TechFlash: Translating Amazon's sales; Bezos' drone plans; Apple wins Christmas

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Here are Amazon's cute holiday sales figures translated into real numbers Amazon doesn't release details of its holiday sales. So each year, the PSBJ tries to determine how Amazon did over holidays by taking the company's clever press release and doing a little math. How many pairs of jeans does it take to reach from San Francisco to Los Angeles? We can tell you. Sorry, Seattle: Amazon's drone delivery could start in UK, Bezos says U.S. federal regulators have been slow to approve Amazon's drone delivery requests, so founder Jeff Bezos this week said Prime Now Air could launch first overseas. ​Apple wins Christmas while Microsoft's Nokia activations dip Almost half of all devices activated during Christmas week were from Apple, but that number is down slightly from last year's holiday period. Amazon will start building third Seattle skyscraper next fall (slideshow) The news comes two weeks after the company started moving into the first high-rise it developed in downtown Seattle. UW center receives $16M to develop technology that helps paralyzed patients move again The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, a University of Washington-led research consortium, hopes to test new implantable devices in humans in the next five years. Real estate photographers, hobbyists rush to register drones The devices are popular with professionals of all types — from real estate brokers to concert promoters — who want to show off their product from a bird's eye view, but now they're getting more regulated as the Federal Aviation Administration requires registration. Blue Origin, Aerojet continue hot competition to replace Russian engines despite recent ULA purchase Blue Origin is still confident it will win the space race to supply new launch engines, despite the recent buy of 20 Russian RD-180 engines. Sidecar, early Uber and Lyft competitor, to shut down this week Sidecar, onetime competitor to Uber and Lyft, has announced that it will shut down Dec 31. National Tech News French 'digital wallet' company to expand in the Triangle Chandler GM IT Innovation developers work on site to drive leads for car buyers UPS anticipates more returns in first week of January than last year Two KaloBios board members resign as Shkreli arrest fallout continues Forget about 2016 goals; this exec found power — and success — in a three-year strategic plan

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