The US Air Force on Wednesday said that it had awarded a total $2.3 billion in contracts to develop rocket launch systems for national security missions. The awards go to Amazon.

Bezos' Blue Origin and others get $2.3 billion in US Air Force rocket contracts

Jeff Bezos' space company is in the conceptual design phase of a large lunar lander that it says will provide reusable access to the moon's surface and its resources, Blue Origin said on Wednesday.

Jeff Bezos' space company designing large lunar lander

Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it would raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour for US employees from next month, seeking to head off criticism of working conditions at the world's second most valuable company.

Amazon raises minimum wage to $15, urges rivals to follow

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, has won a contract to supply engines for United Launch Alliance's massive Vulcan rocket, the companies said on Thursday.

Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin to supply engines for US Vulcan rocket

Amazon opens a new retail store in New York on Thursday selling a range of products from the online colossus that get top ratings from customers. The brick-and-mortar outlet in New York's trendy Soho neighbourhood will sell consumer electronics, kitchen, home, toys, books and games, and "chose only the products that customers have rated 4 stars and above, or are top sellers, or are new and trending," Amazon said in a statement.

Amazon opens new '4-star' retail store in New York

The rocket has a 100 kg payload, significantly it uses energy-saving technology instead of internet power.

Watch: In a first, China launches privately owned rocket, eyes space station in 2022

Looks like Emerson's classic quote is the mantra Bezos lives by and closely follows to achieve all the success that he now sits on

Jeff Bezos draws inspiration from Emerson's quote, shares it on Twitter

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's intention to colonise the Red Planet is not unknown to the world

Jeff Bezos to spend 'majority of his fortune' getting into space  

'Probably in the next five years groceries and consumables would be more than half of our business,' said Amit Agarwal, the head of Amazon India

Amazon thinks it may make its biggest profit in India from grocery sales

American singer Ciara replied to Bezos on Instagram saying that his 'pancakes were insane'

World's richest man Jeff Bezos makes 'insane' pancakes

Amazon hasn't disclosed its payment structure with UPS and did not react on the recent Trump tweets against the company.

Watch: Trump tweets wipe out billions in Amazon shares

US President Donald Trump on Saturday resumed his attacks against online retailing giant Amazon and accused The Washington Post, owned by Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, of lobbying for the company

Trump targets Amazon again in new tweets

US President Donald Trump took aim Wednesday at Amazon, claiming the US online giant pays too little in taxes and hurts other retailers

Trump assails Amazon on taxes, retail competition

Bezos was at Amazon's annual robotics conference that began on Monday

Jeff Bezos takes a walk with his 'new dog' at tech conference 

WION Morning News Brief, March 10, 2018

With Amazon's share price up nearly 60 percent during the past year, the personal wealth of the company's 54-year-old founder has doubled to more than $110 billion

Jeff Bezos rockets to richest person on the planet

WION Morning News Brief, March 7, 2018

Bezos, along with other tech elites like PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, is known to have invested in a startup called Unity Biotechnology that works in the field of anti-ageing

Quest for immortality: Why Silicon Valley bigwigs are spending billions

Bezos is currently worth a whopping $105 bn, thanks to the skyrocketing value of Amazon shares

Forget Bitcoin millionaires; Bezos, Gates may become trillionaires

Bezos now stands ahead of Microsoft's Bill Gates who's worth $93.3 billion and stands second on the list

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos overtakes Bill Gates to become richest man, worth $105 billion

Amazon shares went up 2% this week due to Black Friday sales

World's richest man Jeff Bezos now worth $100 billion

Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has unseated fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, profiting from the e-commerce company's meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of $90.6 billion

Amazon's Jeff Bezos becomes world's richest: Forbes

Bezos became the world's richest man as Amazon.com Inc shares surged ahead of the online retailer?s earnings report

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's richest man: Report

The app will be different from the regular messaging apps as it will connect to people even without their phone numbers

Now, Amazon eyes messaging app

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