The day Bernie was arrested, Jeff Wilpon e-mailed Mark right away, but soon lawyers for the Wilpons suggested that Jeff cease contact with Mark.

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In the release, CEO Jeff Bezos focused on e-books, noting that the company has more than 130, 000 in-copyright books that are exclusive to the Kindle store.

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My nomination is Jeff Bezos, founder of the first e-commerce business to make a real splash, and still running Amazon 18 years on.

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Jeff Bezos started Amazon and launched the e-commerce revolution.

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Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, has often said that a successful e-reader "disappears" when a reader becomes immersed in a book.

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"Jeff pushes the envelope--and me, " Ballmer says in an e-mail.

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The .com suffix generally implies an American domicile, though not exclusively. (The U.S. also has a .us suffix, but it is rarely used.) Canny opportunists are registering site names like Amazon.com.nl in the Netherlands or Infoseek.com.id in Indonesia, anticipating that Jeff Bezos or Disney will pay big bucks for the names as they move ahead with international e-commerce plans.

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Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) have all rallied around the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), hoping to shield it from major budget cuts in the following months.

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