Jeff Bezos: News

04 Jul 2024

Amazon

Bezos trims Amazon stake again, cashing out $5B this time

Jeff Bezos, the world's second-wealthiest individual, has revealed plans to sell an additional 25 million shares of Amazon, valued at approximately $5 billion.

03 Jul 2024

Chris Evans

Chris Evans to receive award previously given to Jeff Bezos

The Captain America actor, Chris Evans, along with his partners Mark Kassen and Joe Kiani, will receive the Spirit of Service Award from the Partnership for Public Service.

03 Jun 2024

Bernard Arnault

Elon Musk overtakes Arnault and Bezos as world's richest again

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has become the world's richest person with a net worth of $210.7 billion, according to Forbes Real Time Billionaires list.

20 May 2024

Blue Origin

Blue Origin completes 7th crewed spaceflight after two-year break

Blue Origin, the spaceflight company owned by Jeff Bezos, successfully flew six paying customers to the edge of space and back on May 19.

18 May 2024

Blue Origin

Blue Origin to resume space tourism program after two-year hiatus

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, is set to recommence its space tourism program after a nearly two-year hiatus.

27 Apr 2024

Amazon

FTC accuses Amazon executives of using Signal to destroy evidence

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US, has submitted a filing, accusing senior executives at Amazon of using the Signal app's disappearing messages facility to destroy evidence.

09 Apr 2024

Neuralink

Neuralink-rival Synchron prepares for groundbreaking brain chip clinical trial

US-based start-up, Synchron, is set to launch an extensive clinical trial of its revolutionary brain-computer interface (BCI).

05 Mar 2024

Elon Musk

Jeff Bezos dethrones Elon Musk as world's richest person

Elon Musk has been dethroned as the world's richest person by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

24 Feb 2024

Amazon

Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA to back humanoid robot start-up Figure AI

Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA, along with several others, are investing in humanoid robot start-up Figure AI, reported Bloomberg.

23 Feb 2024

Blue Origin

Blue Origin's space rocket stacked on launchpad for first time

Jeff Bezos's space venture, Blue Origin, has showcased its orbital-class New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

21 Feb 2024

Amazon

Jeff Bezos concludes 50M Amazon stock sale, nets $8.5B 

Jeff Bezos has sold another 14 million shares of Amazon worth around $2.4 billion. This latest sale wraps up his plan to sell 50 million shares.

16 Feb 2024

Amazon

Bezos sells $2B worth of Amazon shares in latest transaction

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has sold around $2.03 billion worth of shares in the e-commerce giant over February 14-15.

14 Feb 2024

Amazon

Bezos sells $4B worth of Amazon stock in 4 days

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, has sold 24 million shares, earning over $4 billion.

07 Feb 2024

Bill Gates

Bill Gates-backed mining start-up discovers Zambian copper deposit using AI

KoBold Metals, a California-based mining start-up backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, has uncovered a massive copper deposit in Zambia.

Richest 500 people rebound with $1.5 trillion gain in 2023

The world's 500 wealthiest individuals saw their combined net worth skyrocket by $1.5 trillion in 2023, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

18 Dec 2023

Blue Origin

Blue Origin set for first space mission in 15 months

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, is set to launch its New Shepard rocket today, marking its first flight since a mishap in September 2022.

20 Nov 2023

Bill Gates

World's richest 1% emit more carbon than 66% of poorest

In a shocking revelation, a groundbreaking report by Oxfam has exposed a harrowing truth: the richest 1% of the world's population is responsible for a staggering 16% of global CO2 emissions.

03 Nov 2023

Amazon

Jeff Bezos announces move to Miami, shares emotional note

Billionaire Jeff Bezos has revealed his plans to relocate from Seattle to Miami, Florida.

28 Sep 2023

Blue Origin

FAA recommends 21 corrective actions for Jeff Bezos's space company

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has wrapped up its investigation into the mishap that happened to Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle in September 2022.

26 Sep 2023

Amazon

Amazon veteran Dave Limp to lead Jeff Bezos's space company

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos's space tourism and rocket company, has announced the appointment of Dave Limp, currently the Senior Vice President of Devices and Services at Amazon, as its new CEO.

11 Aug 2023

Amazon

Jeff Bezos just bought a $68 million home near Miami

Jeff Bezos has acquired a waterfront mansion near Miami, Florida, United States.

04 Aug 2023

Lauren Sanchez

Jeff Bezos's $500M yacht: World's largest, has Bezos's girlfriend's sculpture!

On Wednesday, Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos threw an engagement party to celebrate his companionship with fiancée Lauren Sánchez on his awe-inspiring yacht Koru in Italy, reported Page Six.

23 May 2023

Lauren Sanchez

Who is Lauren Sanchez, award-winning journalist and Jeff Bezos's fiancée

The news of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos getting engaged to broadcast journalist Lauren Sanchez recently made headlines, with reports from Page Six confirming the news.

23 May 2023

Lauren Sanchez

Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sanchez engaged? Sanchez's 20-carat diamond ring raises speculations 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, a renowned broadcast journalist, are now engaged, an insider close to the couple revealed to Page Six.

17 Apr 2023

Netflix

5 times when Netflix proved being down isn't being out 

Netflix is the biggest video streaming platform in the world. It wasn't always, though. Before it became the streaming giant it is now, the company had to go through its share of troubles.

28 Mar 2023

Elon Musk

5 CEOs who felt the brunt of Elon Musk's trolling

Elon Musk is known for many things: his riches, Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX, etc. He has also built a reputation for not holding back when speaking about someone or something.

22 Mar 2023

India

The world now has fewer billionaires: Here's what happened

Over the past year, we have seen the global economy struggling to stay afloat amid war, macroeconomic headwinds, the tech sector's fall, and the banking crisis.

21 Feb 2023

Elon Musk

#NewsBytesExplainer: Billionaires who lost their fortune in the recent past

From Elon Musk losing $100 billion in a single calendar year to Sam Bankman-Fried's personal wealth being completely wiped out, the past year has been chaotic for some of the world's richest.

14 Feb 2023

Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin makes solar cells from Moon dust

Blue Origin, a private aerospace company owned by Jeff Bezos, has come up with a technology that uses simulated Moon regolith to make solar cells and transmission wires.

28 Nov 2022

Amazon

Amazon shuts wholesale e-commerce platform, its third business in India

Amazon will bring down the curtain on Amazon Distribution, its wholesale e-commerce platform that caters to small neighborhood stores in India.

20 Nov 2022

X

'Postpone large purchases': Amazon founder Jeff Bezos warns of recession

Billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has warned of economic recession in the world.

13 Oct 2022

Amazon

Amazon changes rockets for its Kuiper satellites: Here's what happened

It won't be much longer before we get a glimpse of Amazon's internet-from-space. The first two satellites of the space-based Kuiper constellation will be launched early next year.

13 Sep 2022

Space News

Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin rocket crashes; no people were onboard

Jeff Bezos-owned space travel company Blue Origin has experienced its first launch failure.

26 Aug 2022

Space News

Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin's 23rd mission will have no tourists

Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin has announced that its 23rd sub-orbital space flight will be launched on August 31.

16 Nov 2021

United Nations (UN)

UN responds to Elon Musk's challenge with $6.6bn famine plan

The United Nations (UN) has responded to Tesla CEO Elon Musk's challenge where he had asked the agency to prove how $6 billion of his wealth could solve world hunger.

05 Nov 2021

SpaceX

Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over Artemis HLS contract

In July, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos penned an open letter to NASA, opposing the space agency's decision to award the Artemis lunar lander contract to Elon Musk-led SpaceX.

Blue Origin, Boeing to establish 'business park' in low-Earth orbit

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has unveiled plans to build a "space park" that would be launched into low Earth orbit.

24 Oct 2021

Amazon

TikTok star discovers the shocking things Alexa records about you

A TikTok star who goes by "my.data.not.yours" shared a video documenting her surprise when she discovered how much data Amazon has collected about her from smart speakers and smart bulbs.

04 Oct 2021

Space News

Employees claim Blue Origin is fraught with sexism, safety concerns

Several current and former Blue Origin employees have come forth to accuse the private space exploration company of rampant sexism, gender disparity, and fostering a toxic working environment.

07 Sep 2021

Technology

Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner invest in start-up for anti-aging research

Elon Musk might be pioneering brain-machine interfaces at Neuralink but Jeff Bezos doesn't appear to be stopping after flying to space. His latest crazy bet on technology is nothing short of a science fiction flick.

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