Bezos to give away most of $US124 billion wealth during lifetime – CNN
Reuters Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos will give away a majority of his $US124 billion wealth during his lifetime, the billionaire told CNN in an interview on Monday. Without providing further details, Bezos said he and partner journalist-turned-philanthropist Lauren Sánchez were “building the capacity to be able to give away this money”. Amazon CEO Jeff […]
At US cathedral, Jeff Bezos is quizzed on “emotional” rocket ride and economics of space flight
Washington DC, US RNS Jeff Bezos was a surprise guest at a Washington National Cathedral forum on “Our Future in Space” on Wednesday evening, giving an interviewer the chance to grill the Amazon founder and space flight entrepreneur about extraterrestrial colonies, alien life and his own wealth. Cathedral dean the Very Rev Randolph Marshall Hollerith […]
Wally Funk’s church celebrates her Blue Origin spaceflight: “What an inspiration she’s been to us all”
RNS Six decades after being denied a spot in the space program by NASA because of her gender, 82-year-old Wally Funk finally reached space aboard the first human flight of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space tourism venture, Blue Origin. Few people were more excited for Funk than her fellow congregants at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church […]
Faith groups among those granted money from US billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
RNS A number of faith-based groups were among the nearly 300 recipients of $US2.7 billion in grants announced Tuesday by billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to organizsations addressing a range of social issues. Scott, who was formerly married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, wrote in a Medium post that she and her husband, Dan Jewett, worked with researchers, […]
UN food chief urges Bezos, other billionaires to step up to help world’s starving
United NationsReuters UN food chief David Beasley called on the world’s billionaires on Thursday to step up to help save some 30 million people he said are at risk of dying if they don’t receive help from the World Food Programme. Globally some 270 million people were headed toward the brink of starvation and WFP […]
ORIGINS: AMAZON HAS TURNED 25 – HERE’S A LOOK BACK AT HOW IT CHANGED THE WORLD
In an article first published on The Conversation, VENKATESH SHANKAR, of Texas A&M University, looks at the rise of a global giant – and how it changed the way we shop…
Wealth of billionaires grows by $US2.5 billion a day while 3.4 billion live on less than $US5.50 a day – Oxfam report
The fortunes of the world’s 2,208 billionaires grew by $US2.5 billion a day last year while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 per cent. The figures – which also show some 3.4 billion people are now living on less than $US5.50 a day […]