Jeff Bezos

Bezos-backed consortium acquired 38% of Liverpool, not the third initially reported

A consortium including Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has acquired approximately 38 percent of Liverpool Football Club from Fenway Sports Group, marking the billionaire's first foray into professional sports ownership and one of the largest deals in football history.

Bezos consortium agrees to buy 30% Liverpool stake in £1.5bn deal

Fenway Sports Group announced Friday that it has reached a "definitive agreement" to sell approximately 30% of Liverpool Football Club to 1892 Holdings, a consortium that includes Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and British-Indian entrepreneur…

Bezos-led consortium closes in on $6B Liverpool stake

A consortium that includes Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is closing in on a deal to acquire roughly one-third of Liverpool Football Club from Fenway Sports Group, in a transaction that would value the…

Bezos, Saverin close in on $6B Liverpool stake

A consortium featuring Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is closing in on a deal to acquire roughly one-third of Liverpool Football Club, in a transaction that would value the Premier League club at approximately…

Bezos reclaims third-richest spot as Amazon surges on blowout earnings

Jeff Bezos vaulted back into third place on the world's wealth rankings on Friday after Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. shares surged more than 14%, their largest single-day gain in over four years. The rally, which followed a quarterly earnings report that…

Bezos pushes AI-focused Prime Video redesign

Jeff Bezos is personally championing a sweeping overhaul of Amazon's Amazon.com, Inc. Prime Video streaming service, an initiative internally codenamed "Lighthouse" that aims to turn the platform into a showcase for the company's massive artificial intelligence investments, Reuters reported on…

Blue Origin raising $10B in first outside funding round

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10 billion in its first-ever outside funding round, valuing the rocket company at $130 billion pre-money, according to a report by the New York Times DealBook on Tuesday. The deal marks a watershed moment…

Bezos says colonizing the Moon is key to saving Earth

Jeff Bezos took the stage at VivaTech in Paris on Wednesday to argue that colonizing the Moon is not a detour from saving Earth but the only way to accomplish it, framing Blue Origin's lunar ambitions as both environmentally necessary…

Bezos’ AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation

Jeff Bezos and co-CEO Vik Bajaj revealed on Thursday that their industrial AI startup, Project Prometheus, has closed a $12 billion Series B funding round valuing the company at approximately $41 billion — making it one of the largest and…

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during test at Cape Canaveral

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday evening, sending a fireball into the night sky and rattling homes across the surrounding area. No injuries were reported.