A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceline may look totally… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin fuels feud with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic over suborbital space trips Jeff Bezos has a longstanding rivalry with SpaceX’s Elon Musk, but now his Blue Origin space venture is upping the… Read More
Amazon elevates two more execs to its senior leadership team under new CEO Andy Jassy Amazon bolstered its senior leadership team in the final days of Jeff Bezos’ tenure as CEO last week, making a… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture approaches period of maximum dynamic pressure Jeff Bezos may be easing back from his CEO role at Amazon, but now he’s due to feel the heat… Read More
Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson plans July spaceflight to upstage Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin trip The billionaire space race is on: Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is on the crew for the next test flight… Read More
‘Mercury 13’ woman aviator Wally Funk will ride with Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin suborbital space trip Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has rounded out the foursome for its first crewed suborbital spaceflight with… Read More
Amazon adds two new leadership principles just days before Jeff Bezos steps down as CEO Amazon is adding two new leadership principles that reflect how the company is evolving as the tech behemoth faces increasing… Read More
Elizabeth Warren says Amazon-MGM deal requires ‘meticulous antitrust scrutiny’ in letter to FTC In a letter sent to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren asserted that Amazon’s billion-dollar bid for… Read More
Leave Jeff Bezos in space? Way-out petitions attract more than 100,000 signatures Between an upsurge in antitrust talk and questions about worker turnover, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has plenty to worry about… Read More
Play Podcast A 15th Amazon leadership principle? Former exec floats new idea for tech giant’s next era Play Amazon is at a pivotal moment in its history, facing growing regulatory and legal scrutiny just as a new CEO,… Read More
Virgin Galactic downplays rumblings about a suborbital Branson vs. Bezos space race Would Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson try to steal a march on Blue Origin (and Amazon) founder Jeff Bezos when… Read More
Jeff Bezos says he’ll ride with Blue Origin’s first space passengers in July Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he and his brother Mark will fly to space next month on the first crewed… Read More
Play Podcast With $8.45 billion MGM deal, Amazon scripts its own Hollywood plot twist Play Amazon’s agreement to acquire MGM for $8.45 billion has all the makings of a great script, combining a Hollywood icon… Read More
Bezos, Jeff Bezos, strikes again in billion-dollar bid for Bond and MGM – and social media shoots back Bezos. Jeff Bezos. Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as a certain British secret agent’s introduction. But that’s… Read More
Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation Amazon founder Jeff Bezos put an expiration date on his tenure as CEO, saying Wednesday morning that Andy Jassy will… Read More
Senators spar over the idea of giving billions to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture for lunar lander program The tussle over NASA funding for lunar landing systems has touched down in the Senate — with one leading senator… Read More
SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell as Blue Origin’s CEO? New book about Jeff Bezos says she was asked When it comes to his Blue Origin space venture, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to say “slow is smooth, and… Read More
Play Podcast ‘Amazon Unbound’ is a portrait of a company ‘getting perilously close to invincible’ Play “I wonder what unit profitability was in 2017 without advertising?” That seemingly mundane question, posed by Jeff Bezos during a… Read More
Jeff Bezos will reportedly join the billionaire boating class with a $500M luxury sailing superyacht It’s not exactly the type of vessel that would putter around near the shores of Amazon’s South Lake Union campus… Read More
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace… Read More
Former Washington Post editor writing ‘Collision of Power,’ touching on Trump, Bezos and newspaper Marty Baron, who retired as executive editor of The Washington Post earlier this year, is writing a book about his… Read More
Elon Musk taunts Jeff Bezos over Blue Origin’s challenge to SpaceX’s contract for lunar lander The billionaire space battle just got kicked up a notch, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture challenging… Read More
Jeff Bezos joins Drake, NBA stars and others in $80M backing of Overtime sports media brand Jeff Bezos is among the investors taking part in an $80 million funding round in Overtime, a sports media brand… Read More
Video: Jeff Bezos gives Washington governor a tour of homeless shelter attached to Amazon HQ Jeff Bezos played host to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee in a recent tour of the Mary’s Place family shelter that… Read More
Bezos Earth Fund again poaches the leader of a grant recipient to help run its organization The Bezos Earth Fund has hired Charlotte Pera as vice president for Strategy and Programs for the $10 billion effort… Read More
Why Amazon and Jeff Bezos are backing a corporate tax rate hike Jeff Bezos surprised some Amazon critics and followers this week by throwing his weight behind a federal corporate tax hike… Read More
Play Podcast GeekWire’s new ‘Day 2’ podcast scrutinizes Amazon’s impact on tech, business and the world Play It feels sometimes like the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” an Amazon shareholder told Jeff Bezos at the company’s… Read More
Jeff Bezos says no thanks to Bernie Sanders’ request to testify on income inequality Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not testify at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality next week — a… Read More
Bezos, Gates, Ballmer see fortunes soar during COVID-19 as politicians propose new wealth taxes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer saw their already massive fortunes soar during… Read More
$10B Bezos Earth Fund hires a long-time global leader on climate issues as president and CEO Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday that his Bezos Earth Fund has hired Andrew Steer, the head of the World Resources Institute,… Read More
