Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO later this year - Business Insider
Andy Jassy, who currently serves as CEO of AWS, will replace him.
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Feb 02, 2021
Feb 02, 2021
Trump meeting with election conspiracists spiraled into screaming match - Business Insider
"Are you out of your f---ing mind?," White House advisor Eric Herschmann told conspiracy-wielding layer Sidney Powell at one point, Axios reported.
Feb 02, 2021
SpaceX's Starship rocket prototype explodes during ambitious flight - Business Insider
The roughly 16-story rocket soared tens of thousands of feet above Boca Chica, Texas, but hit the ground sideways and blew up.
Feb 02, 2021
Trump campaign pollster releases autopsy of 2020 election failures - Business Insider
The report said Trump's disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and diminished support among white voters were huge factors in his election loss.
Jan 30, 2021
Andy Jassy: An inside look at how the Amazon exec runs AWS - Business Insider
Employees say Jassy has been so successful in building AWS that Jeff Bezos has given him almost complete autonomy. "It's 100% Andy's show," one said.
Feb 02, 2021
Pentagon chief purges advisors for fresh start after Trump overhaul - Business Insider
The Trump administration installed loyalists like the president's former campaign manager on Pentagon advisory boards. That is now being undone.
Feb 02, 2021
How Amazon uses 'customer obsession' to expand its empire - Business Insider
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down in Q3. His business strategy has made Amazon into a retail behemoth.
Feb 02, 2021
Former Millennium PM Seth Turkeltaub is launching his own fund - Business Insider
Turkeltaub is a long-time investor for Izzy Englander and also previously worked for Steve Cohen at SAC Capital.
Feb 02, 2021
How Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos makes and spends his $196 billion fortune - Business Insider
Amazon announced Tuesday Jeff Bezos plans to step down as Amazon CEO in quarter three of 2021. Here's how he accumulated his net worth.
Feb 02, 2021
American millennials are buying multimillion-dollar 'starter' homes - Business Insider
Millennials are a split generation: Some are dropping millions on their first homes, while others are barely scraping by.
Feb 03, 2021
Bot MD, an AI-based chatbot for doctors, raises $5 million for expansion into more Asian markets
Time is critical for healthcare providers, especially in the middle of the pandemic. Singapore-based Bot MD helps save time with an AI-based chatbot that lets doctors look up important information from their smartphones, instead of needing to call a hospital operator or access its intranet. The sta…
Feb 03, 2021
India's Zetwerk raises $120 million to scale its B2B marketplace for manufacturing parts
When you want to buy a refrigerator or a television, you can walk to the nearby electronics store or visit an e-commerce website like Amazon. But where do you go when you’re looking for parts of a crane, a door or chassis of different machines? For several businesses globally, the answer to that qu…
Feb 03, 2021
BukuWarung, a startup digitizing Indonesia's SMEs, raises new funding from Rocketship.vc
BukuWarung, an Indonesian startup focused on digitizing the country’s 60 million small businesses, announced today it has raised new funding from Rocketship.vc and an Indonesian retail conglomerate. The amount was undisclosed, but sources say it brings BukuWarung’s total funding so far to $20…
Feb 02, 2021
Daily Crunch: Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO
The Bezos era is ending, Uber acquires Drizly and Tesla recalls 135,000 vehicles. This is your Daily Crunch for February 2, 2021. The big story: Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO Amazon announced today that founder Jeff Bezos will be transitioning from CEO to executive chair in the third quar…
Feb 02, 2021
What Andy Jassy's promotion to Amazon CEO could mean for AWS
Blockbuster news struck late this afternoon when Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would be stepping back as CEO of Amazon, the company he built from a business in his garage to worldwide behemoth. As he takes on the role of executive chairman, his replacement will be none other than AWS CEO Andy Ja…
Feb 02, 2021
Google Cloud lost $5.6B in 2020
Google Cloud lost $5.6 billion in Google's fiscal year 2020, which ended December 31. That's on $13 billion of revenue.
Feb 02, 2021
Save 25% with Extra Crunch Group Membership
We’re excited to announce Group Membership for Extra Crunch. The feature allows you to easily manage seats and payments for your team through a self-service interface. If your team joins through Group Membership, you’ll also save 25% or more on annual pricing. Extra Crunch Group Memberships can be …
Feb 02, 2021
Jeff Bezos will no longer be CEO of Amazon as of later this year
Amazon founder and current CEO Jeff Bezos will be transitioning to Executive Chair of the company sometime in Q3 of this year, with current AWS CEO Andy Jassy taking over the top executive role at the commerce company. Amazon announced the news alongside its earnings results on Tuesday. Amazon init…
Feb 02, 2021
SpaceX's Starship prototype once again flies to great heights, and again explodes on landing
SpaceX has once again flown its Starship spacecraft, a still-in-development space launch vehicle it’s building in south Florida. This test was a flight of SN9, the ninth in its current series of prototype rockets. The test involved flying SN9 to an altitude of around 10 km (just over 6 miles …
Feb 02, 2021
Cannabis marketing platform Springbig adds BudTender to its stash
Springbig today announced that it acquired Canada-based BudTender, a customer experience platform for cannabis retailers. The acquisition adds 200 clients to Springbig, which brings the total amount of retailers in its purview to 1,900. This move comes as cannabis retailers are seeking novel approa…
Feb 02, 2021
Randall Park talks returning to the MCU for <em>WandaVision </em>and perfecting his close-up magic
EW spoke with Park about his return to the MCU and his newfound magic skills.
Feb 02, 2021
Watch Soleil Moon Frye navigate life as a divorced mom in first trailer for <em>Punky Brewster</em> revival
Holy mackanole!
Feb 02, 2021
What to Watch on Tuesday: The clock keeps ticking on <em>Big Sky</em>
What to Watch on Tuesday: The clock keeps ticking on ABC's 'Big Sky.'
Feb 03, 2021
<em>Jeopardy</em> adds Anderson Cooper, Dr. Oz, Savannah Guthrie, Sanjay Gupta as guest hosts
Anderson Cooper, Dr. Oz, Savannah Guthrie, and Sanjay Gupta will join the roster of 'Jeopardy' guest hosts.
Feb 02, 2021
<em>Resident Evil: Village</em> team confirms your new vampiric internet crush is much taller than you think
People can't get enough of Lady Dimitrescu.
Feb 02, 2021
<em>Chicago Fire </em>and <em>SATC</em> star David Eigenberg has a theory about why his characters tend bar
He also shares on update on his character Steve Brady returning to Sex and the City revival And Just Like That.
