Jeff Bezos selling tickets to space aboard his New Shepard
The price for tickets aboard Bezos' spacecraft will likely be revealed May 5. A competitor is selling tickets for $250,000.
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The price for tickets aboard Bezos' spacecraft will likely be revealed May 5. A competitor is selling tickets for $250,000.
Sports content company is creating a teen basketball league that guarantees a six-figure salary to every player.
Amazon's Kuiper system of internet relay satellites will compete with OneWeb and SpaceX's Starlink program.
Bezos said in a letter to shareholders that he isn't comforted by the failure of the unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama.
After Wednesday's 15th unpiloted test flight, the system appears to be on the verge of commercial operations, giving six passengers at a time a few minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this-world view.
Efforts to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama are officially over for now, after workers at a facility in Bessemer voted no to forming a collective bargaining unit. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store union has accused Amazon of manipulating the vote and intimidating employees to say no to unionizing. It plans on challenging the results, while Amazon denies the allegations. Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the University of Washington who researches the history of tech companies, joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano to discuss.
Amazon has overcome a historic effort to unionize workers at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Roughly two-thirds of the more than 3,000 employees voted against unionizing. Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan's ninth congressional district spearheaded the efforts to help Amazon workers unionize. He spoke with Lana Zak about the vote and why the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union is accusing Amazon of taking "egregious and blatantly illegal actions during the union vote."
In a big defeat for organized labor, Amazon has defeated efforts to unionize workers at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
Bezos said "concessions" will be needed to support President Joe Biden's "bold investments in American infrastructure."
Forbes has revealed the world's wealthiest people — and it's the biggest group in the annual list's 35 years. Here's who sits atop the list.
The retiring leader of the Washington Post's newsroom talks with "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl about the changing world of newspapers; how Jeff Bezos' purchase of the Post reinvigorated the paper; and how events of the past several years have shined a light on the fragility of democratic institutions and the importance of a free press.
The launch will come a year later than planned after Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin lost out on a major Space Force contract.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as chief executive of the company he founded 27 years ago. He will stay on as the executive chairman of the company's board.
Jeff Bezos plans to step down later this year as Amazon's CEO, the company announced in its latest earnings report. He will be replaced by Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy. With a net worth of nearly $200 billion, Forbes says Bezos is the world's richest man.
Amazon founder, the world's second-richest person, will hand over the reins to ecommerce giant later this year.
60 Minutes' Bob Simon remembers his 1999 interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
A surge in Tesla's stock price has vaulted the entrepreneur to the top spot, with a fortune worth $188 billion.
MacKenzie Scott, the world's richest woman, wrote on Medium that she has given more than $4 billion in gifts to 384 organizations over the past four months. Scott has donated nearly $6 billion this year alone. She isn't done -- the former wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos said she plans to continue donating her fortune as part of a "giving pledge" to commit a majority of her wealth to charitable causes.
Prominent environmental nonprofits dominate the first round of "Bezos Earth Fund" grants, which total $791 million.
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos received the biggest boost in personal wealth, with a gain of $90 billion, a study says.
Protesters marched in Los Angeles to push for higher pay, increased taxes on the rich and improved workplace safety.
Amazon has faced criticism from its workforce over allegedly unsafe conditions in fulfillment centers and the treatment of employees. Vice News recently reported the company is actually ramping up surveillance of its workers, after publishing two job postings for intelligence analysts tasked with tracking "labor organizing threats." The author of that article, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a senior staff writer at Vice's Motherboard, joins CBSN to discuss.
Amazon's founder and the world's richest man has crossed another milestone in his escalating net worth.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shares his company's latest innovation - a delivery drone know as an Octocopter. Charlie Rose reports on the unmanned devices, which are still several years away from being in use.
Antitrust panel grills Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai.