JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway have joined forces with Amazon to form a new healthcare company for all U.S. employees. Right now details are so sparse that there’s not even a name associated with the new company. However, this is big news for the industry and could possibly have ramifications not only for health insurance giants, but for also smaller tech companies that are open… Read More
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and a team of billionaires are launching a new healthcare business
Alexa, make health care better.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is finally publicly stepping into the healthcare industry. Amazon has teamed up with banking giant JPMorgan and holding company Berkshire Hathaway to start a healthcare business, the compani…
Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to build their own healthcare company
When you’re big enough and powerful enough, you don’t need to rely on the existing private healthcare providers out there to handle your employee medical needs. That’s what Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase have determined, and so they’re working together to build their own, fully independent employee healthcare company, which will exclusively offer benefits… Read More
Inside Amazon’s Spheres
Like most adventurous designs the Spheres are divisive: some call them an eyesore or attention-seeking behavior by Amazon, but others will admire the originality and intelligent use of space. Seattle is no stranger to odd architecture, and the Sp…
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Like most adventurous designs the Spheres are divisive: some call them an eyesore or attention-seeking behavior by Amazon, but others will admire the originality and intelligent use of space. Seattle is no stranger to odd architecture, and the Spheres seem to meld the mind-bending MoPop (formerly the EMP) with the multifaceted complexity of the Central Library.
View More Inside Amazon’s SpheresSorry LA, here’s where experts think Amazon will put its second headquarters
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The search for a site for Amazon’s second headquarters has been narrowed down to 20 cities — and according to several experts, the frontrunner among them is Atlanta.
But it has some formidable competitors.
“I think that Atlanta is still the top contender, although the field is narrowing,” said demographic expert Bert Sperling. In November 2017, back when there were more competitors, Sperling also had Atlanta as number one. But now, he believes “things might be changing.”
Fourteen of the 20 finalists — including New York City, Boston, and Miami — are in the Eastern time zone. “That’s pretty tough to argue with,” he said of their location on the East Coast. Read more…
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Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to fund college scholarships for Dreamers
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in the form of a scholarship grant to help 1,000 undocumented immigrant high school graduates with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status attend college. The Bezos gra…
View More Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to fund college scholarships for DreamersJeff Bezos is donating $33 million to help undocumented immigrants
Jeff Bezos is donating $33 million to a scholarship fund for “dreamers,” immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
That’s right: Amazon’s famously un-philanthropi…
Amazon shipped a bonkers number of items to Prime customers in 2017
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Somewhere deep within his superhero hideout (or supervillain lair, depending on you…
Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off
Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is really popular and a bunch of server farms Amazon runs generate more than $10 billion in revenue annually. Read More
Musk versus Bezos: Whose rocket is the biggest?
When it comes to rockets, size matters, and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos know it. The two billionaire entrepreneurs both own their own spaceflight companies.
Musk’s SpaceX is currently using its large Falcon 9 rocket to fly large payloads to orbit …
Watch Blue Origin’s ‘Mannequin Skywalker’ ride into space
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Behold one of history’s greatest partnerships: Man and mannequin, working together so that both may be joined in eternal embrace beyond the stars.
Earlier this week, we excitedly shared video of a successful rocket launch by Jeff Bezo’s spaceflight company Blue Origin. In that video, the company offers a peek at Blue Origin’s launch site as it sent its suborbital New Shepard rocket and capsule, which included a test dummy nicknamed “Mannequin Skywalker,” to the edge of space.
The rocket reached 322,032 feet above Earth’s surface before successfully returning to terra firma but now — BUT NOW! — we have video from inside the capsule showing Mannequin Skywalker’s trip in full. Read more…
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