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Elon Musk surpassed Jeff Bezos as the wealthiest person in the world for the first time on Thursday. “How strange,” Musk tweeted about the news. “Well, back to work.” Per CNN, a 5% rise in Tesla shares early Thursday increased Musk’s net worth by approximately $9.3 billion, bringing his total to about $190 billion. Bezos’ net worth currently sits […]
Americans broke into stores and took whatever they could in response to George Floyd’s gruesome murder and rampant police brutality. Many saw it as looting. Some saw it as protesting. Others viewed it as disrupters co-opting the peaceful demonstrations. But Ariel Atkins, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago, saw it as something more justifiable: reparations. […]
California is on fire, again. A hurricane is approaching the gulf. 2020 is one giant dumpster fire after another, and among all the loss and destruction, one man seems to be profiting off of all of it. That man is none other than our Iguana-eating pal Jeff Bezos. According to multiple reports, Bezos is now […]
Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has surpassed Bernard Arnault to become the world’s fourth richest person, Bloomberg reports. Musk cemented himself in the No. 4 spot after his net worth grew by $7.8 billion when shares of Tesla soared 11 percent on Monday. According to a proxy statement obtained by CNBC, Musk has a 20.8 percent stake in the company, which amounts to 38.7 […]
Over a dozen high-profile Twitter accounts were successfully hacked as part of a massive Bitcoin scam. On Wednesday afternoon, accounts belonging to figures like Kanye West, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden began sending out tweets that asked followers to send money to specific crypto addresses. All of the posts used […]
Jeff Bezos is the next tech giant to urge workers to observe Juneteenth. In a memo on Tuesday, Bezos urged Amazon employees to cancel all meetings on Friday to commemorate the day, CNBC reports. Juneteenth honors the emancipation of Black people from slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Granger read the […]
A former Amazon manager claims she was fired from the company after expressing concerns over discriminatory hiring practices and unequal pay. According to NBC News, 38-year-old Lisa McCarrick filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday, about three months after she was fired from her regional manager position. McCarrick claims that prior to her termination, a supervisor asked her to scour job […]
In the past month, Jeff Bezos was publicly shamed for donating $690,000 to Australian wildlife relief, and also was called out by his own employees over Amazon’s record on climate change. So, on Monday, the world’s richest man (with an estimated net worth of nearly $130 billion) openly shared a pledge to give $10 billion […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently shelled out $165 million to buy the Warner Estate in Beverly Hills, a sprawling nine-acre estate that belonged to media mogul David Geffen, the Wall Street Journal reports. It is now the most expensive property purchased in Los Angeles, surpassing the Chartwell in Bel-Air, which was bought for about $150 million in December by Lachlan Murdoch, son of News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Geffen […]
Jeff Bezos endured some mild roasting at the 92nd annual Academy Awards. During the ceremony’s opening monologue, comedians Chris Rock and Steve Martin singled out the Amazon CEO, making a number of jokes at his obscene wealth and highly publicized divorce. “He’s got cash. When he writes a check, the bank bounce,” Rock said. “Jeff Bezos is so rich, he got […]
