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APRIL 1, 2018

In fact, according to Jeff Bezos, Amazon HQ2 will be the first building to be constructed in Alexalopolis which Amazon’s CEO explained to assembled reporters this morning, will someday be the capital city of Mars itself. When asked by reporter how they plan to get the building materials to Mars, Bezos merely responded: “Spaceship.”.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In July, the CEOs of the world’s four biggest technology companies testified before the House Judiciary Committee as lawmakers investigate competition in the sector. They are considering a lawsuit against the 22-year-old global technology giant. If successful, it would break up Google’s ad technology business.

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JULY 15, 2020

High-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett , Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others, were taken over in a wave of hackings on Wednesday (July 15), according to CNBC. That tweet was deleted moments later, and a second one appeared right after that, which was also deleted.

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JULY 23, 2020

This is the latest legal challenge faced by the multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California. It is important that Apple’s measures do not deny consumers the benefits of new payment technologies, including better choice, quality, innovation and competitive prices.”.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Big News Of The Week: Mr. Bezos Is Going To Washington . News broke this week that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is willing to appear on Capitol Hill amid a series of increasingly pointed requests in recent months for him to testify. CareZone’s technology helps consumers better digitally manage their prescription-drugs purchases.

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JULY 29, 2020

Bezos trains a spotlight on the fact that his mom was pregnant with him in high school, his dad came to the U.S. from Cuba, and he (Bezos) spent formative summers on his grandparents’ ranch in Texas. It turned out the world was ready and hungry for cloud computing but didn’t know it yet,” according to Bezos. “We

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon is no stranger to privacy issues, and recently f ive senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses peoples’ data and videos. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities and whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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JULY 17, 2020

Earlier this month, PYMNTS reported that the CEOs of the world’s four biggest technology companies will testify before the House Judiciary Committee as lawmakers investigate competition in the tech industry. states and the DOJ.

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JULY 5, 2019

” Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said last month that the project would cost “multiple billions of dollars.” The product is distinct from Blue Origin LLC, which is Bezos’ space launch vehicle maker. The company said in its FCC filing that it will help serve communities in the U.S. “by

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon is no stranger to privacy issues, and recently f ive senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses peoples’ data and videos. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities and whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

“The world is big and so multifaceted,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. As Bezos said, Alexa, through the Amazon Echo, and Cortana have different areas of strength, and the companies believed that they could work together to give consumers the best possible voice assistant experience.

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JULY 26, 2020

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are now scheduled to appear before a Congressional subcommittee exploring competitive practices among Big Tech Wednesday (July 29) instead of Monday (July 27) as originally planned. It is unclear what arguments Google will make.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

Both Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Hema’s Jack Ma are looking at very fierce — yet very different — competition. Though their reasons may differ, Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma’s strategies have looked distinctly similar up until now and that’s likely to remain true as both endeavor to stay a step ahead. In Other News….

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

According to a release , the new technology supports Amazon as well as the Voice Interoperability Initiative (VII), which was announced in September. Multiple simultaneous wake words provide the best option for customers,” Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said at the time.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

According to a release , the new technology supports Amazon as well as the Voice Interoperability Initiative (VII), which was announced in September. Multiple simultaneous wake words provide the best option for customers,” Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said at the time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Five senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses people’s data and video.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

were in talks with Sistema , Ozon’s leading stockholder, to buy Ozon, and that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had met with Ozon CEO Alexander Shulgin to discuss a potential deal. It would be the first Russian company to debut on the U.S. markets since Headhunter in 2019. Back in June, Reuters reported that Amazon and SoftBank Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

As they seek evidence of anticompetitive behavior, House lawmakers are asking for executive communications and emails from four technology companies. That could bring about political pressure for a regulatory crackdown and pose risks to the reputations of technology companies.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Learn how Bezos’ wisdom has shaped Amazon. Since founding Amazon in 1994, Jeff Bezos has run his company according to an unconventional set of core principles: don’t worry about competitors, don’t worry about making money for shareholders, and don’t worry about the short-term. ” Takeaway.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Former Apple Siri leader Bill Stasior was named Microsoft corporate vice president of technology and will collaborate with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, The Information reported on Friday (Aug. Stasior will “work to help align technology strategies across the company,” Microsoft said in a statement.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The farms use hydroponic technology to grow produce in modular vertical spaces, and can be installed in stores and restaurants. The company used machine learning and intelligence of things (IoT) technology to develop vertical farms as an alternative food system.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A new poll shows that Americans believe Facebook to be the least trustworthy of all the major technology companies as far as protecting user data. The Fortune poll showed that Americans’ distrust extends to Zuckerberg.

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MAY 6, 2019

In an interview with CNBC , Cook said famed investor Buffett understands that Apple is a consumer products company and that technology enables it. Buffett] has been very clear, he didn’t invest in technology companies and companies he didn’t understand. He’s been totally clear with that.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Word emerged this week that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was among investors in a $15 million Series A funding round for Beacon , a U.K. Digitization – especially aided by advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) – would offer automated tracking and better efficiency in ensuring that deliveries are made on time.

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JULY 7, 2017

Reuters reported that CEOs Jeff Bezos and Charlie Ergen have been in talks about a potential partnership. Dish has said it doesn’t need help building the wireless network, but investors speculate that Ergen could look for a partner to share investment costs, and these talks with Bezos support that theory.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

To ensure that voice-enabled products offer customers flexibility and choice through multiple, interoperable voice services, Amazon and top technology firms announced the Voice Interoperability Initiative. Multiple simultaneous wake words provide the best option for customers,” Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

If we had to pick a favorite highly quoted Jeff Bezos aphorism, “your margin is my opportunity” would almost certainly be a contender for the top spot. Though it is often attributed to a shareholder letter, a quick look at every shareholder letter Bezos has written since 1997 reveals that’s not true.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Five senators wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to explain how security surveillance company Ring uses peoples’ data and video, according to a report by CNBC. They asked whether the technology could be accessed by foreign entities, or whether the technology posed a risk to national security.

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APRIL 27, 2016

The latest investment round was led by Stripes Group and saw participation from previous investors, including Jeff Bezos’ investment firm, Bezos Expeditions, DFJ, DN Capital, Trilogy Equity Partners and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, according to TechCrunch.

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MAY 1, 2020

CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in the Amazon earnings press release that he plans to spend all Q2 profit, roughly $4 billion, on coronavirus pandemic response and testing. Visa posted fiscal second-quarter results that showed a plummet in spending amid the coronavirus pandemic, offset by a switch to contactless payments.

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MARCH 23, 2019

Specifically Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin founder (and also the CEO of some eCommerce company, we hear) had repeated often in interviews that a childhood spent watching “Star Trek” and reading science fiction was what propelled him to start his own space exploration company, and self-fund it to the tune of $1 billion a year.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the past, I brought the new technology and differentiation to the flagship model and then moved to the mid-end. But I have changed my strategy from this year to bring technology and differentiation points starting from the mid-end,” Koh told CNBC in an exclusive interview last week. “So

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said last month that the project would cost “multiple billions of dollars.” The product is distinct from Blue Origin LLC, which is Bezos’ space launch vehicle maker. communities. The company said in its FCC filing that it will help serve communities in the U.S. “by

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JUNE 2, 2016

Jeff Bezos himself has been something resembling forthright with the way the Amazon Echo will factor into the company’s plans going forward. “There will be huge advances,” Bezos said during the event. “There will be huge advances,” Bezos said during the event.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

With the funding, BigBasket plans to invest in technology, analytics, infrastructure and marketing. Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos has said that his company will invest $5 billion in the country as it competes against local rivals such as Flipkart and Snapdeal. eCommerce pioneer Amazon back in June 2017.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

The most prominent voice of dissent on that matter belonged to a person as influential as they come at the company: Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO. Jeff had a vision of full integration into every part of the shopping experience.”. In the nascent stages of its development, Amazon knew that it wanted the device to be a speaker.

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MAY 3, 2018

From mom-and-pop retail shops to the world’s largest companies, nearly every business is looking to offer the latest technology to its consumers. But Parker believes he and his team may have found a solution to legacy technology woes by avoiding the integration process altogether. That’s where we come in.”.

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