Jeff Bezos is betting consumers are so hooked on Amazon.com Inc.’s easy shopping and fast delivery that they won’t revolt even as negotiations with suppliers make it harder to find some items on the site. Amazon’s chief executive officer is gambling on shoppers like Paul Shi, 23, who signed up for the company’s Prime fast-shipping […]

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was flown by helicopter from a cruise ship in the Galapagos Islands for medical attention after suffering intense pain because of a kidney stone on Jan. 1, authorities said Saturday.

CHICAGO/QUITO (Reuters) – Amazon.com (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos was airlifted from a cruise ship by the Ecuadorean Navy after suffering a kidney stone attack in the Galapagos Islands on New Year’s Day. Kidney stones: zero stars,” Bezos said in an e-mail provided by Amazon in response to a Reuters request for comment. Ecuador’s navy said […]

You don’t need to love Amazon’s power-crazed founder Jeff Bezos to gasp at his genius and Nobody personifies the shallowness of modern Britain better than the preposterous Russell Brand.

The real point of Bezos’ latest surprise, a nascent plan for an Amazon Prime Air fleet, is more immediate than the unmanned ‘octocopters.’

MacKenzie Bezos’ scathing review of Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,” is a finely crafted love poem to her husband.

Jonathan Franzen attackiert Jeff Bezos. A wie Amazon und Apokalypse. Der Antichrist sei Jeff Bezos nicht, wohl aber einer der vier apokalyptischen Reiter: Mit diesem Vergleich leitet der Romancier Jonathan Franzen eine massive Kritik an Amazon ein.

Jonathan Franzen zufolge sollte man aber zumindest mal den Verweis “siehe Amazon” einfügen: “Jeff Bezos von Amazon mag zwar nicht der Antichrist sein, doch er sieht ziemlich nach einem der Reiter der Apokalpyse aus”, heißt es in einem aktuellen Essay …

The Guardian has posted a fascinating essay by Jonathan Franzen about the Internet, technology, today's literary culture and his new forthcoming book “The Kraus Project,” which includes new translations of work by Karl Kraus alongside annotations by …

Jeff Bezos has just shown how valuable one-of-a-kind newspaper properties can still be in the United States. The multibillionaire founder of online retailer Amazon.com Inc may have paid more than four …