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Sep 20, 2021 10:16 AM IST Concerns surrounding international corporate tax rates for tech giants will be high on the agenda during Boris Johnson's meeting with Jeff Bezos.
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Sep 17, 2021 01:10 PM IST The two billionaires have locked horns recently Musk had responded to Amazon’s lawsuit saying that filing legal actions against his company is Jeff Bezos' full time job.
- Sep 13, 2021 02:15 PM IST
Jared Isaacman, the American founder and chief executive of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments, will lead three fellow spaceflight novices on a three-day trip from blastoff at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to splashdown in the Atlantic.
- Sep 02, 2021 10:03 AM IST
Amazon had asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to dismiss SpaceX’s latest amendment to its Starlink satellite network
- Aug 17, 2021 06:01 PM IST
Nitin Arora was working on Blue Origin's landmark project to develop a moon lander designed to carry varying payloads to the lunar surface.
- Aug 14, 2021 02:54 PM IST
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who have been trying to launch long-range orbital rockets, were competing for a coveted contract from the government to build a spaceship to deliver astronauts to the moon as early as 2024.
- Aug 06, 2021 10:11 AM IST
Bernard Arnault had earlier achieved this feat in December 2019, January 2020, May 2021, and July 2021.
- Aug 04, 2021 06:38 PM IST
Thanks to the unpredictable currents of the financial world, Bernard Arnault of LVMH has overtaken Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person. Here are some of his business mantras.
- Aug 03, 2021 07:29 PM IST
As Bill Gate and Melinda French officially got divorced, let's take a look at some of the most talked about divorces in recent times.
- Jul 31, 2021 04:52 PM IST
Despite the drop in shares, Bezos still remains the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is ahead of Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk by approximately $8 billion.
- Jul 27, 2021 03:31 PM IST
Earlier this year in April, NASA rejecting Blue Origin's bid, had awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX , a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the lunar surface as early as 2024.
- Jul 22, 2021 12:48 PM IST
The coming-out party for Blue Origin went on to show that it’s important for the Amazon founder to make up for the lost time
- Jul 21, 2021 06:25 PM IST
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who became the second billionaire in the world to launch his own aircraft (New Shepard) into space this month, said at a news conference: “I want to thank every Amazon employee, and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this.”
- Jul 21, 2021 11:12 AM IST
Jeff Bezos was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas — the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space.
- Jul 20, 2021 06:59 PM IST
Blue Origin's first crewed mission, an 11-minute hop from west Texas to beyond the Karman line and back again, coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the first Moon landing.
- Jul 20, 2021 06:19 PM IST
Sanjal Gavande, who joined Blue Origin in April 2021 as a system engineer, later became part of the New Shepard project. Here are a few things to know about the Indian-born engineer who is part of Bezos’ Blue Origin’s engineer team.
- Jul 20, 2021 10:10 AM IST
Accompanying Jeff Bezos on the sub-orbital trip are his brother Mark, 82-year-old Wally Funk, a former test pilot, and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen.
- Jul 19, 2021 11:08 AM IST
Sanjal Gavande's father Ashok is a retired Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation officer, and her mother Surekha is a retired MTNL employee.
- Jul 15, 2021 10:42 PM IST
According to Blue Origin, Daemen took a year off after graduating from high school last year to obtain his private pilot’s license. He’ll attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in September.
- Jul 15, 2021 09:41 AM IST
The donation comes as the richest man in the world by Forbes estimates prepares to fulfil his childhood dream of travelling to space.
- Jul 14, 2021 05:56 PM IST
While Amazon does have a 'conditions of use' policy that binds the sellers with its privacy policy, it sheds responsibility in cases where the seller uses a third-party vendor.
- Jul 13, 2021 03:43 PM IST
The status symbol of big billionaires has undergone a metamorphosis of sorts. The in-thing is space tourism. With Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin announcing its decision to sell its first flight into microgravity to the highest bidder the stage is set for the uber rich & super famous to venture out into the unknown and experience the ultimate thrill. Find out more about this upcoming trend
- Jul 13, 2021 08:48 AM IST
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has claimed that unlike, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic 'Unity' spacecraft, its ‘New Shepard’ is designed to fly above the Kármán line that 'defines space'.
- Jul 07, 2021 10:15 AM IST
The last time a billionaire's wealth came close to Jeff Bezos' new record was in January, when Tesla founder Elon Musk's net worth rose to $210 billion
- Jul 05, 2021 09:32 PM IST
Jeff Bezos leaves an enduring legacy after transforming Amazon from a modest online bookseller into one of the world’s most powerful corporations as he prepares to blast off into uncharted territories. He was set to hand over the job of Amazon's chief executive on July 5 to Andy Jassy. Bezos wanted to spend more time on projects including his space firm Blue Origin. He announced that he will fly to space on the first flight by his rocket on July 20.
