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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” In de Bono’s vision, “large manufacturing corporations” should create their own currencies, which could be used to buy their products. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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On 20 April 1939, David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. But the inside held a vision of the future. But if television really was going to be the future, RCA had to convince consumers to buy sets. That industry was television.

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