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Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who founded Amazon and served as its CEO until 2021. He's also the founder of space company Blue Origin and was briefly the world's richest person.
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It's official - Bill and Melinda Gates are heading for divorce. But rather than despair that yet another power couple has ended things - some people are actually rejoicing. Now that the billionaire Microsoft founder is back on the market after nearly three decades, people really are shooting their shot.…
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A teenager who hacked the Twitter accounts of some of the most prominent figures in the world has been sentenced to three years in prison. According to The Guardian, 18-year-old hacker Graham Ivan Clark, who hails from Florida, infiltrated a number of Twitter accounts of major celebrities and organizations on…
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Jeff Bezos will be stepping down as CEO of Amazon later this year, it was announced on Tuesday (February 2). Bezos, 57, will remain only in his role as Executive Chair of the Amazon Board, he explained in a letter to employees of the e-commerce giant. "Being the CEO of…
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Yesterday, Elon Musk took to Twitter to offer $100 million towards a prize in a contest where the winner creates the "best carbon capture technology". In a message for his 42 million followers, he wrote: "Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology." In a follow-up tweet,…
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Elon Musk has appealed to the public for ways to donate his vast fortune after officially becoming the richest man in the world. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has just overtaken Amazon's Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of $188 billion (£138 billion), according to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. Take a…
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SpaceX's first major test flight of its Starship spacecraft ended with a huge fireball explosion upon its landing. However, CEO of the space transportation company, Elon Musk, has not been left deterred by the chaotic landing and insists that the flight "is the gateway to Mars". On Wednesday (December 9),…
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Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of e-commerce giant Amazon, has made the first donations as part of his Bezos Earth Fund, which aims to donate $10 billion to help fight against climate change. Bezos is not only the world's wealthiest man, but also the world's first person to become…
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A Seattle-based tech entrepreneur who took a million-dollar paycut in order to facilitate his employees being given a $70k minimum salary has revealed that his business has "tripled" as a result. Dan Price, of financial services company Gravity Payments cut his own salary by 90% in order to raise the…
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News has emerged today that Mark Zuckerberg has joined the centibillionaire club alongside Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates after his fortune surpassed $100 billion. The price of Facebook shares surged after the social media website announced that it would be launching a new platform to rival the video-sharing app TikTok.…
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Protestors have set up a guillotine outside the home of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, in Washington D.C. A guillotine is an apparatus designed to efficiently carry out executions by beheading. Its best known for its use in France, particularly during the French Revolution, where it was used to execute Marie…
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This Sunday marked the 92nd Academy Awards, and it was quite the night. Parasite became the first non-English language film in Oscar history to win Best Picture, with it also scooping up Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director for Bong Joon-ho. Then, of course, there were…
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Last night, millions of people up and down the country tuned in to watch the 92nd Academy Awards. The ceremony, which awards those in the film industry for their work over the past year saw South Korean black comedy, Parasite, making history by becoming the first ever foreign language film…
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The brother of Jeff Bezos' girlfriend is purportedly suing the Amazon CEO for defamation. Michael Sanchez, the sibling of Lauren Sanchez, is alleging that Bezos wrongfully accused him of leaking text messages and nude photos that formed part of an exposé in the National Enquirer. The material obtained by the…
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO and the world's richest man, has pledged $1 million to the Bushfire crisis in Australia. Boasting a fortune of over $116 million, Bezos took to Instagram this weekend to announce the donation. "Our hearts go out to all Australians as they cope with these devastating bushfires.…
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If you weren't born into abundant wealth, then you've probably played the lotto a few times hoping that it'll happen, right? Come on, a show of hands. I am still waiting for my parents to tell me, "Just kidding, we're actually secret billionaires, we were just trying to instill…
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[caption id="attachment_2608" align="aligncenter" width="760"] Credit: Getty Images[/caption] If you weren't born into abundant wealth, then you've probably played the lotto a few times hoping that it'll happen, right? Come on, a show of hands. I'm right there with you. I am still waiting for my parents to tell me, "Just…
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What would you buy if you were a billionaire? A sports car? A mansion? Maybe a private island. The possibilities, relatively speaking, are endless. However, one thing billionaires are now pumping their money into is immortality. The elixir of life, apparently, is out there. One just has to spread their…
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MacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has promised to give half of her $36 billion fortune to charity. After divorcing Bezos last year and gaining four per cent of the company in the settlement, MacKenzie has now joined the Giving Pledge - an initiative started by Warren…
