Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 21 of 34

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos compares space to internet, and he’ll build the infrastructure

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he’s trying to do for outer-space ventures what delivery services and the internet did for him:… Read More

Jeff Bezos slams Donald Trump for ‘eroding our democracy,’ but regrets tweet about sending him to space

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has tweeted just 68 times at his 144,000 followers in his limited use of Twitter, but he… Read More

Jeff Bezos marks retirement of Blue Origin New Shepard space capsule with a tortoise

After seven launches, Blue Origin’s first New Shepard suborbital space capsule is getting a send-off from the company’s founder, Amazon… Read More

Amazon donates $10M for new University of Washington computer science building

Amazon is putting $10 million toward a second building for the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering program, helping to… Read More

‘One hell of a booster’: Blue Origin’s spaceship totally survives what should have been a fiery flight

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is a happy man today, now that the wildest test flight ever conducted by his Blue Origin space venture has… Read More

Amazon expanding outside Seattle with giant new Bellevue office lease

Amazon, which originally started out of Jeff Bezos’ Bellevue, Wash., garage before permanently planting its flag in Seattle, is poised to… Read More

Amazon piles on the Prime benefits with new ‘Prime Reading’ perk

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said earlier this year that the company’s goal is to make the benefits of its $99/year Amazon Prime… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin delays dramatic rocket test flight due to bad weather

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has to pass up a historic date for its next flight test,… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sets its sights on trips to Mars and the moon

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX isn’t the only billionaire-backed company that’s planning to go to Mars: Blue Origin, the space venture created… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket aces wind tunnel tests

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket isn’t due to go into orbit until later this decade, but its design has already… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ dream almost realized as new mobile game aims to put Donald Trump in outer space

Game developers out of New Zealand beat Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to the goal of sending Donald Trump to space with… Read More

Jeff Bezos gets lots of Hollywood love as Amazon’s ‘Transparent’ wins more Emmy Awards

Jeff Bezos probably didn’t envision this when he launched Amazon more than two decades ago. It was Bezos, who started an online… Read More

For Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos gets Heinlein Prize and a sword – then gives away $250K

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos received one of the spaceflight community’s richest honors, the Heinlein Prize, during a ceremony in the… Read More

Lessons from Amazon’s first employee: Don’t underestimate the potential of little startups to become massive

With an employee headcount of 268,900 employees (and certainly growing as I type this), Amazon has come a long way… Read More

Jeff Bezos unveils the design for Blue Origin’s ‘New Glenn’ orbital rocket

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is providing a sneak preview of the “New Glenn” rocket for orbital launches, which his Blue… Read More

Jeff Bezos says next Blue Origin spaceship test should destroy the booster rocket

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has flown the same rocket booster to outer space… Read More

Incredibly silly Jeff Bezos magazine cover illustrates very serious threat to FedEx

Another day, another Bezos cover you can’t unsee. I’d argue that today’s Bloomberg Businessweek cover is the best so far.… Read More

Concrete poured for Blue Origin’s orbital space complex in Florida

Work is progressing on the facility in Florida where Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to build its orbital… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ technical adviser Maria Renz keynotes Amazon’s first Women’s Entrepreneur Conference

Maria Renz is a trailblazer. A year ago, she became the first woman named technical advisor to CEO Jeff Bezos (a coveted… Read More

Jeff Bezos completes his biggest stock sale ever, has now unloaded $1.4B in Amazon shares this year

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold off another 1 million shares of company stock last week, valued at $756.74 million, according to… Read More

New stats: Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue nears $10B a year

Revenue from Microsoft’s commercial cloud business, including Azure and Office 365, approached $10 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, up… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joins tech titans on Pentagon’s innovation advisory board

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is joining the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, a 15-member panel that’s meant to help the Pentagon… Read More

Advice from Jeff Bezos: Here’s what the Amazon CEO taught this startup about cultural values

There are sprinkles of Amazon influence at Seattle startup Convoy, and that’s not by mistake. Convoy CEO Dan Lewis spoke… Read More

Jeff Bezos touts results from Blue Origin spaceship’s test, even with one less chute

Last month’s test flight of a Blue Origin rocket ship to space and back was aimed at seeing how safely it… Read More

Get a look at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as an alien in ‘Star Trek Beyond’

You’d hardly recognize Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos in the super-heavy makeup he wears as an alien Starfleet official in “Star… Read More

Bezos Family Foundation lends support to popular PBS Kids series ‘Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood’

Vroom, an initiative of the Bezos Family Foundation, is teaming with the Fred Rogers Company in a partnership that will… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plays role in ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ fulfilling a dream

As a kid growing up in Texas, Jeff Bezos loved to play “Star Trek” with his friends from the neighborhood,… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture gets set to pick up the pace for spaceship test flights

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, plans to accelerate its current once-every-eight-weeks schedule for flight… Read More

New study: Amazon reaches 63M U.S. Prime members — surpassing half of customer base for first time

Amazon’s Prime program has reached 63 million members in the U.S. — an increase of 43 percent over the past… Read More

Jeff Bezos provides a sneak peek at Blue Origin’s orbital rocket factory in Florida

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today put a spotlight on the construction of a giant rocket production facility in Florida for his Blue… Read More