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— Freight marketplace Convoy announced John Morrow as its new general counsel, effective Nov. 1. A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five…

/PRNewswire/ -- Perch, a technology-driven commerce company that acquires and operates top Amazon third-party and other D2C brands at scale, and one of the...

The Columbia Missourian reports that Wally Funk, 82, will be the oldest person to go into space. She graduated from the Stephens College aviation program in 1958 and was later a member of the Mercury 13, a group of female pilots who were tested to see if women were fit for space travel. But the program was cancelled and Funk was never accepted into NASA. Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin, builder of the reusable New Shepherd rocket. Funk and Bezos will be members of the first New Shepherd cre...

Former Amazon employee Gabe Kaminsky and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., sounded off Thursday about the former's previous work as a low-level employee of the Jeff Bezos-founded e-commerce behemoth on "Fox News Primetime".

Ex-Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn leaves venture capital post after 5 weeks on job Geekwire 1 day ago John Cook © Provided by Geekwire Former Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, in 2015. (Dartmouth/Eli Burakian Photo, used with permission.) When Jeff Blackburnannounced his retirement from Amazon in February after 22 years, the longtime Jeff Bezos lieutenant stressed that he was not retiring and hinted at news to come on his next move. Th...

Amazon faces a union fight in Staten Island, where warehouse workers are energized by the failed drive in Alabama insider@insider.com (Isobel Asher Hamilton) © REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Former Amazon employee, Christian Smalls, stands with fellow demonstrators during a protest outside of an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island on May 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have started a union drive. This follows a failed ...

Teslas Elon Musk Is No Longer The Richest Person In The World 02/23/21 AT 5:21 PM Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world since the drop in Tesla shares through the month of February. Former Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has regained his spot at No. 1. Tesla saw its all-time high in shares in January when they were at $880 million but has seen a decline of over 20% since then.  A loss in shares means millions of dollars lost for the CEO, Musk, who rose to be the ...

Between Hollywood and the Moon, the options are endless for one of the worlds richest men 3 February 2021 • 8:02am Jeff Bezos is devoting more time to his rocket company Blue Origin Credit: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Former Amazon executives will tell you that Jeff Bezos likes control. The billionaire’s love of “six pagers” – a lengthy memo read out loud at the beginning of each Amazon meeting – along with his interest in every single nut and bolt keeping the $1.7 tril...

Jeremy Moeller, Chesnot, and Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo movements have exploded in recent years, shedding light on systemic racial and gender bias across American society, and in particular, within American workplaces. In 2020, workers spoke publicly in increasing numbers, often by taking their employers to court over pay disparities, harassment and abuse, and toxic company cultures. Major businesses including Google, Amazon, McDo...