Amazon to close Ottawa software development office

Days after Amazon broke ground on a massive east-end Ottawa warehouse, it has emerged the company will close a software design office it’s had in the nation’s capital for the better part of two years, affecting about 30 high-paid jobs.
The company quietly opened the office in August 2016 in a bid to better its Alexa voice-activated products. Ottawa has a long history in big-data analytics, dating back to Cognos, which was once an industry-leading giant.
Staff at the facility, which w