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Who knew that Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos chose his wife in part because he felt she could, if necessary, get him out of a third-world prison? Long after most other dotcom founders have moved on, Bezos, 44, remains one of the internet’s success stories. In 2007, his business pulled in revenue of nearly $15 billion, up 38 percent from the previous year. Amazon’s stock keeps rising, and Bezos becomes ever richer. His estimated worth is about $8 billion.
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via Wired News @ 23:14 22nd May
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Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment arm of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has invested $3 million in Kongregate, a 2-year-old social gaming site that taps into the "indie gaming" phenomenon. Kongregate co-founder and CEO Jeff Greer said Wednesday the investment will be used to develop display advertising for the free Web site that now offers more than 4,000 games from more than 1,600 independent developers around the world. San Francisco-based Kongregate competes with other gaming sites such as Miniclip and AddictingGames. Unlike rivals that typically pay licensing fees to developers, Greer said, it is developing a revenue-sharing plan to allow the developers of the most popular games greater compensation. Greer, former technical director of the gaming site Pogo, and his sister Emily, an interactive marketing executive, fou
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via SiliconValley.com @ 13:49 30th Apr
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Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment arm of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has invested $3 million in Kongregate, a 2-year-old social gaming site that taps into the "indie gaming" phenomenon. Kongregate co-founder and CEO Jeff Greer said Wednesday the investment will be used to develop display advertising for the free Web site that now offers more than 4,000 games from more than 1,600 independent developers around the world. San Francisco-based Kongregate competes with other gaming sites such as Miniclip and AddictingGames. Unlike rivals that typically pay licensing fees to developers, Greer said, it is developing a revenue-sharing plan to allow the developers of the most popular games greater compensation. Greer, former technical director of the gaming site Pogo, and his sister Emily, an interactive marketing executive, fou
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via SiliconValley.com @ 13:49 30th Apr
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Twitter, the popular microblogging service, announced that it has picked up some new investors: Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund.
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via New York Times @ 13:45 25th Jun
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Amazon is preparing an on-demand streaming video service for launch, CEO Jeff Bezos told attendees at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference. The company, which recently got into music and video downloads, will begin the streaming service in the next several weeks, Bezos said.
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via E-Commerce Times @ 18:42 29th May
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Walt Mossberg and Jeff Bezos are talking Kindle. No details on actual unit sales or downloads but Bezos does toss a news bone—the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent of the sales of the titles sold by Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Kindle and in print, That’s roughly 125,000 titles, which sounds like a lot (and is more than any other e-book).
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via PaidContent.org @ 18:26 28th May
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CARLSBAD, Calif.--Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos kicked off the morning proceedings here at D6 after a night of polite carousing by industry luminaries. During the interview with D co-host Walt Mossberg, Bezos announced a streaming-video service and explained his foray into hardware with the Kindle e-book reader.
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via CNET News.com @ 17:25 28th May
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has simplified the business of Amazon.com -- which has ventured into a whole new arena of computing services -- by breaking down its customers into three groups: consumers, third-party sellers and developers. Speaking at the company's annual meeting of shareholders Thursday, Bezos says that third-party sellers account for 30% of the units sold on Amazon.
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via Media Post @ 15:05 30th May
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Kongregate, the SF-based game community, has raised $3 million from Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions. The company, which allows developers to create and distribute their own games, says the funding will allow it to better scale the business and to improve the advertising side of the business. Last year, Kongregate announced a $5 million first round led by Greylock. That previous funding, the company said, would go in part towards bankrolling certain developers. Developers are paid a percentage of advertising revenue from the site, encouraging their participation. Release.
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via PaidContent.org @ 0:26 2nd May
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WILMINGTON, DE — (OfficialWire) — 05/10/08 -- Amazon ImagesBack in 1999—Amazon.com, Inc.—a fledgling start-up founded by Jeff Bezos set its sights at conquering the world, by hook or crook and in this case by lying. Bezos, who some have described as a "business genius", fancied the name "Amazon" for his planned online bookstore. He'd discovered a 'real-world' bookstore during his travels in Minneapolis—Amazon Bookstore—that was founded in 1970, but armed with sacks of shareholder cash and some gay-baiting tactics, Bezos thought he could muscle the name from under the feminist co-operative.
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via OfficialSpin @ 0:28 14th May
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Jeff Bezos, chairman, president and chief executive of Amazon.com, spoke to the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg about cloud computing, streaming movies and why books are like horses, with edited excerpts of the conversation published by the newspaper online.
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via The Bookseller @ 19:54 10th Jun
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Billionaire investor Jeff Bezos is putting $3 million behind San Francisco-based Kongregate, an online casual games site that draws its content from independent developers, the Red Herring reported.
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via New York Times @ 12:36 1st May
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Video of my interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at NYU is now here on Portfolio.com. You can watch a teaser below. And if you want to read the edited Q&A as it will appear in the June issue of Portfolio, that's here.
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via Conde Nast Portfolio @ 6:43 13th May
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In an interview with Walt Mossberg at D6, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, "We are working on a new version of video on demand, a for pay streaming service we will release in the next couple of weeks. The streaming service will start instantly and it's a la carte, for pay."
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via CNET News.com @ 12:24 28th May
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Home » Archives » 2008 » Jun » 27 » Bezos, Spark Put Twitter Back in the Black … for Now, Anyway...
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via MarketingVOX @ 20:29 29th Jun
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is on the verge of launching an a-la-carte pay-per-view video streaming service, Jeff Bezos told attendees at D6. The service is meant for a subset of people willing to pay to view sans ads. It’s an addition to the rental-purchase download options from Amazon Unbox.
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via PaidContent.org @ 18:26 28th May
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By Ben Charny Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CARLSBAD, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- Amazon.com (AMZN) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that Amazon's e-book reader, the Kindle, led to sales of about 8,000 e-books.
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via Easy Bourse @ 17:26 28th May
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Years after most of the original dotcoms went under, Jeff Bezos' Amazon is still growing. But now that it sells the Kindle and computing services, is it too far out of the box?
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via Conde Nast Portfolio @ 18:21 28th May
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(RTTNews) - Kongregate receives $3 mln Investment From Bezos Expeditions
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via Nasdaq @ 4:33 1st May
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