Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon. com, Inc. , an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon. com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.
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Zuckerberg sold $280M worth of Facebook stock in the past month
Zuckerberg began offloading shares on November 9, and he's now generating nearly $12.10 million every day on average by selling ...
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Elon Musk eclipses Bill Gates to become the world's second richest person
Elon Musk is now worth more than $128 billion, making him the second richest person in the world behind Amazon bald-king ...
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Zoom execs dumped $580M of stock as its share price rose 622%
Zoom insiders have now sold more than half a billion dollars worth of company stock this year, led by the company's chief ...
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Amazon plans to pump its UK headcount to 40,000 by end of year
Amazon says its headcount in the UK is expected to reach 40,000 by the end of 2020, as the company gears up to open up 7,000 ...
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Bezos just took his first post-COVID (stock) dump — and it’s worth $3.1B
World's richest person Jeff Bezos just sold his first company shares in six months, all while Amazon stock inches to new ...
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How to watch today's antitrust hearing against Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
The CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook will defend their business practices in front of congress today. Here's how ...
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Has Jeff Bezos ended world hunger? Twitter account skewers Amazon chief's absurd $178B fortune
A 2018 report found solving world hunger would cost $11 billion in extra spending per year. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos just ...
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google CEOs to face antitrust committee that owns $100K+ of those companies' stocks
Three of the lawmakers leading an antitrust investigation into the operations of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google own ...
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos just broke the record for the most billions added in a single day
Amazon's stock rallied again this week, causing the fortune of its immortal baldking Jeff Bezos to grow faster than ever ...
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Everything we know about how Twitter’s biggest hack went down
If you're waking up just now like me, all of us missed Twitter's most dramatic and biggest hack of all time. Here's what ...
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The UK just paid $500M to battle Musk in the internet-from-space race — cos Brexit
The UK hopes that OneWeb can help replace the EU's Galileo sat-nav system, which it's banned from using once Brexit finally ...
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Elon Musk is 55% richer in 2020 — but Jeff Bezos is still tech's billionaire daddy
The wealth of the American billionaire class is up $565 billion since the COVID-19 shutdowns began, but nobody has made more ...
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Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19
It's true. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ballmer — the trio of billionaires from Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft — are balling ...
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Amazon and Microsoft won't stop beefing over the Pentagon's $10B 'war cloud'
If the saga of the US gov's $10 billion 'war cloud' hadn't already devolved into a soap opera, the latest exchange between ...
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Amazon VP quits after 'chickenshit' management fires employee activists
Amazon's PR nightmare today intensified as one of the company's VPs abruptly resigned after several employees were fired ...
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos compete to help NASA return humans to the moon
NASA has formally recruited tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to help its Artemis project return humans to the ...
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Tom Nook is richer than Jeff Bezos — but does this raccoon deserve all that wealth?
Tom Nook is richer than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.Tom Nook is worth $5,770,052,748,058.73 — making him 40 times richer than ...
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Elon Musk's 420th Starlink satellite is more than just a weed joke
SpaceX's Starlink is the embodiment of one of Elon Musk's many visions: A giant monetizable web of satellites that beam super-fast ...
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The world has less billionaires in 2020, but Jeff Bezos is still the richest
It's been said that the coronavirus pandemic has given nature room to heal, but it's also had an affect on the world's billionaires: ...
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Amazon warehouse worker tests positive for coronavirus day after Bezos visit
Amazon says it has research scientists, program managers, procurement specialists, and software engineers working on coronavirus ...
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Bezos dumped $3.4B in Amazon shares just before coronavirus tanked the stock market
In news that should hardly surprise anyone: those in charge of the US' biggest companies dumped billions of dollars in shares ...
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Bezos and Musk's internet-from-space race is back on
OneWeb, the satellite startup once pegged as the leader in the race to beam high-speed internet from space, has filed for ...
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Why Jeff Bezos might run for president to spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is suing Donald Trump over the Pentagon's decision to award a lucrative military artificial intelligence ...
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Report: Amazon's negotiation strategy for HQ2 was called 'Fuck you. We're Amazon'
A recent report from Bloomberg revealed that Amazon's negotiation strategy during its recent failed bid to build a second ...
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Why Jeff Bezos was booed in India after promising a million jobs and a billion dollars
Last week, Jeff Bezos landed in India, paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at the Raj Ghat memorial in New Delhi, and flew kites ...
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Jeff Bezos says Amazon will invest $1 billion in small businesses in India (Updated)
At a company event in New Delhi today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the ecommerce giant is investing $1 billion to digitize ...
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Amazon prepares to strike back after Microsoft wins $10B JEDI contract
Microsoft's been awarded the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, a $10 billion planned ...
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Bezos and Musk’s satellite internet could save Americans $30B a year
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites for broadband internet access are beginning to display signs of real potential. Recently, ...
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The Moonprentice: Newt Gingrich wants 'reality show' contest with Musk and Bezos to colonize Luna
A coalition including Michael Jackson's former publicist, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and an Air Force general want ...
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Amazon plans to cut Prime shipping times – and their workers will pay for it
The third most valuable company said that it plans to invest $800 million to make one-day shipping the default option for ...
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Jeff Bezos promised drone deliveries by 2019 — but 3 things are missing
Five years ago, Jeff Bezos promised in a 60 Minutes interview that drones would deliver goods to our homes by 2019. With ...
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Amazon cozies up to ICE as Congress cries foul
Amazon and ICE seem to be the best of friends these days, and friends are supposed to be good at keeping secrets. Congress, ...
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Bill Gates and the EU announce a €100M investment fund to combat climate change
Bill Gates has signed an agreement with the EU, on behalf of his billionaire investment coaltion, to launch a joint €100M ...
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Bug in cryptocurrency platform Augur meant users could be duped into losing money
A massive vulnerability has been discovered in the decentralized betting platform Augur, which allowed all data shown in ...
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Jeff Bezos must spend his $150B helping humanity otherwise he's a scumbag
Well, it's happened. Amazon's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, is now the richest person ever. According to Bloomberg, Amazon's ...
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Jeff Bezos plans to charge upwards of $300,000 for a ticket to space
Jeff Bezos really wants to make space tourism a thing. According to a report by Reuters, the Amazon CEO's rocket company, ...
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Amazon could be delivering to the Moon by 2023
At least, as long as Jeff Bezos' other company, Blue Origin, chooses to do business with them instead of a different company ...