Tag: Jeff Bezos

• 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.

• Friday, April 19th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Controversial tabloid embroiled in high profile scandals involving Trump and Bezos is sold

  

  The owner of US tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer has agreed to sell the title to magazine distributor James Cohen. American Media Inc (AMI) said it would sell the title and two of its sister publications to Mr Cohen.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Record breaking divorce settlement for Bezos ex wife: US$ 35 billion

  

  The world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, and his wife MacKenzie have agreed with a record-breaking divorce settlement worth at least US$35bn. Ms. Bezos will retain a 4% stake in online retail giant Amazon which her husband of 25 years found.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the world's wealthiest persons

  

  Jeff Bezos remains the world's richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra wealthy, while far behind President Donald Trump jumped 51 spots in the ranking.