Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 25 of 35

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post hires NYT public editor who criticized paper’s Amazon coverage

The Washington Post has hired Margaret Sullivan, the former public editor for The New York Times and the person who criticized… Read More

Why this 9-year-old visited Amazon’s secret drone facility, and delivered a package to Jeff Bezos

A few days before the New Year, a 9-year-old boy named Evan was granted a wish: to fly from his hometown of… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture provides glimpses of its road ahead

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is lifting the curtain just a bit on its future… Read More

Jeff Bezos celebrates the opening of the new ‘modernized’ Washington Post headquarters

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought the The Washington Post back in 2013 for $250 million, ushered in a new era at the paper… Read More

‘Jeff Bezos will be the richest person in the world in 5-7 years,’ Barry Diller says in Amazon assessment

Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive at IAC, shared his views on tech giants Yahoo, Apple, Google and Twitter during… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More

Jeff Bezos escorts Washington Post reporter back to U.S. after release from Iranian prison

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, flew to Germany this week to escort Post correspondent Jason Rezaian… Read More

62 richest people have as much wealth as half of world’s population, report finds

The 62 richest people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, according… Read More

Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame wars, as shown by last year’s Twitter tug of war between space-minded billionaires Jeff… Read More

Magazine cover depicting Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as Hindu god draws backlash

The January cover of the international edition of Fortune magazine has drawn a bit of condemnation over its depiction of Amazon… Read More

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos invest in Grail, Illumina’s $100M cancer testing venture

One of the giants of gene sequencing, Illumina, has spun off a new $100 million company called Grail to create… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ wins Golden Globe as Jeff Bezos gets another shoutout

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos continues to get shoutouts at the Golden Globe awards ceremony. After Mozart in the Jungle, a dramatic comedy… Read More

Jeff Bezos: ‘I want Amazon to win an Oscar’

As streaming services dive deeper into high-quality original content, including movies, they’re expected to start competing with traditional films at the Oscars. Jeff… Read More

Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more

When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More

Amazon Prime adds more than 3M new members in 1 week at peak of holiday shopping season

Amazon said tonight that it added more than 3 million new Amazon Prime members globally in just one week at the… Read More

Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos: Watch this hilarious animated recap of their great space race

History was made earlier this week when Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, and then successfully returned it… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Alan Boyle’s guide to the year in space, and what’s next for the universe in 2016

It was a big year in space: Historic rocket launches; revelations from distant planets; an unprecedented glimpse of the surface of Pluto; evidence… Read More

The Bezos Effect: How Amazon’s CEO is helping The Washington Post innovate

Online traffic is up, digital innovation is encouraged, and there’s a renewed focus on the customer at the Washington Post. Yes, Jeff… Read More

Amazon launches new era with opening of first tower at new Seattle campus

Amazon employees made their way into the company’s new Doppler office tower near downtown Seattle for the first time on Monday… Read More

Donald Trump advocates ‘closing up the Internet,’ wants to get Bill Gates on that

If ridiculous passed ridiculous well into ludicrous land, well, that wouldn’t even come close to where Donald Trump is living… Read More

Jeff Bezos wants to send Donald Trump to space, and Twitter is thrilled

Jeff Bezos is still new to Twitter, but he’s figuring out the snarky social media stuff pretty quickly. The CEO of… Read More

Video: Jeff Bezos spotlights Blue Origin’s ‘very happy’ rocket scientists after touchdown

“Touchdown” means something different to rocket scientists and to football fans, but the cheering, hugs and high fives are the same… Read More

Exclusive: Jeff Bezos speaks out on Blue Origin, SpaceX and space trips: ‘I can’t wait to go!’

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, says watching his Blue Origin rocket make a safe landing after flying into space rates as… Read More

Wow! Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sends New Shepard rocket ship to space – and gets it back safely

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, successfully sent its New Shepard rocket ship to outer… Read More

Jeff Bezos says next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship should come ‘very soon’

Even as Jeff Bezos celebrates past achievements in spaceflight, he’s looking forward to seeing his Blue Origin space venture make future achievements.… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Seattle’s Museum of Flight unwrap Apollo moon engine artifacts

Even Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos got misty-eyed at Seattle’s Museum of Flight during today’s unveiling of rocket engine parts from… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin targets 2016 for suborbital research flights with drone spaceships

Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is reportedly planning to start flying research payloads on… Read More

Convoy raises $2.5M from Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, others for new on-demand trucking startup

A new Seattle startup has raised $2.5 million from an impressive group of investors to change how shippers connect with… Read More