The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
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