Former Amazon and Microsoft Executive David Risher to Become CEO. Co-Founders Logan Green and John Zimmer to Serve as Chair and Vice Chair of Lyft Board, Sean Aggarwal to Serve as Lead Independent Director.| www.lyft.com
Amazon's trajectory from a rented garage to a $2.4 trillion enterprise is now business legend.| Fortune
Amazon.com was incorporated in 1994; as of 2024, it was the largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S. It is also a player in the grocery business, owing in part to its ownership of the Whole Foods supermarket chain. The company offers cloud services through its Amazon Web Services segment. Amazon develops and produces media content, much of which it streams through its Amazon Prime membership program; in 2021, it acquired the studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Amazon also makes and sells electro...| Fortune
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY–Jan. 5—The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.| American Dialect Society - An academic not-for-profit organization that encou...