Amazon’s Jeff Bezos donates $2.5 million to support same-sex marriage measure

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In what is being called the largest individual gift to support same-sex marriage in the U.S., Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have donated $2.5 million to a Washington state coalition working to approve Referendum 74. That measure, on the November ballot, is designed to uphold the state law protecting the rights of same-sex couples to marry. The… Read More…

Obama: American investment in the Internet allowed Facebook, Google and Microsoft to thrive

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President Barack Obama cruised into Seattle Thursday as part of his 2012 campaign, touting everything from jobs to foreign policy to immigration reform to his stance on gay marriage. Obama presented himself as a unifier at a time that the country is deeply divided. To make his point, the president turned to the innovation economy,… Read More…