Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 12 of 34

With Amazon HQ2 pick imminent, past comments show Jeff Bezos repeatedly making the case for an urban campus

The grand reveal of the city where Amazon will build its second headquarters is expected any day, and some prognosticators… Read More

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post plans greater push into tech reporting — including Amazon

The Washington Post is expanding its coverage of the technology industry, including a focus on Jeff Bezos’ other company. The… Read More

Bezos and other Amazon execs back Colorado Republican’s Senate re-election campaign

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and other executives donated thousands of dollars to the re-election campaign of Sen. Cory Gardner, a… Read More

Amazon ramps up lobbying to record levels ahead of HQ2 announcement

Amazon has been steadily increasing its lobbying budget and taking a more central position on the national political stage while… Read More

‘You Are Jeff Bezos’ game lets you spend the Amazon CEO’s billions — and it’s not that easy

The current Mega Millions frenzy that has everyone running around buying lottery tickets and dreaming of what they’d do with… Read More

Dallas Cowboys owner would carry Jeff Bezos ‘piggyback’ to get him to buy Seattle Seahawks

In the wake of Paul Allen’s death last week, it’s too early to know much about the fate of the… Read More

Attention, Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet

Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who… Read More

Jeff Bezos defends big tech working with Department of Defense, one week after Google drops out of Pentagon contract

Don’t expect Amazon to follow Google’s lead when it comes to working with the U.S. Department of Defense. Amazon CEO… Read More

Philanthropy advice from Gates Foundation CEO to Jeff Bezos: ‘There’s no bad generosity’

Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, and now he’s facing a puzzling question:… Read More

Amazon raises its minimum wage to $15/hour, vows to lead push for higher U.S. minimum wage

“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead.” With… Read More

Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine wins United Launch Alliance’s key multibillion-dollar backing

After years of development and months of suspense, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won a high-stakes… Read More

Transcript: ‘Chief slowdown officer’ Jeff Bezos shares Amazon management tips

When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke today at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, his head… Read More

Jeff Bezos sells the Air Force on Blue Origin rockets and Amazon Web Services

Billionaire Jeff Bezos made a subtle sales pitch for Amazon Web Services as well as the New Glenn rockets being… Read More

Amazon employees donate the most money to these political candidates and issues

For hundreds of Amazon employees, blue isn’t just the color of the signature staff badges they wear to work. It’s… Read More

Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff to buy Time magazine for $190M

The venerable newsmagazine Time, a nearly 100-year-old media institution, is about to have new owners — Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman… Read More

Jeff Bezos on new foundation, Amazon HQ2 status, Trump media criticism, and why he was fine being second-richest person

Jeff Bezos was drawn to focus a large portion of his new $2 billion philanthropic foundation on preschool education because… Read More

TLDR: Bezos Creates “Day One Fund” With $2 Billion

GeekWire TLDR Daily Rundown: Watch today’s episode with guest host Brian M. Westbrook above, and click the headlines below to read… Read More

How Jeff Bezos’ new $2B ‘Day One Fund’ stacks up to other tech billionaires’ philanthropy

Jeff Bezos’ donation of $2 billion to his newly announced charitable fund clearly isn’t chump change. But in the world… Read More

‘The child will be the customer’: How billionaire Jeff Bezos will bring a key Amazon value to philanthropy

Customer obsession has driven Jeff Bezos from the day he founded Amazon as a tiny online bookseller. Full text: Amazon… Read More

Full text: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals long-awaited philanthropic initiative

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday revealed a new $2 billion philanthropic initiative called “Bezos Day One Fund” that… Read More

Jeff Bezos unveils $2B ‘Day One Fund’ focusing on homeless families and preschool education

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled his eagerly-awaited philanthropic initiative, announcing a new “Bezos Day One Fund” that will focus… Read More

Extra casual Wednesday at Amazon as Jeff Bezos wears pajamas to board meeting — for a cause

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnoot6EhOJ_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=d9j2opcdczz2 Casual attire isn’t exactly at head turner at most tech companies, but when the richest man in the world… Read More

Amazon HQ2 speculation swirls as Jeff Bezos heads to DC

Mr. Bezos is going to Washington, with the eyes of the nation on him. The Amazon CEO arrives in Washington,… Read More

Beyond the cloud: Amazon Web Services hiring engineers for ‘big, audacious space project’

According to two recently deleted job postings on the internet, where nothing can ever really be deleted, Amazon Web Services… Read More

The multibillion-dollar question: What in the world (or universe) will Jeff Bezos do with his riches?

Jeff Bezos transformed the modern economy, using disruptive thinking to reshape how people buy products and read books, and how… Read More

Rocket envy? Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship launches a double entendre

It’s hard to top the risque rocket scene in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” but Blue Origin’s New… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos contributes $10M to With Honor PAC’s effort to elect veterans to Congress

Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, are donating $10 million to With Honor, a cross-partisan, veteran-focused super PAC. The donation,… Read More

TLDR: Paul Allen’s $100K donation to help GOP, Amazon briefly becomes $1T company, latest philanthropic efforts by Amazon

Today’s featured stories Tech titan Paul Allen gives $100,000 to GOP causes — and he’s not the only one Amazon… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s potential as an advertising behemoth and ‘working 2 or 3 years into the future’

In addition to being a retail giant, a cloud leader and a grocery heavyweight, Amazon is rapidly ascending to the… Read More

Jeff Bezos hints at how Amazon’s two HQs could work together across time zones

It has been almost a year since Amazon surprised the world with plans for a second North American headquarters, with… Read More