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Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

GeekWire

. “We chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago,” Bezos said, addressing shareholders via webcast during his final annual meeting as CEO, held virtually due to the pandemic. And the IT industry too, of course, is thriving. Where are they?

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I just earned (and sold) my first Starbucks NFT: How it works, how much I made, and what I learned

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After 11 days playing trivia challenges and mini-games, entering a contest to win coffee for life, pledging to spread holiday cheer, taking a virtual tour of a Costa Rican coffee farm, and regularly visiting my local coffee drive-through in real life, I finally earned a Starbucks digital stamp Monday afternoon. Then I sold it.

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Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.

Vox

Courtesy of Virtually Human. Jared Galloway, a 22-year-old in Seattle, makes his living with a virtual horse. In total, his horse, named Diamondz, has netted him a profit of 6.4 In other words, you cannot participate in Zed Run if you do not already own one of Virtually Human’s minted tokens. That’s the goal, of course.

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How millennials became the burnout generation

Vox

According to Petersen, this is the baseline condition for the vast majority of millennials — whether they work in retail or the gig economy — and it’s become so internalized that most of us can scarcely imagine a different way of being in the world. It’s basically operating without a safety net. Anne Helen Petersen. Is it universal?

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

That meant a decline in sales across the board, inefficiencies in processing and shipping, and an inability to increase prices in line with costs, leading to a $5 million drop in net profit in the quarter. pony up $260,000 for training courses and support contracts. million in implementation costs. But things began to slip.

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2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « DataPortability looks set to massively increase the value of the Net to users | Main | Digg, DataPortability, and business models » 2008 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0

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Assessing the Damage at VEREIT (VER)

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As an example, triple-net retail REIT VEREIT (VER) dropped 65%. But we’ve never had a situation where large swaths of the economy were shut down, virtually instantly, in an otherwise healthy economy. It’s harder to make that case for restaurants and high-traffic retail properties like the ones VEREIT owns.