Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will sell 25 million company shares worth nearly $5 billion, according to a July 2, after-market hours regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The stock price reached a record high of $200.20 on the same day. In February, Bezos sold almost $8.5 billion worth of Amazon shares. The … Read more
Autonomous delivery drone startup Zipline said Friday that it hit its 1 millionth delivery to customers and that it’s eyeing restaurant partnerships in its next phase of growth. The San Francisco-based startup designs, builds and operates autonomous delivery drones, working with clients that range from more than 4,700 hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, to major … Read more
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 taxis at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on March 25, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Alaska Airlines forecast second-quarter and full-year earnings well ahead of estimates on Thursday with executives predicting a strong peak travel season, despite a first-quarter loss stemming from a midair blowout of … Read more
Several speciality brands have popped up recently. These three, based in the UK capital London, Vancouver in Canada, and Seattle in the United States, are making dumplings more accessible. Love Sum Dumplings, London Love Sum Dumpling’s multicultural product range, from Nepalese momos to Chinese shrimp dumplings. Photo: Love Sum Dumplings After she was named runner-up … Read more
Finding Her Beat was simply meant to be a recorded version of a one-night concert in the US state of Minnesota dedicated to the ancient Japanese art of taiko drumming. But after Jennifer Weir, the executive director of TaikoArts Midwest, had lunch with her long-time friend, filmmaker Dawn Mikkelson, a larger idea began to brew. … Read more
A protest of around 200 residents erupted in Seattle this month after a “serial squatter” refused to leave his $2 million mansion in the upmarket neighbourhood of Bellevue. Jaskaran Singh, who owns the five-bedroom property, has launched a legal case against the squatter, claiming that the unlawful tenant owes him a staggering $80,000. A court … Read more
“He grew up in poverty and doubled up his clothes to mask how thin he was, which he was always self-conscious about, despite being a good-looking guy,” said Charlotte Blum, author of a book on grunge culture. The cardigan Cobain wore at Nirvana’s famous MTV Unplugged performance in 1993 sold at auction in 2019 for … Read more
John Barnett, a former Boeing employee who had reportedly raised concerns about the company’s production issues, was found dead of an apparent suicide, according to authorities in South Carolina. Barnett had worked at Boeing for 32 years before leaving the company in 2017, according to the BBC, which previously reported on his efforts to raise … Read more
Jaahnavi Kandula, the daughter to a single mother who teaches in an elementary school in India, was just 23 when she was killed by a speeding police cruiser in Seattle, US. This week, Officer Kevin Dave, the Seattle Police Officer who fatally struck the college student while driving over the speed limit, was issued a … Read more
A flight approaches the airport in San Diego, Calif. K.C. Alfred/Getty Images In this week’s airline news, the Transportation Department said the flight cancellation rate in 2023 dropped by almost 50% from the previous year, and the rate over the year-end holidays was even lower; DOT also said the vast majority of flight delays were caused … Read more
