Bill Gates may have been helped in part by the Pentagon's decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft.
The funding will help the US e-tailer take on Flipkart as well as competition from the yet-to-be-launched e-com business of RIL
Shares of the biggest online retailer dropped 8.1 per cent to $1,637 in extended trading at 4:24 p.m. in New York
Amazon will buy 100,000 electric vans from a start-up and invest $100 million to restore forests and wetlands.
Republicans and Democrats alike on the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the market power and behavior of the big 4 companies
The move comes as part of a previously announced 10b5-1 trading plan. Bezos had previously said he plans to sell stock worth about $1 billion each year to fund his rocket company, Blue Origin
The numbers mean Bezos retains his pole position among the world's billionaires, while his former wife now ranks 23rd, according to Forbes data
Once those metals start hitting the market in large quantities, they're unlikely to be precious for much longer
MacKenzie, 49, an author, will become the world's fourth-richest woman, and has already promised to give away at least half of her fortune, the CNN business reported
It will be the 'Godzilla of all divorces', says lawyer as terms of one of the biggest wealth transfers are revealed.
By divorcing the world's richest person, the novelist and former accountant became the third-richest woman in the world and the wealthiest woman to sign onto the Giving Pledge
Anders Gustafsson, chief executive officer of Volvo Car's US unit, said the auto industry needs to shape up
Amazon.com Inc in October pledged to pay all of its warehouse workers at least $15 an hour
The divorce of Bezos and wife MacKenzie Bezos was finalised Thursday
Jeff Bezos will remain the largest shareholder of the e-commerce giant valued at almost $900 billion.
Michael Sanchez sold the billionaire's secrets to American Media, the Enquirer's publisher, said people familiar with the matter
The women, who belong to a group of more than 1,800 employees called the Momazonians, are scheduled to meet with senior managers
The wealthy aren't just at risk of losing money through hacks. Their brands, reputations - or, in family office parlance, "legacy" - also can be damaged
Last month, the supermarket tabloid reported that Bezos had an extramarital affair with a former news anchor
In the past two days alone, the biography of the world's richest man has taken more plot twists than a M Night Shyamalan flick