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Get to Know Jeff Bezos’ Ex-Wife To Be, MacKenzie Bezos, Who Could Soon Be Amazon’s largest shareholder and One of the World’s Richest Women
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are divorcing after 25 years of marriage. While the Amazon founder’s name is well-known, the news has left some people wondering, who is MacKenzie Bezos? Who is the wife of the richest man in the world, someone who has led a relatively private life as the partner of the powerful founder and executive? MacKenzie…
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Here’s What Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos’ Divorce Could Mean for Amazon
Shortly after they were married, MacKenzie Bezos drove her husband, Jeff, across the country from New York to Seattle while he typed out a business plan for what would become Amazon. Now, twenty-five years later, MacKenzie Bezos could once again find herself in the driver’s seat, this time with the potential to rattle her husband’s control over…
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Vodacom Obtains Court Order Against MTN Staff Poaching
The labour court has issued an order, with the consent of ex-Vodacom employees, to enforce their restraints of trade after reports emerged in November that they were working with rival MTN South Africa. Vodacom said in a statement on Friday that it was “forced” to bring an application requesting the labour court to find that by being employees…
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MTN to Only Pay $53 Million to End Nigeria Dispute
Christmas has come early for MTN Group. The telecommunications operator’s shares are likely to soar when markets reopen on Thursday in Johannesburg after it announced late on Monday that it has settled a multibillion-dollar dispute in Nigeria. It will pay just US$53.2-million (about R777-million) in a settlement with Nigeria’s central bank, a tiny fraction of the…