The world's largest furniture manufacturer is going off grid.

Sellers are not pleased

Amazon will be stepping up its efforts to reduce its climate impact, CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday. The company will be ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Michigan’s Rivian as part of this commitment, Bezos said. The commerce giant will seek to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040 – 10 years earlier than is outlined by the United Nations Paris Agreement.

French Steam users have the right to resell games, a Paris court has ruled in a case brought by a consumer group. The years-long case isn’t fully settled because Valve can yet appeal, and why would they not? This is still a big decision. The official line so far has been that games bought in a downloadable form, without a physical form like a disc backing them, cannot be resold.

Tech companies should stop behaving as though everything that is not illegal is acceptable, says Microsoft’s second-in-command. Instead, they should focus on defining – and living by – the standards that they would like to see in regulation, before it gets forced on them anyway.

A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) board of directors must defend at a trial Chief Executive Elon Musk’s multibillion dollar pay package, which a shareholder lawsuit said unjustly enriched the head of the electric vehicle company.

Apple today previewed the new Apple Fifth Avenue, an entirely reimagined space beneath one of New York City’s most recognized landmarks.

Startups are exciting, we wouldn’t have got facebook, google or uber if someone didn’t take the risk to spend their time energy and money to make something new. Most of the successful startup founders got rewarded for taking this risk. But what about those startups that never see the daylight? out of 100 million startups launched every year only a tiny fraction become successful? Why startups fail? Lets find out.

Africa-focused tech talent accelerator Andela will cut 400 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, CEO Jeremy Johnson told TechCrunch. The layoffs come as the startup released first-time earnings figures indicating it will surpass $50 million in annual revenues for 2019. Yes, the news seems a bit disjointed. Not everything moves in the same direction in the business of startups.

The International Life Sciences Institute, with branches in 17 countries, is funded by giants of the food and drug industries.

The billionaire entrepreneur Larry Ellison, who cofounded Oracle, didn't mince words when it came to Uber and its cohort of ultravaluable tech companies, according to a new report in Barron's. The financial magazine reported Friday that the 75-year-old hosted a small cohort of entrepreneurs at his home in a posh neighborhood of San Francisco, where he spent an hour answering questions about topics as varied as the gig economy, WeWork, and Tesla.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person.

Amazon changed the algorithms that power its product-search system to favor products with higher profit margins, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Apple’s annual iPhone event may have marked Apple’s true shift into being a Services company.

Amazon announced last week it wanted to hire 30,000 employees — and a whopping 208,000 people applied, the ecommerce giant said Wednesday in touting the success of a recent recruitment drive it held in six cities as part of the hiring spree.

Volkswagen Group is creating a new division just for car software.

Miami Heat could play their next game from the Bangbros Center.

The company has fired two organizers in just over a week.

The promise of flying cars has become an idea more synonymous with the tech world’s shortcomings than its exciting potential, but today one of the startups that has been focused on actually trying to make small, airborne vehicles a reality is announcing a fundraise and says it’s on track for a commercial launch in two to three years.

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