On February 27, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that two unnamed people are paying his rocket company, SpaceX, to send them on an auto-piloted trip around the moon in 2018. Later The Washington Post revealed that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his own rocket company, Blue Origin, had circulated a 2020 moon colonization plan around Capitol Hill.
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Plans to Ship Packages to the Moon
Man hasn’t walked on moon since 4 decades, and NASA is planning to send astronauts to moon again. Looking at NASA’s interest, many companies want to invest in the project.
Wal-Mart is Acting More Like Amazon, But That May Not Help Its Shareholders
The world’s largest retailer has been making the right strategic moves, but the stock has still been a laggard. Here’s why that will continue.
Wal-Mart is Acting More Like Amazon, But That May Not Help Its Shareholders
The world’s largest retailer has been making the right strategic moves, but the stock has still been a laggard. Here’s why that will continue.
Amazon Ramps Up Investment in Rooftop Solar
Amazon has not always had the most sterling reputation when it comes to sustainability , transparency and environmental performance. The emissions from those packages alone are just the start, say the company’s critics.
Amazon lowers free shipping minimum to match Walmart 0:0
Amazon’s decision to discount a key fee to match Walmart has CEO Jeff Bezos sweating bullets over an online rival. But over Presidents Day weekend, the founder and chief executive of Amazon quietly lowered to $35 from $49 the minimum spend required to get free shipping.
SpaceX halts launch of rocket cargo from historic NASA pad
It’s the same pad where Americans flew to the moon almost a half-century ago, and where the shuttle program ended in 2011. Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket was prepared for launch to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center, on a renovated Space Shuttle launch pads The Falcon 9 rocket launch of the Dragon cargo ship was scheduled for 10:01 am from Cape Canaveral.
Why Amazon.com Inc. Is Investing Billions in India
The U.S. e-commerce leader has a unique opportunity in India, but taking advantage of it will continue to be a drain on the bottom line in the near term. India is the world’s second most populous country, its biggest democracy, and its sixth-biggest economy.
Inside Amazon’s robot-run supermarket that needs just 3 human workers 0:0
That’s what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to be thinking, as his Seattle-based web giant has contemplated a two-story, automated grocery store in which a staff of robots on the floor upstairs grabs and bags items for shoppers below. The ground level of the futuristic prototype – a supermarket-sized version of its recently unveiled “Amazon Go” convenience store , with a bigger layout that could span anywhere between 10,000 and 40,000 square feet – would be devoted to goods that shoppers typically like to touch, sources briefed on the plans told The Post.
National Space Society’s Space Settlement Summit Draws Industry…
An enormously successful first annual Space Settlement Summit hosted by the National Space Society occurred on January 10-11, 2017, in Santa Monica, California. With Elon Musk calling for the colonization of Mars, and Jeff Bezos looking forward to millions of people living and working in space, space settlement is an idea whose time has come.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos promises to fight Trump’s immigration ban – CNET
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and founder, said his company is going into action to counter President Trump’s controversial immigration order , which temporarily blocked refugees and citizens of seven countries from entering the US. In an email to employees Monday, Bezos said Amazon is working on a number of efforts, including exploring legislative measures and drafting a declaration of support for Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit against the immigration order .
3 Reasons Amazon.com Is Taking Over the World
If you’re wondering what the best stock of the past 20 years is, there’s a far-and-away winner. In other words, $1,000 invested at that time would today be worth more than $420,000.
Job loss can be a positive sign that the economy is growing
When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers and entire malls reduced to rubble? He promises protection to prevent foreigners from destroying manufacturing jobs by exporting to America things that Americans want to import. Does he know that one American company might be destroying more American jobs than China is? And that this supposed destruction is beneficial? The company is Amazon , created by Jeff Bezos.
George F. Will: Protectionism does not protect American workers
When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers and entire malls reduced to rubble? He promises “protection” to prevent foreigners from “destroying” manufacturing jobs by exporting to America things that Americans want to import. Does he know that one American company might be “destroying” more American jobs than China is? And that this supposed destruction is beneficial? The company is Amazon , created by Jeff Bezos.
Amazon is going to train thousands of veterans for jobs in the tech industry
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2016 revealed his wish to hire 25,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years, as well as to train 10,000 more in cloud computing skills. On Thursday, the Seattle-based company signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to move the plan forward with the creation of a registered apprenticeship program.
Amazon says it will create 100,000 jobs across the U.S.
Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to create more than 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. in the next 18 months, bringing its total workforce in the country to 280,000. Don’t expect Amazon to hire 100,000 coders, however.
Amazon commits to hiring 100,000 U.S. workers
While many of the jobs will be in warehouses, Amazon said the company will be looking for engineers and software developers in such areas as cloud computing and machine learning. “Innovation is one of our guiding principles at Amazon, and it’s created hundreds of thousands of American jobs,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in a statement .
Amazon says it will create 100,000 jobs in U.S. by 2018
Amazon says it will create 100,000 jobs in U.S. by 2018 The full-time positions will also provide full benefits, says the tech giant. Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: http://usat.ly/2io33Tb Amazon will create 100,000 full-time jobs in the United States with full benefits over the next 18 months, the tech giant announced in a statement Thursday.
Amazon Expects To Add 100,000 New Jobs By 2018
Amazon.com on Thursday said it would expand its full-time U.S.-based workforce to 280,000 by mid-2018, from 180,000 last year. Over the past five years, Amazon says it’s created more than 150,000 jobs in the U.S., growing its workforce from 30,000 in 2011.
Amazon says it will create 100,000 U.S. jobs
Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to create more than 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. in the next 18 months, bringing its total workforce in the country to 280,000. Don’t expect Amazon to hire 100,000 coders, however.
Amazon says it will create 100,000 jobs in U.S. by 2018 Read Story Brett Molina , Usa Today
Amazon will create 100,000 full-time jobs in the United States with full benefits over the next 18 months, the tech giant announced in a statement Thursday. The company says the positions are for workers across the country and across all skill and experience levels.
Seattle Space Race Exhibit to Feature Jeff Bezos’ Recovered Moon Rocket Engines
The Museum of Flight in Seattle will open a new exhibit devoted to the space race, as depicted in this artist’s rendering, on Saturday, May 20, 2017. A new museum exhibit will feature space exploration artifacts retrieved from both the surface of the moon and the ocean floor when it opens in Seattle.
Amazon dreams of drone delivery
Amazon.com scientists have dreamed up a scheme straight out of “Voltron,” a 1980s animated show for kids where several vehicles joined together to form an evil-fighting super-robot. In this case it’s a super-drone.