Alison Griswold

On Sept. 14, after unveiling a $2 billion charitable venture, Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos did a rare public interview with David Rubenstein, co-founder of private equity firm the Carlyle Group. While telling Rubenstein about how Amazon came up with its signature Amazon Prime membership program, Bezos, the richest person in the world, briefly digressed to describe his and the company’s risk-taking philosophy:

You don’t have to own a Porsche to drive one.

After a comfortable two months as the richest man in modern history, and with a personal fortune of roughly $163 billion, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is becoming a philanthropist.

Travel guru The Points Guy is breaking up with Uber, he announced in an outraged blog post on Sept. 12. “I’ve been a loyal Uber user for seven years now,” he writes. “So loyal, in fact, that I have spent $81,600 on my business Uber account over the past three years. In 2018 alone, I forked over $33,812 to Uber through my business account.”

The sharing economy is springing into action as Hurricane Florence bears down on the US east coast.

Americans are eager to buy prescription drugs from Amazon.

Scorned by San Francisco, Lyft last week launched electric scooters in Denver, Colorado.

Nobody likes expensive airline fares, including JetBlue. The company says that’s why it bumped its fee for the first checked bag to $30, from $25, late last month.

The top shoe-shopping destination for millennial men isn’t Nike or Adidas. It’s Amazon.com.

The regulators have had their revenge in San Francisco.

For a brief moment on Sept. 4, Amazon was worth $1 trillion, the second US company ever to hit that mark (Apple was first). Earlier this summer, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos secured the title of world’s richest man, with a personal fortune that now stands at $167 billion, or 3.5 times the market cap of Target.

Apple got there first. Amazon was second.

Super-investor SoftBank is getting into the fight against America’s traditional rental-car companies.

New York City is the first city to set a wage floor for ride-hail drivers and to cap the number of ride-hail vehicles on its streets, after the city council passed a package of bills on Aug. 8 and mayor Bill de Blasio signed it into law on Aug. 14. Over the weekend, drivers queued outside Uber’s office in Queens for hours to register their vehicles before the cap took effect.

The charges against Paul Manafort include “conspiracy against the United States,” laundering foreign money, tax and bank fraud, and failing to register as a foreign agent—but no one would accuse him of being cheap. Donald Trump’s former campaign chair spent unfathomable sums of money on rugs, boxy suits, and ostrich-leather and “blue lizard” jackets.

Update (4:30pm ET): The New York City council passed first-of-its-kind legislation this afternoon setting a wage floor for ride-hail drivers and capping the number of ride-hail vehicles in the city. Below, our story from before the historic vote.

The two-bedroom condo that Donna Oakley arrived to in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in late June didn’t look much like the five-star property she’d booked on Airbnb.

Thousands of high school students in Dhaka have blocked streets, taken over traffic lanes, and started checking drivers’ licenses to demand better road safety since a boy and girl were struck and killed by a bus a week ago.

The Trump administration had harsh words for a UN agency report released in May that found 40 million Americans lived in poverty, and 5.3 million of them “in Third World conditions of absolute poverty.”

Time to double-check if you unintentionally got milk.

Subscription movie service MoviePass made a name for itself by practically handing out money. The popular service, owned by parent company Helios and Matheson, charges $9.95 a month to see up to one regular 2D movie in theaters a day—including in markets like New York, where a single ticket can easily top $10. MoviePass pays the theaters full price for each ticket.

Amazon isn’t exactly known for putting up big profits—but if it wants to, it can.

Amazon loves talking about Alexa.

Well, it couldn’t last forever.