During Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, May 24, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was confronted by protesters from Working Washington, a coalition which includes community groups, unions and members of Occupy Seattle. As police ...
After bootstrapping itself for more than five years, New York City-based Behance, an online destination for creative galleries and portfolios, has finally turned to outside funding, securing a $6.5 million investment from Union Square Ventures and a host of investors including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
The Museum of Flight in Seattle this week put on display a 5-ton jet lander that flew only once and was built Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space flight company.
MSNBC.com reports the jet lander — a takeoff-and-landing platform powered by four vertically mounted jet engines — flew its only flight on March 5, 2005, in Moses Lake, where it rose to a height of 316 feet.
SEATTLE (dpa-AFX) - In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) disclosed that its Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey Bezos, received a $1.68 mill...
After a strong earnings report, Amazon.com Inc.'s share price increased last week and so did the the wealth of CEO Jeff Bezos, the world's 24th-richest billionaire, according to a ranking of the world's billionaires. Bezos's wealth rose by $2.72 billion to $21.2 billion.
Bezos and the world's 39 other richest people saw their net worth rise by $5 billion in the last week, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bill Gates, Microsoft...
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