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Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s bet on Project Kuiper satellites — and copes with an onstage protest

by Alan Boyle on June 6, 2019June 8, 2019 at 10:00 pm1 Comment

LAS VEGAS — For the first time in public, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained the rationale for his risky Project Kuiper satellite broadband venture, during a fireside chat that was… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gets a laugh out of his round with a robotic arm at re:MARS conference

by Alan Boyle on June 5, 2019June 8, 2019 at 10:02 pmComment

LAS VEGAS — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ handshake is at least as firm as a robotic hand’s grip. I found that out for myself today at Amazon’s inaugural re:MARS conference,… Read More

Jeff Bezos really does love New York: Months after Amazon ditched city, CEO drops $80M on 3 condos

by Kurt Schlosser on June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 at 11:55 am1 Comment

Amazon may have walked away from New York City and plans to locate a sizable chunk of HQ2 there, but CEO Jeff Bezos is apparently moving on up, with the… Read More

MacKenzie Bezos promises to give away half her fortune, highlighting Jeff Bezos’ absence from ‘Giving Pledge’

by Monica Nickelsburg on May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 at 10:16 am1 Comment

One of the richest women in the world will give the majority of her fortune away to charity. MacKenzie Bezos has signed The Giving Pledge, a commitment that hundreds of… Read More

Amazon shareholder proposals on climate and facial recognition won about 30 percent of vote

by Todd Bishop on May 24, 2019May 25, 2019 at 10:16 amComment

Updated below with full results and news release from Amazon employees who backed climate resolution. Amazon announced this week that shareholders voted down all eleven proposals up for consideration at… Read More

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Jeff Bezos, can you take my return? Inside one of the most unusual Amazon annual meetings ever

by Todd Bishop on May 23, 2019May 24, 2019 at 10:33 am1 Comment

Amazon Prime member Evie Schwerin ordered a Haggadah, the Jewish text traditionally read at Passover Seder, before realizing that she already had what she needed. But due to issues including… Read More

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How to think like Amazon: New book from former exec helps others learn from tech giant

by Todd Bishop on May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 at 7:49 am1 Comment

Amazon critics will gather outside the tech giant’s shareholder meeting Wednesday morning in Seattle to protest the company’s actions on a variety of fronts. But when it comes to Amazon’s… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows enthusiasm for auto industry at all-hands meeting, report says

by James Thorne on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 at 2:05 pmComment

Jeff Bezos has set his sights on yet another industry. The Amazon CEO told employees in March that he’s “very excited” about the technological revolution happening in the auto business,… Read More

Jeff Bezos moves some earth to break ground on new $1.5B Amazon Prime Air hub near Cincinnati

by Kurt Schlosser on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 at 6:54 pmComment

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into a front-end loader to “move some earth” as the tech giant broke ground Tuesday on a new 3-million-square-foot air cargo hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky… Read More

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Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony

by Todd Bishop & Alan Boyle on May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 at 11:13 am 2 Comments

It’s our choice: a finite world with limited resources, or an infinite universe with unlimited potential. Those were the options presented by Jeff Bezos this week he laid out his… Read More

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Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin

by Alan Boyle on May 9, 2019May 28, 2019 at 11:19 am 2 Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon aimed at supporting NASA’s goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface by… Read More

Company run by world’s 4th richest person invests in company run by world’s richest person

by Nat Levy on May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 at 10:57 amComment

Famed investor Warren Buffett has long been a fan of Amazon but never invested in the tech giant, until now. His company Berkshire Hathaway finally took the plunge and bought… Read More

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Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people

by Alan Boyle on May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 at 6:34 pm1 Comment

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, today sent dozens of science experiments and other payloads to space and back on its suborbital New Shepard rocket… Read More

Blue Origin tweets picture from Antarctic expedition, hinting at moon mission

by Alan Boyle on April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 at 10:18 am1 Comment

Is Jeff Bezos planning to send a lander to the moon’s south pole? It’s possible to leap to that conclusion, based on an enigmatic tweet from Blue Origin, the Amazon… Read More

Stuck on a familiar rant: 2 graffiti stickers illustrate Seattle’s ‘complicated relationship with big tech’

by Kurt Schlosser on April 17, 2019April 18, 2019 at 10:46 am 2 Comments

It’s tough to pass any light pole or street sign in Seattle these days without noticing that many of them have been sprayed or scribbled or stickered with one message… Read More

Jeff Bezos challenges retail giants to match (or beat!) Amazon’s $15/hour minimum wage and benefits

by Todd Bishop on April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 at 8:20 am1 Comment

Amazon last fall raised its minimum wage to $15/hour for its U.S. workers, after facing pressure from Sen. Bernie Sanders and others to boost compensation in its fulfillment centers and… Read More

Jeff Bezos uses annual Amazon letter as antitrust antidote: ‘Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.’

by Todd Bishop on April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 at 6:05 amComment

Amazon is getting trounced by third-party sellers on its platform, has weathered some spectacular failures in the process of building its business, and “remains a small player in global retail.”… Read More

Early Amazon investor Tom Alberg to leave board, 23 years after betting on Jeff Bezos’ little startup

by Taylor Soper on April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 at 10:31 am1 Comment

More than 23 years after betting on a small startup called Amazon.com, Tom Alberg, the company’s longest-standing board member, is stepping down. Alberg, 79, was one of Amazon’s earliest investors… Read More

Meow! Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a satellite copycat — and gets called out

by Alan Boyle on April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 at 10:38 am 4 Comments

The fur is flying in the broadband internet satellite race. It all started when we found out that Amazon was planning its own 3,236-satellite constellation to provide global internet access.… Read More

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Amazon was here: Early employees recall startup days in Seattle building that will soon disappear

by Kurt Schlosser on April 10, 2019April 11, 2019 at 8:05 am 2 Comments

In a non-descript, four-story building, around the corner from Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once sat in a tiny office with stained carpets. His view from… Read More

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos finalize divorce; Amazon CEO keeps 75% of couple’s stock

by Taylor Soper on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 at 11:17 am 2 Comments

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have finalized their divorce. The Amazon CEO will receive 75 percent of the couple’s Amazon shares and retain voting authority for remaining shares owned by MacKenzie… Read More

Bill Gates, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos fund research to find a better Alzheimer’s diagnosis

by Monica Nickelsburg on April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 at 10:37 am1 Comment

The richest people in the world are putting some of their fortunes toward finding a better way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Bill Gates and Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are backing… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ security consultant says Saudi government hacked Amazon CEO’s phone

by Taylor Soper on March 30, 2019April 1, 2019 at 12:06 pm 3 Comments

The Saudi government hacked into Jeff Bezos’ phone and accessed private information, according to new details shared by the Amazon CEO’s security consultant. Gavin de Becker, who works as an… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Cast of ‘The Expanse’ visits Blue Origin’s space turf

by Alan Boyle on March 29, 2019March 30, 2019 at 8:41 am 2 Comments

Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of “The Expanse,” the science-fiction jewel in Amazon’s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin’s… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Bezos and the bots, DNA data storage, and Seattle startups learn to co-exist with Silicon Valley giants

by Todd Bishop on March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 at 9:23 amComment

Every year, Amazon and Jeff Bezos hold an elite, invitation-only conference called MARS, for Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space, which doubles as an excuse for the Amazon founder to test out the latest… Read More

Jeff Bezos puts that robotic dragonfly at center stage in video clip from Amazon’s MARS conference

by Alan Boyle on March 19, 2019March 20, 2019 at 12:48 amComment

Find someone who looks at you the way Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looks at the robotic dragonfly that’s buzzing around his head at this week’s MARS conference. MARS is Amazon’s… Read More

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Jeff Bezos generates new rounds of buzz at Amazon’s mysterious MARS conference

by Alan Boyle on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 at 9:38 pmComment

Which is more viral, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos getting buzzed by a robotic dragonfly, or Bezos buzzing in Lift Aircraft’s Hexa passenger drone? Those are just a couple of today’s… Read More

WSJ report reveals National Enquirer paid $200K for Jeff Bezos’ racy texts

by Taylor Soper on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 at 7:55 pmComment

More details have emerged about the public spat between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer. The Wall Street Journal published a new report Monday evening revealing that Michael… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Brave Amazon employee quizzes Bezos; GeekWire Awards preview; Peter Sagal’s input on input

by Todd Bishop on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 at 9:52 amComment

We’re preparing for the GeekWire Awards, our annual event recognizing the best in Pacific Northwest tech and innovation, coming up May 2 at MoPOP in Seattle. On this episode of… Read More

Author of ‘The Everything Store’ planning new book on Amazon and Jeff Bezos

by Monica Nickelsburg on March 14, 2019March 14, 2019 at 10:57 amComment

This story has been updated with comments from Brad Stone. One of the first authors to pull back the veil on notoriously mysterious Amazon is back at it, working on… Read More

Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s bet on Project Kuiper satellites — and copes with an onstage protest

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gets a laugh out of his round with a robotic arm at re:MARS conference

Jeff Bezos really does love New York: Months after Amazon ditched city, CEO drops $80M on 3 condos

MacKenzie Bezos promises to give away half her fortune, highlighting Jeff Bezos’ absence from ‘Giving Pledge’

Amazon shareholder proposals on climate and facial recognition won about 30 percent of vote

Jeff Bezos, can you take my return? Inside one of the most unusual Amazon annual meetings ever

How to think like Amazon: New book from former exec helps others learn from tech giant

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shows enthusiasm for auto industry at all-hands meeting, report says

Jeff Bezos moves some earth to break ground on new $1.5B Amazon Prime Air hub near Cincinnati

Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony

Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin

Company run by world’s 4th richest person invests in company run by world’s richest person

Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people

Blue Origin tweets picture from Antarctic expedition, hinting at moon mission

Stuck on a familiar rant: 2 graffiti stickers illustrate Seattle’s ‘complicated relationship with big tech’

Jeff Bezos challenges retail giants to match (or beat!) Amazon’s $15/hour minimum wage and benefits

Jeff Bezos uses annual Amazon letter as antitrust antidote: ‘Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.’

Early Amazon investor Tom Alberg to leave board, 23 years after betting on Jeff Bezos’ little startup

Meow! Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a satellite copycat — and gets called out

Amazon was here: Early employees recall startup days in Seattle building that will soon disappear

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos finalize divorce; Amazon CEO keeps 75% of couple’s stock

Bill Gates, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos fund research to find a better Alzheimer’s diagnosis

Jeff Bezos’ security consultant says Saudi government hacked Amazon CEO’s phone

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Cast of ‘The Expanse’ visits Blue Origin’s space turf

GeekWire Podcast: Bezos and the bots, DNA data storage, and Seattle startups learn to co-exist with Silicon Valley giants

Jeff Bezos puts that robotic dragonfly at center stage in video clip from Amazon’s MARS conference

Jeff Bezos generates new rounds of buzz at Amazon’s mysterious MARS conference

WSJ report reveals National Enquirer paid $200K for Jeff Bezos’ racy texts

GeekWire Podcast: Brave Amazon employee quizzes Bezos; GeekWire Awards preview; Peter Sagal’s input on input

Author of ‘The Everything Store’ planning new book on Amazon and Jeff Bezos

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