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Business Matters: Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO

Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO

03/02/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO

Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO from the e-commerce giant he founded

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, is to step down as Chief Executive of the e-commerce giant that he started in his garage nearly 30 years ago. He will become executive chairman, a move he said would give him "time and energy" to focus on his other ventures; our New York business correspondent Michelle Fleury brings us the latest. Plus, Caroline Lucas, the UK's only Green Party MP gives her take on the theory of Natural Capital, which explores the idea of putting a price on natural resources. BBC technology reporter Zoe Kleinman tells us whether as we are travelling less and staying home during the pandemic, we are giving more data away to big technology firms. And in 2014, Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled that female children are equally entitled as their male siblings to inherit their father's estate but some families and communities backed by traditional rulers, say the ruling doesn’t change anything, and insist that women can’t inherit things like land or the family home; Olivia Ndubuisi reports from South East Nigeria. The Sundance Film Festival takes place every January near Salt Lake City in the US and is the largest independent film festival in the country but this year it's all been done virtually. As Tom Brook reports, the pandemic looms large in the films and the stories they tell. And we're joined throughout the programme by Simon Littlewood, founder and President of ACGrowth Delivered in Singapore, and in Vancouver, the multimedia journalist Hayley Woodin. (Picture of Jeff Bezos by Mandel Ngan via Getty Images).

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