Hints and tips:
...Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, another billionaire-founded space company, has more recently also entered the race to make tourism beyond Earth a reality....
...Annual sales were already shrinking at 23andMe when the lossmaking company went public via a merger with one of Richard Branson’s special purpose acquisition companies at the height of the 2021 Spac boom...
...Branson, on the other hand, is the extremely (relatively) poor British cousin, worth only $3bn, a mirror of the UK’s falling global relevance....
...JH: We want to make it alive with information and services....
...Bezos’s system enjoys the bragging rights of taking passengers higher than Branson’s....
...SCOTUS The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the 303 Creative LLC vs Elenis case....
...A successful launch would open the door to full-fledged space tourism, Branson has said....
...“I truly believe that space belongs to all of us,” Branson, the company’s founder, said in the statement....
...If Jeff Bezos has been feeling upstaged by rival space entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson, he certainly was not showing it....
...“At Blue Origin, a common question during high-level meetings was, ‘When will Elon or Branson fly?’” the post said....
...Stunts are Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson’s stock in trade....
...If the launch goes ahead as planned, Bezos will beat billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson, who have their own rocket ventures, into space....
...The ecommerce pioneer was beaten to space by Sir Richard Branson, who rode a Virgin Galactic spaceplane to a height of 86km nine days ago....
...However, Blue Origin’s schedule has reportedly prompted a rush from Virgin Galactic, the competing space tourism company founded by Sir Richard Branson, to advance its plans....
...The achievement would give Blue Origin, which has been funded with billions of dollars from the Amazon founder, some much-needed momentum in the billionaire space race, beating both Richard Branson’s Virgin...
...Chamath Palihapitiya and the British investor Ian Osborne, who together have launched six Spacs and are currently sitting on a $370m promote for taking Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic public last year,...
...Job moves Mark Branson, the head of the Swiss finance watchdog Finma, is set to become president of BaFin as the German regulator looks to new leadership to restore its reputation after the Wirecard fraud...
...Virgin Orbit achieves orbitEight months after a previous test ended in failure, Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has put a rocket into space, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of its “air launch...
...(Reuters) Spacs in space Evangelist of the blank-cheque boom Chamath Palihapitiya has sold $98m worth of stock in his intergalactic Spac venture with Richard Branson....
...One thing to start: a blank-cheque company backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is in talks to merge with 23andMe, in a deal that would bring the genetics testing company on to public markets at a value...
...Chamath Palihapitiya, the former Facebook executive who brought Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to the public markets last year through a blank cheque company, has raised $1bn for his second act....
...Zeleros is getting help from the European Commission and is in competition with Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One to have passenger routes open by 2030.Elsewhere, Sifted looks at the top “tech for good...
...Get the full story on Farrell — from a high-profile tax avoidance scheme to a previous windfall shared with Richard Branson — in this profile from the FT’s Tabby Kinder, Rob Smith and Dan Thomas....
...Public investors have their first chance to buy stock in a space tourism venture today when Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic lists on the New York Stock Exchange....
...The multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur rubs shoulders with the who’s who of the UK, including Virgin founder Richard Branson, prime minister Boris Johnson and even British royalty....
International Edition