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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...
...Private equity, public help Back in May we told you how Hawksmoor, the British steakhouse frequented by City of London traders, was turned down for a government-backed loan to help it through the pandemic...
...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....
...Mr Singerman was in bankruptcy court again on Monday last week, expecting a smooth sign-off on a sale of the Palm steakhouse chain to Golden Nugget, a casino operator....
...So was Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, which got $20m with help from JPMorgan Chase, America’s biggest bank. On Monday, Shake Shack announced it would hand back the money....
...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...
...Jeff Bezos, was facing the prospect of a large “climate strike” protest outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters today and announced new climate targets on Thursday, saying it would aim for net-zero emissions...
...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...
...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...
...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 “...
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...The company was founded in 2002 in Provo, Utah, and operates joint headquarters there and in Seattle....
...ecommerce company began a high-profile search a year ago for a location for what it said would be a second headquarters that would eventually hold 50,000 workers and have equal status to its existing base in Seattle...
...LLCs also have greater ability to back political causes and for-profit businesses....
...● Russell Investments has hired Bob Hostetter as its global head of product, a new role at the $298bn Seattle asset manager. He previously worked at AllianceBernstein....
...continues something of an shareholder activism-in-food theme for Jana, which in February took a holding in fast-food chain Jack in the Box, and last year disclosed a stake in Bloomin’ Brands, owner of Outback Steakhouse...
...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....
...Among the areas that the data track, Seattle, Portland, and Dallas reported the highest year-over-year gains. “Price increases are supported by a tight housing market....
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