazon posted a new job description, titled “Business Development Manager – eCommerce/ West Africa”, but quickly took it down. Amazon wants to be in West Africa, using its best product, the ecommerce, as a landing platform to expand its empire, and have new data sources. Those empires include Echo/Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and more. For Alexa, despite the technical quality, the future does not look promising, unless Amazon redesigns its strategy. That is why it has the interoperability partnership with Microsoft Cortana to ensure they can compete against Apple Siri and Google Assistant which are mobile. If…