Jeff Bezos

Altos Labs, working on Anti-aging therapies or reverse the aging process, claimed that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested in the program, said media reports. The lab is offering a $1 million annual payment to scientists who wish to join it and reportedly Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka has decided to chair the scientific advisory board. However, the lab has planned to establish institutes in, California, the UK, and Japan.

Amazon chairman and billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned space company Blue Origin has filed a lawsuit in US federal court against NASA over its decision to give the $2.9 billion lunar moon lander contract to its rival Elon Musk's SpaceX. "This bid protest challenges NASA's unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals," Blue Origin's lawyer said. NASA earlier selected SpaceX as the sole provider for the Human Landing System for the spaceflight… read-more

Sanjal Gavande hailing from Maharashtra’s Kalyan has lent a helping hand in building New Shephard, Blue Origin’s unmanned suborbital rocket. The 30-year-old engineer seems excited that her new work, the rocket will be launched on July 20 from the company’s “Launch Site One” in Texas. “I am really happy that my childhood dream is about to come true,” said Gavande.

US business magnate, Jeff Bezos’ net worth makes a new record of $211 billion, following a surge in Amazon’s share to 4.7% after 'Pentagon' canceled a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft Corp. The 57-year-old's record has been greater than the 2020 Amazon stock rise when his net worth reached $206.9 billion, and the current surge witnessed a hike of $8.4 billion. Besides, earlier this week Bezos resigned as Amazon’s chief executive.

An investigative report by New York's ProPublica has revealed that several US-based billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have paid zero income tax in some years. Reportedly, Bezos avoided paying of tax in 2007 and 2011 while Musk paid no tax in 2018. Notably, the US does not tax the value of stocks and property people own but only the income generated from the sales of these items.