Page 16 - Latest Updates on Jeff Bezos
Amazon: How numbers lie at the centre of Jeff Bezos' management ethos
In 1994, Bezos had just discovered that web activity had increased by a factor of roughly 2,300% in the past year. Later, he quit the lucrative Wall Street job and began his own business.
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Stocks up, warehouses shut: Weal and woes of Amazon Inc during Covid-19
The company's website hit 2.54 billion visitors in March, which is a 65 per cent jump from the same period last year
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Coronavirus makes Amazon do the unthinkable: Nudging customers to buy less
Amazon is suppressing extraneous consumption in various ways, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Jeff Bezos gains $24 billion while world's rich reap bailout rewards
The pandemic has brought the global economy to a near standstill and pushed almost 17 million Americans onto the unemployment rolls in the span of three weeks.
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Coronavirus outbreak: Amazon begins making testing lab for workforce
Amazon acknowledges its ad-hoc effort may not accomplish much during the current pandemic.
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Covid-19 impact: Mukesh Ambani's net worth drops 28% to $48 bn in 2 months
LVMH Chief executive Bernard Arnault's wealth down by 28% to $77 billion
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Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse staff, Bezos 'ocused on COVID-19'
Hourly workers at Amazon's US warehouses will receive double pay after 40 hours for overtime.
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Amazon to hire 100,000 workers as orders surge on coronavirus worries
Amazon said it would invest over $350 million to raise the pays for these employees in the US and Canada by $2 an hour
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Star Trek collide in an uncanny deepfake video!
While Bezos is seen playing a Talosian alien, Musk plays Captain Christopher Pike
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion fund to tackle climate change
Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,' says Bezos, whose net worth is estimated to be around $130 billion
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David Geffen sells home to Jeff Bezos, splashes $30 million on art
Geffen is selling his Beverly Hills mansion to Bezos for $165 million
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Amazon chief Jeff Bezos buys Warner Estate from Geffen for $165 mn: Report
Bezos bought the Warner Estate from media mogul David Geffen, according to the Journal
Amazon wants to depose Trump over loss of $10 bn military contract
The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October
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Bezos continues selling spree, unloads $4 bn of Amazon stock in a week
The transactions are part of a pre-arranged trading plan
Amazon invests Rs 2,500 cr in Indian units Seller Services, Data Services
The investment comes just days after its founder and the world's richest man Jeff Bezos announced $1 billion investment in digitising small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country
Is e-commerce really hurting competition?
As allegations of anti-competitive practices like vertical restraints by e-commerce firms become more frequent, the CCI's "light touch" decision-making approach for the sector is likely to change
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos adds $13 bn to his fortune in 15 mins; stock rises
At the current price, his net worth would be about $129.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
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Facebook blames Apple iOS for Bezos' phone breach, says WhatsApp unhackable
Investigators believe that Bezos's iPhone was compromised after he received a 4.4MB video file containing malware via WhatsApp
Amazon takes cue from Alibaba's India playbook to beat Reliance, Flipkart
Amazon is also going to invest a large chunk of the capital to build the supply chain for its grocery and food category.
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India must welcome investments: UKIBC on Piyush Goyal's remark on Amazon
The comments from the lobby grouping come after there was a sharp criticism of Goyal for saying Amazon was not doing India a favour by the investment announcement
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