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News Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, who recorded $4.6bn, slightly more than last year, dropped from number 38 to 42. Tech industry billionaires loomed large in Forbes' latest list of the wealthiest people in the US, with Bill Gates and his $51bn fortune again... [27 Sep 2005]
Leader: Agenda Setters 2005 - return of the dot-coms
Leader Joined by four other dot-com execs - Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, eBay's Meg Whitman and Jeff Skoll, and Yahoo! Once again the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll of tech's most influential individuals highlights a number of key trends in the IT industry... [27 Sep 2005]
Google's Schmidt named the top man in tech
News It's a return of the dot-coms with winner Schmidt joined by a handful of internet company bosses who have been absent from the list in recent years, including Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos (21), eBay CEO Meg Whitman (26) and Yahoo! [27 Sep 2005]
Leader: Agenda Setters 2005 - return of the dot-coms
AS Analysis Joined by four other dot-com execs - Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, eBay's Meg Whitman and Jeff Skoll, and Yahoo! Once again the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll of tech's most influential individuals highlights a number of key trends in the IT industry... [26 Sep 2005]
Jeff Bezos
AS Profile Jeff Bezos claims a spot on the Agenda Setters list for steering the e-tailer through the dot-com bust and moving it onto bigger and better things. The Agenda Setters panel praises Bezos for creating a "lasting" business and building trust with... [23 Sep 2005]
Gates gives a glimpse of Office 12
News Chairman Bill Gates is set to discuss the next version of Office in a speech on Thursday at the company's CEO Summit, which is expected to be attended by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Best Buy's Brad Anderson, as well as many other prominent chief... [19 May 2005]
Are Europeans too scared to be entrepreneurs?
News But European leaders are trying to encourage more citizens to become like Jeff Bezos, Jerry Yang or Sergey Brin. The next Amazon.com, Yahoo or Google appears less likely to come from Europe than the United States, according to a new study on... [19 Jan 2005]
Amazon's Bezos reaches for the stars
News Blue Origin, the secretive space exploration company founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, on Thursday quietly announced plans to build a testing facility on a remote ranch in western Texas. The facility will be built on land owned by Bezos located... [14 Jan 2005]
Google dampens browser speculation
News Many executives from the internet's early days - Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Broadcast.com's Mark Cuban, Idealab's Bill Gross - were here to give their visions of the future and new technologies that will harken it. [06 Oct 2004]
Gates tops rich list for 11th year running
News The youngest on the list, they are only just behind number 38, the long-established Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Bill Gates may not have had much of a pay rise this year but he did manage to add $2bn to his fortune, to bring it to $48bn and stay on top of... [24 Sep 2004]
Amazon sued over shopping carts
News Just one year later Amazon also came under heavy fire for its own 'One-click' patent, which sparked a boycott of Amazon.com and prompted so many letters of complaint that chief executive Jeff Bezos was prompted to write an open letter calling for... [27 Feb 2004]
Happy birthday Bezos you 'old fart'
News Jeff Bezos may have achieved more in 40 years than most manage in a lifetime, but it appears he's still not too rich or powerful to enjoy a jolly jape with his colleagues. Bezos was yesterday celebrating his 40th birthday and pranksters within the... [13 Jan 2004]
Amazon continues to grow in Q3
News However, Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, remain laid back about how high the company would like this figure to reach, despite being quizzed by the media and analysts. Amazon.com has turned in another set of impressive quarterly figures, growing... [22 Oct 2003]
Jobs beats Gates as most important man in tech
News While the dot-com boom may seem a long time ago now, this year sees the inclusion of new and old business creators, the likes of easyGroup's Stelios Haji-Ioannou at 27, Jeff Bezos - on for a fourth consecutive year - at 32, salesforce.com's Marc... [02 Oct 2003]
Small businesses to be hit by big fees
News Amazon.com was much criticised for chief executive Jeff Bezos' decision to patent the company's "one click" method for speeding up an online purchase. Richard Stallman, the well-known Free Software guru, once compared developing software to writing... [28 Aug 2003]
