Bloomberg News – “Jeff Bezos is the richest person in modern history. The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s net worth cracked $150 billion in New York on Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s about $55 billion more than Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person. Bezos, 54, also has topped Gates in inflation-adjusted terms. The $100 billion mark that Gates hit briefly in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom would be worth about $149 billion in today’s dollars. That makes the Amazon chief executive officer richer than anyone else on earth since at least 1982, when Forbes published its inaugural wealth ranking…”

• See also – Washington Post – Worker strikes and a site crash dent Amazon’s Prime Day shopping bonanza – “Thousands of employees worldwide have walked off the job on the company’s biggest sales day of the year to bring attention to working conditions and benefits.
• See also -CNBC – Amazon suffers glitches at the start of Prime Day, its biggest shopping day of the year. [Some users saw an error page featuring the “dogs of Amazon” and were initially unable to enter the site. – Yes that would be me – The collies were not amused!]
• See also – BBC News – Shoppers thinking of taking part in internet giant Amazon’s Prime Day are being warned that not all the items on sale could be the bargains they seem.