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2. Murdoch's Fox Beats Comcast With Agreed $32.5 Billion Bid for Sky
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 11 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... biggest media giants battle each other for multi-billion dollar deals to be able to compete with Netflix and Amazon. Fox, which owns 39% of Sky and is due to gain British regulatory clearance for the deal this week, upp...
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3. Intel's 'CEO Problem' Is Its Board
  
  Explore TechNewsWorld Jul 2 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ire HD 8 tablet. So, I immediately got the Fire TV Cube when it became available. At a cost of around US$120, Amazon's Fire TV Cube is one of the more expensive Alexa-enabled devices. I used it to replace a second-genera...
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4. Silicon Valley Billionaires’ Favorite Nonprofit Crumbles Beneath Mounting Greed
  
  Explore MarketWatch Jul 1 2018 BoardNews
  
  .... Under Carson, the foundation opened up offices in San Francisco and New York. Read: The SEC wants more from Amazon and Google, but isn’t getting it “They would try to poach donors that aren’t connected in their communi...
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5. Activist Jana Is Set to Make $144 Million on Pinnacle Foods Deal
  
  Explore Bloomberg Jun 27 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...company. In 2017, the hedge fund acquired an 8.3 percent stake in Whole Foods, making about $300 million when Amazon.com Inc. agreed to purchase the company for $13.7 billion a few months later....
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6. Waiting for Peter Thiel: Big Tech Directors Miss Shareholder Meetings
  
  Explore reuters.com Jun 24 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...d strong director attendance this year, according to transcripts and spokespeople. Tech leaders Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc also had good director attendance. On the other end of the scale, some other tech firms are tak...
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7. Shareholders Are Trying to Pressure Jeff Bezos into Cutting Off Amazon's Deals to Sell Facial Recognition to Police Departments
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 18 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...... Civil rights groups and a shareholders are putting pressure on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling the Amazon Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The groups raise privacy concerns,...
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8. Shareholders Reject Bid to Link Google Diversity to Exec Pay
  
  Explore sfgate.com Jun 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...was challenged by eBay, excluded from Apple's shareholder meeting by financial regulators, and withdrawn from Amazon on a technicality. Intel, Microsoft and IBM, however, have established some kind of link between pay an...
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9. Tech Company Shareholder Meetings Turn Testy as Backlash Grows -
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Jun 6 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...meeting last week to create an independent chairman to stop letting Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos "treat Amazon like his personal sandbox." Bezos said all large institutions, including corporations, should invite sc...
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10. Everything Must Go: After More Closings, There Will Be 820 Sears and Kmart Stores, Down from 2,000
  
  Explore The Washington Post May 31 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...iving consumers yet another reason to avoid its stores. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.) “This company is on life support,” said Sucharita Kodali, a retail analyst ...
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  Mentions: Investors Amazon Sears
11. Why You Should Serve on a Board Now
  
  Explore robbreport.com May 29 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...n any number of companies are clamoring for more women on the board of directors. An investor group pressured Amazon after a woman employee publicly accused an executive of sexually harassing her last fall. In Nevada, th...
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12. CEO Pay Ratio Disclosures Provide Little More Than Noise for Investors
  
  Explore MarketWatch May 25 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...s’s holding of Amazon stock bulged by well over $33 billion in 2017–recent filings show he owned 78.9 million Amazon shares–his compensation from the company was just $1.68 million. That included a salary of $81,840 and ...
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13. Target: A Financially Absent Board
  
  Explore Stock Market News & Financial Analysis May 24 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...isdom that physical retail is dead in the face of online competition. Indeed, we've argued that the growth of Amazon (AMZN) over the last several years isn't unprecedented and, at least so far, actually rather closely tr...
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14. World's 50 Greatest Leaders
  
  Explore fortune.com May 21 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...news” was even a thing, the Danish-born EU commissioner was thoughtfully and assiduously regulating Big Tech. Amazon, Google, and their ilk may be disruptive, they may even be changing the world, but Vestager—an iPhone u...
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15. Amazon's 10-person Board Only Has Three Women. That's On Par With the Company's Peers.
  
  Explore Recode May 16 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ... retail and media companies that Amazon self-identifies as its peers. On average, the boards of the companies Amazon considers its peers — Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, General Electric, Honeywe...
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16. Amazon Drops Resistance to Proposal Requiring it Interview Women, Blacks, Hispanics for Board
  
  Explore usatoday.com May 15 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...e Congressional Hispanic Caucus notedÂ that of 105 top executives at Amazon, only one is Hispanic. Only 5% of Amazon's managers are Hispanic.Â "With Hispanics accounting for the nation's largest minority group and nearly...
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