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AI Startup Perplexity Aims at Google With Personalized Search Engine Subscriptions
AI Startup Perplexity Aims at Google With Personalized Search Engine Subscriptions
January 04, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) is keen on making web search more intelligent and streamlined.  But can transformative search experiences that leverage generative AI to...

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Bezos Invests in AI Startup Perplexity to Take On Google Search
Bezos Invests in AI Startup Perplexity to Take On Google Search
January 04, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Can tiny artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity take on Google in the search space? Jeff Bezos apparently thinks so. The Amazon founder is among the backers of the...

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Digital Freight Startup Convoy Suspends Operations
Digital Freight Startup Convoy Suspends Operations
October 18, 2023  |  Supply Chain

Digital freight startup Convoy has announced the suspension of its operations and the winding down of its core business. The company, which was founded by former Amazon executives...

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US Taxpayers Backstopped Big Tech, VC Billions During SVB Collapse 
US Taxpayers Backstopped Big Tech, VC Billions During SVB Collapse 
June 23, 2023  |  Connected Economy

If money could’ve talked this spring, it would’ve been saying “goodbye.” Or so politicians, businesses and individuals around America thought when Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed...

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Can Amazon’s CEO Eclipse the Bezos Legacy?
Can Amazon’s CEO Eclipse the Bezos Legacy?
February 13, 2023  |  Amazon

Nineteen months and $1 trillion of lost market value later and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is fast approaching a second anniversary and a reckoning. This, as talk...

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Jeff Bezos, CEO Andy Jassy Must Go Before FTC in Amazon Probe
Jeff Bezos, CEO Andy Jassy Must Go Before FTC in Amazon Probe
September 22, 2022  |  Amazon

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy have no choice but to testify before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the agency’s ongoing investigation...

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Space Traveling Billionaires Have Down-To-Earth Uses For Their Lofty Ambitions
Space Traveling Billionaires Have Down-To-Earth Uses For Their Lofty Ambitions
July 20, 2021  |  Innovation

For manufacturing, for supply chains, it’s the last mile indeed that bears the hallmarks of innovation — and perhaps, before too long, the last 100,000...

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African Cross-Border FinTech Chipper Cash Nets $100 Million In Latest Round
African Cross-Border FinTech Chipper Cash Nets $100 Million In Latest Round
May 31, 2021  |  International

Chipper Cash, an African fintech startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C round, according to Tech Crunch on Monday (May 31). The company’s...

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The AMZN vs. WMT Weekly: Hello Partners, Goodbye CEO Bezos
The AMZN vs. WMT Weekly: Hello Partners, Goodbye CEO Bezos
May 28, 2021  |  Retail

It was a busy week for the two titans of retail, as the reigning box-store king struck no less than three new partnerships while rival...

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