Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 8 of 35

Tesla stock surge helps power Elon Musk past Jeff Bezos as richest person in the world

Update, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. PT: According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s net worth late Thursday stood at $195… Read More

Amazon’s new $2B fund aims to boost affordable housing in Arlington, Nashville and Seattle areas

Amazon is committing more than $2 billion to affordable housing initiatives in the regions of Seattle, Nashville, Tenn., and Arlington,… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Jacklyn Bezos at ship christening

Ahoy, Jacklyn! Jeff Bezos names Blue Origin’s rocket recovery ship after his mom

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk named his rocket recovery vessels after science-fiction spaceships, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stayed closer to… Read More

Jeff Bezos pledges $25M more to All in WA to help group provide COVID-19 relief across state

Jeff Bezos is doubling his contribution to All in Washington, a statewide effort to provide COVID-19 relief funds. The Amazon… Read More

Amazon Sidewalk rollout shows the future of ‘forced opt-in,’ taking lessons from Xfinity Wifi

How would you feel if you were a homeowner and woke up one morning to find people on a new… Read More

SpaceX’s Starship flies high-altitude test that ends with a bang — and with congrats from Jeff Bezos

SpaceX put its Starship super-rocket through its first high-altitude test today — and although the flight ended in a fiery… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund awards $105.9M to 42 non-profits in third year of initiative

Jeff Bezos announced the latest recipients of donations from his Bezos Day 1 Families Fund on Wednesday, listing 42 organizations… Read More

Walter Isaacson likens Bezos to Einstein and Jobs, calls out Trump for ‘corrupt’ treatment of Amazon

Much of the content in the new book, “Invent & Wander,” will be familiar to those who follow Jeff Bezos… Read More

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‘This company was invented for the pandemic’ — Scott Galloway on Amazon in a ‘Post Corona’ world

Amazon’s big move into the pharmacy business last week wasn’t a surprise at all, and it’s just part of a… Read More

Bezos Earth Fund announces first grants totaling $791M of his $10B pledge to help planet

Jeff Bezos on Monday announced the 16 environmental organizations that will receive $791 million as the first round of grantees… Read More

Bill Gates on tech and antitrust: It’s ‘unfortunate’ that Congress is grouping companies together

“One of the privileges of success in this country is government scrutiny, and that’s OK.” — Bill Gates, 1998. “I… Read More

‘Mysterious $60B woman’: Profile offers rare look at MacKenzie Scott’s distribution of Amazon wealth

MacKenzie Scott hasn’t given any interviews about her split from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos or her philanthropic pursuits in the… Read More

House antitrust probe says Amazon has ‘monopoly power’ over sellers, company slams ‘fringe’ findings

A long-awaited report from a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee finds that Amazon “has monopoly power over most third-party sellers and… Read More

Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

The Day 1 Academies Fund is gearing up to open the inaugural school in its new network of full scholarship… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Breaking the IPO glass ceiling; Who succeeds Bezos?; TikTok’s ticking clock

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. When Athira Pharma filed with the Nasdaq for a… Read More

Amazon tears into Trump after Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract

[Updated at 3 p.m. Pacific on Friday, Sept. 4.] Amazon issued a searing response Friday to the Department of Defense’s… Read More

Who will (eventually) replace Jeff Bezos? Amazon succession mystery deepens with key exec’s exit

Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, has been described as a natural business leader and the… Read More

The $200 billion man: Jeff Bezos crosses into new territory as Amazon’s stock surge fuels riches

Jeff Bezos crossed into new billionaire territory on Wednesday with another surge in Amazon stock that pushed the CEO’s net… Read More

Amazon expands ‘Project Zero’ anti-counterfeit program that Bezos cited in antitrust hearing

Amazon is taking its “Project Zero” anti-counterfeit program to seven additional countries, expanding a program designed to help brands fight… Read More

Jeff Bezos forms LLC that may signal progress on mysterious $10 billion climate change initiative

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has remained tight-lipped about his $10 billion climate change initiative since announcing it six months ago.… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sells around $3 billion in Amazon stock

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold approximately $3 billion in stock in transactions starting on Monday, according to regulatory filings made… Read More

Watch Jeff Bezos and internet pioneer Vint Cerf get fooled by card tricks from illusionist David Blaine

Jeff Bezos may work some sort of magic every day — or at least his company does — by getting… Read More

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Big Tech’s big week: Historic antitrust hearing and record profits put industry giants in spotlight

Big Tech spent back-to-back days in the national spotlight this week between a long-anticipated Congressional hearing and second-quarter earnings reports.… Read More

Amazon doubles quarterly profits to $5.2B, crushes expectations in ‘highly unusual quarter’

Amazon posted $5.2 billion in profits in the second quarter, doubling its bottom line from the same quarter a year… Read More

Jeff Bezos calls social media a ‘nuance destruction machine’ during antitrust hearing, with Mark Zuckerberg on the call

Don’t expect Amazon to roll out a social media platform anytime soon. Speaking at an antitrust hearing that often waded… Read More

What we learned about the antitrust case against Amazon from Jeff Bezos’ time in the Congressional hot seat

A wide-ranging antitrust hearing Wednesday with top tech CEOs skewed more toward grandstanding than substance, but there were a few… Read More

Amazon releases CEO Jeff Bezos’ opening statement ahead of landmark antitrust hearing

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will point to the “strikingly large and extraordinarily competitive” global retail market in his opening statement… Read More

Early member of Amazon Kindle team shares lessons learned from working with Jeff Bezos

Learn and adapt. Cannibalize yourself. Just because something ain’t broke, doesn’t mean you can’t make it better. These are some… Read More

Jeff Bezos is richer than ever, topping $171B and illustrating wealth gap as Amazon’s stock soars

Amazon’s soaring share price has pushed CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth to more than $171 billion, a new record that… Read More

Greenpeace slams Amazon’s Climate Pledge Arena as a ‘meaningless and costly PR stunt’

A certain Muppet once told us it’s not easy being green. It’s not easy to get the approval of Greenpeace… Read More