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Jeff Bezos sells the Air Force on Blue Origin rockets and Amazon Web Services

Billionaire Jeff Bezos made a subtle sales pitch for Amazon Web Services as well as the New Glenn rockets being… Read More

How Jeff Bezos’ new $2B ‘Day One Fund’ stacks up to other tech billionaires’ philanthropy

Jeff Bezos’ donation of $2 billion to his newly announced charitable fund clearly isn’t chump change. But in the world… Read More

Jeff Bezos unveils $2B ‘Day One Fund’ focusing on homeless families and preschool education

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled his eagerly-awaited philanthropic initiative, announcing a new “Bezos Day One Fund” that will focus… Read More

Blue Origin’s schedule for putting people on space trips reportedly slips to 2019

News Brief: Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith today signaled that the Kent, Wash.-based space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff… Read More

The multibillion-dollar question: What in the world (or universe) will Jeff Bezos do with his riches?

Jeff Bezos transformed the modern economy, using disruptive thinking to reshape how people buy products and read books, and how… Read More

Rocket envy? Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship launches a double entendre

It’s hard to top the risque rocket scene in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” but Blue Origin’s New… Read More

Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 15 promising space technologies for testing on suborbital flights, and almost half of them… Read More

Blue Origin shows off BE-3U upper-stage rocket engine as its many efforts ramp up

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is sharing a short video clip featuring the lesser-known… Read More

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

NASA is awarding $44 million to six commercial partners to support “tipping-point” technologies that range from lunar landing capabilities to… Read More

Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship hits new heights in escape test flight

As Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos watched, his Blue Origin space venture sent its reusable New Shepard spaceship to its highest-ever… Read More

Blue Origin's New Shepard spaceship on pad

Blue Origin counts down to high-altitude escape test of New Shepard spaceship

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it’ll push its New Shepard suborbital spaceship “to… Read More

$200,000 for a trip to space? Blue Origin says price hasn’t been seriously discussed

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, is playing down reports that a suborbital space trip on its New… Read More

Here’s why space engineers come to Seattle … and why some of them leave

A new employment study indicates that roughly 3,000 people are directly employed by Washington state’s space industry, and roughly half… Read More

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is laying out a plan to support the creation… Read More

GeekWire 200 June update: Bezos’ Blue Origin is No. 1 as dust settles following another IPO

For all of Jeff Bezos’ accomplishments, one accolade he hadn’t attained was leading a company sitting atop the GeekWire 200, our… Read More

Blue Origin gets in on NASA studies for resource utilization on moon and Mars

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among 10 teams that will share about $10 million in NASA… Read More

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Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’

LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the… Read More

Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture go all in on moon settlements

LOS ANGELES — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture will work with NASA as well as the… Read More

Control Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starman’ in quest to blow up Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in video game

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to… Read More

Taking a page from Amazon playbook, Jeff Bezos says it’s ‘Day One’ for space industry

“Day One” isn’t just for Amazon anymore: Billionaire Jeff Bezos says that first-day feeling of being fired up about a… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Salesforce seeks cyber security professional for Infrastructure Security team

Most know Salesforce for its massive customer relationship management and cloud technology. But who keeps all of that data safe?… Read More

United Launch Alliance picks Aerojet’s RL10 rocket engine for Vulcan upper stage

United Launch Alliance has chosen Aerojet Rocketdyne over Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture to provide the upper-stage… Read More

Jeff Bezos is in on the joke as he shares Conan O’Brien’s playful dig at Amazon and Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos continued his happy-go-lucky streak across social media on Wednesday by showing he has a sense of humor when… Read More

TLDR: Jeff Bezos and philanthropy, $6 lunch pickup service, 8-year-old coder

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ focus on space spending sparks questions about philanthropy

While Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spends billions of dollars a year on global health, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is putting… Read More

Look who’s atop the GeekWire 200 now, as DocuSign and Smartsheet graduate via IPOs

DocuSign’s long reign atop the GeekWire 200 ranking of the top Pacific Northwest startups is over. The digital signature giant… Read More

Jeff Bezos, fashion model? This boot-clad billionaire strikes a pose for Blue Origin

If being Amazon’s CEO ever gets tiresome for Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest human, he could always turn to a… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture sends its New Shepard spaceship to new heights

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture notched another record today when it sent its New Shepard suborbital spaceship… Read More

Jeff Bezos gets set for Sunday test launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture is targeting the next test flight of its New Shepard… Read More

Blue Origin CEO says next-gen BE-4 rocket engine meets technical requirements

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For years, there’s been a big question surrounding the next-generation BE-4 rocket engine that’s being built by… Read More