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Amazon’s pay rise helps to address growing discontent at working conditions in its network of logistics warehouses. Photograph: AP

Amazon’s pay rise: perfect PR or leading a reluctant pack?

Technology
October 3, 2018, 17:19

A few hours after Amazon announced it would raise the minimum wage for its US staff to $15 (€13) an hour, chief executive Jeff Bezos appeared on stage(...)

Jeff Bezos’ stake in Amazon is worth about $160 billion. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to start $2bn charitable fund

Business
September 13, 2018, 21:29

Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has said he is giving $2 billion (€1.71 billion) to start a fund that will open pre-schools in low-incom(...)

epa06042063 Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, during the conference 'The Future of Newspapers' with the leading world players in the information industry, on the occasion of the 150 years of Italian newspaper 'La Stampa' in Turin, Italy, 21 June 2017. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MARCO

Jeff Bezos moved into philanthropy with a single tweet - followed by 42,000 more

Companies
June 22, 2017, 17:36

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has remained largely invisible in the world of philanthropy. That changed last week in a single tweet - followed by 42,000 more. (...)

Bezos bestie: the robot from Hankook Mirae Technology he piloted at MARS 2017.

Bezos pilots robot, feels like Sigourney Weaver

Technology
March 23, 2017, 04:34

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has revealed the final part of his plan to take over the world: from inside a giant robot that resembles the Caterpi(...)