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Bezos Calls For Patent Reform
News Amazon.com's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, under fire for his company's patent policies, urged on Thursday that the United States overhaul the patent process to reflect the different nature of software innovation.
[March 10, 2000, 14:34]
Bezos' Space Exploration Company Sets Up Base Camp
News Blue Origin, the secretive space exploration company founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, on Thursday quietly announced plans to build a testing facility on a remote ranch in western Texas. The facility will be built on land owned by Bezos located...
[January 14, 2005, 15:10]
Amazon.com In Space!
Blog Jeff Bezos has released the first images of a test flight of his Blue Origin space vehicle. Writing on the Blue Origin.site, Bezos said that the group's goal of affordable space flight would be realised slowly and methodically: "Our first objective...
[January 4, 2007, 14:07]
Amazon To Expense Options
News Amazon.com will start accounting for stock options as a regular expense on future earnings reports, chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday. The e-commerce giant is making the change in part because it will allow the company more flexibility in...
[July 24, 2002, 7:48]
Amazon Chief: We'll Make $1bn A Quarter
News Amazon chief exective Jeff Bezos believes the company he founded eight years ago is on the verge of becoming a profit-making business with $4bn in annual revenues - and says that selling second-hand goods of all kinds will play a key role in that...
[October 8, 2002, 8:37]
1-Click At 6
Blog Six years ago, the NY Times hyped the launch of now-defunct BountyQuest, the patent reform lovechild of Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly. Last June, Amazon lobbyist Paul Misener invoked the ghost of BountyQuest, asking Congress to believe that the Bezos...
[November 1, 2006, 11:32]
The Day Ahead: Amazon's Number Games
News If you listen to chief executive Jeff Bezos' and chief financial officer Warren Jensen's presentations at the company's analyst briefing Tuesday, Amazons true competitors are retailing giants such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
[September 20, 2000, 11:33]
Amazon Strategy Shift May Threaten EBay
News Rashtchy quoted Bezos as saying that he wants people "to be able to find anything they are looking for. Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos and other executives met with bankers over the weekend in Seattle and outlined an expansion plan for the...
[May 15, 2002, 9:09]
Amazon Defends Used Book Sales
News In a letter to merchants who sell used books online through Amazon, chief executive Jeff Bezos defended the company's policy, saying that "Amazon.com is now, and has always been, supportive of and good for authors.
[April 16, 2002, 14:01]
Net And Wireless: Will They Click?
News Carriers don't want to be just a pipe or just the infrastructure anymore," Bezos said. Today our revenues from wireless are minimal, but in a few years it will be mostly from wireless," Bezos said. If you look five to 10 years out, almost all of e...
[March 6, 2000, 11:14]
Amazon Hits 2Q Estimates
News On a warm fuzzy conference call that began with a recounting of amusing Amazon milestones in the last four years, CEO Jeff Bezos said the company's big investment in distribution would continue. Bezos reiterated his "err on the side of overcapacity...
[July 22, 1999, 9:04]
The Day Ahead: Let's Hope Amazon's PR Staff Is Paid Well
News Chief executive Jeff Bezos spouted off in an interview with Reuters. Let's read between the lines on a few Bezos excerpts . That belief is incorrect," said Bezos when asked if the Seattle-based company's business model was flawed and it was...
[October 10, 2000, 11:50]
Rumours: Segway Isn't Really Ginger
News The book is yet to hit the shelves, but back in January 2001 Kemper let it be known that such figures as Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos believed the invention would radically change the way we live. Since then ginger-chat site administrator 'Spliff' has...
[August 19, 2002, 15:32]
Amazon.com Beats 3Q Estimates But Sees Lower Margins Ahead
News In the third quarter, we announced our new Toys Store, which was immediately recognized by both Forrester Research and MSNBC as the best toy store on the Internet," said CEO Jeff Bezos in a prepared release.
[October 28, 1999, 8:16]
The Day Ahead: Amazon Learns New Word (profit), Wall Street Cheers
News Bezos also said margins would improve substantially. And CEO Jeff Bezos actually mentioned the "P" word for profits. Bezos previously acted like profits were the scourge of humanity. We have reached a tipping point in the business," said Bezos.
[February 3, 2000, 11:45]
PC Expo 2000 Roundup
News Bubbly Bezos: 'Almost break-even' Debt worries sank Amazon.com's stock last week. Still, CEO Jeff Bezos could only see the silver lining at PC Expo. Learn all there is to know about everything from personalisation to xDSL; ASPs to e-marketplaces...
[June 27, 2000, 9:47]
Google Not Going To Enter Browser Market
News Many executives from the Internet's early days (or version 1.0 as the conference would have it) -- Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Broadcast.com's Mark Cuban, Idealab's Bill Gross -- were here to give their visions of the future and new technologies that...
[October 6, 2004, 9:15]
Amazon.com Misses Estimates But Sets Profit Roadmap
News Bezos said margins would improve substantially. Bezos cited six goals: boost customer count, pursue operational excellence, continue to expand, expand internationally, partner with other e-tailers, and "drive toward profitability in each and every...
[February 3, 2000, 9:43]
TechTrader: Amazon.com Beats Q3 Estimates
News In the third quarter, we announced our new Toys Store, which was immediately recognized by both Forrester Research and MSNBC as the best toy store on the Internet," said CEO Jeff Bezos in a prepared release.
[October 28, 1999, 12:00]
Rank Of Tech Billionaires Dwindled In 2000
News Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com, -$6.9bn Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos, Time magazine's 1999 "Person of the Year", watched his personal wealth shrink by 78 percent, from $8.9bn to $1.9bn. At least seven executives who could call themselves...
[January 2, 2001, 13:47]
