Tag: Jeff Bezos
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to send spaceship to moon
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has announced he is going to send a spaceship to the moon. Mr Bezos said his space company Blue Origin will land a robotic ship the size of a small house, capable of carrying four rovers and using a newly designed rocket engine. It would be followed by a version that…
Amazon results boosted by cloud and subscription-based services
Cloud services and subscription-based products such as Prime helped Amazon achieve strong quarterly results once again, with net sales up 17% to 59.7 billion dollars (£42.6 billion). The company’s growing cloud business – Amazon Web Services – delivered the biggest area of growth in the three months to the end of March, with net sales…
Amazon adds live QVC-style online shopping channels
Amazon customers can now watch live streams of products and brands, similar to traditional shopping channels on television. The feature has been soft-launched in the US only for the moment, with presenter-led demonstrations of products made by Amazon and by the sellers themselves. Amazon has also released a Live Creator app, that enables brands to…
Amazon reports 20% growth as Jeff Bezos hails Alexa
Amazon reported a rise in revenue and profits for the last quarter, as the tech giant published its latest set of financial results. For the three months up to December 31, the e-commerce firm said net sales were up by 20% on this time last year, rising from 60.5 billion US dollars (£46.1 billion) to…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches NASA experiments in test flight
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin has launched NASA experiments into space on a brief test flight. The New Shepard rocket blasted off from west Texas, hoisting a capsule containing the experiments. The eight experiments were exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness before the capsule parachuted down. The New Shepard capsule lands…
Amazon CEO admits the Fire Phone is a failure
Jeff Bezos has finally read aloud the writing on the wall: The Amazon Fire Phone has been a massive flop. Both critically and commercially, nobody seems to care about the phone, which has extra head-tracking cameras around the edge to slightly tilt the user interface depending on how you're looking at it. Still, as one…
The 10 Richest People In Tech – Zuckerberg, Gates, Dell and more!
As if the fact was ever in any doubt, there's plenty of green to be made in technology, as proved by the stratospheric heights hit by the Facebook IPO, seeing the company valued at $104 billion. From bedroom start-up to…
Amazon to launch DRM-free online music store
Amazon has announced that it is to launch its own digital music store later this year, comprising millions of songs and all free from any DRM copy protection.
