Tag: Amazon
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Wisdom Dafinone’s books get Amazon’s nod
Acclaimed poet and financial consultant, Wisdom Oteri Dafinone has finally put his books on the renowned book platform online, Amazon. In 2019 Dafinone launched his first set of three (3) books of Poetry at the Institute of International Affairs in Lagos Nigeria. All three books were recommended by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council…
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Billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos announces plans to step down as CEO
Jeff Bezos said Tuesday he would give up his role as Chief Executive of Amazon later this year as the tech and e-commerce giant reported a surge in profit and revenue in the holiday quarter. The company said Andy Jassy, who heads Amazon Web Services, would take over as CEO in the third quarter. The…
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Amazon, Apple stay away from new French initiative to set principles for Big Tech
U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes, government officials said on Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron has sought for the past three years to cajole tech giants into collaborating with…
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Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs avoid subpoena, agree to testify before U.S. Senate committee
The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet-owned Google have agreed to voluntarily testify at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on October 28 about a key law protecting internet companies. Facebook and Twitter confirmed on Friday that their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, will appear, while a source said that Google’s…
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NBC Code: Netflix, Amazon, iROKOtv, Africa Magic may terminate investment in Nigeria
Content streaming service providers, Netflix and Amazon, as well as pay television channels, iROKOtv and Africa Magic are considering terminating additional investments in the Nigerian content industry, The four platforms have been forced to consider suspension of investments in Nigeria because of the 6th Broadcast Code recently released by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). …
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Saudi denies involvement in Jeff Bezos phone hacking
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday dismissed reports suggesting that the Kingdom’s powerful crown prince was behind the phone hacking of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos. “Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr Jeff Bezos’ phone are absurd. “We call for an investigation on these claims so that…
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Microsoft edges Amazon to land Pentagon’s $10b cloud computing contract
Microsoft has won the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract, edging out rival Amazon, Pentagon announced on Friday. “The JEDI Cloud contract will provide enterprise level, commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to support Department of Defense business and mission operations,” the Defense Department said its description of the…
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World’s richest man agrees to $35 billion divorce deal
World’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, who is the founder of online retail giant, Amazon has agreed to a $35.6 billion divorce deal with his wife, MacKenzie. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Jeff, 55, and MacKenzie, 48, a novelist, who married in 1993 with four children, have been embroiled in a divorce battle. With the divorce deal agreed,…
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Embarrassing photos: “I prefer to… see what crawls out”, says Jeff Bezos
Billionaire founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has said he prefers “to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out” after National Enquirer, a media outfit owned by American Media, Inc. (AMI) threatened to publish embarrassing photos of him. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Bezos, who jointly with MacKenzie, his ex-wife, announced their divorce recently,…
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France, Germany aim to keep digital tax alive
France and Germany on Tuesday sought to salvage a proposed EU tax on big digital firms including Google and Facebook by narrowing the focus to cover only companies’ online advertising revenue. Eager to break months of deadlock, the two countries’ finance ministers put a new proposal to their EU counterparts at a meeting on the…