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TMS Ep592: Electric vehicles, stock markets 2023, Santa rally, Blue Origin

Will 2024 be the year of EVs? What led to the rise of stock markets in 2023? Is the Santa rally over in the markets? What is Blue Origin? All answers here

Jeff Bezos' rocket company launches experiments, first since 2022 crash

Jeff Bezos' space company successfully launched a rocket carrying experiments on Tuesday, its first flight since engine trouble caused a crash more than a year ago. The New Shepard rocket soared from West Texas, lifting a capsule full of tests, many of which were aboard the failed Blue Origin launch in September 2022. No one was aboard that flight or this latest one. This time, the capsule made it to the fringes of space, exposing the experiments from NASA and others to a few minutes of weightlessness, before parachuting back down to the desert. The rocket landed first, after releasing the capsule. It reached an altitude of 66 miles (107 km) during the 10-minute flight. During 2022's failed launch, the rocket started to veer off course shortly after liftoff, prompting the escape system to kick in and catapult the capsule off the top. The capsule landed safely, but the rocket came crashing down. The problem was traced to an overheated rocket engine nozzle that broke apart. Design ..

Time has come for India to produce its own Bezos, Zuckerberg: Maha Guv

Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais on Saturday urged students to come up with innovative ideas to make the country a developed nation by 2047, saying it's time for India to produce its own Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. The governor was speaking at the convocation ceremony of a private management institute at Mira Road, on the outskirts of Mumbai. Referring to the Viksit Bharat @2047: Voice of Youth' vision, which was recently launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, Bais said students graduating this year will be at the peak of their professional careers in 2047. Destiny has given students a unique opportunity to transform India from a developing nation to a developed nation, he said, stressing that many countries of the world have taken a big leap to become developed nations at different times. After the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings, Japan rose from the ashes to become a leading manufacturing nation. South Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries have also .

TMS Ep581: Pandemic-preparedness, internet growth, markets, 10,000-yr clock

Is India prepared for the next pandemic? What is holding back India's internet growth? What should you do with rate-sensitive stocks? What is Jeff Bezos' 10,000-year clock? All answers here

TMS Ep581: Pandemic-preparedness, internet growth, markets, 10,000-yr clock

Is India prepared for the next pandemic? What is holding back India's internet growth? What should you do with rate-sensitive stocks? What is Jeff Bezos' 10,000-year clock? All answers here

The $42 mn clock set to tick once a year, keep time for next 10,000 years

Being built inside a mountain in Texas, the century hand of the 10,000-year clock advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo will come out on the millennium

As Jeff Bezos moves south, Amazon eyeing more office space in Miami

Amazon is seeking roughly 50,000 square feet (4,650 square meters) of office space, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private

Amazon confirms plans to offer 'affordable broadband' through satcom

An Amazon spokesperson said that Project Kuiper (Amazon's broadband-from-space venture) will bring fast internet services to underserved communities around the world

Quest Alliance gets grant from ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has provided a grant to Quest Alliance for innovation in education technology that aims to empower young people. Quest Alliance, a not-for-profit entity that works in the field of skills and empowering young learners, did not disclose the amount of significant unrestricted grant from the philanthropist. Till now at least 13 Indian organisations working in various development spaces from health, education, rural communities and affordable healthcare have received Scott's global grant initiative of USD 2.7 billion in charities, Quest Alliance said in a statement on Saturday. Quest Alliance is working in multiple States of India of which it is supporting technical and vocational education training ecosystem in 15 states and in 11 states it is supporting school education ecosystem. Recently, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched a digital version of Employability Skills Curriculum under initiative o

With Zhuque-2, China blasts off world's first methane-powered rocket

The successful launch of LandSpace's Zhuque-2 puts China ahead of rivals such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin

Bezos prepares prenuptial pact with Sanchez to protect his $138 bn fortune

Bezos holds a broad real estate portfolio valued at over $500 million, with properties in Beverly Hills, Manhattan, and Washington DC

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sets sight on India's space tourism potential

Industry sources say reusable launch vehicles are key to India's space tourism plan as they will make the entire business economical

Elon Musk returns to the top, becomes richest person on the planet again

The rise in Musk's wealth can be attributed to the rally in Tesla stocks that has outpaced the rally in the Nasdaq 100 Index so far this year

NASA to launch Mars science mission on Bezos-run Blue Origin's rocket

The US space agency has announced a science mission to Mars aboard Jeff Bezos-run Blue Origin's New Glenn space launch vehicle

Gautam Adani now no longer among world's top 10 richest billionaires

In the last 24 hours, Adani's net worth has fallen $8.21 billion, the highest among the top 100 billionaires in the list

Adani slips to 4, Bezos enters top 3 in world's richest people list

The net worth of Gautam Adani, the chairman of Indian conglomerate Adani Group, now stands at $120 billion while Jeff Bezos net worth rose to $121 billion

Jeff Bezos may sell Washington Post to buy American football team: Report

Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million

Owner Jeff Bezos makes a rare visit at Washington Post amid layoffs fears

I'm delighted to be here and see all these faces... Let's have a news meeting," he told the senior staff present in the meeting on Thursday

Andhra govt inviting Musk, Tim Cook, Bezos for Investors Summit in Vizag

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft Executive Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella are on the invitees list of the Andhra Pradesh government for its Global Investors Summit (GIS) to be held in Visakhapatnam on March 3 and 4. Fifteen Union Ministers, 15 Chief Ministers, 44 global industrialists, 53 Indian industry bigwigs and ambassadors of various countries are being invited for the two-day event on which the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government is betting big to attract large-scale investments into the state. Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos and Samsung Chairman and CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon are also on the invitees list for the summit to be held in the port city. Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Anand Mahindra, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Adi Godrej, Rishad Premji and N Chandrasekaran are some of the Indian giants being invited. In his message ahead of the event, the Chief Minister noted that the GIS was being hosted "with the goal of

Bezos and Gates back Synchron in drive for brain implant breakthrough

Synchron's Switch device aims to help paralyzed people, such as those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicate by controlling computer cursors with their minds