It was not immediately clear how negotiations unfolded once Amazon settled on the plan for two offices. The company had originally said it would spend more than billion and add up to 50,000 workers at one location.
It was later revealed through reporting by Brad Stone in his book The Everything Store, that Amazon put the screws to Quidsi. Stone detailed a price war between Amazon.com and Diapers.com, which culminated in Amazon launching a competing service called “Amazon Mom” at the same time that Quidsi execs were in an acquisition meeting with Bezos.
It said the Ministry of Public Security will work closely with the People's Bank of China-the country's central bank-to monitor bank accounts of officials deemed suspicious and prevent them using offshore companies and underground banks to transfer funds abroad.
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It was the first public meeting between Han and Lam since the protests broke out in June. It followed President Xi Jinping's meeting with Lam in Shanghai on Monday, in which Xi affirmed Lam's work in dealing with the unrest, and expressed confidence in her administration.
It will be able to transfer 490 million cubic meters of water to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.
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It was decided during the meeting that internet data roaming charges will be canceled starting from July 1, and the cost of mobile internet services and household broadband will be cut by 30 percent. Internet services for small and medium-sized enterprises will also be reduced by 10 to 15 percent.
It was reported that the lab run by the Beijing Genomics Institution can test around 5,000 samples per day-about half of the city's testing capacity-and produce results within half a day.
It was a busy year for publicly-traded tech companies in the Seattle region, with plenty of winners and losers.
It was also the year in which Beijing hosted the Olympic Games, an event that unleashed what Vairon called a bout of "China bashing", and that helped spur him to write his book China Threat: The Challenges, Myths and Realities of China's Rise, published in New York in 2013.