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in TVWhich new feature did Amazon Prime Video roll out in January 2024 in the US and February in the UK?
Answer: Amazon Prime Video is introducing ads into its streaming service starting Jan. 29, 2024, in the US and Feb. 5, 2024, in the UK, with an option to avoid ads for an extra fee.
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in BusinessWhere has Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, set up his new home?
Answer: Jeff Bezos, the mastermind behind Amazon and space exploration company Blue Origin, has decided to trade Seattle’s evergreen embrace for Miami’s sun-kissed shores. This move. announced via Instagram on Nov. 3, 2023, is a strategic play to be closer to his family, his partner, and the rocket-fueled dreams taking off from Cape Canaveral. Plus,…
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in Classic TVWhich iconic 1960s spy drama featured David McCallum as a Russian agent?
Answer: Who could forget “The Man from UNCLE”‘s enigmatic Russian agent Illya Kuryakin? Played by the legendary David McCallum, Illya became an instant fan favorite. Fast forward to the 2000s, and he was still stealing scenes, this time as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on the hit CBS show “NCIS” for over two decades. On Sept.…
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in BusinessWhich tech giant is buying the primary care organization One Medical?
Answer: Amazon announced on July 21, 2022, that it would acquire the primary care organization One Medical in a deal valued at $3.9 billion. The purchase is Amazon’s third-biggest acquisition, following its $13.7 billion deal to buy Whole Foods in 2017 and its $8.5 billion purchase of MGM studios earlier this year.
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in TVWhich streaming service is producing the documentary “Shatner in Space”?
Answer: William Shatner’s space voyage aboard Jef Bozes’s Blue Origin’s New Shepherd has become an Amazon Prime documentary, premiering on Dec. 15, 2021. Bezos owns Amazon.
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in TVWhen is Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings TV series set?
Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth — thousands of years before the events of the Lord of the Rings films and the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien on which they were based._x000D_
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in BusinessWho is Andy Jassy?
Andy Jassy replaced Jeff Bezos as president and CEO of Amazon on July 5, 2021, as Bezos became executive chairman, precisely 27 years since founding the company on July 5th, 1994.
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in BusinessWhich of these companies are worth over $2 trillion?
As of June 29, 2021, Apple Inc. and Microsoft are worth over $2 trillion each, Amazon and Alphabet Inc. are worth over $1.5 trillion each, and Facebook is worth around $1 trillion.
