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Amazon Go Grocery stores slated for Seattle area and Washington D.C., expanding retail footprint

GeekWire

Since acquiring Whole Foods in 2017, Amazon has expanded the chain’s online order business. Banks of cameras and sensors overhead track everything put into a shopping cart, with the help of artificial intelligence — rendering unnecessary the ritual of scanning and paying at a checkout stand. of its total net sales of $75.5

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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

GeekWire

The August 2017 meeting at an Amazon office in downtown Seattle was, by all appearances, a normal bit of business. Two of the participants in the August 2017 meeting — Casey Kirschner, an AWS real estate manager, and Carl Nelson, Kirschner’s boss and mentor — were leading that physical expansion for Amazon.

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Tech CEO moves $9B cybersecurity company’s HQ to Seattle area, says S.F. is ‘not the city it was’

GeekWire

In a 2017 Bloomberg News article titled “Tanium’s Family Empire is in Crisis,” Hindawi faced intense criticism about executive departures, unwarranted firings tied to employees’ stock option holdings and, perhaps most damning, a culture in which the CEO denigrated employees. And so that’s a huge luxury.”

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How Melinda French Gates’ fortune has ‘transformational potential’ to boost women’s equity

GeekWire

Melinda French Gates speaking at the University of Washington in December 2017, with long-time computer science professor Ed Lazowska in the background. Recipients include: Till Financial , a platform for helping kids learn about savings and banking. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Getting loud.

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The spectacular implosion of crypto’s biggest star, explained

Vox

Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth. Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born entrepreneur with Canadian citizenship who is more commonly referred to as CZ, launched Binance in 2017 and has since grown it to be the biggest crypto exchange in the world. Regulatory probes are certainly on the horizon.

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The spectacular implosion of crypto’s biggest star, explained

Vox

Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth. Changpeng Zhao, a Chinese-born entrepreneur with Canadian citizenship who is more commonly referred to as CZ, launched Binance in 2017 and has since grown it to be the biggest crypto exchange in the world. Regulatory probes are certainly on the horizon.

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FTX’s implosion and SBF’s arrest, explained

Vox

Billions of dollars have been wiped from Bankman-Fried’s net worth, who now says his wealth is in the tens of thousands of dollars; FTX is bankrupt. Bankman-Fried launched Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm focused on digital assets, in 2017, and then FTX, an exchange, in 2019. It didn’t get one.