“The prevalence of the elusive, outdoorsy-intellectual archetype.”
“The FTC conducted an investigation of this proposed acquisition to determine whether it substantially lessened competition under Section 7 of the Clayton Act, or constituted an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act,” Bruce Hoffman, acting director of FTC’s Bureau of Competition said in a statement.?“Based on our investigation we have decided not to pursue this matter further. Of course, the FTC always has the ability to investigate anticompetitive conduct should such action be warranted.”
“I’ve worked really hard to come close to the level of polish it’s going to have, and the barrier to getting started will be a lot lower — cheaper, quicker, less committing,” Kast said. “The way things are going, in a couple years most people will either be using a subscription service like Spotify or Rdio, or a cloud/music locker service like iTunes Match, Google Music, or Amazon Music. I’m a tiny player surrounded by huge companies, but my hope is that Dropbox +Tunebox?will become a popular option in that second category.”
“It doesn’t mean the roles in between are less valuable,” he said. “But you have to get the right amount or you get the energy sucked up by self-preservation. Look at your own org and ask if it’s as efficient as I know it could be. When you stop improving it because you say “why should I suffer when that person over there isn’t?” that’s the beginning of the creep toward Day 2.”
“Now, ultimately, we think there’s going to be three large hyper-scale providers out there in the world that are going to be able to achieve this type of scale footprint, basically us — Microsoft — Amazon and Google. Our plan is to differentiate from the other two by the level of enterprise-grade support we provide you, as well as the unique hybrid capabilities that enable you to deliver integrated customer solutions.”
“It embodies the fact that the countries, China and the US, have had a long partnership, many ways of working together, and we think this painting shows some of that feeling,” said Jan Stuart, co-curator of the exhibit and curator of Chinese art at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries.
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“My organization inside Amazon always had a lot of fun,” he said. “Here’s the difference: I could build up great, big ship parties at Microsoft, because it would take us two to three years — sometimes a lot longer — to get stuff out the door. So we had these long product cycles, where you could build up a huge amount of pent-up energy in the march to get to the end, and you’d have this big blowout at the end. Legendary parties that we would have.”
“That’s something we consider from time to time,” Bezos said at Amazon’s annual meeting. “We don’t have any plans to do that at this point, but we will keep looking at it.”
“The notion that having a more compact, more dense way of living that is largely rail-based is the better way to go as a city like this grows,” said?Chakrabarti, adding that buying more cars or building more roads in an effort to “retrofit a 20th century technology” is not the answer.
“It all started out because I wanted to share some things that were my favorite with the Oprah show audience,” Winfrey said in an Amazon news release. “And now,?20 years later?it has become the gift guide for so many people for the holidays. You can always find something really fun for the people you care about.”