Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 15 of 35

Backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Breakthrough Energy Ventures places first bets on power storage

Eighteen months after its founding, the $1 billion Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund’s first investments have been revealed, and they both… Read More

Amazon Studios’ boss recounts Jeff Bezos’ dinnertime push to save ‘The Expanse’

The head of Amazon Studios confirms that the plan to announce the rescue of “The Expanse” was cooked up while… Read More

We sent GeekWire’s summer intern on an Amazon HQ tour, and it was an eye-opening experience

In downtown Seattle, the land known as “Amazonia” is dense. And I didn’t know I was walking into it until… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services and lock-in: ‘You never want your customers to be trapped’

Enterprise tech buyers have worried about the prospect of “lock-in” — in which their vendors make it nearly impossible to… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft’s Ability Summit, Amazon’s 4th pillar, testing out Getaround

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

What will be the next big driver of Amazon’s business? Jeff Bezos points to 3 possibilities

There were billboard trucks circling the block, a giant Bezos Bot looming over the crowd and, new to the show… Read More

TLDR: Amazon shareholders meeting, Valve removes school shooting game, new Pokemon products

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

Amazon’s board diversity policy stirs debate at annual shareholder meeting

Earlier this month, after Amazon’s board initially opposed a shareholder proposal requiring the company to consider women and minorities for… Read More

Jeff Bezos: Amazon deserves to be scrutinized as a giant company, aims to ‘pass with flying colors’

It sometimes feels that the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” in a way that Amazon hasn’t seen in years… Read More

‘Bezos needs a boss’: Protesters ask for CEO oversight outside Amazon’s shareholders meeting

Protestors made their return to Amazon’s shareholders meeting in Seattle, this year asking the tech giant to create more oversight… Read More

Amazon shareholder meeting preview: Tech giant to face protests and proposals at annual event

Amazon shareholders will congregate in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday morning for the tech giant’s annual meeting, listening to CEO Jeff… Read More

TLDR: Starbucks stores close for racial bias training

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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

‘The Expanse’ is saved: Jeff Bezos says Amazon will pick up sci-fi TV saga, and the crowd goes wild

LOS ANGELES — I wanted to start out talking with Jeff Bezos tonight about his vision for settling outer space, but… 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

TLDR: Judge rules Trump can’t block critics on Twitter, backyard cottages & urban housing crisis, Russell Wilson’s new show on TraceMe

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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

Inside the hotel where Microsoft hosted some of the world’s top corporate moguls Tuesday night

The door to the black SUV opened, and suddenly there was Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, wearing a dark blue blazer… Read More

Amazon Prime members to get 10% off many Whole Foods items nationwide starting this summer

Amazon is taking the next step in its integration with Whole Foods Market, confirming that it will offer 10 percent… Read More

How Amazon could end its Seattle tax battle and tackle one of the world’s biggest problems

COMMENTARY: Amazon’s showdown with elected officials in its hometown has been fascinating to cover, disappointing to watch, and ultimately not… Read More

Should Jeff Bezos remain chairman of Amazon? Consumer group says billionaire founder ‘should not be his own boss’

An activist shareholder and consumer group is calling on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to give up the chairman role of… 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

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Is Washington, D.C., worthy of Amazon HQ2? We tested the nation’s capital to find out

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stylish Italian restaurant Masseria is easy to miss, hidden between a construction site and an industrial… 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

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

How does world’s richest man renovate? Floor plans reveal Jeff Bezos’ big ideas for $23M D.C. mansion

If Jeff Bezos is going to be a Washingtonian in the D.C. sense of the word, apparently he’s going to… Read More