Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 14 of 35

TLDR: Bezos Creates “Day One Fund” With $2 Billion

GeekWire TLDR Daily Rundown: Watch today’s episode with guest host Brian M. Westbrook above, and click the headlines below to read… 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

‘The child will be the customer’: How billionaire Jeff Bezos will bring a key Amazon value to philanthropy

Customer obsession has driven Jeff Bezos from the day he founded Amazon as a tiny online bookseller. Full text: Amazon… Read More

Full text: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals long-awaited philanthropic initiative

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday revealed a new $2 billion philanthropic initiative called “Bezos Day One Fund” that… 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

Extra casual Wednesday at Amazon as Jeff Bezos wears pajamas to board meeting — for a cause

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnoot6EhOJ_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=d9j2opcdczz2 Casual attire isn’t exactly at head turner at most tech companies, but when the richest man in the world… Read More

Amazon HQ2 speculation swirls as Jeff Bezos heads to DC

Mr. Bezos is going to Washington, with the eyes of the nation on him. The Amazon CEO arrives in Washington,… Read More

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… 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

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes $10M to With Honor PAC’s effort to elect veterans to Congress

Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, are donating $10 million to With Honor, a cross-partisan, veteran-focused super PAC. The donation,… Read More

TLDR: Paul Allen’s $100K donation to help GOP, Amazon briefly becomes $1T company, latest philanthropic efforts by Amazon

Today’s featured stories Tech titan Paul Allen gives $100,000 to GOP causes — and he’s not the only one Amazon… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s potential as an advertising behemoth and ‘working 2 or 3 years into the future’

In addition to being a retail giant, a cloud leader and a grocery heavyweight, Amazon is rapidly ascending to the… Read More

Jeff Bezos hints at how Amazon’s two HQs could work together across time zones

It has been almost a year since Amazon surprised the world with plans for a second North American headquarters, with… Read More

TLDR: Amazon stock hits $2K, Microsoft’s new parental leave policy, Google debunks Trump video

Today’s featured stories Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5… Read More

TLDR: Bernie Sanders targets Amazon, Uber & Lyft want to offer dockless bikes, WeWork Labs startup incubator to open in Seattle

Today’s featured stories Amazon calls Bernie Sanders’ crusade for warehouse workers ‘inaccurate and misleading’ Seattle could greenlight 3 bikeshare services… Read More

Amazon movie theaters? Tech giant vying to acquire Landmark chain, report says

Amazon wants to acquire Landmark Theatres, expanding its presence in the movie business and adding another brick-and-mortar chain to its… Read More

TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle

Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on… 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

TLDR: Prime Day problems & protests, regulating bikeshare in Seattle, Microsoft asks government to regulate facial recognition

Today’s featured stories Updated: Amazon Prime Day off to a rocky start as users report issues with e-commerce website Prime… Read More

With $150B net worth, Jeff Bezos is the richest person in modern history as Amazon stock approaches $2K

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reached a new milestone Monday, becoming the richest person in modern history as his net worth… Read More

TLDR: Anti-Amazon graffiti, see Times Square under water with HoloLens, needle-free blood sugar monitor for people with diabetes

Today’s featured stories Photos: Graffiti targeting Amazon and Jeff Bezos illustrates animosity toward tech giant in Seattle So much to… Read More

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