Bezos, Jeffrey Preston

(bā`zōs), 1964– American business executive and on-line retailing pioneer, b. Albuquerque, N.M., grad. Princeton (B.S.E., 1986). He worked in computer technology for several financial firms before founding (1994) Amazon.com, of which he is chairman and CEO. Headquartered in Seattle, Amazon.com grew from an Internet bookseller into an online emporium and one of the world's largest retailers, selling a wide variety of merchandise that is shipped from warehouses throughout the world; it also acts as a storefront for smaller retail businesses. The company has developed e-book readers (2007) and voice-activated personal assistant devices (2014), and also offers cloud computingcloud computing,
the delivery of shared computing resources over a network in a manner that makes accessing and configuring those resources convenient and largely independent of the use of a required location, device, and the like.
..... Click the link for more information. services. Bezos also founded (2000) Blue Origin, a company devoted to rocket development and space tourism, with an emphasis on reusable rockets that take off and land vertically. He bought the Washington Post in 2013. In 2019 he accused American Media, owner of the National Enquirer, of extortion and blackmail for threatening to print private photos of him and his mistress unless he ceased investigating how the company obtained their private text messages, which it had published earlier that year. Bezos is one of the wealthiest persons in the world.

Bibliography

See B. Stone, The Everything Store (2013).

单词	bezos, jeffrey preston
释义	Bezos, Jeffrey Preston Bezos, Jeffrey Preston (bā`zōs), 1964– American business executive and on-line retailing pioneer, b. Albuquerque, N.M., grad. Princeton (B.S.E., 1986). He worked in computer technology for several financial firms before founding (1994) Amazon.com, of which he is chairman and CEO. Headquartered in Seattle, Amazon.com grew from an Internet bookseller into an online emporium and one of the world's largest retailers, selling a wide variety of merchandise that is shipped from warehouses throughout the world; it also acts as a storefront for smaller retail businesses. The company has developed e-book readers (2007) and voice-activated personal assistant devices (2014), and also offers cloud computingcloud computing, the delivery of shared computing resources over a network in a manner that makes accessing and configuring those resources convenient and largely independent of the use of a required location, device, and the like. ..... Click the link for more information. services. Bezos also founded (2000) Blue Origin, a company devoted to rocket development and space tourism, with an emphasis on reusable rockets that take off and land vertically. He bought the Washington Post in 2013. In 2019 he accused American Media, owner of the National Enquirer, of extortion and blackmail for threatening to print private photos of him and his mistress unless he ceased investigating how the company obtained their private text messages, which it had published earlier that year. Bezos is one of the wealthiest persons in the world. Bibliography See B. Stone, The Everything Store (2013).
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