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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
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and 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
Jeff Bezos speaks at an event to unveil Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, May 9, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)
April 16, 2020, 12:19 pm
Amazon donates $300,000 to help Israel buy equipment to fight coronavirus
US online giant donates funds via Israel Healthcare Foundation, an independent US-based nonprofit associated with Clalit, Israel’s largest healthcare provider
By Shoshanna Solomon
The covers to anti-Semitic Nazi-era children's books on sale on Amazon. (Screenshot)
February 25, 2020, 11:26 pm
Amazon halts sale of books assailed as ‘Nazi propaganda’
Company’s removal of items, including anti-Semitic children’s book ‘The Poisonous Mushroom,’ comes after criticism by the Auschwitz museum
By AFP
The covers to anti-Semitic Nazi-era children's books on sale on Amazon. (Screenshot)
February 22, 2020, 1:42 am
Auschwitz museum demands Amazon drop ‘Nazi propaganda’ books
Holocaust memorial organization condemns Jeff Bezos, online marketplace for selling World War II-era anti-Semitic children’s books in German, English
By AFP
In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks off stage after holding a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
February 18, 2020, 3:46 am
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change
Amazon founder to put his own money into the Bezos Earth Fund; online giant has been criticized for its huge carbon footprint
By AP
Jeff Bezos speaks at an event to unveil Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, May 9, 2019. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)
January 25, 2020, 10:18 pm
The big lesson from the Bezos hack: Anyone can be a target
WhatsApp and other messaging apps vulnerable to malware, as cost of hacking falls; experts recommend everyday users exercise caution
By Matt O'Brien
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listens as he attends a working breakfast with US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)
January 25, 2020, 9:05 am
Kushner advised to replace his phone after alleged Saudi hacking of Bezos
Anyone in regular contact with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could be potential target, UN expert warns
By TOI staff and Agencies
This combination of photos shows Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 24, 2019 and Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in Washington, on Sept. 13, 2018 (AP Photo)
January 24, 2020, 10:48 am
What we know, and don’t, about the alleged Bezos phone hack
UN rights experts want a probe into reported hack of phone of Amazon boss, but the forensic evidence they cite comes from an incomplete study
By Frank Bajak
An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)
January 22, 2020, 9:19 pm
UN experts: Israeli spyware was likely used in alleged Saudi hack of Bezos phone
Special rapporteurs say NSO Group’s malware implicated in reported infiltration of Amazon owner’s device; firm ‘shocked’ by claims, says its software ‘unequivocally’ not involved
By TOI staff and Agencies
Washington Post owner and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks during a ceremony near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking the one-year anniversary of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi death, October 2, 2019. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)
January 22, 2020, 10:14 am
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’s phone hacked by Saudi crown prince – reports
Device said to have been breached after receiving a file sent from Mohammad Bin Salman’s WhatsApp account; UN report to detail evidence
By Agencies and TOI staff
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the “We the People" summit featuring 2020 presidential candidates in Washington, D.C., April 1, 2019. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)
August 13, 2019, 7:00 pm
Bernie Sanders accuses Washington Post of being biased against him
Presidential hopeful claims his criticism of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who bought the newspaper in 2013, has skewed its coverage
By Sam Sokol
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