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Black Friday Makes Jeff Bezos a $100 Billion Man

posted by martyb on Saturday November 25 2017, @07:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the Should-I-buy-16K-Steve-Austins-or-14K-Jaime-Sommers? dept.

takyon writes:

Shares of Amazon rose enough to make Jeff Bezos worth an estimated $100.3 billion:

The Amazon.com Inc. founder's fortune is up $2.4 billion to $100.3 billion, as the online retailer's shares jumped more than 2 percent on optimism for Black Friday sales. Online purchases for the day are up 18.4 percent over last year, according to data from Adobe Analytics, and investors are betting the company will take an outsized share of online spending over the gifting season.

The $100 billion milestone makes Bezos, 53, the first billionaire to build a 12-figure net worth since 1999, when Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates hit the mark.

Meanwhile, Amazon merchants are scrambling to cheat each other as they peck at Bezos's scraps. Even (e-)books aren't safe.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @07:35PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @07:35PM (#601469)

    The new Axis of Evil

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @08:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 25 2017, @08:27PM (#601490)

    You forgot Facebook, FAAG.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday November 25 2017, @09:03PM (8 children)

    by edIII (791) on Saturday November 25 2017, @09:03PM (#601495)

    Don't forget McDonald's. Those bastards still won't make a sausage egg McMuffin past 10:30am.

    --
    Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.

    • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday November 25 2017, @09:34PM (2 children)

      by acid andy (1683) on Saturday November 25 2017, @09:34PM (#601507) Homepage Journal

      Bzzzzt Right corporation. Wrong reason.
      (Yeah, I know, "Whoooosh", I know. The big M just pisses me off. A lot.)

      --
      If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?

    • (Score: 2) by Snow on Sunday November 26 2017, @02:48AM (2 children)

      by Snow (1601) on Sunday November 26 2017, @02:48AM (#601575) Journal

      McDonalds where I live has breakfast all day.

      They started it like a year ago.

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:33AM (1 child)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 26 2017, @06:33AM (#601631) Homepage

        Enjoy your hot screaming shits.

        Might as well chug a tube of DC-111!

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:33PM

          by LoRdTAW (3755) on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:33PM (#601743) Journal

          McShits arent that bad. You want heinous bathroom visits? White Castle. In fact, the best part about White Castle? You get to enjoy the your meal twice! Your farts smell just like the meal you ate so you can relive every waking moment of your meal every time you let one rip.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:51AM (1 child)

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Sunday November 26 2017, @03:51AM (#601588) Journal

      They do in my neck of the woods.

  • (Score: 1) by Orion Blastar on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:04AM

    by Orion Blastar (5270) on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:04AM (#602432)

    The out of the ashes of their broken bankrupted companies I saw the four horsemen rising!

    Atari, Commodore, Texas Instruments, Timex/Sinclair, and that RadioShack company and their undead TRaSh-80 series come up to challenge these modern companies with this retro tech and http://legacysoftware.pro/ [legacysoftware.pro] stuff!

    It was like my childhood was raised from the dead to save the world from these greedy b*stards and bring back our freedoms, rights, and liberties.

    Commodore 64 Reloaded MK2 Motherboards are out!
    https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/produkt-details/product/c64-reloaded-mk2.html [icomp.de]

    Atari STAROS:
    https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17747 [raspberrypi.org]

    Sinclair Next:
    https://www.specnext.com/ [specnext.com]

    TI Raspberry PI:
    https://makezine.com/2014/08/07/the-ti-pi-a-raspberry-pi-powered-ti-994a/ [makezine.com]

    TRS-80:
    https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/TRS-80 [github.com]

    Suddenly my hopes looked up! These ghosts of the past have risen from the dead to take on the Unholy Trinity of Amazon, Google, Apple, all is not lost!

    Then I sadly remembered that what Google, Apple, Amazon etc do best is advertising and out market every other company.

    I looked at the 3 plus 1 saviors, and noticed nickel and dime marketing, literally no advertising, and most people don't even know they exist.