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Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos wishes SpaceX ‘best of luck’ with Falcon Heavy – and Elon Musk replies with a smooch

All eyes are on Elon Musk as his company SpaceX gets ready to launch its first Falcon Heavy rocket from… Read More

Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to form their own healthcare tech company

Three of the world’s most influential business leaders — Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon — are bringing their… Read More

‘The plants look happy’: Jeff Bezos, with help from Amazon’s Alexa, opens ‘remarkable’ Spheres

After hearing from Washington’s governor, Seattle’s mayor and others, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos turned to a voice he truly recognizes… Read More

Brady? Belichick? Super Bowl talk could be Bezos with this ad for Amazon’s Alexa

https://youtu.be/YLPNjaAOrBw New England Patriots QB Tom Brady and his coach Bill Belichick are going after their sixth NFL championship, but… Read More

Door desk

Want to ‘be peculiar’ in your office? Build the scrappy, iconic Amazon door desk in 6 easy steps

You can purchase a wide variety of office furniture on Amazon.com, including modern standing desks and computer work stations. But… Read More

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos donate $33M to fund scholarships for Dreamers as immigration battle heats up

Jeff Bezos, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder and the wealthiest person in the world, is wading into the issue… Read More

Washington Post profitable and growing for two years under Jeff Bezos’ ownership

The Washington Post had a good year. The newspaper more than doubled digital subscriptions and grew revenue from digital advertising,… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Museum of Flight

Jeff Bezos’ net worth tops $105 billion as Amazon founder declared richest person in history

Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994 as a small online retailer, has been named the richest person in history,… Read More

Watch: Bezos, Bertha, and more video highlights from an epic year at GeekWire

2017 was one for the history books, and GeekWire captured many major moments and milestones on camera this past year.… Read More

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Year in Geek Podcast: How Amazon and Trump shaped tech’s year, and what to expect in 2018

2017 is a year for the history books. Between political unrest, historic natural disasters and leaps forward in innovation, this… Read More

Crew capsule assembly

Blue Origin space venture spends $14M on space for offices and warehouse in Kent

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has spent $14.1 million to buy 31 acres of… Read More

Amazon Spain dance

Watch: Dance routine at Amazon fulfillment center in Spain captures all the feels for Jeff Bezos

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Madrid, Spain, showed off their dance moves in a video that even caught… Read More

Test dummy in crew capsule

Get a dummy’s-eye view of a suborbital ride on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship

What will people experience when they rocket to the edge of space on the New Shepard suborbital spaceship that’s currently… Read More

Booster touchdown

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin gives test dummy ‘a great ride’ on New Shepard suborbital spaceship

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his space venture, Blue Origin, launched the latest version of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture gives notice for spaceship flight test this week

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has alerted the Federal Aviation Administration that it’s planning… Read More

Bezos and other tech luminaries back $150M ‘Rise of the Rest’ fund to boost startups between coasts

Some of the world’s most influential business leaders want to repair the deep divisions in America by investing in entrepreneurship… Read More

Time person of the year

Bezos, Trump, Kaepernick, #MeToo and more among final 10 for Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ honor

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made the shortlist for Time’s “Person of the Year,” a recognition of the person or group of… Read More

AmazonSmile

Nonprofit Project Veritas — which targeted Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post — eligible for donations via AmazonSmile

Project Veritas, the nonprofit organization caught this week in an apparent undercover scheme to deceive The Washington Post with a… Read More

Blast from the past: Watch Jeff Bezos describe Amazon’s business in 1999 

https://youtu.be/6cTjhzSgdwE Amazon’s rise to the top of the tech world is remarkable. A company that started out selling books online… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Museum of Flight

The $100 billion man: Jeff Bezos’ net worth hits milestone as Amazon soars on Black Friday

Jeff Bezos’ net worth soared above $100 billion on Friday — meaning the Amazon founder is now richer than the… Read More

From biscuits to ‘Buff Bezos’: Amazon CEO on shedding his poor eating habits and awful breakfast routine

Jeff Bezos didn’t always look so damn buff. The Amazon CEO took over the internet this past summer after a… Read More

Blue Origin rocket landing

Life, liberty and the pursuit of spaceflight? Jeff Bezos links Blue Origin to saving Earth

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ vision for his Blue Origin rocket venture is to have millions of people living and working… Read More

Rekindling Amazon’s old flame: 10 years later, can we get the original Kindle e-reader to work again?

Amazon wants to make money when people use its devices, Jeff Bezos says, not when people buy them. In other… Read More

Steve Bannon calls ‘Amazon Washington Post’ a partisan mouthpiece amid Roy Moore allegations

Steve Bannon accused the Washington Post — and its owner, Jeff Bezos — of intentionally targeting conservative politicians, hours after the… Read More

The mind-blowing wealth of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett now exceeds the bottom half of the entire U.S. population, new report finds

A new report released this week titled Billionaire Bonanza points out the growing divide in the U.S. among the super… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos sells more than $1 billion in Amazon stock

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than 1 million shares of company stock in the past three days, worth nearly $1.1… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon stock surges 13% after earnings report, making Jeff Bezos the world’s richest again

Amazon stock is soaring Friday morning after crushing earnings expectations and disclosing that it now employs more than 540,000 people… Read More

Watch Jeff Bezos open Amazon’s new Texas wind farm, perched atop a giant windmill like an action star

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos celebrated the opening of Amazon’s newest wind farm, and he did it in style. A tweet… Read More

Rose McGowan

Rose McGowan goes after Amazon and Jeff Bezos in latest tweets calling out abuses in Hollywood

Rose McGowan regained access to her Twitter account on Thursday following a temporary suspension by the social media platform for… Read More

Star Trek: Discovery

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ ranks Elon Musk alongside Wright Brothers and warp drive

SpaceX founder Elon Musk hasn’t yet scored a cameo on the Star Trek stage, as fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos did… Read More

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