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Bezos weighs in on Musk’s Twitter takeover: ‘Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?’

Get your popcorn ready. Jeff Bezos just made his first public comments about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in a bold way, surfacing a tweet from New York Times reporter Mike Forsythe highlighting Musk’s connections to China via Tesla, which has rising sales and is increasing production capacity in the country.

Inside Amazon’s first high-tech Go store in suburbia, where there’s more stuff and a made-to-order menu

Amazon Go is growing beyond its traditional urban footprint, ushering in a new era for the high-tech, physical convenience stores with the opening Tuesday of the company’s first suburban location.

Microsoft earnings preview: Wall Street expects 18% revenue growth on continued cloud strength

Streaming video subscriptions might be more disposable than imagined, but the juggernaut of cloud infrastructure and enterprise services is another matter entirely.

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Parents: Don’t let the college admissions process ruin your child’s high school experience

In the Seattle area, college competitiveness is heating up.

Microsoft posts nearly $50B in quarterly revenue, beats expectations due to cloud growth

Continued growth in Microsoft’s cloud business boosted its quarterly revenue to $49.4 billion, up 18%, with profits of $16.7 billion, up 8%, beating Wall Street’s expectations with earnings per share of $2.22.

Tech Moves: Netflix product leader lands at Google; YouTube CEO to join Code.org board; and more

— Keela Robison, former vice president of product innovation at Netflix, joined Google as vice president of product management leading a team working on search experience.

A ‘don’t do list’ for founders: VC shares tips for startup leaders

There are a lot of guides and blog posts for founders that provide advice on what to do as a leader of an early-stage startup.

RelationalAI raises $75M, adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to board

RelationalAI, a Berkeley, Calif.-based startup building “knowledge graphs” for intelligent data apps, raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global.

Elon Musk will buy Twitter in $44 billion deal, promises to add features and defeat spam bots

Follow-up: Bezos weighs in on Musk’s Twitter takeover: ‘Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?’ Elon Musk is buying Twitter.

Virtual meeting study: 50% of participants arrive late, 22% don’t say anything

The rise of video conferencing has opened up new ways to analyze the effectiveness of meetings.

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