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Jeff Bezos

The latest news on Jeff Bezos, founder, executive chairman and former president and CEO of Amazon and American business magnate, including tech and business news and updates.<br />

Born

12 Jan 1964

Industry

Technology, Business

Job Title

Businessman

Retail investors worry more about secondary share-price movements following the divorces of large or controlling shareholders in China's A-share market. Photo: Shutterstock

China stock market

Investors fret as China’s A-share divorces echo Bezos’ Amazon split

Retail investors worry about secondary share-price movements following equity transfers resulting from large shareholders’ divorces.

24 Jul 2026 - 3:27PM

China shipbuilding

China’s historic sea-based rocket recovery puts spotlight on local shipbuilder

13 Jul 2026 - 4:00PM

Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

Musk is world’s first trillionaire – what could he buy with all that money?

13 Jun 2026 - 3:08AMvideocam

Space

Nasa reveals Artemis III astronauts in next step towards moon landing

The crew will orbit Earth while practising docking their Orion capsule with two lunar landers.

10 Jun 2026 - 2:16PM

Space

Blue Origin rocket explodes on launch pad during engine-firing test

Jeff Bezos’ space venture hit with a major setback in New Glenn rocket ‘anomaly’.

29 May 2026 - 4:19PMvideocam

United States

US moon base plans revealed for what Nasa chief calls ‘the grand return’

US space agency outlines multiphase blueprint, awarding contracts for landers, buggies and drones.

27 May 2026 - 4:58PMvideocam

Fame and celebrity

Meet Away’s glam co-founder, Jen Rubio – a fashionista in the making

The co-founder of luggage manufacturer Away has been making fashion waves at Cannes and the Met Gala – so who is she exactly?

24 May 2026 - 6:00AM

US entrepreneur Jen Rubio arrives for the 2026 Met Gala celebrating Costume Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, on May 4. Photo: AFP

United States

SpaceX launches its biggest, most beefed-up Starship yet on test flight

CEO Musk hopes the rocket will get people to Mars one day, but he must first beat Bezos’ Blue Origin to help Nasa put astronauts on the moon.

23 May 2026 - 7:58AMvideocam

Icons and Influencers

Meet Monica Mosseri, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri’s wife and Met Gala date

The ex-Facebook employee met her future husband during her time with the company, has 3 sons – and doesn’t have a public Instagram account.

12 May 2026 - 6:00PM

Icons and Influencers

Meet OpenAI’s Charles Porch – who attended the Met Gala

Porch was one of a number of tech titans – from Jeff Bezos to Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sergey Brin – at the event this year.

8 May 2026 - 6:00PM

Charles Porch, vice-president of global creative partnerships at OpenAI, attended the 2026 Met Gala with his husband, Robert Denning. Photos: @kallmeyerofficial/Instagram, Getty Images via AFP

Celebrity style

Met Gala 2026: What did the stars wear to fashion’s biggest night?

The theme this year was Fashion is Art, and stars did not disappoint – Kylie Jenner wore Schiaparelli, and Blackpink’s Rosé stunned in Saint Laurent.

5 May 2026 - 4:28PM

Co-chairs Nicole Kidman, Lauren Sanchez Bezos and Anna Wintour at the 2026 Met Gala, the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, in New York. Photo: APA

Apple

Apple’s Tim Cook to step down as CEO, handing reins to John Ternus

After 15 years at the helm, Cook will transition to executive chairman, placing the company’s future in the hands of Apple’s hardware chief.

21 Apr 2026 - 10:21AM

United States

Nasa embarks on world’s first crewed moon mission in decades amid race with China

After repeated setbacks, Nasa is sending four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and further from Earth than ever before.

2 Apr 2026 - 2:51PMvideocam

Space

Nasa abandons orbital station, plans moon base and nuclear spacecraft

Nasa pivots resources to establish a long-term presence on the moon as the US races China.

25 Mar 2026 - 2:05PM

An earlier concept of a Nasa moon base. Photo: Nasa via TNS

United States

Nasa clears Artemis moon rocket for an April launch with 4 astronauts

After critical repairs, the rocket returns to the pad for humanity’s first crewed trip to the moon in over 50 years.

13 Mar 2026 - 1:24PM

Nasa’s next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule. Photo: Reuters

Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

Elon Musk on course to become world’s first trillionaire as wealth soars

The Tesla and SpaceX boss cements his status as the world’s wealthiest person after his fortune swelled by roughly US$500 billion over the past 12 months.

11 Mar 2026 - 1:17PM

Millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires

China reclaims title as world’s billionaire capital: Hurun Rich List

Global billionaire population hits record, led by Elon Musk, as China adds 287 names and AI emerges as a top wealth generator.

5 Mar 2026 - 6:30PM

United States

Nasa overhauls Artemis mission amid setbacks in moon race with China

The US space agency will essentially swap a planned moon landing for an additional test mission staged closer to Earth.

28 Feb 2026 - 1:50AMvideocam

Nasa’s Artemis II SLS moon rocket slowly rolls back towards the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre on Wednesday. Photo: AP

Science

10, 9, 8 ... rocket test puts China neck and neck with US in moon race

Space analysts call China’s successful test a ‘significant milestone’ as SpaceX and Blue Origin vie to provide US lunar lander.

12 Feb 2026 - 9:00PM

United States

Washington Post CEO steps down amid outcry over massive job cuts

Will Lewis was replaced by Jeff D’Onofrio, a former CEO of Tumblr who had joined the paper as chief financial officer last year.

8 Feb 2026 - 12:46PM

United States

Washington Post cutting hundreds of jobs, as US media faces Trump pressure

The newspaper, now owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, once helped bring down US President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

5 Feb 2026 - 6:21AM

The Washington Post office building is seen in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Paris Fashion Week: Haute Couture

Paris Haute Couture Week highlights from Chanel, Armani, Dior and Valentino

Nicole Kidman and Dua Lipa attended Matthieu Blazy’s feather-filled Chanel show, while Jonathan Anderson used florals for his Dior creations.

29 Jan 2026 - 11:48AM

Matthieu Blazy presented an exquisite show for Chanel during Paris Haute Couture Week on January 27. Photo: EPA

United States

Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs amid AI shift, post-pandemic restructuring

The restructuring and cost-cutting come despite soaring profits and strategic hiring in key areas.

28 Jan 2026 - 9:24PM

United States

Bezos’ Blue Origin to deploy thousands of satellites to rival Musk’s Starlink

The TeraWave plan coincides with a rush to build data centres in space that can meet the soaring demand for large-scale AI data processing.

22 Jan 2026 - 1:42PM

Space

2026 is a stellar year for supermoons and eclipses: what to look out for

The coming year is packed with cosmic events, from a ‘ring of fire’ eclipse to two six-planet line-ups to several supermoons.

31 Dec 2025 - 4:15PM

A “ring of fire” solar eclipse seen from Tahai, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile, in 2024. In 2026, another will occur in February, but over the Antarctic. Photo: AP

Fashion

Hanan Besovic on American Vogue and Duran Lantink’s Jean Paul Gaultier debut

Fashion influencer @ideservecouture doesn’t need your approval: ‘As long as I have Wi-fi, I can talk about fashion. I don’t need the degree’.

23 Dec 2025 - 2:00PM

Fashion commentator Hanan Besovic, better known as @ideservecouture on Instagram. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Science

Second reusable rocket recovery failure in a month puts China 10 years behind US

Chinese state-owned and commercial developers are racing to catch up on a decade of the technology’s deployment.

23 Dec 2025 - 7:15PMvideocam

United States

German engineer becomes first wheelchair user to blast into space

Michaela Benthaus had thought her dreams of being an astronaut were over after she was badly injured in a mountain bike accident.

21 Dec 2025 - 12:57AM

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