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How Jeff Bezos and Amazon's participation in the public sphere grew alongside the company, Bezos' other investments, and his personal wealth — Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person and can afford virtually any luxury. But obscurity is no longer among them.
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Jeff Bezos says he and his wife will give $33M in scholarship money to DACA students — A day after Trump rejected a deal to preserve DACA, Jeff Bezos said he would make a major charitable donation to support DREAMers. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he would give $33 million …
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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is back online after 2+ days of downtime during a scheduled infrastructure upgrade, which was supposed to last 2 hours — The Kraken cryptocurrency exchange has come back online today, Jan. 13 at 11:30 UTC, after a more than 48-hour delay.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Microsoft's Andrew Shuman says firm is playing the long game with Cortana after Amazon and Google overshadowed Cortana smart home and SDK announcements at CES — LAS VEGAS — Lost in the shuffle of Amazon and Google's digital assistant showdown this week at CES is another tech giant's virtual brain: Microsoft's Cortana.
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Some Facebook ex-staffers think Twitter-inspired '13 shift to display more news was a failed experiment, as time spent on FB has been declining for past 2 years — Getty Images / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News — When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed …
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The stature of Apple's ecosystem at CES fades as Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant emerge as platforms of choice for third-party hardware makers — I want to make an observation, which I feel is an important one. However, I don't want it to be taken the wrong way. For the record, Apple is not doomed.
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NPR and Edison Research survey: 16% of Americans own a smart speaker today, up 128% YoY; 30% of owners say smart speakers are replacing time spent with TV — One in six Americans now own a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from NPR and Edison Research - a figure that's up 128 percent from January, 2017.| E. Tammy Kim / New Yorker: |
How Scripto, the collaborative writing app for TV production that Stephen Colbert helped build, has become a hit with news-comedy shows — Two months ago, a group of reporters and comedy writers crowded into a conference room in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to begin work on a new HBO show hosted …
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Disney cites conflicts of interest with Facebook, Twitter as reason for Sandberg, Dorsey not seeking board re-election; Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz joining Feb. 1 — Disney cites difficulty avoiding conflicts of interest — Smith, Matschullat also leaving because of age, term limits
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Shenzen judge rules Samsung infringed on one of Huawei's wireless communications patents and must stop selling products using infringing technology in China — Back in 2016, Huawei sued Samsung for allegedly violating several of its patents. Lawsuits were filed in both California and China …
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Apple says email to users with Apple IDs outside of China informing them that their iCloud data would be moved to a Chinese company's servers was sent in error — Apple says that an email sent to users with Apple IDs with locations not set to China that their iCloud data was being moved …
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Paytm, Google, others see India's low rate of digital payments as an opportunity after the value of digital wallet transactions rose 64% from Dec. '16-Dec. '17 — ALIGARH, India — Signs and banners for Paytm, India's biggest digital payments service, festoon Pooran Singh's cellphone shop …
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