Just weeks before Amazon was set to report earnings results in February 2005, Jeff Bezos asked a group of employees to meet him one Saturday at the boathouse behind his home.
Marvel's "Avengers: Infinity War" marks the payoff to a decade's worth of work by the studio. For the Walt Disney Co., it's part of a master plan that wrings value from entertainment content -- and the studio's diversified portfolio of brands -- across an assortment of areas, spilling off the screen.
It's been too cold to campaign in frozen North Dakota. But as spring has crept across the state, an unusual ballot initiative is starting to emerge: One that would more than double the minimum wage, from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2021.