In this
beautiful World, we are part of many smaller groups – and there are always
people who quarrel .. the ego makes one think who is big and powerful without
ever realizing – how big the outside World is !!!!
On Friday, Senator
Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Congressman Joe Barton, a
Republican from Texas, sent a letter to Amazon CEO with several questions about the new Echo Dot
Kids Edition. Last year, Markey and Barton -- co-founders of the Bi-Partisan
Congressional Privacy Caucus -- wrote a letter to toy manufacturer Mattel (MAT)
with concerns about its "Aristotle" product. The WiFi-enabled toy
featured audio and visual monitoring for kids. The company ultimately stopped
selling the device. The letter to Amazon (AMZN) includes 12 questions about the
Echo Dot Kids Edition, the $79.99 gadget that plays kid-friendly music, answers
questions and comes with parental controls, such as time limits for use. The
device began shipping this week. The lawmakers asked Bezos whether Amazon
maintains a data profile on each child and how long the company keeps
recordings and other information collected by the device.
Qs or
none – his rise to top is awesome .. this week, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was named the
world's most powerful CEO by Forbes. The tech mogul also took the No. 5 spot on
the Forbes ranking of the "World's Most Powerful People" of 2018,
ahead of Pope Francis and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. It's
been a big year for Bezos: He has not only become the richest man in the world,
but he has also helped make Amazon the second most valuable company in the
world, behind Apple. And his success can arguably be traced back to a risk he
took when he was 30 years old.
Bezos was a
straight-A high school student and the class valedictorian, and he got accepted
via early admission to Princeton, according to Brad Stone's biography "The
Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon." He majored in
computer science and electrical engineering, and then went on to work various
finance and tech jobs after college. It was while serving as a vice president
at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw in the 1990s that Bezos came up with the idea to
sell books over the Internet. Doing so, though, would mean taking a significant
risk and perhaps sacrificing his stable job.
In a
global economy that roars continuously forward at lightning speed, fortunes can
potentially be made and lost in the span of a day. The Bloomberg Billionaires
Index is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest individuals. While many of
the names in the top ten have become as iconic in their own right as the tech
companies that propelled them to wealth and fame, there is always room for a
few surprises. In addition to their business acumen and
accomplishments, many of the men on the list are also active philanthropists.
And if the thought of all that wealth feels intimidating and out of reach,
consider the fact that the ten richest people on Bloomberg's billionaire index
are all self-made, many with humble and unremarkable beginnings.
Jeff Bezos has
become synonymous with his company, Amazon, the online book retailer turned
global e-commerce juggernaut he founded in Seattle in 1994. Mr. Bezos still
runs Amazon, ranked the world's fourth-largest information technology company
by revenue. In addition to retail and tech, Amazon has also ventured into the
streaming game, with a number of original shows in development. When Amazon's stock price surges up, Bezos edges out Bill
Gates and moves into the pole position on Bloomberg's Index. When Amazon's stock eases up, Bezos can slip
into the second position. But Amazon's
recent successes may soon put Bezos out of reach.
Here are
the top 10 according to Bloomberg : 1. Jeff
Bezos, United States, Technology;
2. Bill Gates, United States,
Technology; 3. Warren Buffet, United States, Diversified; 4. Mark Zuckerberg, United States, Technology;
5. Bernard Arnault, France, Consumer; 6.
Amancio Ortega, Spain, Retail; 7. Carlos
Slim, Mexico, Diversified; 8. Larry Page,
United States, Technology; 9. Larry Ellison, United States, Technology; 10. Sergey
Brin, United States, Technology.
Most of
us know and have realized that one need not be in any top 10 list to be trolled
and hated by people around. It's
irritating to soul-crushing when you encounter a hater in real life or on
social media. But when it happens to you or your dear – here are some words
of Melissa McCarthy, I found interesting.
She
says that trolls don't get to her and she's teaching them not to get to her
daughters either, ages 11 and 8, by looking at them in a certain way. Melissa McCarthy, the star of Life of the
Party, which hit theaters, has experienced her share of trolls. Especially when
Ghostbusters loyalists weren't thrilled with the remake starring Kristin Wiig,
Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. It's a message the 47-year-old actress is
passing onto her daughters.
Haters
need a 'little joy' :Sure, she could be mad at the haters. That's a natural
response, right? But McCarthy said she doesn't bother. Instead, she roots for
them. “Weirdly, instead of getting mad at them, I always feel like, 'Oh, I hope
you meet someone soon that you can talk to, someone that really makes you
laugh,’ ” she told People. “I just root for that person to find a little joy.”
No
more wallowing : We often get a thrill
when celebrities really zing their haters because it's what we'd like to do.
Sadly, when we do think of the perfect come back, it's four days later. But McCarthy says she's done playing in the
mud with haters. This has been a tough
chunk of history for women. But at one point I just said, ‘I’m not going to
wallow in this anymore.' "
Flip
the lens : McCarthy said she encourages her daughters to think about the lives
of the haters. McCarthy said she advises her daughters to flip the lens and
have empathy about why the person is lashing out. “It’s the same thing I tell
my girls, ‘If somebody is being mean, they’re probably really not happy. If
you’re having a great day, you don’t walk past someone and yell, ‘Freak!’ If
you’re happy, you say, ‘I love your skirt!’ ”
End of
the day, forget thy haters, they have
their own reasons to be unhappy, let us be happy !!
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
14th
May 2018
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