A delivery person pushes a cart full of Amazon boxes in New York City, U.S., February 14, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
More than a year of work to bring Amazon.com Inc's headquarters and tens of thousands of jobs to New York City ended on Jan 14 with a couple of phone calls.
Jay Carney, the company's top policy executive, told New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that the world's biggest online retailer would not go ahead with plans to invest US$2.5bil (RM10.22bil) to build a second head office in the New York City borough of Queens.
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