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Ask your mother: Amazon to let teens shop through a mobile app with parental controls

A new feature from Amazon will give teens a certain degree of autonomy to make purchases without requiring their parents… Read More

Amazon says it will make Prime membership ‘really valuable’ for Whole Foods shoppers

Amazon Prime members can expect to get some deals when they shop at Whole Foods. Jeff Wilke, CEO of Worldwide… Read More

Sorry, HQ2 suitors: Wacky stunts aren’t likely to get Amazon’s attention, says top exec Jeff Wilke

Seattle, don’t take Amazon’s search for a second headquarters personally. The company’s CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke said at… Read More

How Amazon’s Alexa overcame doubters — even within the project team — to conquer the voice speaker market

Alexa has been a hit, helping Amazon capture an early lead in the voice-activated speaker market through the Echo and… Read More

How Amazon’s $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods is a ‘blessing in disguise’ for Instacart

Amazon’s blockbuster deal to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion shocked the foundation of the grocery/retail world, and it… Read More

Fast food chain Carl’s Jr. hopes Amazon bites on its big ideas in playful bid to get bought by tech giant

Plenty of companies may fear the eventual day when Amazon will come knocking. The fast food chain Carl’s Jr. is… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Aspinity helps voice-enabled tech products save battery power

Voice-activated products require constant power as they “listen” for wake words. Now one startup is helping manufacturers reduce the power… Read More

Check out this unique Amazon HQ2 pitch from the football coaches at Michigan and Michigan State

We’ve seen 22-foot tall cactuses and a Georgia city offering to change its name. But football-crazed Michigan is taking a gridiron… Read More

Michael Jordan asks Jeff Bezos to bring Amazon’s second HQ to Charlotte

Even Michael Jordan is getting in on the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes. Embed from Getty Images The greatest basketball player of… Read More

Tacoma, Wash., officially announces Amazon HQ2 bid

Seattle’s neighbor to the south, Tacoma, Wash., formally announced its plans to respond to Amazon’s second headquarters request for proposals… Read More

Report: Amazon seriously considering entering the pharmacy market, selling drugs online

Amazon has been eyeing the healthcare space for years now, but according to a new report from CNBC, the company… Read More

7 crazy stunts from cities vying for Amazon’s second North American headquarters

With more than 100 contestants in the Great Amazon HQ2 Beauty Pageant, it takes a little more than good looks… Read More

Study: Amazon Echo owners love the iPhone, while Google Home keeps it in the Android family

Amazon Echo owners are more likely to be iPhone and iPad fans, while owners of the Google Home smart speaker… Read More

Seattle region unveils pitch to keep Amazon HQ2 close to home — and it doesn’t include any locations in Seattle

Executives from King and Snohomish County revealed details of their plan to convince Amazon to locate its second North American… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa can now reserve a car2go, the newest of the digital assistant’s 25K skills

Owners of an Amazon Echo or other Alexa-powered device can now tell Amazon’s digital brain to reserve a car2go vehicle.… Read More

Amazon denies plans to replace UPS and FedEx as report points to bigger delivery ambitions

Amazon is testing an expansion of its delivery operations, including overseeing pickup and delivery of items from third-party seller warehouses… Read More

We prepared this 6-page memo for our GeekWire Summit session with Amazon’s Jeff Wilke — please read it silently to yourselves

One of Amazon’s traditions is the “6-pager,” a detailed memo read silently at the outset of an internal meeting to… Read More

Sonos debuts $199 Alexa-powered smart speaker, with Google Assistant coming next year

Sonos today showed off the fruits of a partnership with Amazon first announced last year. At an event in New… Read More

A little-known reason why Pittsburgh could have an inside track on Amazon’s HQ2

Pittsburgh was Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, but a couple key connections could make it a front runner to become Mr. Bezos’… Read More

Video: Amazon’s Alexa mourns the loss of the Seattle SuperSonics

Somebody at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is having some fun. Here’s what happens when you ask Alexa to name her favorite… Read More

The City of Amazon? Community in Atlanta suburbs offers tech titan its own town

“Welcome to Amazon” is a phrase commonly heard on the tech titan’s Seattle campus but typically reserved for new employees… Read More

Report: Amazon acquires Body Labs, an AI-powered 3D body modeling startup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=DL1FM2_l7ZA Amazon’s newest acquisition is a New York-based company called Body Labs, according to a report by TechCrunch this afternoon,… Read More

Amazon leases major new Seattle office tower, pointing to continued growth in its hometown

Amazon has leased a massive new office tower that will be Seattle’s second tallest building, showing it’s not done growing… Read More

Walmart acquires New York-based Parcel to take on Amazon in rapid package delivery

Walmart this morning said it has acquired Parcel, a New York company that does scheduled same-day deliveries of packages and… Read More

Amazon flies cargo plane into hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, loaded with donated supplies

Amazon flew a Prime Air cargo plane into Puerto Rico earlier today loaded with donations of supplies for the hurricane-ravaged… Read More

One month in: Whole Foods in-house items on the rise among Amazon’s top-selling brands

Whole Foods’ in-house brands are quickly rising up Amazon’s charts to become top sellers for the online retailer. Citing data… Read More

Twitch debuts first official merchandise store, powered by Amazon

For the first time, Twitch is opening up an official merchandise online store — and of course, it’s powered by… Read More

Ex-Amazonian: Hyperloop and other next-gen transportation planning could bring ‘HQ2’ to Texas

One of Amazon’s leadership principles is to think big, and that’s exactly what a former Amazon employee is encouraging cities… Read More

Amazon’s first NFL stream beats Twitter for average audience size, but total viewership down

The viewership numbers are in for Amazon’s first-ever NFL live stream. The NFL reported Friday that Amazon reached 1.6 million… Read More

Geek of the Week: Somebody buy Gus Lopez lunch — Amazon Restaurants chief has been at the company for 19 years

A lot has changed at Amazon over the years, but for 19 of them there has been one constant, and… Read More