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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully launched on its first orbital mission early Thursday, January 16, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Standing 30 storeys tall with a reusable first stage, the rocket marked a major milestone for Jeff Bezos’ space company in its bid to rival SpaceX in satellite launches. While the second stage reached orbit successfully, the first stage booster failed to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission carried the prototype Blue Ring spacecraft, designed for satellite servicing and national security missions. This inaugural flight is part of Blue Origin’s plan to deploy customer satellites.

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin successfully resumes its space tourism business, launching a six-person crew to the edge of space. Among them is Ed Dwight, the US’ first Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s, making his long-awaited journey. Dwight, aged 90 years and eight months, becomes the oldest person in space, surpassing actor William Shatner. The crew's capsule, launched from Texas, ascended over 65 miles before returning to Earth in roughly 10 minutes. Despite a parachute issue, Blue Origin deems the mission a success, marking a milestone since New Shepard's grounding in 2022

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

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.

Bill and Melinda Gates have called it quits after 27 years of marriage. The Microsoft co-founder, 65, announced the news in a joint statement on Twitter. The statement also mentions that they will continue to work together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Amazon favored big sellers on its India platform – and used them to maneuver around rules meant to protect the country's small retailers from getting crushed by e-commerce giants, internal documents show. As one presentation urged: “Test the Boundaries of what is allowed by law.”

In a memo addressing all Amazon employees, Jeff Bezos said this move would allow him the time and energy he needs to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and his other passions.

Jeff Bezos (57) will be replaced as CEO by Andy Jassy, who runs Amazon's cloud-computing business AWS; and will instead take on the role of Executive Chairman

Including Thursday's gains in Tesla shares, Musk had a net worth of more than $188.5 billion, $1.5 billion more than Bezos, according to the report.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is worth $90 billion more than Bill Gates, who is the world's second-richest person currently worth $116.1 billion.

Jeff Bezos' net worth has risen by $74 billion in 2020 to $189.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

"This is insane @JeffBezos," Musk tweeted at Amazon's chief. Both men are billionaires and oversee competing space exploration companies on top of their duties at Telsa and Amazon. "Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!" Musk added in a second tweet.

The wealth surge of America's richest men happened during a period that saw as many as 22 million Americans file for unemployment.

The accusation, published in a blog post, is the latest twist in a weeks-long saga that has brought the world's richest person's private life into the spotlight and thrusts him deeper into a battle with the leading U.S. tabloid publisher, which has had close links with the president of the United States.

The online retail giant founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 is now worth more than fellow tech titans Microsoft or Apple.

The bipartisan support for India from Democratic and Republican Senators was fantastic, said Pepsico-India Holdings Chairman and CEO D Shivakumar, adding, America's innovativeness, start-up and R&D combined with India's entrepreneurship on both product and services has a huge potential for both the countries.

Bezos, who has succeeded the Graham family as the newspaper's owner, said Trump should expect — and welcome — press scrutiny as he seeks the White House.

The world's biggest online retailer sold 34.4 million products worldwide on its prime day in July. This makes the company's CEO, Jeff Bezos, the third richest American.

John Sculley believes if working culture in India improves and people are not penalised for taking risks, it will make India more attractive for entrepreneurs to take a chance.

Former Apple and Pepsi top cat John Scully explains on CNBC-TV18's The Forbes India Show that commiditisation and co-ordination are the key challenges to the IT world.