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Amazon has taken a vow to become carbon-neutral by 2040, 10 years earlier than the date specified by the Paris Climate Accord. CEO Jeff Bezos announced the new initiative, which it calls The Climate Pledge, as well as a set of related moves at a news conference Thursday (see a video clip below). The tech giant has…

Jeff Bezos sold nearly 1 million shares of Amazon stock in the last three days of July, according to SEC filings, in the wake of his divorce being finalized. While the shares are worth about $1.8 billion, the 12% of Amazon that Jeff Bezos still controls means he remains the world’s richest person. His net worth after…

Jeff Blackburn, who as Amazon’s SVP Business and Corporate Development is the key executive overseeing the company’s streaming service and is seen as one of Jeff Bezos’ core advisers, is taking a one-year sabbatical beginning next year. An Amazon spokesperson said the 21-year Amazon veteran, frequently on watchers…

Norah O’Donnell is going all in with space for her anchoring debut on the CBS Evening News next week, interviewing Caroline Kennedy and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to mark the 50th anniversary month of man’s first steps on the moon. The space focus makes sense: Among journalists, CBS’ Walter Cronkite is more closely…

MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos are now officially divorced after 25 years of marriage, leading to the transfer of 19.7 million shares of Amazon.com to MacKenzie Bezos. The order formalizing the split was signed Friday by a King County, Washington judge. The 19.7 million shares represent a 4% stake in Amazon and are valued…

Marty Baron, the editor made famous by the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight who is now executive editor of the Washington Post, said the newspaper has expanded without editorial interference under the nearly six-year ownership of Jeff Bezos. Even when the editorial team covers Amazon or Bezos personally, Baron said, “He…

Amazon more than doubled its profits in the first quarter compared with the same period a year ago, while also clearing the high revenue bar set by Wall Street. Earnings per share came in at $7.09 on a diluted basis, compared with $3.27 in the 2018 quarter. Analysts had expected $4.72 a share. Total revenue of $59.7…

A petition for the divorce of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie was filed Thursday, with Amazon saying in a SEC filing that as part of the deal MacKenzie will receive about 4% of the company, or 25% of the couple’s total stock. The online giant’s current market cap today is about $892 billion, meaning…

Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke sidestepped addressing Woody Allen's $68 million lawsuit against the streamer at the TCA in February, but the Jeff Bezos-founded company's lawyers were pretty blunt today. While not calling for a full dismissal of the self-described "pariah" director's big bucks February 7th filed com…

Having gone after The Washington Post and today CNN, Nicholas Sandmann's lawyers are gearing up to whack a major media outlet "every few weeks or month." "Certainly we're looking very closely at NBC, we're looking very closely at AP, we're looking very closely at HBO for the conduct of Bill Maher, and we're looking…

Getting Donald Trump out of the White House must be the priority of all Democrats, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told CNN's town hall participants Monday night. Not only because he tried to throw more than 30M people out of health care, and not only because, after promising tax cuts for everyone, the biggest beneficiary…

There is "no timetable," according to Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke, for the launching of the streamer's already much-hyped series based on The Lord of the Rings. However,it looks like there is a new way to find out what's going on in the "darkest depths of Mordor," to quote those J.R.R. Tolkien fans Led…