Amazon Prime Video is running a hurry-up offense on its NFL push. The streaming giant said it will begin exclusive carriage of Thursday Night Football in 2022, a year ahead of schedule.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon Prime, the ecommerce giant’s membership program that includes access to Prime Video, now counts more than 200 million subscribers globally, founder Jeff Bezos wrote in his final annual letter to shareholders as CEO.Bezos most recently had announced that Amazon Prime had topped 150 million members in January 2020.
The company rarely releases such metrics and doesn’t break out the number of Prime members by country or region, nor has it revealed specific
.Amazon Prime Video is running a hurry-up offense on its NFL push. The streaming giant said it will begin exclusive carriage of Thursday Night Football in 2022, a year ahead of schedule.
Amazon Prime scam. The victim, from Galashiels, was subject to fake transactions by people claiming to work for the online retailer, in November 2020.
Amazon is finally shedding some light on how many of the company's users watch Amazon Prime Video programming.
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Amazon blew the doors off all expectations for earnings in the first quarter, helped by comparisons with a year-ago period hit by Covid-19 but also the eruption of several business lines.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon knocked the cover off the ball again in the first quarter of 2021 — and released a new data point: More than 175 million Prime members have streamed TV shows and movies in the past year.Founder Jeff Bezos revealed the new figure in announcing the Q1 results, adding that Prime Video streaming hours are up more than 70% year over year.
Donald Trump.Flatiron Books announced Wednesday that it had acquired Baron's “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post." The Post is owned by Amazon.com founder and frequent Trump target Jeff Bezos.Baron will explore his eight years with the paper and look into larger issues of the press and its role in democracy.“Marty Baron has had an unparalleled career in journalism, overseeing some of the most consequential news coverage in a generation," Flatiron editor Zachary Wagman said
Time travelers from a war-torn future, the fate of the world in the balance, and soldiers recruited into a secret military campaign. Is this a sequel to Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet“? Nope, it’s “The Tomorrow War,” a brand-new sci-fi action blockbuster that hits Amazon Prime this summer.
Elon Musk is rich – very, very rich.
UPDATED, 9 AM: The previously unaired third season of Loudermilk premieres today, Tuesday, April 27 on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S.
The multi-billionaires are fighting! Elon Musk couldn’t resist poking fun at Jeff Bezos, after Elon’s SpaceX company won out over Jeff’s Blue Origin company in a bidding war over a $2.9 billion contract from NASA to build a moon lander for the Artemis moon program, which will allow 18 astronauts to make missions to the moon.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been announced as the host of Saturday Night Live on 8th May but not everyone is eager to see the South African entrepreneur front the show. Musk will be appearing alongside musician Miley Cyrus on the show in two weeks time and given his antics on Twitter, shouldn’t come as a huge shock to anyone.
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Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and Robert Downey Jr.Environmental-and sustainability-focused investing is not only a popular growth sector; it’s also a path for entertainment industry figures to use their influence to draw attention to an organization, product or service that reflects a larger cause.The urgent need to slow the rate of global warming, to clean microplastics from the world’s oceans, to guard against deforestation, to protect air and water quality and improve the yield of crops to keep up
Brooklyn-based sports startup Overtime has raised $80 million in Series C funding from investors including Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Drake and more than 25 current and former NBA stars including Trae Young, Devin Booker, Klay Thompson and Pau Gasol.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSports media and entertainment startup Overtime has raised $80 million in Series C funding — from a diverse investor group that includes Amazon mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, Drake and more than two dozen NBA players — to fund its expansion into new areas, including the debut of a high-school basketball league later this year.Founded in 2016, Overtime has now raised more than $140 million in funding to date.
Amazon Prime Video says it "understands and shares the concerns" of European football fans as it weighs in on plans for a breakaway Super League. "We believe part of the drama and beauty of European football comes from the ability of any club to achieve success through their performances on the pitch," Amazon said in a statement issued through its official Twitter account.