The announcement marks a deeper foray into philanthropy for Bezos, whose fortune has soared to more than $160 billion thanks to his stake in Amazon, according to Forbes. Dominance in e-commerce and the nascent field of cloud computing has made Amazon the world’s second-most valuable public company.

Also, the Roomba pictured already has Alexa capabilities — and it costs $630 on Amazon. In a post on Instagram showing an Amazon Echo Plus haphazardly taped to an iRobot Roomba, Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, showed off the creation his kids had made, adding “I have no idea.

In more Amazon news because we just can't get enough, Jeff Bezos is rich… really, really rich… Not only is he the richest man in the world but he's richer than he's ever been before. According to Forbes, Bezos' net worth is now $141.9 billion. When the list was published in March his worth was […]

Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world but his massive fortune extends well beyond being being the founder and CEO of Amazon. Here's a look at how he invests his money.

Richard Branson says he’s months away from becoming an astronaut, and “neck and neck” with Jeff Bezos in the race to begin space tourism. Both Branson and Bezos’ respective companies, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, have completed successful test flights in recent weeks. In the billionaire space race, Richard Branson reckons he’s level with Amazon […]

"It’s just a miracle I got Wilma back."

Hundreds of Amazon workers blew whistles and banged drums on Tuesday as they protested against working conditions in Germany where founder Jeff Bezos was receiving a prize.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos still personally reads customer complaint emails sent to him, even though he doesn’t reply to many of them, he said during an on-stage interview on Friday. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a notorious habit of sending his executives an email which has a single character: a question mark. When the executive […]

Jeff Bezos made a personal early investment in Google in 1998, four years after founding Amazon as detailed in The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. Google went on to become one of Amazon’s top rivals.

General Electric is a great example. Former CEO Jack Welch went into the corporate history books as the best American CEO ever. In his book, Welch raved that from the early 2000s GE always beat Wall Street estimates.