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Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions

GeekWire

Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. grams of CO2e per dollar of Gross Merchandise Sales in 2018 to 122.8 It dropped 5%, declining from 128.9

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Here’s why Microsoft’s carbon footprint grew 21% last year, as profits swelled

GeekWire

Washington state, by comparison, emitted 99.6 million metric tons in 2018 , the most recent available data. Chevron and Exxon have each announced an “aspiration” to get to net zero — but are not including scope 3 emissions in their tallies. trillion, its footprint of 13.8 million metric tons of carbon is relatively small.

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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

The Verge

Those first two appearances in 2019 netted him over 1,100 followers each. For comparison, in the week before he went on Rogan in 2020, Santino gained 1,173 followers on his own, so Rogan gave him a bump of 500 more followers the week after. That gain jumped to nearly 1,700 followers in 2020.

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Mixer co-founder on Microsoft pulling the plug, Twitch’s market power, and his startup journey

GeekWire

The Mixer studio on Microsoft’s Redmond campus in 2018. I think a lot of people understate how small Twitch is in comparison to YouTube Gaming, not in terms of live content, but if you look at total viewing hours across the platform, Twitch is actually quite small, relatively speaking, actually a pretty niche thing.

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Rivian goes public in one of the biggest IPOs ever

The Verge

That gave Rivian an overall valuation of nearly $80 billion and helped it net $12 billion in fresh cash, despite the fact that it only just recently started to make and ship its first electric pickup trucks. The R1T and R1S, as they’re respectively called, made their debut at the 2018 LA Auto Show.

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

However, in June 2018, according to a Business Today report, postpaid subscribers were shifting to prepaid connection. Whereas postpaid customers may be characterized by their affordability, high propensity to call ‘on-net’, i.e., to their family or friends from within their network of provider, a rich residential location, etc.

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Apple’s $64 billion-a-year App Store isn’t catching the most egregious scams

The Verge

They had *another* VPN scam that netted them over half a MILLION dollars before it was shutdown early 2020. It’s not a novel idea: Daring Fireball ’s John Gruber suggested it in December 2018 , and again in 2019 , and again in 2020. This developer is a repeat offender inside Apple’s “walled garden”.

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