Tag: Jeff Bezos

• Tuesday, December 14th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Elon Musk chosen over Bolsonaro as Time’s “Person of the Year”

  

  The 2021 version of the traditional “Person of the Year” award handed out by Time magazine since 1927 has gone to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, it was announced Monday.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 21:18 UTC

  Jeff Bezos no longer CEO of e-commerce giant Amazon

  

  What goes up must come down and even the unthinkable has happened – Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce giant Amazon.com has left his position of CEO as of Monday, it was announced. Bezos will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who for years led Amazon's lucrative division of cloud computing AWS.

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Bezos flying to space with a woman pilot, 82, trained to be an astronaut

  

  Aerospace company Blue Origin's owner Jeff Bezos will go to space with an 82-year-old woman pilot, the firm said Thursday. Wally Funk was one of the first women trained to fly to space but was denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Bezos will fly to outer space in his Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on July 20

  

  Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology Amazon will fly to space next month on the first space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin, the billionaire said.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Ex-wife of Jeff Bezos marries a science teacher; couple pledges to continue giving to charity

  

  MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos and one of the world's richest women, has married a Seattle science teacher, who promptly declared he plans to help give away most of their wealth to charity.

• Wednesday, February 3rd 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Amazon Jeff Bezos to become executive chairman and Andy Jassy the next CEO

  

  Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon later this year, the company said on Tuesday, 30 years after holding that role. The online company said he'll be replaced in the fall of 2021 by Andy Jassy, who currently runs Amazon's cloud business.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Ex wife of Jeff Bezos has given away US$ 4bn in four months

  

  MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away her fortune at an unprecedented pace, donating more than US$4 billion in four months after announcing US$ 1,7bn in gifts in July.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  “Make Amazon Pay” campaign supported by 400 lawmakers from 34 countries

  

  More than 400 lawmakers from 34 countries have signed a letter to Amazon.com Inc boss Jeff Bezos backing a campaign that claims the tech giant has “dodged and dismissed … debts to workers, societies, and the planet,” organizers said.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  US billionaires become significantly richer during the pandemic

  

  The combined wealth of America's billionaires, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, jumped more than 19% or by half a trillion since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:12 UTC

  UN officials do not use WhatsApp: “it's not supported by a secure mechanism”

  

  United Nations officials do not use WhatsApp to communicate because “it's not supported as a secure mechanism,” a UN spokesman said on Thursday, after UN experts accused Saudi Arabia of using the online communications platform to hack the phone of Amazon chief executive and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.