A gun-selling venture backed by Donald Trump Jr. had an abysmal opening day on Wall Street. GrabAGun—an online firearms marketplace that Don Jr.’s business partner, Omeed Malik, has described as the “Amazon of guns”—opened on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. But Trump and Malik’s jubilant chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A! at the opening bell turned…
Jeff Bezos’ trajectory from a rented Bellevue garage to the helm of a $2.4 trillion enterprise is now business legend. In the summer of 1994, Jeff Bezos left a fledgling Wall Street career and moved to Bellevue, Washington, with a vision: to build an online bookstore that could one day sell everything. The first headquarters…
Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney is ready to branch out into entrepreneurship. She’s about to launch her own line of lingerie, and not alone: according to a source quoted in US Weekly the project has the financial backing of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. “This has been a huge project for her and something she’s been…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced the appointment of longtime Amazon executive Tom Taylor as the new President and CEO of the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund. Taylor retired from Amazon in October 2022 after more than two decades of working at the tech giant. Taylor will now lead the philanthropic endeavour which works of…
Life in the corner office might be full of ups and downs — but when it comes to the multimillion-dollar pay packages corporate chiefs get, it’s mostly up. WWD’s annual pay study looked at nearly 50 of the largest publicly traded companies with fashion-industry ties and found 25 executives who logged pay packages valued at…
In May, Amazon (AMZN) announced its newest step forward in automation technology: a robot called Vulcan that is “changing the way we operate.” On Thursday, shares of Teradyne (TER), the company supplying one of the robot’s key features — its limbs — surged after a report revealed its involvement in Amazon’s futuristic “robot with a…
When Steve Huynh was a principal engineer at Amazon, meetings began with a “study hall.” Amazon had a “reading culture” even among engineers, Huynh recently told the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, speaking of his time at the tech giant. Employees frequently drafted six-page memos, he said, which they shared with the company to update progress and…
Nvidia is currently the most valuable company in the world with a market capitalization of nearly $4 trillion. While Microsoft trails Nvidia by a small margin, both companies are facing rising competition in their core businesses — making future growth less predictable. Amazon is still in the early phases of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) across…
Amazon founder and the world’s fourth richest person, Jeff Bezos, sold 3.4 million Amazon shares worth £568.85 million ($768.9 million) based on the Thursday closing price of £164.43 ($222.26) per share. The stock sale was completed between 3rd and 9th July across four trades, according to the latest filings with the US Securities and Exchange…
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