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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]
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. Jeff Bezos also told Reuters in an interview that he expected the upcoming and important Christmas season to be a strong one for Amazon and companies like his.
[October 10, 2000, 11:50]
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]
Amazon unveils the big-screen Kindle DX
News Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos unveiled the much-anticipated large-screen Kindle e-reader in a lecture hall on Wednesday at New York's Pace University. In addition to launching the new device, Jeff Bezos hailed the rise of the Kindle phenomenon...
[May 7, 2009, 9:45]
Amazon ups the ante for digitisation
News Amazon.com and its always-precise chief executive Jeff Bezos, very little gets left to chance. In an interview with ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, Bezos repeatedly hammered home the point that Amazon is working with the permission and...
[November 10, 2005, 17:15]
Amazon boss apologises for Kindle deletions
News Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos issued an apology on Thursday to customers over the company's surprise deletion of a number of books that Kindle owners had purchased and downloaded to their devices.
[July 24, 2009, 15:17]
Amazon introduces its Kindle e-reader
News Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos on Monday unveiled the company's e-book reader, the Kindle — the latest entry into the long unspectacular market for electronic handheld devices for reading material ranging from novels to newspapers.
[November 21, 2007, 12:01]
Amazon to launch Kindle e-book reader
News Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos is expected to be present for the announcement. But the source said that Bezos was ultimately unfazed, and told people he wanted the Kindle to have the kinks ironed out before it was offered to consumers.
[November 16, 2007, 8:26]
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 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]
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]
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, AmazonÂ’s true competitors are retailing giants such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
[September 20, 2000, 11:33]
Amazon strategy shift may threaten eBay
News Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos and other executives met with bankers over the weekend in Seattle and outlined an expansion plan for the company's Marketplace and Services units, according to Safa Rashtchy, an analyst with US Bancorp Piper...
[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 If you look five to 10 years out, almost all of e-commerce will be on wireless devices," said Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, which counts 17 million customers. Carriers don't want to be just a pipe or just the infrastructure...
[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]
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]
Young, rich and wired
News Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos comes in second at $5.74bn, and Dell's chief rival Gateway CEO Ted Waitt is third, at $5.44bn. isn't the only firm to have two guys in the top ten -- eBay vice president Jeff Skoll came in at number 10 with a net worth of...
[September 6, 1999, 14:03]
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]
