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...An Amazon filing on Tuesday showed that Bezos, who stepped down as the Seattle-based company’s chief executive in 2021 but remains executive chair, sold 12mn shares for about $2bn between Friday and Monday...
...Letter in response to this article: Beloved in LA, the Dodgers have few fans elsewhere / From Lou Panelli, Seattle, WA, US...
...Limp, who for years has led the team developing the Seattle-based tech giant’s Alexa voice assistant and other devices, will replace Blue Origin’s chief executive Bob Smith in December....
...Monday’s acquisition by Novartis of Seattle-based biotech firm Chinook Therapeutics for up to $3.5bn is a case in point....
...Chevron’s investment was made by its Technology Ventures unit, which has also backed the Seattle-based fusion start-up Zap Energy....
...The group is also developing arenas in Seattle, New York and Milan....
...The Seattle-based company on Wednesday slammed Google’s threat to exit Australia over the news media bargaining code and said it fully supported a draft law aimed at forcing technology groups to pay news...
...But at 30 he left a “steady job on Wall Street” — at hedge fund DE Shaw — to move cross country to Seattle in order to found an online bookstore, “fully understanding that it might not work”....
...As Pramila Jayapal, a congresswoman from Seattle, put it recently: “Two things can be true at the same time....
...Wednesday — Amazon is holding a big hardware event in Seattle, where new Echo devices are expected to be unveiled, along with the odd surprise, like the Alexa-enabled microwave oven announced at the same...
...Stripe is a $35bn company Stripe, the Silicon Valley payments company with Irish roots, said a new round of funding increased its value by more than half....
...have included Facebook’s plan to create new housing as part of an office expansion, and Microsoft’s promise of $500m to support middle- and low-income housing in the cities around its headquarters near Seattle...
...Bezos founded aerospace company Blue Origin; Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder, started Seattle-based Stratolaunch, a space transport venture; Sergey Brin has put his weight behind a Zeppelin-like...
...Amazon’s retail business, split from Amazon Web Services (AWS), would be exposed as a chronic lossmaker, said Bill Smead, head of Smead Capital Management, a value investor based in Seattle, leaving it “...
...statements that suggest discrimination, but it’s unreasonable to reject someone who might have a very different point of view,” said Oren Etzioni, head of the Allen Institute for AI, a research institute in Seattle...
...The company was founded in 2002 in Provo, Utah, and operates joint headquarters there and in Seattle....
...LLCs also have greater ability to back political causes and for-profit businesses....
...base in Seattle....
...In August, Amazon teamed up with Seattle neighbour Microsoft to allow their Alexa and Cortana digital assistants to communicate and work together across a range of devices....
...Like Mr Gates, Mr Bezos is a Seattle resident who keeps a low public profile....
...Hot tech hubs such as Silicon Valley, Austin, Seattle and the New York area have equally hot real estate markets....
...In the early part of this decade, tales of a poisonous, internally competitive culture started to leak from its Seattle headquarters....
...The arrival of deep-pocketed technology giants from the north — Amazon is based in Seattle, Netflix in Silicon Valley — changes the equation because they are directly challenging the studios’ hegemony....
...Back to the bookstore At 9.30 this morning in Seattle, Amazon will open the doors of its first bricks-and-mortar bookstore....
...AB InBev, for instance, already owns no less than four craft operators, including Seattle-based Elysian and Goose Island in Chicago. Absorbing these prickly independents can require kid gloves....
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