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Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos adds OneWeb satellite venture to Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch manifest

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A day after announcing the first launch customer for Blue Origin’s yet-to-be-built New Glenn rocket, Amazon billionaire Jeff… Read More

Bezos and Belmer

Jeff Bezos introduces Eutelsat as Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket customer

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos revealed satellite operator Eutelsat as the first paying customer for his Blue Origin space venture’s New… Read More

BE-4 engine

One giant leap: Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s shiny new BE-4 rocket engine

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is providing a sneak peek at his Blue Origin space venture’s BE-4 rocket engine, which could… Read More

Bezos and Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin propose ‘Amazon-like’ delivery to the moon in 2020

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has reportedly proposed sending a robotic lander to the moon’s south polar… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon wins 3 Oscars in a first for streaming studio — and Jeff Bezos gets a fun shout-out

Amazon Studios won its first-ever Academy Awards on Sunday night, taking home three Oscar statues in what was a historic… Read More

Report: Israel’s Holocaust museum asks Amazon to stop selling books that deny it happened

The Director of Libraries from Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, Yad Vashem, reportedly sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos… Read More

New Shepard assembly area

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has plans for big expansion of Seattle-area HQ

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has out-of-this-world ambitions – with expansion plans to match. Permit filings at… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon tops Harris Poll for corporate reputation, again, and Jeff Bezos emails ‘kudos and congrats’

You love Amazon. Admit it. OK, you don’t have to admit it here, but enough people out there appreciate what… Read More

Amazon couple

Lovers package! Four couples find love at Amazon fulfillment center — and Jeff Bezos is smitten

One can only imagine how many boxes filled with Valentine’s Day gifts have passed by the couples featured in this… Read More

Alexa’s impact on music lands Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Steve Boom on Billboard’s Power 100 list

First there was the walkman, then the iPod, and, now, it’s Alexa. The Amazon assistant is transforming how people listen… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Twitter rant on aisle 7! Jeff Bezos slams NY Post report on automated Amazon grocery stores

As owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is clearly a fan of newspapers. But the Amazon CEO let it… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon sales rises 22% to $43.7B, profit beats expectations but stock slips on revenue miss

Amazon just reported $43.7 billion in sales for the fourth quarter, a 22 percent jump for the online retailer’s critical holiday shopping… Read More

Bezos and Aldrin

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin welcome Buzz Aldrin – and win a prestigious space trophy

It’s been a good week for Blue Origin, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture. Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin just… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Trump’s immigration ban: ‘We’re a nation of immigrants’

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took a hard stance on Donald Trump’s immigration policy on Monday, saying in an email to… Read More

Here’s what it’ll be like to ride on Jeff Bezos’ suborbital Blue Origin spaceship

The folks who ride New Shepard, the suborbital spaceship being tested by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be… Read More

Amazon foldable-wing drone

Amazon’s latest drone patent features foldable wings for flippable flight

Amazon has sought patents for hitchhiking drones, mini-drones that can sit on shoulders, drones that assemble themselves like Lego toys – and… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Golden Globes

Amazon makes Oscars history with streaming industry’s first-ever Best Picture nomination

Keep laughing, Jeff Bezos, and get that tux ready again. Amazon landed its first-ever Oscar nominations this morning as the Academy… Read More

Amazon’s latest attempt to build a friendlier workplace is a new program for employees in trouble

Amazon is rolling out a new program for employees placed on its controversial “Performance Improvement Plan” (PIP), according to an… Read More

Ox Boost Pump

Jeff Bezos gives a geeky boost to Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine boost pump

And now for something completely different from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos: His latest mass email isn’t about jobs, or Donald… Read More

Bill Gates

Eight richest men, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, have same wealth as 3.6B of world’s poorest

Eight men own just as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the… Read More

Textile Museum DC

Jeff Bezos is the reported buyer of the largest house in Washington, D.C., for $23M in cash

First he bought the town’s newspaper, now Jeff Bezos has picked up Washington, D.C.’s biggest home. A report in The… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Golden Globes

Amazon and Jeff Bezos get the spotlight (and a punch line) at the Golden Globes

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, is becoming a regular at Hollywood award ceremonies like tonight’s Golden Globes, and now he’s… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Alan Boyle

Jeff Bezos tweets his vote of support for constructing a ‘superhighway in space’

What should Donald Trump have NASA do? Today Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos voiced his support for the idea that the… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Why Amazon is so secretive: Longtime board member explains the company’s mindset

Amazon.com’s famously close-mouthed ways go back all the way to its IPO or further, says Tom Alberg, the online-retailing giant’s first… Read More

Why this early Amazon investor bet on Jeff Bezos’ vision, and how the tech giant created its ‘flywheel’

In early 1995, when Amazon.com was still just an idea in Jeff Bezos’ head, a lawyer friend of venture capitalist Tom… Read More

blue origin rocket

Photos of the year: Bezos, Bowie, rockets and real estate just part of tech’s big picture in 2016

Judging by the reactions on social media every time another prominent person died in 2016, most folks have been ready for months to… Read More

Jeff Bezos

The Jeff Bezos effect? Washington Post is profitable and set to hire dozens of journalists in 2017

While many daily newspapers are struggling and cutting staff as a result, the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is growing rapidly. Washington… Read More

Jeff Bezos
Podcast

Inside Donald Trump’s tech summit: A meaningful meeting, or just a charade?

Yesterday, Donald Trump met with tech industries top luminaries — many of whom the president-elect sparred with during the campaign —… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos says Trump administration ‘should make innovation one of its key pillars’ after tech summit

During Donald Trump’s campaign Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joked that he’d like to jettison the Republican frontrunner into space on one… Read More

Trump and tech leaders

Donald Trump’s promise to tech leaders in New York ‘summit’: ‘Anything we can do to help’

With the all-important Kanye West Summit behind him, President-elect Donald Trump moved on to the business of meeting with some… Read More

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