Jeff Bezos

A flurry of Seattle biotech news kept us very busy around here right before the holiday. -The parents of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos made one of the largest private donations ever to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center this week,...

In this article: Seattle, Dendreon, Cancer, Nasdaq, Astellas Pharma, and FDA

...to build from scratch their coverage of the Internet, starting with Netscape's IPO. It was phenomenal to meet those people (Jerry Yang, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen) when meeting them meant hanging out on couches at tiny conferences and talking...

In this article: BusinessWeek, Netscape, Loudoun Valley High School, Twitter, Facebook, Newsweek, and IBM

...by Virginia Smyth; researched by Elizabeth Economou) >>Read Seattle magazine's entire list of 2009's Most Influential people. Jeff Bezos is used to skeptics. After all, in the early days when he operated his online bookstore out of a...

In this article: Amazon.com, Seattle, Jamie Pedersen, Huskies, and NCAA

...tax in most states, a crucial advantage that companies like Wal-Mart, and their lobbyists, are trying to eliminate. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is fond of saying that retailing is a big market with room for many winners. But for Dias, from GSI...

In this article: Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Recession, GSI Commerce, Xbox 360, Walmart, and ChannelAdvisor

The parents of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos are donating $10 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for research into using the immune system to cure cancer. Jackie and Mike Bezos are giving a challenge grant to...

In this article: Cancer, Amazon.com, Seattle, All rights reserved, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

...future plans Eric Engleman on Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:39pm PST A veil of secrecy has surrounded Blue Origin - Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos' project to build a rocket to take paying customers into space. Now the company is giving a hint...

In this article: Blue Origin, Amazon.com, Outsourcing, Cloud computing, SpaceX, Puget Sound Business Journal, PayPal, and Virgin Galactic

...November 23, 2009, 7:56am PST Bezos family gives $10M to Hutchinson cancer center The family of Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has given $10 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to fund immunotherapy research that...

In this article: Cancer, Amazon.com, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Nasdaq, and Seattle

Bezos Family Pledges $10M to the "Hutch" for Next-Generation Cancer Therapies The parents of Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos have pledged a $10 million donation to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with an eye...

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...to around $9 at both Amazon and Wal-Mart's sites -- a move widely seen as a bid by Wal-Mart to beat back Amazon, whose CEO Jeff Bezos has long dreamed of dominating Internet retailing the way Wal-Mart stores have outpaced their...

In this article: Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, Recession, Under the Dome, Stephen King, Roman Polanski, and US

Amazon to ship electronic reading device north of the border Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos holds the new Kindle 2 electronic reader at a news conference in New York, where the device was introduced, February 9, 2009. MIKE...

In this article: Amazon.com, Canada, Paid content, New York, and U.S.