Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 31 of 34

Why this guy hacked his Kindle to email Jeff Bezos

As part of the terms of use for Amazon Kindle devices, users grant the company permission to collect data including… Read More

Bezos on eBooks: Amazon is ‘now seeing the transition we’ve been expecting’

Amazon.com posted a 45 percent decline in quarterly profits this afternoon, but Jeff Bezos says one of the company’s biggest… Read More

POLL: Do you like Steve Ballmer’s new haircut?

Breaking news: Steve Ballmer is bald. Just kidding about the breaking news part, unless you’re obsessed with keeping track of… Read More

Qliance raises $8M, opens new clinic on Expedia campus

Qliance Medical, the Seattle health services startup backed by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer; Zillow Chairman Rich Barton; comedian Drew Carey;… Read More

Billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos got a lot richer in 2012

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is trying to give away his fortune. But he may have to try a little bit… Read More

Amazon bigger than Microsoft? What to watch in 2013 from Jeff Bezos & Co.

How’s this for a milestone in the making? Amazon is on a trajectory to become larger than Microsoft in 2013,… Read More

Goodbye, cracked screens? Bezos, Amazon awarded patent for smartphone airbag

Airbags aren’t just for cars anymore — they may be coming soon to a cell phone near you. We first… Read More

Facebook is the best place to work; Steve Ballmer, Amazon enjoy better approval ratings

The employees have spoken: Facebook is the best place to work. Glassdoor.com released its fifth annual “Employees’ Choice Awards” that… Read More

From Boeing to Microsoft Bob: Innovation in the spotlight at Seattle’s new history museum

Seattle’s history is very much tied to innovation, whether it’s Bill Boeing’s early aircraft or Bill Gates’ early software. And… Read More

Jeff Bezos: 7 gems from his Amazon Web Services talk

Jeff Bezos spoke this afternoon at the Amazon Web Services re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, interviewed on stage by… Read More

Veteran NASA astronaut Nicholas Patrick joins Blue Origin as human integration architect

Nicholas Patrick, the fifth British astronaut to go to space and a NASA veteran, has joined the Blue Origin team… Read More

It’s holiday shopping season, and Jeff Bezos is everywhere

It’s the equivalent of the groundhog coming out of his hole. For 12 months out of the year, Amazon.com founder… Read More

An Amazon smartphone? Jimmy Fallon grills Jeff Bezos

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show Thursday night and talked about Amazon’s early days, how… Read More

Gates, Jobs, Bezos or Zuck: Which tech titan do entrepreneurs admire most?

Since the early days of GeekWire, one of our favorite features has been the Startup Spotlight in which we touch… Read More

The ‘ultimate disrupter’ Jeff Bezos named Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year

Dubbing him the “ultimate disrupter,” Fortune magazine has chosen Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as its Businessperson of the Year. The… Read More

Newsmakers 2012: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos redefines boundaries

It was another big year for Amazon.com, with the expansion of the company’s Kindle and Kindle Fire lineup, the continued… Read More

Lessons from Jeff Bezos: Why you need to be willing to change your mind

Here’s some interesting advice from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: People that are right a lot of the time often change… Read More

Jeff Bezos says patent fights may ‘stifle innovation’

The smartphone patent wars are impacting nearly every technology giant, from Samsung to Google to Microsoft to Apple. Now, Amazon.com’s… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Workday soars in IPO, now valued more than rival Concur

Workday, a Pleasanton, California-based company that specializes in cloud-based payroll, financial management and employee expense management, is soaring in its… Read More

Bezos, CIA invest $30M in quantum computing startup

Jeff Bezos has put money into a robot factory worker, a 10,000 year clock and private car service. And he’s… Read More

Baxter: Robotic worker aims to revolutionize factories, with funding from Jeff Bezos

He has eyes, he has arms and he can accomplish simple tasks to help your business move faster. That’s the… Read More

Zuckerberg’s net worth sinks; Gates remains richest American

Oftentimes the leader of a newly public company experiences a substantial increase in net worth, but Facebook’s shrinking share price… Read More

Bezos: Amazon ‘loaded plane with Kindles’ to test safety

Over the weekend, the New York Times published a great read from Nick Bilton illustrating the challenges that travelers and… Read More

Bezos, Ballmer make top 10 in Vanity Fair’s lists of movers and shakers

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has held onto his No. 3 spot on the New Establishment side of Vanity Fair’s annual… Read More

Ads on a tablet? How Amazon could upend the market

Here’s an important story to note, in the category of news you may have missed over the holiday. The Wall… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Workday files for $400M IPO, facing off against Concur, SAP, Oracle

Workday, a Pleasanton, California-based company that specializes in cloud-based payroll, financial management and employee expense management, has filed to raise… Read More

Amazon’s Kindle Fire sells out, signaling new hardware ahead

Amazon has sold out of its Kindle Fire one week before a news conference where the company is expected to… Read More

Amazon Prime celebrates an amazingly vague milestone

It’s interesting how often a company as numbers-driven as Amazon.com asks its customers and shareholders to judge its progress with… Read More

Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Evan Williams and others bankroll D.C. education upstart EverFi

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams are among the tech heavyweights bankrolling EverFi,… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos donates $2.5 million to support same-sex marriage measure

In what is being called the largest individual gift to support same-sex marriage in the U.S., Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos… Read More