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Amazon CEO Bezos and wife donate $15M to Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Amazon.com Inc. founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, have donated $15 million to their alma mater, Princeton University, to create a new center in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Princeton said...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Princeton University, Human Interest, Charity
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Research firm: Amazon tablet costs $201.70 to make
NEW YORK (AP) — Research firm IHS say Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire tablet, which started shipping this week, costs $201.70 to make, $2.70 more than Amazon charges for it. The analysis indicates that Amazon is, at least initially, selling the...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Companies and Corporations, The Associated Press, Amazon Kindle Fire, Economy, Business and Finance
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CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
Reuters(Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Safeway Inc., Travel, Employees, Career and Workplace
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ReutersHBEAT-MESSAGE @ 2013-06-18 21:32:44 +0000. Generated from NTM heartbeat by HTCP-JANMDN01A.Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Safeway Inc., Travel, Employees, Career and Workplace
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From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Safeway Inc., Travel, Employees, Career and Workplace
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FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersBy Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Safeway Inc., Travel, Employees, Career and Workplace
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On top of big salaries, companies pile on perks
NEW YORK (AP) — Wynn Resorts kept a suite open all year at its tony Las Vegas hotel and casino for founder and CEO Steve Wynn, at a cost of nearly $452,000. Former IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano was guaranteed an administrative assistant and furnished...
Tags: Sheldon Adelson, AFL-CIO, CEO Pay, Travel, Companies and Corporations
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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, The Wall Street Journal, Stephen King, Book
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Chan Lowe: The Internet sales tax
This is going to be interesting. Republican dogma unequivocally asserts that taxes stifle free enterprise. But here we have a situation where the imposition of a tax will benefit a segment of the retail universe that is a mainstay of traditional...
Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Elections, E-Commerce Industry
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Amazon reports 22% increase in Q1 revenue, 37% decline in profit
Amazon.com reported a 22% increase in revenue in the first quarter but a hefty decline in profit. For the three months ended March 31, the e-commerce behemoth said profit fell 37% to $82 million, or 18 cents a share, from $130 million, or 28 cents, a...
Tags: Global Expansion, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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Amazon 'TV pilots' are set to fly (Part 1)
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAmazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up...Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., John Goodman, Workaholics (tv program)
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Biblioracle: Tom Sawyer economy
Amazon has purchased the book-oriented social networking site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum. Speculation from Bloomberg Businessweek based on other social media properties (like Instagram and LinkedIn) puts the market price close to $1 billion. Other...
Tags: LinkedIn Corp., Chicago Tribune, Jane Austen, Media Industry, Social Media
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