Billionaire Bezos' superyacht sparks bridge row

 

There are plans to take apart, and then reassemble, a historic bridge in Rotterdam to allow a superyacht built for billionaire Jeff Bezos to leave a shipyard.

The luxury yacht, linked to the world's richest man, is being built by Dutch firm Oceanco. The vessel is reported to be 127m long and too tall to fit through the Koningshaven Bridge.

Rotterdam's mayor has denied any decision has been made to dismantle the bridge, saying he has not received a request.

How billionaires pay less tax than you

 Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires employ special strategies to avoid paying income tax, say experts.

The 'Buy Borrow Die' mantra is a common practice among many of the ultra-wealthy.

Congresswoman plays emotional account of small business owner to Jeff Bezos

In a historic congressional antitrust hearing, Democrat Lucy McBath played a recording to Amazon chief Jeff Bezos of the testimony of a bookseller who sold books via Amazon. The businesswoman had felt her sales were throttled by the tech giant.

In the recording, the seller pleads with Bezos to help her company, which supports 14 people. Bezos responded by saying he was surprised by the anecdote and expressed wanting to meet the woman

Amazon's Jeff Bezos: The richest person in the world - BBC News

His wealth is now estimated to be $171bn (£137bn), having made tens of billions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Amazon, Jeff Bezos and collecting data | DW Documentary

Amazon is a machine that can simultaneously observe, compare and analyze more than 300 million people worldwide. The company is not just a marketplace, market supervisor and provider of more and more services and consumer items - it also controls all the data streams in this market and uses them to its own benefit. Who suspects that a single click on an Amazon page will forward information to the company that fills a printed DIN-A-4 page? A conversation with Alexa, watching a streaming offer on Amazon-Prime, ordering vegetables via Amazon-Fresh - all this put together creates a whole library of information about every customer. The group collects everything - it just won’t reveal what conclusions it draws from it. What would be possible if data from other, new business areas were added? In the USA, Amazon is also active in the health and insurance sectors, and police officers are using its facial recognition software to search for wanted persons.

Washington Post Sold to Jeff Bezos of Amazon

The newspaper that broke the biggest political scandal in American history  (Watergate) which led to the resignation of a president has been sold to the founder of Amazon.  

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, has announced a move into the newspaper business, buying The Washington Post and a clutch of other publishing assets for $250m (£163 m) in cash.
The publisher, The Washington Post Company, announced the surprise deal tonight. Bezos is buying the paper and other print properties as an individual.
Washington Post Chairman and Chief Executive Donald Graham, whose family owns the paper, said it would be better served with another owner.
"I, along with Katharine Weymouth and our board of directors, decided to sell only after years of familiar newspaper-industry challenges made us wonder if there might be another owner who would be better for the Post," Graham said.

Soon after the sale Mr. Bezos will announce that the paper will now be published in an unheated warehouse in a state which has no unions and the only version available will be on the Kindle Fire.