Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 35 of 35

Greg Huey catches ‘startup bug,’ departs Alliance of Angels for Glassybaby

Hanging around startups can be a risky proposition. Sooner or later, you catch the fever. Greg Huey, who served as… Read More

Reports: Bezos’ unmanned spaceship blows up in flight

Update, Saturday morning: After mishap, Bezos vows to press ahead with Blue Origin space project, crew capsule A spacecraft launched… Read More

It’s been one wild and crazy summer for tech news: A look at GeekWire’s top stories

It was an especially unusual August, and it wasn’t just because the down comforter never came off the bed or… Read More

The New Establishment: Bezos, Zuckerberg and Lady Gaga?

They come from the music, tech, media, finance and movie industries. They are Vanity Fair’s New Establishment, a list of… Read More

Amazon.com mum on latest employee meeting at KeyArena

Amazon.com is holding a sizable meeting of employees today at KeyArena in Seattle, triggering traffic alerts for the surrounding neighborhood.… Read More

Report: Amazon’s tablet will disrupt the ‘status quo’ (That means you Apple)

Amazon.com hasn’t even announced its tablet computer. But that’s not stopping the big research firms from projecting what the device… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Qliance to expand health care clinics

Qliance, an operator of health care clinics in which members pay monthly fees for primary and preventive care, is expanding… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed space company plans rocket test

Blue Origin, the secretive aerospace company bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is planning a rocket test today high over… Read More

Bezos donates $10M to Seattle history museum, creating new ‘Center for Innovation’

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has often been criticized for his company’s lack of contributions to the Seattle community. But the… Read More

Retailers turn to robots to compete with Amazon.com

Amazon.com may be best known for its huge array of products or its Kindle digital reading device. But the Seattle… Read More

Five weird (and wacky) pursuits of rich tech moguls

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” That line from F. Scott… Read More

Jeff Bezos wants to put an airbag in your smartphone

Many of us have experienced the problem: We get careless with our mobile phones, they slip out of our hands,… Read More

NASA vet and X Prize creator at the helm of secretive space robot startup Arkyd

With the Space Shuttle Atlantis departing this morning for its final flight, some have lamented the end of an era for… Read More

Jeff Bezos touts the power of long-term thinking, budgets $42M for a 10,000 year clock

We’ve talked before about how Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is not afraid to be misunderstood for long periods of time.… Read More

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GeekWire Show: Bezos’ clock, Mix-A-Lot’s game, and the story of Penny Arcade

This week on the GeekWire Show, we explain Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ plan to build a 10,000-year clock inside a… Read More

Amazon tablet to shake up holiday shopping season?

A report from DigiTimes out of Taiwan overnight offers the latest clues about rumored plans by Amazon.com to launch its… Read More

Why Jeff Bezos is helping to create a 10,000 Year Clock inside a Texas mountain

Based on his recent comments to shareholders about Amazon.com’s willingness to be misunderstood for many years, we knew Jeff Bezos… Read More

Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan

Amazon.com today is approaching 40,000 employees. Seventeen years ago, Shel Kaphan was No. 1. GeekWire Interview: Shel Kaphan, Amazon.com’s first… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s strategy, Apple’s iCloud, and Nintendo’s crazy new controller

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a big week in tech news — including Jeff Bezos at the… Read More

Amazon still trying to figure out grocery delivery business

Ordering groceries online and having them delivered to your door is one of those concepts that always sounds so promising.… Read More

Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon.com is so big on tablets

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t spill the beans on any of the company’s reported plans to develop its own Android-based tablets… Read More

Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’

One question at Amazon.com’s shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ mom: ‘I knew early on that he was wired a little bit differently’

What was Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos really like as a young boy? As part of a Mother’s Day program called… Read More

Jeff Bezos goes nuclear, backs B.C. startup’s plan to create safe nuclear power

What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the… Read More

Amazon.com: SEC launches inquiry into Texas tax dustup

The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting an inquiry into Amazon.com’s dispute with the state of Texas over a $269… Read More

Jeff Bezos to shareholders: ‘Invention is in our DNA’

It’s been a tough few days for Amazon.com. The Seattle online retailer took a PR beating after a massive outage… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin, Boeing get NASA cash to build new spaceships

Seattle may have lost a bid to house one of the retired Space Shuttles. But, who needs a clunky, old… Read More

Is Bezos’ Starship Enterprise a French-Built Luxury Jet?

Seeing news of Amazon’s Trekkie-themed corporate meeting is a reminder that CEO Jeff Bezos created an entity called Zefram LLC… Read More