| 03.10.2023 12:46
Michael Jordan, now worth $3 billion, ranks among Forbes' richest 400 people
Michael Jordan's wealth of $3 billion has earned him a place among the Forbes 400, marking the first time a professional athlete has joined the ranks of the richest Americans, according to Forbes magazine. Jordan, who has been a billionaire since 2014, catapulted onto the Forbes 400 list this year...
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| 02.10.2023 20:43
Sphere Entertainment stock soars 12% after opening concert by U2
Achtung baby, indeed! The grand opening of James Dolan's Las Vegas Sphere , featuring rock legends U2 , over the weekend proved to be a big hit on stage - and for the entertainment mogul's bottom line. Shares of Sphere Entertainment, the holding company formed in April to combine Sphere and Madison...
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| 02.10.2023 20:22
Michael Jordan is worth $3B, first athlete among 400 richest people in the US: Forbes
Basketball legend Michael Jordan continued to pad his hall of fame credentials - in the business world. The six-time NBA champion, who has a lucrative licensing deal with Nike and recently sold his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets, became the first athlete to land on Forbes ‘ list of America...
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| 30.09.2023 15:41
Ex-WaPo editor 'marveled' at how 'democracy dies in darkness' slogan and other moves irked Trump and fans
Baron wrote, 'This was not a slogan but a 'mission statement.' And it was not about Trump, although his allies took it to be'. A former executive editor of The Washington Post recounted how infuriated former President Donald Trump and his supporters became over the outlet's "democracy dies in darkn...
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| 29.09.2023 19:29
I.R.S. Contractor Charged With Leaking Tax Returns
A contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax return information from a senior government official and wealthy taxpayers to two news organizations, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Washington on Friday. Charles Edward Littlejohn, who worked a...
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| 27.09.2023 05:01
Amazon Is the Apex Predator of Our Platform Era
The Federal Trade Commission's chair, Lina Khan, has brought her long-awaited , audacious case against Amazon , signaling the Biden administration's determination to restore an approach to competition law that has been in decline since the Carter administration . This will doubtless draw fresh crit...
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| 27.09.2023 05:00
Lina Khan vs. Jeff Bezos: This Is Big Tech's Real Cage Match
Jeff Bezos made his fortune with one truly big idea: What if a retailer did everything possible to make customers happy? His forcefully nurtured creation, Amazon, sold as many items as possible as cheaply as possible and delivered them as quickly as possible. The result is that $40 out of every $10...
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| 26.09.2023 16:01
U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued Amazon on Tuesday, setting up a long-awaited antitrust fight with the e-commerce giant that could alter the way Americans shop for everything from toilet paper to electronics online. The 172-page suit, the federal government's most significant challen...
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| 26.09.2023 15:44
US Federal Trade Commission Accuses Amazon of Illegal Monopoly
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday, accusing the e-commerce giant of operating an illegal monopoly, thereby overcharging for goods and locking merchants into predatory agreements. The lawsuit says that Amazon crossed the...
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| 26.09.2023 15:30
For Amazon's Andy Jassy, a Cleanup Job Just Got a Lot Bigger
In the two years since Andy Jassy replaced Jeff Bezos as Amazon's chief executive, he has been cleaning up after his company's aggressive pandemic expansion and after Mr. Bezos. Mr. Jassy has reined in Amazon's voracious warehouse growth, culled from the company's sprawl of products and laid off th...
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| 26.09.2023 12:45
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin replacing CEO with outgoing Amazon exec: report
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is replacing its CEO Bob Smith with longtime Amazon executive Dave Limp, who planned to retire from his hardware boss spot in December, according to CNBC. According to notes written by Smith and Bezos obtained by CNBC, Smith will retire from his top spot at Bez...
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| 25.09.2023 23:51
JESSE WATTERS: Going after monopolies is dangerous in DC
Is Biden after Bezos' monopoly? Jesse Watters discusses how Jeff Bezos has turned on President Biden after more disastrous polling for the president on " Jesse Watters Primetime ." WASHINGTON POST SET TO LOSE '$100 MILLION IN 2023' ONE DECADE AFTER JEFF BEZOS BOUGHT THE PAPER: REPORT JESSE WATTERS:...
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| 24.09.2023 13:47
Trump scores eye-popping 10-point lead over Biden in new poll
Donald Trump scored an explosive 10-point lead over President Biden in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll . The 77-year-old former president trounced the Democrat 52% to 42% in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 contest, up significantly from Trump's 49% to 43% lead during a similar survey from...
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| 22.09.2023 13:20
Amazon to put ads in Prime Video shows and movies in scramble for profits
Amazon said on Friday that it plans to start putting advertisements in the TV shows and movies on its Prime Video streaming platform as the Seattle-based e-tailing giant scrambles to shore up profits. Prime Video subscribers in the US, UK, Germany and Canada can kiss their commercial-free programs...
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| 19.09.2023 17:18
Amazon unit behind Kindle, Echo in chaos as job cuts loom, morale plummets: sources
Some workers within Amazon's once-storied hardware division - responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice assistant - say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits. The div...
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| 18.09.2023 09:15
Jhumpa Lahiri and Me
I graduated from high school in 2000, the year Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book, " Interpreter of Maladies ," a collection of stories about well-off Indian immigrants and their children. I loved it. It was the first time I'd read fiction that bore some resemblance to my own pri...
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| 17.09.2023 06:00
They're Ultrarich Techies, and They Want to Build a City From Scratch. What Could Go Wrong?
Tech leaders are fed up with cities and their politics. So they want to start over. And that doesn't bode well for cities old or new. We recently learned that the mysterious company gobbling up land in Solano County, Calif., is funded by venture capitalists including Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman a...
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| 14.09.2023 10:11
Oprah Winfrey, Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner Attend Fashion Week Parties
A crowd frequently spotted on yachts filled the Pool restaurant in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night for the second annual Caring for Women Dinner hosted by the Kering Foundation. "I said yes because Salma asked," Oprah Winfrey, a co-chair for the dinner, said as she addressed the room, referring...
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| 11.09.2023 05:00
The Ins, Outs, Ups and Downs of One Woman's 12-Year Amazon Career
EXIT INTERVIEW: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career , by Kristi Coulter In 2023, it's hard to imagine anyone who doesn't have an opinion about Amazon or is unfamiliar with its treatment of its employees. Through the stories that have come out , it's easy to form a picture of the company, but...
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| 08.09.2023 15:01
Virgin Galactic launches third suborbital "space tourist" flight
Virgin Galactic launched its fourth suborbital space flight in as many months Friday, sending two company pilots, an astronaut trainer and three space tourists to the edge of space and back. Carried aloft by Virgin's twin-fuselage carrier jet, the VSS Unity spaceplane was released at an altitude of...
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| 06.09.2023 08:34
At Africa's First Climate Summit, a Clear Call to the World: Invest in Us
Heads of state from across Africa concluded an inaugural climate summit on Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, by issuing a declaration that called for an urgent restructuring of the way wealthier nations engage with the continent. The declaration stressed numerous times that rather than being a...
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| 05.09.2023 16:30
Sergey Brin, Kimbal Musk reportedly at Burning Man amid muddy exodus
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Elon Musk's brother Kimbal were reportedly among the tech moguls who were caught up in the chaos of the mad scramble to escape deadly conditions at the Burning Man festival. Musk, Brin and cryptocurrency investor Brock Pierce were each spotted at this year's rain-s...
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| 05.09.2023 15:40
Meghan Markle parties with Kardashians, Kelly Rowland at Beyonce's show amid Hollywood return
She's bowing to a different queen now. Royally grooving the night away, Meghan Markle was spotted snapping pics with Hollywood hotshots Kelly Rowland, 42, and Kerry Washington, 46, at Beyonce's third Renaissance World Tour stop in Los Angeles on Monday - Queen Bey's 42nd birthday. Her appearance al...
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| 05.09.2023 12:03
Diana Ross serenades Beyonce?? with 'Happy Birthday' during LA tour stop
Music icon Beyonce celebrated her 42nd birthday in a spectacular way on Monday night during her Renaissance World Tour concert in Los Angeles. The star-studded event was filled with surprises, but the highlight of the night came when legendary singer Diana Ross made a surprise appearance on stage t...
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| 05.09.2023 09:51
Diana Ross sings "Happy Birthday" to Beyoncé during the Los Angeles stop of her Renaissance tour
Beyoncé celebrated her 42nd birthday on stage in Los Angeles on Monday in front of a star-studded audience. Diana Ross appeared on stage at SoFi Stadium to sing "Happy Birthday," which brought Beyoncé to tears. "Thank you so much. You are so amazing. This is the legendary Diana Ross," B...
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| 04.09.2023 05:02
33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall
September Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany , by Katja Hoyer A historian turns her eye to the country of her birth in this political history of the German Democratic Republic, which existed from 1949 to 1990. Contrary to common depictions, Hoyer presents a picture of a vibrant society that...
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| 03.09.2023 12:35
Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Face the Nation," September 3, 2023
The following is a transcript of an interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, that aired on "Face the Nation" on September 3, 2023. ROBERT COSTA: And we now go to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is joining us from Burlington. Good morning, Senator Sanders, we appreciate you be...
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| 02.09.2023 15:23
Unpaid developers rage against Amazon's ‘zombie' stores
Cost-cutting retail behemoth Amazon is leaving a trail of unopened "zombie stores" across the country - but one Long Island family is fighting to give life to its property. Since 2020, Amazon has opened 44 Amazon Fresh locations but also inked nearly three dozen leases that remain construction site...
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| 02.09.2023 14:00
Here's what the furry subculture is really all about
Cadejo Jones had hit rock bottom in 2014. Struggling with alcohol addiction and embroiled in a toxic relationship, he had made the decision to take his own life. It was then that his favorite cartoon, "My Little Pony," came to his rescue. As he contemplated his fate, Jones watched as the character...
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| 01.09.2023 18:30
Amazon snubbed SpaceX in satellite deal over Jeff Bezos' Elon Musk feud: lawsuit
Amazon shareholders are suing the e-commerce giant for allegedly refusing to consider Elon Musk's SpaceX for a profitable satellite contract because of his ongoing feud with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund (CB&T) filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Delaware Court...
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| 31.08.2023 18:51
Oprah and Dwayne Johnson Give $10 Million to Help Maui Wildfire Victims
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have donated $10 million to help establish a fund that will give direct cash assistance to Maui residents displaced by catastrophic wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes on the island, they said on Thursday. The new effort, called the People's Fund of Maui , is...
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| 26.08.2023 16:08
The world's richest people use this top secret, ultra-exclusive app - we got access
There's a new and very exclusive app for the world's wealthiest people - and this plebeian Post reporter scored a sneak peek. Myria has only just launched, but it's already becoming a must-have for the filthy rich, doubling as a private concierge service and an online social club for the 1%. Annual...
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| 23.08.2023 13:51
MacKenzie Scott has donated an estimated $146 million to 24 nonprofits so far this year
MacKenzie Scott has already donated an estimated total of $146 million to 24 nonprofits this year, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Scott, whose ex-husband is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, usually posts a tally of her donations on her Yield Giving website , but has not listed any for 2023....
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| 21.08.2023 20:19
Jeff Bezos should have given $100 million to the poor, not Van Jones
The woke grift continues to unravel: Lefty nonprofit Dream.org founder Van Jones has exited amid worries over mismanagement and transparency. Jeff Bezos famously wrote Jones a $100 million blank-check philanthropic grant in 2021. Since then, Jones allegedly has not even handed over all that much of...
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| 19.08.2023 19:29
Van Jones ousted from his woke nonprofit amid fiscal woes: report
Activist entrepreneur Van Jones has been ousted from a woke nonprofit he founded amid internal rancor and fiscal mismanagement, according to a report - even though the group is swimming in donated cash from Amazon's Jeff Bezos . The CNN commentator was recently bounced from the board of Dream.org,...
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| 18.08.2023 12:46
How Many Former Vanity Fair Employees Does It Take to Build a Roof?
When Graydon Carter started his digital newsletter, Air Mail , in 2019, the initial advertisers included Herm??s, Ralph Lauren and Standard Industries. The first two names on that list made perfect sense, given the worlds of Hollywood, celebrity and international society that Mr. Carter covered exh...
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| 17.08.2023 16:05
How tech billionaires with property in Hawaii are responding to Maui wildfires
The devastating wildfires that have ravaged Maui have prompted billionaire tech moguls who have bought wide swaths of property in Hawaii to pitch in with charitable donations to help rebuild the devastated town of Lahaina. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Meta CEO Mark Zucker...
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| 17.08.2023 16:00
Dental products entrepreneur re-lists lavish Florida estate for $68M
Get two for the price of one! A glam Star Island, Florida, property with a historic, century-old home and a modern glass mansion is back on the market for $68 million . That's down from its then-record $90 million ask last year. The listing comes shortly after Jeff Bezos paid $68 million for a near...
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| 17.08.2023 02:15
New Hollywood film coming out about one of Stockton's most high-flying residents
STOCKTON - Stockton native Jose Hernandez blasted off into space aboard the shuttle Discovery in 2009. He's now the inspiration for a movie being released next month. This retired astronaut is now spending time watching different kinds of stars. Hernandez's life story is the subject of a new featur...
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| 16.08.2023 00:07
Maui wildfires spark conspiracy theories about space-lasers, Oprah land grabs, and suspicious trees
The Maui wildfires have drawn bizarre conspiracy theories that elites - such as President Biden and Oprah - may have used lasers to intentionally set the deadly blaze for their own nefarious ends . Photos claiming to show space-lasers raining destruction down on the Hawaiian city have gained millio...
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| 13.08.2023 05:00
The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.
Information wants to be free. That observation, first made in 1984, anticipated the internet and the world to come. It cost nothing to digitally reproduce data and words, and so we have them in numbing abundance. Information also wants to be expensive. The right information at the right time can sa...
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| 12.08.2023 19:23
Jason Momoa tells tourists to cancel trips to Maui amid raging wildfires
As the death toll from the horrific Maui wildfires climbed to 80 on Saturday , "Aquaman" actor Jason Momoa told tourists to stay away from the Hawaiian island. The Honolulu native took to Instagram to warn vacationers against jets setting to Maui as the fires continue to wreak havoc and devastation...
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| 12.08.2023 01:24
Maui's emergency sirens didn't go off as wildfires tore through island, officials confirm as residents return to destroyed homes
Blaring warning sirens throughout Maui failed to activate as the apocalyptic wildfires swept through the island , officials said Friday. The Hawaii Emergency Services Administration confirmed that the emergency system it tests every month in preparation for a crisis was not turned on as the flames...
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| 11.08.2023 15:31
Jeff Bezos reportedly buys $68 million home in Miami's "billionaire bunker." Tom Brady and Ivanka Trump will be his neighbors.
Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon, is buying an estate on an exclusive man-made barrier island in Miami known as "Billionaire Bunker," where he will be neighbors with a growing list of celebrities including Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Bezos, 59, is paying $68 million fo...
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| 11.08.2023 14:25
Jeff Bezos buys $68M mansion on Florida's ‘Billionaire Bunker' island
Jeff Bezos reportedly scooped up a $68 million crib for his soon-to-be bride in Florida's exclusive "Billionaire Bunker" enclave a month after popping the question to Lauren Sanchez. The Amazon founder and world's third richest man - with a net worth of $163 billion, according to Bloomberg - purcha...
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| 11.08.2023 09:59
Maui Had a Housing Shortage Even Before the Fire
The wildfires that leveled the town of Lahaina on Maui wiped out shops, restaurants and a hotel built more than century ago, burning across some of the most spectacular and wealthiest enclaves of the state. High-profile billionaires including Oprah Winfrey, Peter Thieland Jeff Bezos all have homes...
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| 10.08.2023 23:48
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocketed a handful of tourists, including a former British Olympian and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean, to the edge of space on Thursday. The feat marks Branson's first customer flight - after years of delays- and it means Virgin Galactic can now start of...
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| 10.08.2023 17:44
Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
Virgin Galactic has rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. The space plane glided back to a runway landing on Thursday at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert a...
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| 10.08.2023 15:05
Virgin Galactic is finally sending its first tourists to space
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) - Virgin Galactic is taking its first space tourists on a long-delayed rocket ship ride, including a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. The flight window opens Thursday morning at Spaceport Americ...
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| 10.08.2023 13:46
Virgin Galactic's Inaugural Space Tourists Ready for Liftoff
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Richard Branson, is gearing up for its second commercial flight on Thursday, an event that will mark a significant milestone for the company. The VSS Unity rocketplane is set to take off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, and it will be the s...
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