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Amazon worker wages

Amazon may one of the most valuable companies in the world - clocking in at over $750 billion - but half of Amazon's employees earned a lot less than the big boss... The median pay to work at Amazon last year was $28,446 and half of those employees earned less than that - meanwhile- Bezos took home $1.68 million last year in total compensation or 59 times more than the median salaried Amazon employee. --- The week started off talking about employees peeing in bottles because they couldn't get to the bathroom during a break. Now this? In a comparison - the median salary of a Facebook employee was more than $240,000. Why the big difference? Bezos said in his letter to shareholders- in part- that Amazon created more than 130,000 jobs last year- not counting acquisition and that the new jobs cover a range of professions from AI scientist to fulfillment center associates...

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  What Facebook is changing about your privacy settings

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  Yahoo Finance Live: The Final Round - Apr 19th, 2018

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P&G makes large acquisition, Facebook plans to build custom chips, Nike's VP of footwear leaves company

P&G, Facebook, Nike and Netflix are the companies to watch.

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  Wynn adds 3 women to board, calls grow for diversity

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  Breaking up tech giants like Facebook and Amazon isn't the answer, says IMF's Lagarde

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China brushes off trade fight with U.S.

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  Cuba handing over reigns to non-Castro for first time in decades

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  Oculus implements its own GDPR-compliant privacy controls

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Facebook moves to shrink its legal liabilities under GDPR

Facebook has another change in the works to respond to the European Union's

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  Facebook has a new job posting calling for chip designers

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  Data experts on Facebook's GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits

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Can data science save social media?

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Emerging Markets Can't Quit Facebook

The social network is conquering e-commerce in the developing world.

Facebook’s 2017 Privacy Audit Didn’t Catch Cambridge Analytica

Audit by PwC came two years after Facebook learned that a university researcher gave personal data on millions of Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica.

How Is Netflix Faring after Its 1Q18 Results?

Netflix (NFLX) announced its 1Q18 results on April 16, 2018, and posted slightly better-than-expected earnings and revenues. In 1Q18, Netflix posted adjusted earnings of $0.64 per share, exceeding analysts’ consensus of $0.63 per share. The company posted total revenues of $3.7 billion, slightly better than the estimate of $3.69 billion. Its earnings and revenues increased ~60.0% and ~40.0% year-over-year, respectively.

Facebook Is Jumping on the Custom Chip Bandwagon

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Facebook (FB) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) are set to transition out of the information technology (or IT) sector as part of industry classification changes announced by the S&P Dow Jones Indexes and the MSCI in January this year. In changes scheduled to go into effect in September 2018, Facebook, Alphabet, and several of their current IT sector peers will be moved to the communications services sector, where they will join the likes of Verizon (VZ) and AT&T (T).