GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Madrona Managing Director Tom Alberg, one of Amazon’s first investors, speaks with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a Madrona event in 2015. These need addressing by the livability flywheel, targeting social ills and using social innovation as well as economic drivers. Madrona Photo). Finding common understanding.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Melinda French Gates created Pivotal Ventures in January 2015 with so little fanfare that news of the effort came out after GeekWire accidentally stumbled upon its website. Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Pivotal projects. Getting loud.

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GeekWire

JULY 7, 2020

He sold the company in 2015 and decided to tackle something bigger. Companies have ramped up their climate commitments, including Microsoft’s pledge to be carbon negative and to remove enough greenhouse gases by 2050 to wipe out its historic carbon footprint and Amazon’s promise to be net carbon zero by 2040.

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Vox

JULY 15, 2024

Prime Day then and now The inaugural Prime Day was a one-day sale on July 15, 2015, pegged to Amazon’s 20th anniversary and billed as bigger than Black Friday. In the first quarter of 2024, the company netted a profit of $10.4 This speaks to other retailers’ success in pulling customers to their storefronts instead.

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Vox

MAY 24, 2022

There are a lot of people who’ve had their hard work repackaged for profit, and I fear it’s ultimately going to be a net negative for the whole ecosystem of people who create and tell stories.”. Instead, they’re more like a hybrid of journalism and comedy, meaning that social media typically must police itself against thieves.

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TM Forum

AUGUST 9, 2022

Does this person like to buy only after having interacted on social media with his/her friends? Whereas postpaid customers may be characterized by their affordability, high propensity to call ‘on-net’, i.e., to their family or friends from within their network of provider, a rich residential location, etc.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

Really in 2015 is where I look to as where we started to resonate with the end-user customer and they really started to learn about Blackstone. But when I finally got the product launched with enough retailers that it made sense, I divested myself of all my other business interests, and focused 100 percent on Blackstone, and that was 2015.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan. Location: Beijing, China. Ayesha Khanna.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When voters lose confidence in the integrity of elections, it ruins the reputation of the legitimacy of the government and can lead to political instability and social unrest. To dig even deeper, another cryptographic mechanism that would be used in the voting machines would be Mix Nets. Verifiable mixing (shuffling) of ElGamal pairs.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Forbes pegs his net worth around $193.2 For instance, last year, Bezos’ ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, gave away $4 billion in four months — and her net worth is only a paltry $60 billion by comparison. In that 2015 story, Shkreli toyed with the idea of having artists make more private albums for him.

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

There’s no small irony in the fact that causes from expanded social safety net programs to increased access to health insurance to higher taxes on rich people are primarily funded these days by rich people and their estates. And by “foundations,” I mean “millionaires and billionaires.” Is this arrangement ideal? Of course not.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. TrueCommerce acquires DiCentral.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2021

Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein described it in 2019 as “social bargaining with the state on behalf of all workers,” where some public institution is created to bring together stakeholders in a given industry to bargain. Seattle was the first city, in 2015, to attempt to put a bargaining regime in place for ride-hail drivers.

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Vox

JANUARY 21, 2021

The debate over deplatforming Trump has overshadowed how effective social media bans are at fighting extremism. Trump’s social media accounts were suspended across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, and TikTok. . | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images. It’s not a violation of the First Amendment.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Jessica Rosenworcel, seen here at a protest against the net neutrality repeal, is the new permanent chair of the FCC. Net neutrality is back on the table. Obama’s FCC passed net neutrality in 2015. Biden said in his executive order that he wants the FCC to bring net neutrality back. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

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Vox

JANUARY 1, 2025

There was a time in the distant past, lets call it 2015, when Republicans were the party of free markets and free trade, and some members of Congress havent forgotten that. What if Musk wants to slash Medicare and Social Security, which Trump has promised to defend ? My guess is no. Its not like I can use the nuclear reactor.

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