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I’m not surprised that Jeff Bezos didn’t recognize the Amazon depicted by Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, a NYT exposé on its culture. Jeff would never have heard those stories, because nobody would ever tell him. These are the stories you have to dig for, and the NYT di… 
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The founder of the "everything store" has rewritten the rules of retail time and again. Here are a few of Jeff Bezos's greatest career accomplishments.
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They’re huge, they’re ruthless, and they touch every aspect of our daily lives. Corporations like Amazon and Google keep expanding their reach and their power. Despite a history of abuses, so far the Justice Department has declined to take antitrust actions against them. But there’s another solution.
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A group of workers from the Washington Post staged an “informational picketline” today against their employer, bashing the company’s plans to freeze pensions and cut union benefits in ongoing collective bargaining negotiations. “SHAME ON BEZO$,” read a sign at the event, referring to The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos. Toward the end of the one-hour-long rally, the Erik Wemple Blog counted about 40 people in attendance, though an organizer insisted that many more were around at its peak. (The Washington City Paper reported about 50 attendees.)
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For the last two years, Amazon.com (AMZN) has scraped and clawed its way to a relatively minor position in the exploding tablet market. Its Kindle Fire tablets, which run a heavily customized version of Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system and plug directly into Amazon’s own media and e-commerce services, have set a low threshold for tablet pricing and helped spark a wave of small, 7-inch imitators such as Apple’s (AAPL) iPad Mini.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin spaceflight company are making preparations to launch their suborbital spaceship skyward with a newly designed rocket.
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The "sharing economy" makes Silicon Valley rich and takes from the rest of us. We ignore this at our imminent peril
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When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post just more than a year ago, expectations of a digital renaissance for the paper became assumptions. What would one of the most visionary business minds of the Internet age do with something as stodgy and inflexible as a newspaper?
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Rumor has it that the future drones of Amazon Prime are a Cyber-Monday PR gimmick, sure to face insurmountable technical difficulties and never pass muster with the FAA. Who knows. And, whatever. Much more interesting is what Jeff Bezos' plan actually suggests about the culture that's drooling over it too much to ask whether it's a good idea.
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