LAS VEGAS (AP) — Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos says he and his wife, MacKenzie, have decided to divorce after 25 years of marriage. Bezos, one of the world’s richest men, made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday. The two married in 1993 after they met at hedge fund D.E. Shaw in New York, where […]
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Amazon announced plans Thursday to invest some $5 billion in a second North American headquarters, in a fresh sign of the phenomenal growth of the diversified US technology giant. Bids are now being accepted for the second headquarters, to be called HQ2, which will be “a full equal to our Seattle headquarters,” said Jeff Bezos, […]
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly became the world’s richest man Thursday in Forbes magazine’s tracking of wealth, as stock in his e-commerce company hit an all-time high. Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the lead by afternoon, as Amazon’s stock fell nearly 1 percent for the day to $1,046. Amazon shares have been trading at a […]
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