Amazon creates 600 technology jobs in Manchester

Online retailer to expand R&D operations in the city as well as in Edinburgh and CambridgeAmazon has said the UK will be “taking a leading role in global innovation” as it announced plans to hire 1,000 more technology, research and other skilled workers by next year.The US online retailer is to open its first office in Manchester, with room for 600 new jobs in the Hanover Building in the city’s Northern Quarter – once the headquarters of the Co-operative Group. Contin