The estranged pair, who have four kids together, made the announcement in a joint statement on Twitter. Read more…More about Amazon, Mashable Video, Jeff Bezos, Divorce, and Tech
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Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and author wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, to divorce
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are to divorce after 25 years of marriage. The Amazon founder and his award-winning novelist wife announced the news in a joint post on social media, writing they had made the decision to divorce after a trial separation and now intend to “continue our shared lives as friends”. pic.twitter.com/Gb10BDb0x0 — Jeff […]
View More Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and author wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, to divorceAmazon’s Jeff Bezos announces he and wife MacKenzie are getting a divorce
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Jeff Bezos, billionaire and founder/CEO of Amazon, is about to be a bachelor.
On Wednesday morning, Bezos announced he and his wife MacKenzie are getting a divorce via a joint statement shared on Twitter.
“We want to make people aware of a development in our lives,” the statement began. “As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends.”
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) January 9, 2019
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Alphabet spins off moonshot project Malta with backing from Gates’s BEV fund
Malta, the renewable energy storage project born in Alphabet’s moonshot factory X, is now on its own and flush with $26 million from a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures . Concord New Energy Group and Alfa Laval also invested in the round. Project Malta launched last year in Alphabet’s X (formerly Google X) with […]
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You won’t be able to order Whole Foods groceries on Instacart soon.
View More Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting waysAmazon faces backlash after running shady baby registry ad campaign
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Amazon is apparently getting really good at ripping off your friends and family.
The e-commerce giant faced widespread backlash today following a Wall Street Journal report detailing a rather shady advertising effort from the Jeff Bezos-helmed behemoth. Specifically, the company has been surreptitiously placing advertisements into baby registries — effectively disguising those ads as items requested by expecting parents — with only a tiny and easily overlooked “Sponsored” label to distinguish them from the rest of the listed gifts.
In other words, after someone makes a baby registry filled with items he or she actually needs, Amazon then slips in a few products as well — often without the knowledge of the person who created the list or those doing the buying. Read more…
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View More Amazon faces backlash after running shady baby registry ad campaignSteve Carell became Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to troll Donald Trump on ‘SNL’
Saturday Night Live saved its best Donald Trump jokes for guest host Steve Carell.
While the latest episode’s cold open sketch ripped Trump’s favorite propaganda network, Fox News, Carell put on a bald cap and transformed himself into Amazon CEO …
Cities that didn’t win HQ2 shouldn’t be counted out
Brooks Rainwater Contributor Share on Twitter Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities. More posts by this contributor As tasks wane, skills rise Blockchain technology could be the great equalizer for American cities Scott Andes Contributor Share on Twitter Scott Andes is […]
View More Cities that didn’t win HQ2 shouldn’t be counted outThe great Amazon swindle
Amazon has confirmed that it will open two massive new offices in New York City and Crystal City, Va., to complement its already massive headquarters in Seattle. And the verdict on the company’s decision is disgust. Amazon played everyone involved in the process: the governments that pandered to it and the media that covered it […]
View More The great Amazon swindleAnother rumor hints at Amazon’s HQ2 landing in northern Virginia
It’s been a while since we checked in on the race to land Amazon’s highly-coveted HQ2 but a new rumor reinforces the possibility that northern Virginia could be the place Jeff Bezos lands his corporate behemoth’s new home.
A report by the Washi…
Village Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and more
The VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries is offering early-stage startups access to its killer network.
View More Village Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and moreJeff Bezos is just fine taking the Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract
Some tech companies might have a problem taking money from the Department of Defense, but Amazon isn’t one of them, as CEO Jeff Bezos made clear today at the Wired25 conference. Just last week, Google pulled out of the running for the Pentagon’s $10 billion, 10-year JEDI cloud contract, but Bezos suggested that he was happy […]
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