Articles about Jeff Bezos – Page 32 of 34

Here’s the startup advice Jeff Bezos gave to Mark Pincus (before the guidance abruptly ended)

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus sat down with PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy for an entertaining interview last night, covering a range of… Read More

Amazon ‘Yesterday Shipping’: Wrap your brain around this

A popular theory right now is that Amazon is moving toward same-day delivery of products, potentially posing a bigger threat… Read More

Why Amazon.com gave up the sales tax fight: A new face for the ‘online’ retailer?

An interesting thing started happening last year. Amazon.com, which for months had battled states over the collection of sales tax,… Read More

Forget MIT and Stanford: UW computer science department wins high praise in NYT piece

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain and asked him pointedly to name one missing ingredient… Read More

Jeff Bezos boosts investment in photo editing service Aviary

Photo editing upstart Aviary has reeled in $6 million in new funding from Bezos Expeditions, the venture arm of Amazon.com… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed robotics startup changes name, raises $30 million

Jeff Bezos loves robots, with Amazon.com shelling out $775 million for Cambridge, Massachusetts robot maker Kiva Systems earlier this year.… Read More

Jeff Bezos & Hillary Clinton, together at last for Kindle announcement next week

Who would have ever guessed we’d see these two people on stage together? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Amazon… Read More

Aviary steps into spotlight with standalone photo-editing apps for iPhone and Android

Aviary, a startup backed by investors including Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, provides the behind-the-scenes photo-editing technology for more than 1,000 apps… Read More

Author Neal Stephenson’s new sword fighting game Clang: The best Kickstarter pitch yet?

We’ve watched a lot of Kickstarter videos in recent months. But nothing — at least in our experience — compares… Read More

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos backs Behance, a place for artists to showcase their talents

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Union Square Ventures and angel investor Dave McClure are among the investors pumping $6.5 million into Behance,… Read More

Jeff Bezos in a tux? Amazon tries to find its fit in fashion

Here’s something we’ve never seen before. From khakis and door desks to a tuxedo on the red carpet, the transformation… Read More

Jeff Bezos, Melinda Gates named to Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, philanthropist Melinda Gates and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center director Dr. Larry Corey are among those who’ve been… Read More

Uber’s wild tax day discount: Almost free rides to the post office (and the liquor store)

We’ve seen some interesting tax day promotions in our time, including Intuit’s installation of a golf driving range on Second… Read More

Amazon digital book veteran Steven Kessel takes sabbatical

Amazon.com senior vice president of worldwide digital media Steven Kessel — who helped lead the early efforts behind the Kindle… Read More

Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt bankroll money transfer startup Beamit Mobile

Seattle startup Beamit Mobile has raised $2.4 million in fresh financing from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Founder’s Co-op and Bezos… Read More

America’s Best CEO: Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos

Forbes magazine today released its list of America’s best and worst CEOs, and Seattle’s Jeff Bezos finished in the top… Read More

Top 10 tech CEOs: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes a big fall (and Steve Ballmer is nowhere to be found)

Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also… Read More

Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos plans historic deep-sea Apollo 11 engine recovery

A massive bit of space history that inspired an entire generation of geeks has been found by Jeff Bezos —… Read More

Jeff Bezos, fashion icon? Amazon boss named honorary chair of Met fashion gala

It’s one of the biggest events of the year for the fashion world in New York, generating speculation about which… Read More

Amazon Prime service adds Mythbusters, Deadliest Catch and other Discovery shows

Amazon just boosted the video catalog available to Amazon Prime subscribers — announcing a deal with Discovery Networks to add… Read More

Bezos’ Blue Origin prepares to test unique system for aborting rocket launches

Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is pushing ahead with development and testing of its… Read More

Coffee & Power brews new locale in Portland, eyes Seattle coffee shops for ‘workclub’

With a name like Coffee & Power; an investor list that includes Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and a co-founder who previously… Read More

Amazon: Burning the book business or making it better?

Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story this week drills into Amazon’s effort to upend the book industry by moving into the publishing… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed ZocDoc makes Seattle house call, launches doctor appointment service

When ZocDoc announced $75 million in new funding last September, the 5-year-old company stated that it planned to use the… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos spends hours in computer science labs, checking in on the future

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spent several hours at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department before the holiday… Read More

Year in Review: The 100 most popular stories on GeekWire

Whoa, can we catch our breath now? We’ve certainly had plenty to cover on the tech beat over the past… Read More

Nick Hanauer-backed Qliance raises cash to expand clinics

Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle… Read More

Tech CEO report card: Approval ratings drop for Ballmer, Bezos and others

Glassdoor.com is rolling out its annual “Naughty and Nice” list for technology CEOs. And, as it turns out, it looks… Read More

Amazon founder and brainiac Jeff Bezos donates $15 million to Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen isn’t the only Seattle billionaire interested in the study of the brain. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos… Read More

Jeff Bezos hops on Uber, invests in private car service

Maybe Jeff Bezos will get a few free Uber rides around Seattle now. The Amazon.com founder has emerged as one… Read More