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Brad Stone, Simon and Schuster: 2021, 496 pages The $218,385 that a judge in March ordered Michael Sanchez to pay Jeff Bezos must have been one of the sweetest checks the Amazon founder ever cashed. Sanchez had sued Bezos for defamation for spreading “the false narrative” that Sanchez had given his sister Lauren Sanchez’s sexts with Bezos from their extramarital affair to the  National Enquirer in exchange for $200,000—which is exactly what happened. A judge threw out the defamation s...

Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are shown ready to be used on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle. As of Thursday, anyone 16 years of age and older is eligible. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer The U.S. just began vaccine rollout for children aged 12-15. Heres what you need to know May 13, 2021 We answer your questions about the COVID-19 vaccination and children -- is it safe? What trials have been done? Will children under 12 years...

Listen • 47:17 Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas. (John Locher, File/AP Photo) Who is Jeff Bezos? In the second part of our series Amazon: The Prime Effect, we hear what the creation of Alexa tells us about the man who built Amazon. Guests Also Featured Janet Slifka, director of research science in the Alexa A.I. division at Amazon. She’s worked on Alexa technology since 2012. First Person: ‘Origins Of Alexa’ Transcript This hour i...

In an excerpt from his upcoming book "Amazon Unbound," journalist Brad Stone announced that the famous voice is that of Nina Rolle, a voice actress and singer based in Colorado. "Characteristically secretive, Amazon has never revealed the name of the voice artist behind Alexa. I learned her identity after canvasing the professional voice-over community: Boulder, Colorado-based voice actress and singer Nina Rolle," the author wrote in the selection published to Wired.  "Her professional websit...

Jeff Bezos’ search for a CEO for his Blue Origin space venture included an entreaty to SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, according to an account in “Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone. (Bezos picture at left: Geekwire Photo by Kevin Lisota. Shotwell photo at right: CNBC via YouTube) When it comes to his Blue Origin space venture, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to say “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” But a new book claims Bezos was so concerned about the slow pace of progress five years a...

‘Amazon Unbound’ is a portrait of a company ‘getting perilously close to invincible’ May 11, 2021 at 7:22 am “I wonder what unit profitability was in 2017 without advertising?” That seemingly mundane question, posed by Jeff Bezos during a meeting of Amazon’s senior leadership team, won’t get as much attention as other details from business journalist Brad Stone’s new book, “Amazon Unbound” — especially not when compared to revelations about the billionaire’s relations...

The senior senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar is the first woman to have been elected to the US Senate from her state. Her new book ‘Antitrust’ was released by Knopf Doubleday in April. Amy Klobuchar. Image: Association of American Publishers Pallante: ‘Complex and Urgent Problems of Our Time’ This morning (May 6), the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is the recipient of the organization’s 2021 Award for Distinguished Public Servi...

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The Smart Money Method: How to Pick Stocks like a Hedge Fund Pro by Steve Clapham Distilling Steve Claphams many years of experience as a hedge fund partner, this book offers a real insiders guide to the tricks of the trade, writes Peter McLoughlin, head of equity research at Rowan Dartington (who is responsible for his firms in-house monthly book review). For anyone who wants to understand the work the process that goes in to analysing a company this book is invaluable. Steve covers all the i...

Tesla’s Gigafactory (Tesla) Everything is bigger in Texas so it’s no surprise the Dallas area is leading the way in industrial construction. About 28 million square feet of warehouses and distribution centers across 81 projects in Dallas-Fort Worth are scheduled to be completed by year-end, according to a report from CommercialSearch, a CRE listings company. That puts the state’s third most-populous city far ahead in the recently published ranking, which tracked the top 20 markets with th...