Jeff Bezos

July 20, 2021, 6:00 pm

Jeff Bezos travels to space on own rocket: ‘Best day ever!’

Amazon founder blasts off on his Blue Origin’s first passenger flight, week after fellow billionaire Richard Branson rode his own spacecraft

By Marcia Dunn

In this photo provided by Blue Origin, from left to right: Mark Bezos, brother of Jeff Bezos;
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin; Oliver Daemen, of the Netherlands;
and Wally Funk, aviation pioneer from Texas, pose for a photo. (Blue Origin via AP)

July 20, 2021, 3:41 pm

Bezos set to take off for space on his company’s first manned flight

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will blast off with eclectic group of passengers on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

By Marcia Dunn

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership separate as they fly way above Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on July 11, 2021 on the way to the cosmos. (Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)

July 11, 2021, 7:05 pm

British billionaire Richard Branson reaches edge of space in own rocket

Entrepreneur blasts off from a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel, returns to earth safely

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and Marcia Dunn

In this March 4, 2018, file photo, MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

June 16, 2021, 2:59 pm

MacKenzie Scott donates to Jewish charities in US, South Africa

Ex-wife of Amazon’s Bezos gives funding to HIAS, Repair the World and Afrika Tikkun as part of her latest $2.74 billion round of high-profile philanthropy

By Asaf Shalev

Jeff Bezos speaks at an event unveiling Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, May 9, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

June 7, 2021, 3:48 pm

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos heading to outer space — for 4 minutes

Billionaire businessman and his brother are slated to board a rocket for a brief journey to space on July 20

By AFP

Democratic members of Congress join representatives of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union gather outside an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, on March 5, 2021, to advocate for the ongoing unionization vote at the sprawling campus. The elected officials pictured include, starting second from left, Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, Nikema Williams of Georgia, Terri Sewell of Alabama, Cori Bush of Missouri and Andy Levin of Michigan. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

April 10, 2021, 2:19 am

Drive to unionize at Amazon warehouse in US voted down after bitter campaign

Majority of workers at Alabama facility vote against push to form union; activists demand a re-vote, alleging retail giant used unfair tactics

By Agencies and TOI staff

Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia and RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Birmingham, Alabama, after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the facility's unionization effort, March 5, 2021. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/JTA)

April 9, 2021, 10:33 am

Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama

Stuart Appelbaum speaks about his Jewish roots and what the fight against the mammoth online retailer has changed in the American labor movement

By Andrew Lapin

Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at the Birthright Israel gala event in Jerusalem, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Birthright Israel/Oren Ben Hakun)

April 7, 2021, 8:58 am

Miriam Adelson becomes richest Israeli as COVID year boosts world’s billionaires

Forbes 2021 list puts widow of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson as wealthiest new billionaire in the world; 28 Israelis on list, including Roman Abramovich

By TOI staff

Amazon's Andy Jassy in 2019 (video screenshot)

February 5, 2021, 9:30 am

As Bezos steps down, Amazon to get new Jewish CEO

Andy Jassy, a longtime executive, helped shape company’s highly profitable cloud computing department

By JTA

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas, June 6, 2019. (John Locher/AP/File)

February 3, 2021, 8:39 am

Jeff Bezos to step down as CEO of Amazon, focus on philanthropy instead

Entrepreneur, who over three decades built online retailer from scratch to become one of world’s most valuable companies, will hand over to Andy Jassy, head of firm’s web services

By Rob Lever

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

November 27, 2020, 8:09 am

Elon Musk now world’s 2nd wealthiest person

Pandemic has allowed the ultra-rich to amass even more wealth as technology companies have gobbled up more market share of the economy

By AFP

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power in the Rayburn House office Building, July 29, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

July 30, 2020, 2:54 pm

Congress pummels Facebook’s Zuckerberg, other big Tech CEOs at antitrust hearing

Several lawmakers appear intent on revising US laws, which currently give them no role in antitrust enforcement

By Rob Lever and Glenn Chapman

This photo combo of images shows, clockwise, from upper left: US President Donald Trump speaking during a news conference at the White House on July 22, 2020, in Washington, the Twitter app, Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaking during a campaign event on July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Facebook app (AP Photo)

July 27, 2020, 6:29 am

Twitter and Facebook become targets in Trump and Biden ads

US president buys ads on Facebook accusing Twitter of trying to stifle him; Democratic rival asks supporters to sign petition calling on Facebook to remove inaccurate statements

By AMANDA SEITZ and Barbara Ortutay

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-US vice president Joe Biden, in Jerusalem on March 9, 2010. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

July 16, 2020, 3:20 am

Twitter accounts of Netanyahu, Biden, Obama, others hacked in Bitcoin scam

Fake tweets from prominent politicians, tech personalities solicit deposits to anonymous cryptocurrency account; feeds of Apple, Kanye West, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg also hacked

By Agencies

This image from video provided by SpaceX shows the company's spacesuit in Elon Musk's red Tesla sports car which was launched into space during the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018. (SpaceX via AP)

May 1, 2020, 2:39 am

Musk, Bezos win lunar lander contracts as NASA aims to return humans to moon

US space agency awards SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics almost $1 billion in deals to develop competing systems set to be tested in February 2021

By AFP