Jeff Bezos AFP via Getty Images After staying put with his Amazon stock all year, the e-commerce and cloud computing giant’s founder Jeff Bezos completed his second stock sale in the same week, according to filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The outgoing Amazon CEO sold more than $2.4 billion worth of Amazon shares, bringing his one-week total to $4.9 billion. Bezos sold nearly 740,000 shares worth $2.5 billion on Monday and Tuesday, in his first sale of Amazon stock since Election Day last year. According to five SEC documents, he did the same thing on Wednesday and Thursday, selling another 740,000 shares to net $1.9 billion after taxes, based on Forbes estimates. He also took home $1.9 billion from his early week sale (to be more precise, he gained about $40 million less in the second sale, owing to slight movements in Amazon’s stock price). Bezos is now…

POOLER, Ga. (AP) — Amazon announced Friday it will open a $260 million fulfillment center near Savannah, where the online retailer plans to hire 1,000 full-time workers.The Seattle-based online retail and internet service titan said early construction has already started on a facility that will cover 640,000 square feet (60,000 square meters) and is expected to open next year. Workers will pick, pack and ship orders such as books, toys and small household goods. The company says employees will work alongside robots.Wages for full-time employees will start at $15 an hour, Amazon spokesperson Ashley Lansdale said.“The economic impact is enormous,” Savannah Mayor Van Jones said, “and Amazon’s $15 per hour minimum wage falls in line with what we aspire the minimum wage to be in our community.”Amazon already employs more than 21,000 workers across Georgia, including at a large fulfillment center in Stone Mountain that opened last year. The company’s…