Amazon Bets on ‘Betas’ to Turn Web Viewers Into Shoppers

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Amazon.com Inc.’s new comedy show “Betas” depicts a motley band of 20-something Silicon Valley entrepreneurs coding around the clock to develop a social-media site to rival Facebook Inc.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive officer, is using “Betas” to do some disrupting of his own.