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Kellogg files lawsuit against its striking cereal workers. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. By Makeda Easter , Paresh Dave. Books Amazon. Amazon Web services In the early s, Amazon realized it had been sitting on a technology gold mine.

Makeda Easter. Follow Us twitter. Paresh Dave. When he was discovered, he was unsurprisingly fired. It was a novel set in the future about an engineer who steals a rare interactive textbook to give to his knowledge-hungry daughter, Fiona.

The team that worked on Kindle prototypes thought of that fictitious textbook as the template for the device that they were working on. The team eventually begged Bezos to keep the name Fiona, but he decided on another suggestion, Kindle, because it evoked the idea of starting a fire. Bezos was known for his explosive or sarcastic responses to employees if he wasn't happy with what they reported to him.

It was said that he had hired a leadership coach to try to keep his harsh evaluations in check. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.

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At the end of September , Amazon announced Luna. Luna was just a platform for playing third-party titles, though, with not much to offer compared to traditional game consoles beyond the questionable convenience of outsourcing the actual processing to a cloud server. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

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