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With a solid heritage, Jeff Bezos leaves Amazon.
At 57, the businessman will leave the CEO position to Andy Jassy on Monday (5) to dedicate himself to other projects, starting with a trip to space on July 20th.
Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, embarks on a new stage of his career after having created, from a modest online bookstore, one of the most vibrant companies on the planet: Amazon.https://0f4943fc32d724b569cda2d98f025f40.safeframe.googlesyndication .com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
At 57, the businessman will leave the CEO position to Andy Jassy on Monday (5) to dedicate himself to other projects, starting with a trip to space on July 20th.
He will retain a key role in the company he founded 27 years ago and will remain as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. ADVERTISING
While it was celebrated for the many innovations that completely changed entire economic sectors, it was also heavily criticized for certain business practices or the treatment of wage earners.
Whether it’s book sales, IT or home delivery, “Bezos is a leader who drives change,” says Darrell West, of the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation.
“It has promoted numerous services that people have already incorporated, such as shopping online, placing orders and having them delivered the next day,” he points out.
Launched from Bezos’ garage, Amazon is now worth more than $1.7 trillion on the stock exchange and its revenue was $386 billion in 2020. It’s a sprawling group, moving from online commerce to cloud computing, passing by by artificial intelligence and film production.
Instinct
Bezos “has the instinct to figure out what will work,” says Roger Kay, an analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates.
The company outperformed its rivals by deciding, in the early years, “to reinvest all profits in its growth,” recalls Kay. A strategy that may have baffled investors but now “seems completely logical,” he points out.
For Bob O’Donnell of Technalysis Research, Bezos “was not the first or the only one” on the wave of online commerce, “but he understood it and worked to improve it”.
The head of Amazon “mainly understood the need to build the infrastructure”, with its vast network of trucks, warehouses or planes, emphasizes O’Donnell. “Many other companies have not put money into this thankless backstage work.”
Even after giving his ex-wife part of his Amazon stock after the divorce, Bezos currently has about $200 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
He leaves the company’s day-to-day activities to dedicate more to his other projects, such as the Blue Origin society – which will make its first space tourism flight on July 20th with Bezos on board.
The businessman also owns the Washington Post and said he wants to spend time and money fighting climate change.
Victim of your success?
It comes at a time when Amazon, which employs more than 800,000 people in the United States after seeing its activity take off even further during the pandemic, faces much criticism from worker advocates and regulators.
Amazon notes that it offers a minimum wage of $15 an hour and other perks, but critics regularly denounce the obsession with efficiency, even at the risk of treating workers like machines.
In his last annual letter to shareholders in April, and after learning of an attempted unionization at a group warehouse in Alabama, Bezos acknowledged that the company must improve for its employees and promised that Amazon would become “the best employer on the planet” .https://0f4943fc32d724b569cda2d98f025f40.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
But, concerned about the growing influence of tech giants in large sectors of the economy, regulators are studying measures that could lead to the partial dismantling of Amazon.
The company can then become “a victim of its own success,” says Kay.
But even if the group has to split into several entities, each one “will prosper in its own market”, he predicts.
“I can easily imagine a scenario where the sum of these entities turns out to be greater than the unified set. Shareholders must not suffer.”
First medical bulletin published with an update on the Pope’s health status.
An Argentine pontiff underwent a “scheduled” surgical intervention because of an inflammation of the colon.
Pope Francis, 84 years old, was submitted, this Sunday (4), to a surgical operation “scheduled” because of an inflammation of the colon, reported the Vatican.https://d16c7a90994507a21bad032133fd7b9d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/ 1-0-38/html/container.html
The Argentine pontiff was admitted to Polyclinic A. Gemelli, in the Italian capital, where he will undergo “scheduled surgery for symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon,” according to a statement.
“the holy father
responded well to the intervention, which was performed under general anesthesia,” said a Vatican statement published shortly before midnight local time (7 pm GMT).
It is a potentially painful inflammation of the diverticula, hernias, or pouches that form in the walls of the digestive system and whose frequency increases with age.
One of the possible complications of this condition is stenosis, which is a narrowing of the bowel.https://d16c7a90994507a21bad032133fd7b9d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who is in France on an official visit, sent a message of support to the Pope, in which he conveyed “the affectionate memories of all Italians.”
Many media outlets were this afternoon close to the hospital, whose access was monitored by the police, according to an AFPTV journalist at the scene.
“I’m not afraid of death”
Born on December 17, 1936 in Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio had the upper lobe of his right lung removed at age 21 due to pleurisy. He suffers from hip problems and sciatica.
This Sunday at noon, he celebrated the traditional Sunday prayer of Regina Coeli in the window of the Santa Marta residence for the faithful gathered under a strong sun in St. Peter’s Square.https://d16c7a90994507a21bad032133fd7b9d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/ 1-0-38/html/container.html
He seemed in good shape and excited to announce an official visit to Slovakia Sept. 12-15, his second trip abroad in 2021, after Iraq in March.
“I’m not afraid of death,” he confided in a book of interviews carried out in 2019 with an Argentine journalist.
After the lung operation, “I never felt limited in my activities (…). I never felt tired or short of breath”, he assured.
In recent years, however, he has had to cancel some appointments and sometimes walks with difficulty.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which hit Italy hard in February 2020, he has seemed little concerned about his own health, often traveling without a mask, though he has had to forego the usual meetings with the faithful during Wednesday’s hearings. .
Aside from a cold that forced him to cancel appointments early in the pandemic, his health did not raise any particular concerns.
Francis was elected in 2013 to succeed Benedict XVI, who had resigned in February of the same year, after eight years of pontificate.
First pope to resign in nearly 600 years, the German cited health reasons.https://d16c7a90994507a21bad032133fd7b9d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Now 93 years old, he lives in seclusion in a monastery in Vatican City. He has seemed increasingly frail in recent months, moving in a wheelchair and speaking with difficulty.
Explosion at factory near Bangkok airport leaves dead and injured.
The factory produced expanded polystyrene and had been in operation since 1985. Fifteen hours after the explosion, the fire was still burning inside the establishment.
AFAgence France-Presse posted on 07/05/2021 09:40
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A firefighter was killed and 29 people were injured on Monday (5/7) in the explosion at a plastic factory near the international airport in the Thai capital, Bangkok, authorities said.
A dense column of black smoke rose from the burning factory and could be seen even from the center of the capital, 35 kilometers away.
The explosion took place at dawn at Taiwanese company Ming Dih Chemical Co., located on the outskirts of Bangkok, near Suvarnabhumi Airport.
According to authorities, the accident left one firefighter dead, 29 people injured and 500 evacuated in the region.
Authorities have urged the population to stay within 500 meters of the blast site, Lieutenant General Ampon Buarubporn said.
“We don’t know if there’s still anything that could explode,” he said.
According to him, the authorities are still working to control the fire.
The cause of the explosion is still unknown.
According to authorities, the factory produced expanded polystyrene and had been in operation since 1985. Fifteen hours after the explosion, the fire was still burning inside the establishment. Two helicopters and several fire engines were dispatched to the site.https://02dd36354163870fac895c77add016ed.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Emergency workers drove vans around the neighborhood with megaphones to ask residents to leave the area for safety reasons.
In addition to the airport, the district where the accident occurred has 300 factories and several residential areas with up to 240 communities.
Thai Industry Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit said he had sent vehicles to control air quality and pollution caused by flames and smoke.
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Countries begin to receive immunized visitors; tourism projects growth.
A travel agency owner reports consumer demand for international destinations; however, with delayed vaccination, Brazil is still under restrictions.
The expectation of the tourism sector in Brazil is for growth in the second half of 2021 and an even more intense recovery for the beginning of 2022. The optimism is due to the mass vaccination of the population. Fernanda Demetrio’s travel agency managed to survive the worst phase of the pandemic and, currently, domestic travel is on the rise. “People wanted to travel, they were anxious and the national was the most sought after. Northeast, Maragogi, Port of chickens was very popular, very much”, she says. Fernanda also says that despite the strict health protocols of Covid-19, many countries still received tourists in the midst of the pandemic, but there were few. “Egypt, Dubai received a lot of Brazilians, it became a darling destination for Brazilians as it has been open since July of last year. But there was still a fear, people would go more to the Northeast. People are very anxious to go to the United States, every week I receive “Fê, can we go without quarantine in Mexico?”, she says.
In early July, France decided to open its doors to immunized travelers from almost every country in the world. However, Brazil is one of the 15 countries with restrictions. The reason is that the release is only valid for vaccines approved by the European Agency, such as Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Janssen. Spain was another country that started to receive vaccinated tourists. The government has only released vaccines approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), which includes CoronaVac, for example. Even so, Brazilians are left out. For health organizations in other countries, the country is considered an epidemiological risk due to the high concentration of variants of the coronavirus and the delay in vaccination. Also according to specialists, to become safe in the eyes of the world, Brazil needs to reduce the rate of infection per 100,000 inhabitants. The national average is almost 420, while the American and European number is 75. Brazil is the 12th country with the worst rate in the world, according to the WHO.
According to the organization, the country needs to reduce the infection rate by 82%, review the vaccination campaign and create alternatives to contain the advance of the virus variants, especially the P.1 of Manaus, named “Gamma”. For infectologist Sylvia Lemos, the Brazilian government must review the National Immunization Program (PNI), in addition to creating security mechanisms for controlling the strains. “What we can say is that we still don’t know how things will turn out, because unfortunately there are strains, mutations, that make a country that opens its restrictive measures to be able to have restrictive measures again. Furthermore, there is a whole discussion about vaccinations, types of vaccines and platforms, that there is no uniformity”, she explains. The existence of a mass vaccination campaign is one of the criteria for the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom to receive visitors from other countries.
Indigenous leader elected president of the new Constituent Assembly in Chile.
Elisa Loncón, 58, was elected with 96 of the 155 votes of deputies; in her speech, she stated that the country will be ‘pluricultural’.
With 96 of the 155 votes, the indigenous Apuche leader Elisa Loncón was elected, this Sunday, 4, president of the new Constituent Assembly of Chile. She is one of the 17 deputies elected by the quota destined to native peoples. The country’s new Charter will replace the current one, written by a commission during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which ran between 1973 and 1990, and will be an institutional response to the crisis that caused a wave of protests in 2019, in search of greater equality of rights. In his speech, Loncón, 58, stated that “this Convention will transform Chile”, which must become a “multicultural” country. The indigenous leader also defended the release of young people who were arrested in the demonstrations that took place two years ago. “This dream belongs to our ancestors, this dream becomes reality, it is possible to rediscover this Chile, establish a new relationship between the original nations and all the nations that make up this country,” he wrote in a post on his Twitter profile.
Pope Francis is doing well after bowel surgery, says Vatican.
According to the Catholic Church, the 84-year-old pontiff responded well to the procedure, which was already scheduled.
The Vatican issued a statement late this Sunday, saying that 84-year-old Pope Francis is doing well after undergoing bowel surgery to treat a colonic diverticulitis at A. Gemelli Hospital in Rome, Italy . According to the note from the Catholic Church, the pontiff reacted well to the procedure, which was already scheduled. “The Holy Father, admitted to Hospital A. Gemelli in the afternoon, underwent an operation at night.
scheduled surgery to treat a diverticular stenosis of the colon. The Holy Father responded well to the operation conducted under general anesthesia by Prof. Sergio Alfieri, with the assistance of Prof. Luigi Sofo, Dr. Antonio Tortorelli and Dr. Roberta Menghi,” says the text released by Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See.
Information taken from the websites https://jovempan.com.br/, https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/