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As Amazon expands beyond online commerce, retailers look to compete with unique experiences

It’s been another rough year in the brick-and-mortar retail world, as retailers of all sizes search for answers to deal with… Read More

Amazon rolls out Alexa intercom function, letting users ‘drop in’ on Echo speakers remotely

Amazon is taking a big step forward in its quest to turn Alexa into the operating system for the home.… Read More

Reviews: Appearances aside, Amazon’s Echo Show looks like a hit

The first reviews are in for the Echo Show, Amazon’s newest $230 Alexa-powered device, and it appears the company has… Read More

Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only

Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More

Report: Walmart has no appetite for challenging Amazon’s $13.7B Whole Foods deal

As investors continue to speculate about a potential rival bidder to Amazon’s $13.7 billion price for Whole Foods Market, Reuters… Read More

Amazon’s delivery drone hive looks like it came from a sci-fi movie nightmare

If filmmakers ever decide to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with drones instead of birds, they could… Read More

Why Amazon’s rapid growth encourages developer of $564M Key Arena renovation

The area around Seattle’s Key Arena — Seattle Center, South Lake Union — is a lot different than it was… Read More

Why the NFL loves Amazon: Key league exec explains tech giant’s football streaming deal

Everyone these days wants to be like Amazon, even the NFL apparently. At the 2017 GeekWire Sports Tech Summit, NFL… Read More

King County Metro adds buses as Amazon summer interns flood Seattle

Summer has finally reached Seattle: The sun is out, the water is less chilly, and thanks to Amazon’s summer intern… Read More

Last chapter for Nook? Sales fell 23 percent during Barnes & Noble’s 2017 fiscal year

It’s going to take quite the plot twist to save the fate of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader, judging by… Read More

Amazon says Echo Show will connect to Nest, Ring and other security cameras via Alexa

Amazon this morning is announcing the first home-monitoring and security cameras that will be compatible with the new $230 Echo… Read More

Amazon drops contentious non-compete lawsuit against former AWS exec who left for new job at Smartsheet

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from Amazon. The former executive at Amazon Web Services who… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ new DAX database accelerator juices performance without an app overhaul

Amazon Web Services’ in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database, introduced just two months ago in preview mode, has been promoted… Read More

Transcript: Here’s what Microsoft, Amazon and Apple CEOs told Trump about tech this week

President Trump said that he was joined by “an incredible group of leaders” as he kicked off a meeting of… Read More

Watch: Giant tree is hoisted into the Amazon Spheres in milestone planting for Seattle structures

A 48-year-old tree, sent by truck from a Southern California farm two weeks ago, has a new home inside the… Read More

Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building?

Amazon is building a new “two pizza team” within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the… Read More

Geographic analysis: Amazon and Whole Foods footprints in U.S. are remarkably similar

Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market, the largest acquisition in the Seattle company’s history, will give the e-commerce… Read More

Amazon’s new ‘Prime Wardrobe’ shopping service is like Trunk Club with a twist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQh0O3wOdM Amazon is launching a new challenge to Nordstrom, Macy’s and other department stores with a service called Prime Wardrobe… Read More

Transcript: Whole Foods CEO assures employees that Amazon deal is ‘not a Tinder relationship’

Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey was over-the-moon about the company’s pending acquisition by Amazon in a town hall meeting… Read More

What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs

As promised, some of the world’s top tech CEOs from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and many others met… Read More

Group targets Amazon’s advertising on Breitbart with new mobile billboard in Seattle

Sleeping Giants, the anonymous group dedicated to getting corporations to pull advertising from right-wing news websites such as Breitbart, is… Read More

Adam Bosworth, VP, Amazon Web Services (Linkedin photo)

Tech vet Adam Bosworth directing mysterious Amazon Web Services project at crux of non-compete dispute

There’s a lot we still don’t know about the mysterious Amazon Web Services project that prompted the company to sue… Read More

Grammazon! 97-year-old woman who has seen it all in Seattle gets a look inside Amazon’s Spheres

Joyce Irish has seen a lot of things get built in her lifetime in Seattle. She’s also outlived a good… Read More

Amazon Pay rolls out its first payments integration on Instagram

For the first time, people can buy products they discover via Instagram using Amazon’s payments platform. Amazon has partnered with… Read More

Trump to talk policy with tech CEOs Bezos, Nadella, Cook and others in Washington D.C.

Follow-up: What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs An all-star contingent of tech CEOs will meet Monday… Read More

Lunchtime at Whole Foods in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. (GeekWire photo / Brian M. Westbrook)

Geek on the Street: Here’s what Whole Foods shoppers say about Amazon buying their favorite grocery store

The Whole Foods Market on Seattle’s Westlake Avenue sits at the epicenter of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, just a few minutes… Read More

Whole Foods delivery partner Instacart: Amazon just ‘declared war’ on America’s grocery stores

Whole Foods may love Instacart, but there’s no love lost between the delivery startup and the grocery chain’s acquirer, Amazon,… Read More

We tested Amazon’s new Dash Wand with Alexa: Here’s what worked, and what didn’t

The news Friday morning that e-commerce giant Amazon is buying grocery chain Whole Foods puts the company’s latest gadget in… Read More

Amazon to acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B; here are its other acquisitions ranked by price

Amazon ventured into uncharted territory with its $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, in particular compared to the tech giant’s… Read More

Shares of Whole Foods close above Amazon’s price as speculation grows that outside bidder could challenge blockbuster deal

Shares of Whole Foods closed Friday at $42.68 — topping the $42 per share offer that Amazon put in for… Read More