Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 23 of 34

Jeff Bezos live-tweets ‘flawless’ test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos served as launch commentator today for a risky but successful third flight of Blue Origin’s New… Read More

Washington Post politics blogger starts writing exclusive content for Amazon’s Alexa

The Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is launching a new collaboration with the Seattle-based tech giant — and… Read More

Amazon’s warehouse robots serve as stagehands for CEO Jeff Bezos

Amazon’s acquisition of the robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012 has helped the retail giant efficiently ship almost any product on… Read More

Jeff Bezos lets the world know about Blue Origin’s craziest spaceship test flight yet

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin rocket venture will put its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to its sternest test… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos proposed a ‘disemvowel’ feature for the Washington Post

If you thought the Fire Phone was a flop, consider the Jeff Bezos ideas that never made it off the… Read More

Women’s group petitions Amazon to dump Donald Trump products

UltraViolet, a national women’s advocacy organization, is calling on Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos to reject what it calls Donald… Read More

Ralph Nader: Amazon would make highways more dangerous ‘to get you your toothpaste faster’

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader has asked Amazon to reconsider its support of a proposal to allow longer tractor trailers on the nation’s highways.… Read More

Podcast

Interview: Book industry insider analyzes Amazon’s move into physical bookstores

Jenn Risko has a unique perspective on Amazon’s move into physical bookstores, as the co-founder and publisher of the Shelf Awareness book industry… Read More

Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin highlight small steps toward giant space leaps

In the past few weeks, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture have both… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Inside Jeff Bezos’ rocket factory with space journalist Alan Boyle

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave a small group of journalists, including GeekWire aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle, a guided tour… Read More

Legislation aimed at boosting Washington state’s space industry fizzles out

Two measures that would have lent a hand to Washington state’s fledgling space industry have been stalled in committee and aren’t likely… Read More

Jeff Bezos lifts curtain on Blue Origin rocket factory, lays out grand plan for space travel that spans hundreds of years

KENT, Wash. – For the first time, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos guided a pack of journalists around his Blue Origin… Read More

Forbes says Bill Gates still world’s richest person, while Jeff Bezos jumps 10 spots to No. 5 on list of billionaires

Though the value of his personal fortune fell by $4 billion during the past year, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates remains… Read More

Rivals try to keep pace with Amazon by hiring retailer’s logistics and fulfillment execs

Amazon is poised to shake-up retail once again by dramatically expanding its distribution network and speeding up delivery. To keep… Read More

Donald Trump says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post for ‘political influence’

Donald Trump is ripping Jeff Bezos — again. The Republican presidential candidate bashed the Amazon CEO at a rally in… Read More

The United States of Amazon: Interactive map shows tech giant’s growing national footprint

Amazon has been growing at an unprecedented pace in recent years, and 2015 was no exception. Last year, the tech and online… Read More

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post hires NYT public editor who criticized paper’s Amazon coverage

The Washington Post has hired Margaret Sullivan, the former public editor for The New York Times and the person who criticized… Read More

Why this 9-year-old visited Amazon’s secret drone facility, and delivered a package to Jeff Bezos

A few days before the New Year, a 9-year-old boy named Evan was granted a wish: to fly from his hometown of… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture provides glimpses of its road ahead

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is lifting the curtain just a bit on its future… Read More

Jeff Bezos celebrates the opening of the new ‘modernized’ Washington Post headquarters

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought the The Washington Post back in 2013 for $250 million, ushered in a new era at the paper… Read More

‘Jeff Bezos will be the richest person in the world in 5-7 years,’ Barry Diller says in Amazon assessment

Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive at IAC, shared his views on tech giants Yahoo, Apple, Google and Twitter during… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More

Jeff Bezos escorts Washington Post reporter back to U.S. after release from Iranian prison

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, flew to Germany this week to escort Post correspondent Jason Rezaian… Read More

62 richest people have as much wealth as half of world’s population, report finds

The 62 richest people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, according… Read More

Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame wars, as shown by last year’s Twitter tug of war between space-minded billionaires Jeff… Read More

Magazine cover depicting Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as Hindu god draws backlash

The January cover of the international edition of Fortune magazine has drawn a bit of condemnation over its depiction of Amazon… Read More

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos invest in Grail, Illumina’s $100M cancer testing venture

One of the giants of gene sequencing, Illumina, has spun off a new $100 million company called Grail to create… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ wins Golden Globe as Jeff Bezos gets another shoutout

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos continues to get shoutouts at the Golden Globe awards ceremony. After Mozart in the Jungle, a dramatic comedy… Read More