| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.02.2024 | Bezos, Nvidia back $675M funding for humanoid robot startup Figure AI; now valued at $2 billion | Figure AI, an AI startup known for developing general-purpose humanoid robots, has raised $675 million in new funding, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The new capital infusion pushes Figure AI’s pre-money valuat... |
| 23.02.2024 | Jeff Bezos, Nvidia Join Forces in $675M Investment for Humanoid Robots | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 23 February 2024, 07:02 pm
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stands at the forefront alongside major technology players like Nvidia Corp., investing in the development of humanoid robots via the startup Figure AI Inc.
The rob... |
| 12.12.2022 | Jeff Bezos Backed Food Tech Unicorn, NotCo, Raises Another $70 Million In Series D Extension Ahead Of 2025 IPO | Matias Muchnick, founder and chief executive officer of Not Company, in New York, US, on Monday, ... [+] Oct. 24, 2022. Eight months after announcing their joint venture, Kraft Heinz Co. and NotCo are unveiling their first products: animal-... |
| 14.09.2022 | Jeff Bezos loses $10 billion overnight; Elon Musk takes a $8-billion hit | The fortunes of the US’ richest billionaires tumbled on Tuesday by $93 billion, the ninth-worst daily loss ever, as hotter-than-expected US inflation data roiled markets.
Jeff Bezos's wealth plunged by $9.8 billion, the most among those tra... |
| 26.04.2022 | Jeff Bezos takes aim at Musk's $44 bn Twitter deal with China jibe | Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos posed a provocative question after Elon Musk clinched a $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc.: whether that will make things difficult for Tesla Inc. in China.
In a series of tweets, Bezos drew attention to... |
| 05.11.2021 | José Andrés Announces $1 Billion Climate Fund Using Jeff Bezos’s Money
José Andrés Announces $1 Billion Climate Fund Using Jeff Bezos’s Money | (Bloomberg) -- On Nov. 5, World Central Kitchen announced the launch of a $1 billion Climate Disaster Fund. The fund was created to help the nonprofit respond to environmental crises around the world with both immediate disaster relief as w... |
| 03.11.2021 | Jeff Bezos announces $2 billion pledge to restore nature, transform food system | --> -->
The Bezos Earth Fund has pledged $2 billion to help restore nature and transform food systems as part of its $10 billion commitment to fight climate change, improve nature, and advance environmental justice and economic opport... |
| 02.11.2021 | Billionaire Jeff Bezos Takes Stage At COP26 To Pledge $2 Billion Towards Nature Conservation | Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks during an Action on Forests and Land Use event on day three of ... [+] COP26 at SECC on November 2, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Paul Ellis - Pool/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| 16.07.2021 | Jeff Bezos' foundation gifts Space Center Houston with $1 million grant | Billionaires such as Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos may be blasting off into the beyond, but for now, space travel is still primarily relegated to the expert astronauts who train here in Houston.
Now, a new $1 million grant to our beloved h... |
| 07.07.2021 | Bezos Gets His Revenge: Amazon Muscles In on Microsoft's $10 Billion Contract | July 7, 2021 2 min read
On Tuesday, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced via press release that it is canceling a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with Microsoft called JEDI in favor of a shared contract with Amazon, Microsoft and ... |
| 02.02.2021 | Jeff Bezos announces plan to step down as CEO, as Amazon’s Q4 revenue eclipses $100 billion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
(Reuters) — Amazon on Tuesday said founder Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman, as the company reported its... |
| 02.02.2021 | Jeff Bezos announces plan to step down as CEO, as Amazon’s Q4 revenue eclipses $100 billion | (Reuters) — Amazon on Tuesday said founder Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman, as the company reported its third consecutive record profit and quarterly sales above $100 billion for the first time.
The transitio... |
| 06.08.2020 | Bezos Sells Amazon Stock and Raises $3 Billion. That’s Nothing. | With the Nasdaq Composite up 23% in 2020 and flirting with 11,000, one person saw fit to take some money off the table: Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
The world’s richest man sold 1 million shares, raising more than $3 billion. It’s... |
| 18.02.2020 | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launches $10 billion fund to combat climate change | The Bezos Earth Fund would fund scientists, activists, NGOs -- any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world
Washington, February 18 His company is often criticized for its environmental record, bu... |
| 17.02.2020 | Jeff Bezos launches climate change fund with $10bn donation | Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has revealed he will be committing $10bn to the cause of fighting climate change, with the launch of the Bezos Earth Fund. |
| 17.02.2020 | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launches $10 billion fund to fight climate change | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Monday he is launching a $10 billion fund to fight climate change. The eCommerce giant CEO said in an Instagram post that the Bezos Earth Fund will fund “will fund scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort tha... |
| 16.01.2020 | Jeff Bezos announces investment of over USD 1 billion to digitize Indian sellers (Updated) | While Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos Wednesday announced over USD 1 billion investment—a gift for small and medium businesses of India—during his recent three-day trip in the country, it seemed that Indian physical retailers were unimpre... |
| 16.01.2020 | During Bezos visit, India minister says Amazon's $1 billion investment is no big favour | By Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Amazon AMZN.O hasn't done India any big favours by announcing a new $1 billion investment, its trade minister said on Thursday, laying bare tensions with the U.S. online re... |
| 15.01.2020 | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $1 bn investment for India by 2025 | Payal Ganguly 15 Jan, 2020
Seattle-headquartered ecommerce giant Amazon will invest $1 billion in India over the next six years to onboard and digitise MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) on the platform, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos ... |
| 13.09.2018 | Amazon’s Bezos Launches $2 Billion Fund To Help The Homeless
Amazon’s Bezos Launches $2 Billion Fund To Help The Homeless | (Bloomberg) -- Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, launched a $2 billion fund to help homeless families and create a network of nonprofit preschools in low-income communities.
pic.twitter.com/2GlgjztK1uâ Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) Sept... |
| 13.09.2018 | Jeff Bezos launches $2 billion fund to finance preschools and help homeless families | In a tweet this morning, Amazon founder (and the world’s richest man) Jeff Bezos announced that he and his wife were creating a $2 billion fund to finance a network of nonprofit preschools and donate funds to organizations helping homeless ... |
| 13.09.2018 | Amazon’s Jeff Bezos launches a $2 billion ‘Day One Fund’ to help homeless families and preschool education | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just announced the launch of his long-awaited philanthropic initiative, a new $2 billion fund for philanthropic efforts called “The Day One Fund” that will focus on efforts to help homeless families and improve prescho... |
| 13.09.2018 | Amazon’s Jeff Bezos launches $2 billion fund to help the homeless | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2016.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that he is giving $2 billion to start a fund that will open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to nonprofits that helps homel... |
| 11.09.2018 | Bezos and Gates back Wagestream’s £4.5m funding round | A big-name dream team that includes Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are behind the £4.5 million funding for payments start-up Wagestream.
A mock funeral for Wonga
Co-founded by Portman Wills and Peter Briffett, former COO of YPlan and CEO of Livi... |
| 27.10.2016 | Amazon's Bezos, Mayo Clinic back Unity in $116M Series B to slow diseases of aging | The science of extending human life span via therapeutics remains murky and widely debated. But that didn’t stop investors from plowing $116 million in a Series B round into Unity Biotechnology, which is targeting diseases related to aging.... |
| 06.05.2016 | Bezos Nets $670 Million With Spring Sale of Amazon Shares: Chart
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| 26.12.2014 | Jeff Bezos takes $8B personal finance hit | More On: jeff bezos
Elon Musk generates more online buzz than Rihanna, Britney Spears: report Midheaven in astrology: What it is and how to find it Amazon's new CEO claims warehouse worker injuries are 'misunderstood' Amazon ‘30 minute flyi... |
| 05.04.2013 | Jeff Bezos Leads $5 Million Investment In Henry Blodget’s Business Insider Blog Network | Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is leading a new $5 million investment in Business Insider, the blog network founded by Henry Blodget that focuses on business, tech and other news. The investment was mentioned in an internal memo fro... |
| 05.04.2013 | Jeff Bezos leads $5M investment in Business Insider | Relationship between Amazon and CEO Henry Blodget goes back 15 years
They always say to be nice to people while you're on your way up, so they will catch you when you are on your way down.
Back in 1998, when Henry Blodget was a senior Inter... |
| 19.02.2010 | Amazon: Bezos Sells 2 Million Shares, Raises $234.8 Million | Amazon.com (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos disclosed in an SEC filing that he sold 2 million shares of the company's stock on Monday and Tuesday, generating proceeds of $234.8 million. The shares were sold at prices ranging from $115.57 to $120.30 ea... |
| - | Amazon Will Invest $1 Bn In India To Digitise SMBs: Jeff Bezos | Amazon is all set to invest $1 Bn in India to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), said the company’s founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, on Wednesday, while speaking on the sidelines of the Amazon Smbhav event, which is being held at ... |
| - | EGEB: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announces $10B Bezos Earth Fund | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion in grants to explore new ways of tackling the climate crisis.
The US East Coast’s largest oil refinery is officially, legally dead.
Scientists at UMass Amherst ar... |
| - | Jeff Bezos backs AI-powered startup valued at $520M and working to rival Google | More On: artificial intelligence
Elvis Presley is coming back to life as an AI hologram in London show OpenAI offering media outlets as little as $1M to use news articles for AI models: report Could AI cause human extinction? Experts reveal... |
