Nudes judgment: ‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks the Jeff Bezos and National Enquirer selfie saga If Jeff Bezos was looking to wind down after his interesting news week with the distraction of a little late-night… Read More
Play Podcast ‘Day 1’ Distraction: National Enquirer fight signals new era for Jeff Bezos, and maybe for Amazon Play One of the most fascinating things about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is that building one of the world’s most successful… Read More
Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of extortion over threat to publish naked photos of Amazon CEO Updated below with American Media Inc. statement. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has published a remarkable new response in his ongoing… Read More
Washington Post untangles a complex web behind the National Enquirer’s Jeff Bezos exposé Jeff Bezos’ security chief has a theory that would explain how a supermarket tabloid obtained intimate text messages between the… Read More
Super Bowl ad recap: Bezos pushes Post message; T-Mobile offers freebies; Xbox and Alexa score big Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t show up in his company’s latest Super Bowl ad for Alexa. But his message was… Read More
Amazon reportedly eyes Middle East expansion Amazon appears to have found its next area for e-commerce expansion: the Middle East. CNBC reports that Amazon has been… Read More
The Jeff Bezos portfolio: Here’s how the Amazon chief has invested billions Jeff Bezos is the richest person on earth. He amassed the world’s largest individual fortune largely thanks to his shares… Read More
Blue Origin sends NASA-backed payloads to space and back on suborbital rocket ship Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent eight NASA-sponsored scientific payloads to the edge of space and back… Read More
Jeff Bezos on going to space vs. making Earth better: ‘It shouldn’t be either-or’ BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person and the founder of Amazon as well as the Blue Origin… Read More
I read MacKenzie Bezos’ books, and this is what I learned She was an aspiring fiction writer with an audacious start along that path. She pursued creative writing at Princeton, and… Read More
Play Podcast Facebook, groceries and … divorce? Catch up on the week’s big stories with the GeekWire Podcast Play We’re back! John Cook, Monica Nickelsburg and Todd Bishop get the GeekWire Podcast rolling for 2019 with our weekly news… Read More
Bezos divorce highlights hidden challenge for company founders: keeping their marriages intact If creating and running a successful business isn’t challenging enough for many entrepreneurs, it can be mind-boggling to think about… Read More
The $100 billion question: What will happen to Bezos and Allen fortunes as they change hands? Although the passing of a loved one and the dissolution of a marriage are deeply personal experiences, they inevitably raise… Read More
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos plan to divorce after 25 years of marriage Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, announced this morning via the Amazon CEO’s personal Twitter account that they’ve decided… Read More
Billionaires leave space legacies: Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen join ‘Legends of Aviation’ Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has racked up another round of recognition for his role on the space frontier: Next week… Read More
Buckaroo Bezos: Amazon CEO looks giddy as he rides horse into Western store in Colorado We’ve seen his lucky cowboy boots kicked up against the side of a Blue Origin crew capsule, and now Amazon… Read More
VIDEO: Our favorite GeekWire moments of 2018 In this episode of TLDR, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and most fun GeekWire moments… Read More
Trump thanks Apple’s Tim Cook for jobs expansion, but where’s the love for Jeff Bezos and HQ2? It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to… Read More
What’s next for commercial spaceflight? Passengers will soon get their turn MOJAVE, Calif. — The first suborbital space passenger is less likely to be a billionaire like Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson… Read More
The team behind Bezos-backed 10,000 Year Clock is looking forward to visitors With $42 million in funding from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, the Long Now Foundation can afford to take the long… Read More
Stop the presses! WaPo employees tell HuffPo what they think of Amazon, that other Bezos company Getting Amazon employees to talk candidly about their company isn’t the easiest assignment in journalism. But what if you technically… Read More
Analysis: Amazon reaches $1 trillion in cumulative revenue at record pace for tech industry Add this to the list of things Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: $1 trillion… Read More
Jeff Bezos has a new ‘shadow:’ Amazon forecasting executive Wei Gao Jeff Bezos has appointed a veteran Amazon manager as his new technical adviser, also known as his “shadow”: Wei Gao, the… Read More
Steve Carell as Jeff Bezos on ‘Saturday Night Live’ trolls Trump just days after Amazon picks HQ2 sites Amazon announced its intentions this week to go live from New York with one of its new headquarters locations. On… Read More
‘I predict one day Amazon will fail’: Jeff Bezos offers sobering message amid tech giant’s growth As competitors crumble under the pressure to keep up in the age of online retail, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had… Read More
Dan Primack is right: Amazon has not sparked a startup wave in Seattle Dan Primack is one of my favorite journalists on the startup and venture capital beat, and his Pro Rata newsletter… Read More
Amazon announces HQ2 cities, splitting second headquarters as extraordinary contest concludes ARLINGTON, Va. — After more than a year of reconnaissance, frenzied speculation, and non-stop media coverage, Amazon’s remarkable “HQ2” search… Read More
Jeff Bezos unveils Amazon Prime Air’s flying tribute to veterans: Valor Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is big on veterans, and in honor of Veterans Day, he presided over the vet-friendly christening… Read More
Amazon’s second home? GeekWire treks from Seattle to Virginia for new insights into HQ2 search ARLINGTON, Va. — Why not? What if? It’s hard not to read those words, emblazoned on a piece of street… Read More
Dual Amazon HQ2s would depart from original promise of ‘full equal’ second headquarters When Jeff Bezos revealed his plans to open a second Amazon headquarters last September, he said, “we expect HQ2 to… Read More
