Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plans to promote the company’s job creation and support for small businesses during Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, according to prepared comments released by the company on Tuesday. Bezos will tell the House Antimonopoly Subcommittee that Amazon now employs a million people and that it built an online …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on October 2, 2019. Elif Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | fake pictures Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will finally come face to face with lawmakers seeking to question his company’s growing influence on Wednesday’s antitrust hearing. The hearing before the House of Representatives’ Antimonopoly Subcommittee, which will …
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Facebook President and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee examining the company’s plan to launch a digital currency on Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, on Dec. 23. October 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Mark Zuckerberg defended the Facebook acquisitions of Instagram …
Read More »CES 2021 will be digital only, says CTA amid coronavirus concerns
A virtual reality coach helps a representative exercise using GEMS, Gait Enhancing and Motivation System, during a Samsung press event for CES 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker | fake pictures The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced Tuesday that …
Read More »Investors want to enter, ByteDance wise hold on
A man holding a phone walks past a sign for the TikTok app of the Chinese company ByteDance, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on October 18, 2019. Reuters Feeling the blood in the water, venture capitalists want to buy the …
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