Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 32 of 35

Amazon knocks $20 off Kindle Fire HD for Father’s Day

From now until June 8, Amazon is discounting its Kindle Fire HD tablets by $20 for a Father’s Day sale.… Read More

Bezos to Amazon shareholders: It’s not only Day One, ‘the alarm clock hasn’t gone off yet’

The official business at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting at Seattle Center this morning was quick and to the point, as… Read More

Jeff Bezos grilled over violent games, movies during Amazon shareholder meeting

Amazon just wrapped up its annual meeting of shareholders at Seattle Center, with Jeff Bezos giving a broad overview of… Read More

Check out the Apollo F-1 moon rocket engines that Jeff Bezos helped salvage

Back in March, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his Bezos Expeditions team recovered significant pieces of two F-1 rocket engines that… Read More

Amazon beats profit expectations, tops 90,000 employees for first time

Amazon this afternoon reported first-quarter profits of $82 million, or 18 cents a share, a decline of 37 percent from… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Remitly announces free money transfers to the Philippines

Seattle startup Remitly just announced pricing for its new international money-transfer service to the Philippines, and customers are probably going… Read More

Bezos defends Amazon’s profit-pinching strategy in annual letter to shareholders

This just in: Jeff Bezos’ 2013 letter to shareholders. The annual missive from Amazon’s CEO, released this morning, defends the company’s… Read More

Henry Blodget’s Business Insider raises $5 million from Jeff Bezos and others

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is investing in Business Insider, the technology news operation led by former Wall Street investment banker… Read More

Future of Kindle? Amazon’s Bezos wants wireless power, remote processing for devices

Want slimmer and lighter gadgets with amazing battery life? Jeff Bezos is right there with you — and he has… Read More

Success: Jeff Bezos recovers sunken Apollo rocket engines

How does Amazon’s founder spend his down time? Catching up on email in the middle of the Atlantic while monitoring… Read More

Zuckerberg leads list of most-liked CEOs; Bezos’ approval rating soars and Ballmer is a no-show in top 50

Do you like the job your boss is doing? If you work at Facebook, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, EMC, SAP, Apple or… Read More

‘Bezos Beep’ could replace the smartphone bump for mobile content sharing

Companies including Samsung have been promoting the practice of sharing content by bumping two devices together — transmitting photos, videos… Read More

Bill Gates ranks 2nd on Forbes billionaires list, Jeff Bezos rises up the charts

Forbes is out today with its annual ranking of the world’s top billionaires, and Seattle tech titans are well represented… Read More

New Amazon Kindle ad supports same-sex marriage

Amazon is out with a new Kindle ad, but the commercial’s most attention-getting message has little to do with the… Read More

Why this guy hacked his Kindle to email Jeff Bezos

As part of the terms of use for Amazon Kindle devices, users grant the company permission to collect data including… Read More

Bezos on eBooks: Amazon is ‘now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting’

Amazon.com posted a 45 percent decline in quarterly profits this afternoon, but Jeff Bezos says one of the company’s biggest… Read More

POLL: Do you like Steve Ballmer’s new haircut?

Breaking news: Steve Ballmer is bald. Just kidding about the breaking news part, unless you’re obsessed with keeping track of… Read More

Qliance raises $8M, opens new clinic on Expedia campus

Qliance Medical, the Seattle health services startup backed by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer; Zillow Chairman Rich Barton; comedian Drew Carey;… Read More

Billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos got a lot richer in 2012

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is trying to give away his fortune. But he may have to try a little bit… Read More

Amazon bigger than Microsoft? What to watch in 2013 from Jeff Bezos & Co.

How’s this for a milestone in the making? Amazon is on a trajectory to become larger than Microsoft in 2013,… Read More

Goodbye, cracked screens? Bezos, Amazon awarded patent for smartphone airbag

Airbags aren’t just for cars anymore — they may be coming soon to a cell phone near you. We first… Read More

Facebook is the best place to work; Steve Ballmer, Amazon enjoy better approval ratings

The employees have spoken: Facebook is the best place to work. Glassdoor.com released its fifth annual “Employees’ Choice Awards” that… Read More

From Boeing to Microsoft Bob: Innovation in the spotlight at Seattle’s new history museum

Seattle’s history is very much tied to innovation, whether it’s Bill Boeing’s early aircraft or Bill Gates’ early software. And… Read More

Jeff Bezos: 7 gems from his Amazon Web Services talk

Jeff Bezos spoke this afternoon at the Amazon Web Services re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, interviewed on stage by… Read More

Veteran NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick joins Blue Origin as human integration architect

Nicholas Patrick, the fifth British astronaut to go to space and a NASA veteran, has joined the Blue Origin team… Read More

It’s holiday shopping season, and Jeff Bezos is everywhere

It’s the equivalent of the groundhog coming out of his hole. For 12 months out of the year, Amazon.com founder… Read More

An Amazon smartphone? Jimmy Fallon grills Jeff Bezos

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show Thursday night and talked about Amazon’s early days, how… Read More

Gates, Jobs, Bezos or Zuck: Which tech titan do entrepreneurs admire most?

Since the early days of GeekWire, one of our favorite features has been the Startup Spotlight in which we touch… Read More

The ‘ultimate disrupter’ Jeff Bezos named Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year

Dubbing him the “ultimate disrupter,” Fortune magazine has chosen Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as its Businessperson of the Year. The… Read More

Newsmakers 2012: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos redefines boundaries

It was another big year for Amazon.com, with the expansion of the company’s Kindle and Kindle Fire lineup, the continued… Read More