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Books, being easy to ship and always in demand, seemed to Bezos like the logical place to start.

In a statement, Mr Bezos says he is "looking forward" to a slowdown in the company's rate of growth in technology spending later this year.

The note, signed by Mr. Bezos, said it was 'not the outcome any of us wanted, ' but 'we're signed up for this to be hard. '

Less cooperative was Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos, who lives nearby but asked the company not to pint out his home.

Mr Bezos decided there was no point trying to duck this and in 2000 invited other retailers to sell their goods on his website.

Although Mr Bezos has discussed his strategy in the past with The Economist, the company did not respond to requests for an interview.

Mr. Bezos said the rocketship had a test flight three months ago and was traveling at Mach 1. 2 just before last week's accident.

Bezos participation of financial analysts in a conference call, said: The global crude oil prices rose for us, it is a good thing.

Bezos claims his wife loves to say, "If Jeff is unhappy, wait three minutes. "

Yet as with many consumer innovations, Mr Bezos has said there was no way to know if the strategy would work other than to experiment.

"We call it a split browser, because it's half in the cloud and half on the Fire, " Bezos says.

Investors recently punished Amazon and its chief Bezos for spending too much to gain traction in the tablet market.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made it clear that the company expects to sell millions of units.

Around the same time, Jeff Bezos was writing his business plan for a website, soon to be called Amazon, for selling books online.

Bezos continued to expand Amazon, which now sells everything from books to clothes to toys and more.

By creating a business that sought customer convenience first and foremost, Bezos defied the odds and came out swinging.

Ah, but all this technology "is the knitting" , insists Mr Bezos.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, moved from New York to Seattle to start the company.

Like Mr. Jobs's black turtlenecks, Mr. Bezos has his own signature wardrobe: blue jeans, light blue shirt and dark blazer.

Bezos later decided that Amazon could sell more than books to its growing customer base.

It's very good for consumers, who get a wider selection of products through the Super Saver and Prime shipping programs, Bezos explained.

If the Kindle Fire is half as good as it looked in Bezos' conference room, it will fan the fears about Amazon's growing dominance.

If fellow Internet star Bezos is any guide, Zuckerberg could still be in store for a wild ride.

This was true of the San Francisco area, too, which Bezos had also considered for Amazon's headquarters.

Bezos allowed readers to criticize products through reader reviews, and he built a faithful community of users.

Bezos thinks that by then the federal government will uniformly set nationwide standards for the collection of online sales tax.

Charles Stack created the first online book store, Book Stacks Unlimited (aka ) in 1992, two years before Jeff Bezos began Amazon.

CEO Jeff Bezos also introduced an Android Kindle app, further driving revenue from e-books and newspaper and magazine subscriptions.

"We are a company with a lot of ideas, " Bezos says, when asked directly about his plans.

Bezos renamed the company "Amazon" after the world's biggest river.

Mr Bezos asks job applicants to tell him about something they have invented.

Thanks to Bezos' positive thinking, Amazon. com has grown into a $5. 7 billion company.

When the Kindle was introduced in November 2007, Bezos wasn't making a stand for a gadget or for technology.

In Day One South, Bezos would clearly rather discuss the Kindle Fire than real estate, sales taxes, or air conditioning.

Ellison, Ballmer, Bezos and Murdoch declined to comment through spokespeople.

Their only hope is to match the commercial innovations Jeff Bezos has brought to shopping.

IN HIS most recent annual report, Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon. com, reprints his letter to shareholders of 1997.

The Lab126 team repeatedly urged Bezos to make their project easier by considering a Wi-fi-only connection for the Kindle.

Bezos won't say whether he thinks he'll lose money on the device itself, only that he's at ease flirting with red ink.

The term Bezos used to describe it is "web-scale computing" .

I share the same view with Jeff Bezos, chief executive of online bookseller Amazon. dot. com.

Jeff Bezos knows the power of positive thinking.

It also had to contend with the unfettered imagination of Bezos.

To demonstrate the Kindle Fire, Bezos pulls up a chair.

"Our vision is to have every book that has ever been in print available in less than 60 seconds, " explains Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss.

"We are building premium products and offering them at non-premium prices, " beamed Mr Bezos.

Bezos is always great value and as usual he didn't disappoint.

Renting a house in Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle, Bezos started work out of his garage.

When pressed, Bezos said that for 12 years they've been building a web-scale operation called Amazon. com.

" Bezos said, " 90% of families are not in serious and read the list of people.

"What we are doing is offering premium products at non-premium prices, " CEO Jeff Bezos told BusinessWeek recently.

Mr. Bezos is both the CEO and deeply immersed in the details.

Bezos is magnanimous toward Jobs.

In 1999, there was Amazon. com founder Jeffrey Bezos, chosen for the potential of e-commerce to change the way we shop.

Like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Mr. Mason has been unapologetic about spending big before he can point to profits.

Bezos also talked a little about EC2, which is their newest service released in 2006 (Elastic Computing Cloud).

You would have thought that Bezos would take a rest.

One of them is Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. com, who is building a competing sub-orbital spaceship at a ranch in Texas.

The "10, 000 Year Clock" funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start running soon.

"What we are doing is offering premium products at non-premium prices, " Bezos says.

On September 28th Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, unveiled a tablet computer called the Kindle Fire.

O'Reilly and Bezos then had their usual conference chat, which is becoming a tradition at the Web 2. 0 conferences.

If you had been planning the future of retailing in the 1990s would you have asked Jeff Bezos?

'This is unbelievable value, ' Mr. Bezos said.

Jeff Bezos founded , Inc. in 1994, and launched it online in 1995.

JEFF BEZOS, Amazon's boss, pays attention to symbolism.

On September 28th Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, unveiled atablet computer called the Kindle Fire.

Jeff Bezos, who knows something about retail, reading, and technology, weighs in on the future of the book.

Now, this was kindly lent to me by Jeff Bezos from last year.

Jeff Bezos is a true visionary who is shaping the world and our life.

Tablets represent a huge opportunity for Bezos, not only to sell a new kind of device but also to entice people to buy more stuff.

Jeff Bezos: Gifts Are Easy, Choices Are Hard

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon