Jeff Bezos

Science

Behind The Search Engine That Powers Iris, The Android Siri Rival

11:30AM February 9, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

I’m sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t know about this, but he’s funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion and anti-evolution. It’s called ChaCha, and it powers Android’s most popular Siri competitor, Iris. More »

Science

Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard Space Ship Takes Off

5:00AM November 20, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

There hasn’t been much coming from Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, one of the companies NASA selected to develop future manned space vehicles. But this new video provides a glimpse of their New Shepard vehicle taking off and landing vertically. More »

Geek Out

Do Tech Exec Trading Cards Have Business Stats On The Back?

1:30AM October 27, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Was Steve Jobs the comeback player of the year in 2001? Was Jeff Bezos rookie of the year? Who won the batting title? What’s the equivalent of winning a Golden Glove award? Who is Ted Leonsis??? More »

News

Jeff Bezos Is Basically Lex Luthor

1:40AM October 22, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Remember that Google engineer who shit-talked his own company? He’s back! And this time he’s saying nice things — he’s had a personal run-in with Jeff Bezos, and is here to report just how insanely smart (and insane?) he is. More »

Gadgets

Watch Steve Bezos Unleash The Awesome New Kindles

7:20AM September 30, 2011 | Sam Biddle

There’s a reason we crowned Jeff Bezos the next Steve Jobs: he’s cool, composed, stylish and bald. And now you can see his ascension in motion, as he pitched the world on the new Kindle family. Nice jacket, Jeff. More »

Geek Out

Jeff Bezos Is The New Steve Jobs

4:00AM September 30, 2011 | Mat Honan

Jeff Bezos broke about a dozen legs yesterday. His presentation announcing Amazon’s new Kindle lineup was entertaining, memorable, and most of all, convincing. He sold it. And in doing so, made it pretty clear that he’s our next Steve Jobs. More »

Mobile

Jeff Bezos Wants To Put An Airbag On Your Smartphone

11:08PM August 12, 2011 | Sam Biddle

It must be nice being an enormous millionaire like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Maybe it affords free time to sit and cook up strange, fascinating patents like this one: tiny, tiny little smartphone airbags. They’re cute! Does this make sense? More »

Computing

Rumour: Amazon Tablet Launching As Early As August

5:30PM June 22, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

With Amazon’s big man Jeff Bezos himself confirming there’s a tablet in the works, we’ve moved on from hypothesising over the likelihood of one, and started guessing what’s inside. More »

Online

Amazon Goes Round Two With Lady Gaga’s Monstrous Little Deal

10:40PM May 26, 2011 | Brian Barrett

When Amazon tried to give the world Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters album for just a buck, what did it get in return? A giant customer service headache. But today, like Rocky Balboa before them, they’re climbing back into the ring. More »