Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is dishing out $42 million to build a giant grandfather clock. The clock, which will chime an elaborate song every year, decade, century, millennium and 10 millennia, is reportedly intended to ensure that people will remember Bezos for years to come.
By making the Internet universal and ubiquitous, though, technology also eroded corporate control. No longer will International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) or Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) completely control everything in their networks, despite their networks of worldwide data centers.
Private-sector initiatives in space made history Friday when SpaceX?s Dragon space capsule was grappled by and attached to the International Space Station.
Jeffrey Bezos, founding CEO of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), froze his salary for the third consecutive year at $81,840. He also received $1.6 million in other compensation, the company’s proxy said.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, located the engines from the Apollo 11 rocket that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969 14,000 feet underwater.
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), the world’s biggest e-retailer, said the number of titles for its Kindle owners lending library tablet family now exceeds 100,000, compared with only 5,000 last November.
Rumors are rife that Apple is all set to launch its next generation iPad, but the Android lovers should not lose heart as Amazon is also anticipated to release two versions of its flagship Kindle Fire, one of which will be bigger than the existing Fire, AllThingsD has reported.
Chris Mok, like many Americans over the past few years, lost his job in the wake of the Great Recession.
Now that the Facebook filing is available, it's pretty clear that before he turns 28, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be a billionaire. Maybe, if the IPO is as successful as hoped, he'll be worth about $28 billion.
Shares of e-retailer Amazon plunged as much as 11 percent Wednesday after the company reported poor results. The fall sliced more than $1.6 billion from the fortune of CEO Jeff Bezos.
Shares of Amazon, the world’s largest e-retailer, plunged 11 percent to $173.68 in pre-market trading after the company reported fourth-quarter revenue below expectations.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has reported a 57 percent decline in its fourth quarter profit despite the strong sales of Kindle devices.
The Seattle-based company announced Tuesday it earned $177 million in the fourth quarter, or 39 cents a share.
Venerable bookseller Barnes & Noble said it will consider spinning off its thriving Nook business – its thriving e-book unit – while determining its own corporate future.
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said it sold more than one million Kindle devices per week during the month of December, implying that it might have sold more than 4 million Kindles during December.
Amazon's Kindle products had their best holiday season ever, according to a statement released by the company on Thursday. More than a million Kindles flew off the shelves each week during the month December.
The Conan O'Brien show decided to have some fun at the expense of the Kindle Fire. On the show, an actor portrays Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. He is on hand to show viewers how to fix issues with the Kindle Fire tablet. Bezos, or rather the actor playing Bezos, is sitting in a living room decorated by framed money.
Late night host Conan O'Brien lampooned the complaints surrounding Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet via a video message from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book.
Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's head of space operations said on Thursday.
Amazon, the No. 1 e-retailer, reported shipping more than three million Kindle Fire tablet devices, its $199 media tablet priced to compete with Apple’s iPad 2.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos, donated $15 million to Princeton University for a biosciences unit within the Princeton Neuroscience
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