Report: Amazon secretly acquired a Santa Barbara search startup to bolster Alexa Amazon reportedly acquired Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Graphiq back in May, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times, citing “four sources familiar… Read More
Sears starts selling Kenmore line on Amazon for the first time, with Alexa-enabled smart appliances One of the oldest brick-and-mortar operations in the country is finally ready to do business with the company that disrupted… Read More
Trump’s small business chief praises Amazon during Seattle stop: ‘We all have to work together’ President Donald Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have certainly had their clashes in recent years, but it was a… Read More
Day 1 of summer camp at Amazon gives kids a peek inside the tech giant and STEM possibilities Amazon kicked off its “A to Z Experience” STEM summer camp on Wednesday by offering kids the chance to tour… Read More
We made dinner at home with Amazon Meal Kits, the tech giant’s new Blue Apron rival Is Amazon about to crush Blue Apron and completely change how Americans purchase, prepare, and eat dinner every night? Probably… Read More
Amazon Treasure Truck set for national expansion, taking flash deals on wheels beyond Seattle Amazon is teasing plans to expand its Treasure Truck to more U.S. cities, a year-and-a-half after debuting the roving flash sales-mobile in… Read More
Leadership advice: How Amazon maintains focus while competing in so many industries at once Amazon started as an online book-seller in 1994, but fast forward two decades later and the company finds itself competing… Read More
Amazon starts selling Spectacles with snappy delivery Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is selling its camera-enabled Spectacles on Amazon. It’s the first time the company has sold the… Read More
Amazon Spark is a new Instagram-inspired shopping feed featuring Prime members as influencers Amazon launched a new feature today that allows Prime members to post stories to a feed, similar to those popular… Read More
Amazon promises to match $1M in revenue as FareStart opens 5 new restaurants in partnership Amazon already donated more than 25,000 square feet of space and furnishings to help the nonprofit FareStart open five new… Read More
Amazon patents a power-charging robot that’ll come when you call Have you ever scrambled around at an airport, hunting down a power outlet for your laptop or smartphone? Amazon’s inventors… Read More
Amazon is already selling pre-packaged ‘Meal Kits’ as it bites into service from Blue Apron and others Amazon’s newly-discovered desire to begin offering pre-packaged ingredients for home-cooked meals is already a real thing as a selection of… Read More
Amazon files trademark for potential meal-kit service as Blue Apron stock sinks Last week, shares of Zillow went down after reports of Amazon launching its own real estate referral service surfaced. This… Read More
New, simpler sign-in experience for Amazon Web Services users coming soon Amazon Web Services is simplifying the way users can sign into their accounts, dumping a clunky web address that used… Read More
Grocery union claims Amazon’s $13.7B Whole Foods acquisition will hurt consumers and workers United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, an organization that represents more than 1 million retail workers across the U.S.,… Read More
Report: Amazon Web Services working with VMware on hybrid cloud product for data centers In what would be a strategy shift for Amazon Web Services, the public cloud market leader is apparently thinking about… Read More
Small businesses on Amazon sell 40M items on Prime Day, up from 20M last year Amazon today announced that small businesses and entrepreneurs sold more than 40 million items on Prime Day this month, which… Read More
Alexa Accelerator names 9 startups for inaugural Amazon and Techstars program The Alexa Accelerator, a new program that Amazon is running in partnership with Techstars, kicked off its first class on… Read More
A drum circle, petting zoo, the rock band Day Juan and more: It’s Amazon’s massive summer picnic Thousands of Amazonians are expected to descend on CenturyLink Field in Seattle this weekend for the tech giant’s annual employee… Read More
Amazon Web Services adds IP protection while dropping controversial patent clause from user agreement Around the same time it modified its basic user agreement to drop a patent-related clause that troubled customers, Amazon Web… Read More
Podcast Prime Day is a big deal for Amazon — but is it a good deal for Prime members? Amazon set a series of records with Prime Day this week, reporting sales up 60 percent from last year in… Read More
Amazon Web Services rolls out new instances for customers that need high-performance graphics Graphic artists and industrial designers have some new tools to play with from Amazon Web Services, with the upgrade of… Read More
Prime shape: Buff Bezos flexes his muscles at elite Sun Valley getaway Embed from Getty Images Maybe Amazon’s signature catchphrase is helping CEO Jeff Bezos stay motivated at the gym. It’s still… Read More
Congressman calls for hearing on Amazon’s $13.7B bid for Whole Foods, says deal could impact neighborhood grocery stores A U.S. Congressman who serves as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee is calling for a hearing on… Read More
Amazon Alexa and Echo chief Mike George is leaving after nearly two decades with the company Mike George, the Amazon vice president who oversaw two of the company’s most successful products — the Alexa virtual assistant… Read More
Amazon Web Services drops controversial patent clause from standard user agreement Amazon Web Services has quietly dropped a controversial provision from its user agreement that essentially forced customers to agree that… Read More
‘Alexa, change the channel’: Amazon Echo speakers can now control some smart TVs Amazon just released a new capability for its digital brain Alexa that is sure to delight chronic TV remote misplacers.… Read More
Report: Amazon acquires UK video game startup, pushing further into gaming Amazon has acquired GameSparks, a UK company that builds backend tools for developers behind marquee game franchises such as Assassin’s… Read More
Prime Day was Amazon’s ‘biggest shopping event’ ever as sales spike 60% from last year Surprise, surprise: Amazon sold a lot of stuff on Tuesday. The Seattle-based online retailer broke all kinds of records during… Read More
Zillow shares slump as Amazon webpage hints at expansion into real estate referrals Investors get nervous every time a certain Seattle-based e-commerce giant eyes a new market and this time Zillow is the… Read More
