An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of methane emissions across the globe, only survived about 15 months in Earth’s orbit before meeting its untimely end. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which launched the satellite in March 2024, announced its demise on July […]
Good News! Jeff Bezos Is Married
Jeff Bezos is officially off the market. The Amazon founder married his fiancée, former TV anchor Lauren Sánchez, in a lavish ceremony on Friday, June 27, on the private island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, capping a multi-day spectacle of wealth, power, and controversy. Sánchez shared a radiant Instagram post of herself in […]
White House Panics After Report Claims Amazon Will Display Tariff Prices
White House officials held a press conference Tuesday morning to talk about the economy, as Americans get extremely nervous about the tariffs on China that are starting to cause prices to rise. And while Trump’s goons put on a brave face, it was clear they’re in panic mode. In fact, one question about Amazon really […]
New American EV Company Is Taking on Elon Musk With a $20,000 Truck
A new electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto unveiled its first vehicle at a splashy event on Thursday, and the company is coming out of the gates with a pickup truck that is everything Tesla’s Cybertruck is not. The Slate Truck, as it is called, promises to be a small electric pickup truck with 150 […]
David Zaslav Wants a Friendlier Relationship With Trump, Was Told to Be More Like Jeff Bezos
David Zaslav is looking for friends. Well, one friend, specifically: the guy who currently holds all of the levers of power, including ones that could significantly impact his business, Warner Bros. Discovery. According to a profile from New York Magazine, the head of WBD knows that his industry is on shaky ground and he’s looking […]
Bezos Finally Ready to Compete With Musk’s Starlink as Amazon’s Kuiper Prepares for Launch
Amazon may be quick to drop off a package at your doorstep, but it has taken years for the company to finally be ready to deliver its satellites to space. The Jeff Bezos-led company is gearing up for the launch of the first batch of its internet satellites to low Earth orbit, hoping for a […]
Jeff Bezos Admits the Internet Is Better Than the Washington Post’s OpEd Page
Amazon founder, Washington Post owner, and lizard devourer Jeff Bezos told the Post’s employees Wednesday morning that the internet was a better opinion section than their newspaper. Then he laid out his agenda for the future: He wants his op-ed writers to gas up the “free market” and “personal liberties,” two things very much under […]
Group Claims Washington Post Wouldn’t Run ‘Fire Elon Musk’ Advertisement
Tuesday’s edition of the Washington Post was supposed to feature a very straightforward message: Fire Elon Musk. Two advocacy groups teamed up to buy an ad placement that would have wrapped the paper in the call for Musk’s outing. But, according to one of the groups involved in the ad buy that spoke with The […]
Jeff Bezos’s Company (Amazon) Is Suing Washington State to Block His Newspaper (The Washington Post) From Reporting
Things are getting a little confusing when it comes to the billionaire’s various investments. Mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos owns so much stuff that his investments are effectively going to war with one another. Earlier this week, Bezos’s e-commerce company (Amazon) launched a lawsuit against a state government to retaliate against The Washington Post, which Bezos also […]
Big Tech Mafia Spotted in Church With Trump as New Era of Oligarchy Begins
U.S. oligarchs like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Apple CEO Tim Cook were all spotted sitting behind Donald Trump’s family at church Monday morning, just hours before the incoming president will be inaugurated. And it’s a great reminder that the U.S. is about to enter a frightening new era that begins […]