Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 26 of 34

The Bezos effect: Washington Post plans to license back-end online platform to smaller newspapers

The Washington Post is coming up with a creative new way to make money. The newspaper, now owned by Amazon.com… Read More

Blast from the past: Can you name the most popular Web sites from 1996?

In 1996, the internet was little more than a sparkle in Al Gore’s eye. Mark Zuckerberg was 12. Google was… Read More

How Uber’s Travis Kalanick is like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, according to investor Bill Gurley

Uber has been making headlines for challenging city officials in Portland, musing about investigating the private lives of journalists, and poaching executives from rival companies.… Read More

Letter: Amazon running out of patience with FAA on drone limits

In a new letter to the Federal Aviation Administration, an Amazon executive questions the FAA over its lack of action… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: Cheaper books will make authors more money

Jeff Bezos wants to make books more affordable — a goal that he says will actually help authors increase their profits.… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos: Yes, there’s a CEO succession plan, but it’s a secret

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is speaking right now with Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget at the site’s IGNITION conference in… Read More

Company town: Amazon’s rapid growth sparks housing boom in Seattle’s urban core

There were audible gasps from the Urban Land Institute audience last week when Amazon real estate director John Schoettler delivered the stat: Amazon is… Read More

FAA’s proposed drone rules could hinder Amazon’s aerial delivery plans

Commercial drone rules to be proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration would require unmanned aircraft to fly below 400 feet and… Read More

Washington Post’s new Kindle Fire app has Jeff Bezos written all over it

Not every newspaper can lean on one of the world’s top tech executives as a beta tester and adviser when developing a new… Read More

An image you can’t unsee: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as romance novel heartthrob

Did you ever wonder what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would look like on the cover of a romance novel? Of… Read More

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos make Forbes’ most ‘powerful people’ list

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos already are among the wealthiest people on the planet. Now, according… Read More

Harvard Business Review crunches numbers, names Amazon’s Bezos ‘Best-Performing CEO’

Jeff Bezos and Amazon have been taking it on the chin on Wall Street and elsewhere over the company’s lack… Read More

Can Amazon recover from its disastrous Fire Phone launch?

Now that Amazon has admitted its first smartphone was not all it had hoped for, what happens next? Will Amazon iterate… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Ballmer vs. Bezos — who will get the last laugh?

A fascinating debate emerged in the tech world this week after Amazon’s big earnings miss and Steve Ballmer’s comments about… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s explosive growth in India, mediocre Fire phone reviews, and drone deliveries

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: Jeff Bezos dressed in full Indian attire, riding around on a truck and waving a $2 billion check in his hand. Read More

Jeff Bezos slashes retirement benefits for Washington Post employees

Jeff Bezos made one of his first big moves as The Washington Post owner today, announcing big cuts to retirement benefits for… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos hosts Campfire: A top secret literary retreat in Santa Fe

Amazon.com is warring with publishing giant Hachette, placing the Seattle online retailer in the crosshairs of hundreds of well-known authors… Read More

Blast-off for Bezos: Blue Origin wins deal to develop new U.S. rocket engine for Boeing joint venture

Boeing and SpaceX were the big winners of the nearly $7 billion NASA contract to take U.S. astronauts to the… Read More

Boeing wins $4.2B NASA contract to fly astronauts to Space Station; SpaceX lands $2.6B deal

Update: The bulk of the contract, $4.2 billion, was awarded to Boeing, with a $2.6 billion portion going to SpaceX.… Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook digs at Amazon: ‘They’re not a product company’

Apple CEO Tim Cook was on The Charlie Rose Show last night for the first of a two-part interview about… Read More

News Brief

Jeff Bezos taps Politico co-founder as new Washington Post publisher

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has tapped Politico co-founder Fred Ryan as the new publisher of The Washington Post. Ryan will… Read More

Musk vs. Bezos: SpaceX challenges Blue Origin’s rocket-landing patent

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is petitioning the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to overturn a patent awarded to Blue Origin, the space venture… Read More

Amazon Fire Phone sales estimated at 35,000 — equal to just 25% of employee base

Amazon never releases sales figures for any of the hardware it builds, but that isn’t stopping others from making their best guesses as… Read More

Washington Post adds Amazon ‘buy it now’ links to stories by accident

When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post last year for $250 million, many questioned his motivations: Would the… Read More

Video: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes the Ice Bucket Challenge

https://youtu.be/DFVezzjAhFY OK, this whole Ice Bucket Challenge is destined to go down as one of the most successful viral campaigns in history,… Read More

Seattle City Council asks Jeff Bezos to treat Amazon.com’s security guards better

The Seattle City Council isn’t happy with how some Amazon.com security workers are being treated. All nine councilmembers penned a… Read More

Why the Amazon Fire phone’s Kindle Reader app doesn’t have auto-scroll, yet

One of the features that Jeff Bezos showed at Amazon’s Fire phone unveiling last month was “auto-scroll” in the Kindle Reader app… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: ‘The Amazon Way’ — former insider explains how the company works

What makes Amazon tick, and where is the company headed? This week on the GeekWire radio show, we go behind-the-scenes… Read More

Fiction meets fact: Author publishes ‘Drones over Seattle’ as Amazon seeks FAA clearance

Consultant and contract engineer Richard Clark published his new work of fiction, “Drones Over Seattle,” for the Amazon Kindle just last week… Read More

Amazon at 20 years: From garage startup to global technology powerhouse

In July 1994 — 20 years ago this month — Jeff Bezos officially established the company that would come to… Read More