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Amazon

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.

Apptio, which helps CIOs monitor IT spend, reveals which cloud platforms customers are adopting

Apptio sits at a unique position in today’s rapidly-changing enterprise technology world, as the Bellevue, Wash.-based publicly-traded company helps CIOs understand spending… Read More

Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie on competing with Amazon, and standing out in the cloud

Amazon and Microsoft are at the top of the food chain in the growing cloud world, battling for everything from customers… Read More

Tech titans Amazon, Reddit, Mozilla and others to protest net neutrality rollback July 12

The Federal Communications Commission voted last month to begin rolling back net neutrality rules, and some major names in tech… Read More

Brands value report

Amazon makes huge jump in value as annual report on brands is dominated by tech companies

A report on the top brands in the world is dominated by tech companies, and Amazon is the biggest mover… Read More

Amazon adds discounted Prime option for people on government assistance programs

Amazon has taken a step that could expand the customer base for its popular Prime program even further, starting a… Read More

Amazon expands Twitch Prime membership program to more than 200 countries

Amazon-owned game-streaming giant Twitch today expanded its Twitch Prime program to more than 200 countries and territories. Twitch Prime, which… Read More

Apple unveils $349 HomePod smart speaker, competing with Amazon Echo and Google Home

Apple today unveiled its own voice-activated smart home speaker, the HomePod. Set to begin shipping in December, the speaker is… Read More

After Fire flop, Amazon reportedly eyeing Android-based ‘Ice’ smartphone, possibly focused on India

Amazon may not be done with the smartphone market yet. According to a report from Gadgets 360, a New Delhi,… Read More

Apple TV finally adds Amazon Video app as Tim Cook touts Prime service on stage at WWDC

Good news for Apple TV owners who subscribe to Amazon’s streaming video service. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced today at the… Read More

eBay

eBay takes a colorful shot at Amazon with new ad urging its users to ‘shop like nobody else’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBcl7oqKtvE&feature=youtu.be&a All of those cardboard boxes from Amazon have eBay dreaming of a more colorful shopping world. And now the… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon shares close above $1K, market cap nears $500B; Bezos may pass Gates as world’s richest

Amazon shares have officially closed at four digits. The tech giant saw its stock stay above $1,000 per share for the first… Read More

Nuance Nina

Nina, meet Alexa: Nuance brings its enterprise assistant to Amazon’s voice-integrated devices

Thanks, Alexa, you’ve been a big help, but we’ve got some questions for Nina now. The enterprise virtual assistant from Nuance… Read More

Sphere of influence: 46-story tower near Amazon campus will have domed top reminiscent of tech giant’s new landmark

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Amazon, get ready to be flattered. The idea for the… Read More

When standards aren’t standard: Inside a growing movement to shape the booming cloud industry

What’s the best way to shepherd the promising technologies underpinning a sea change in computing? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation… Read More

Long Strange Trip

‘Long Strange Trip’ indeed — Amazon’s 4-hour Grateful Dead film hits Prime Video on Friday

Decades of music, concerts, films and countless hazy recollections about the Grateful Dead will give way Friday to a new documentary on… Read More

New study on Seattle traffic lauds efforts by Amazon, Bill & Melinda Gates and others

Last year, a coalition of Seattle’s top business and political leaders unveiled a new effort called Challenge Seattle, with a goal of finding… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI group built a voice search for Alexa skills, but Amazon rejected it

Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is very skillful, now at more than 12,000 third-party capabilities, but it can sometimes be difficult… Read More

Transparent

Jeff Bezos gave Jill Soloway, creator of the Amazon hit ‘Transparent,’ an artistic and political pep talk

Jill Soloway’s Amazon Video series “Transparent” has been an award-winning success for the tech giant’s streaming service. During an appearance… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Museum of Flight

Hillary Clinton says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ‘saved’ The Washington Post

Hillary Clinton thinks Jeff Bezos saved The Washington Post. The former presidential candidate spent more than an hour on stage at… Read More

Mary Meeker, partner, Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins’ Meeker: Concerns over cloud vendor lock-in are soaring

As part of this year’s sprint through more than 300 slides on the state of technology, Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker… Read More

Charts: Tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are world’s most valuable companies

Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is out, and the 355-page dive into all things tech shows just how big… Read More

Netflix CEO on streaming battle: We’re like Starbucks, and Amazon is like Walmart

Here’s a streaming media analogy to wrap your head around: Netflix is like Starbucks, and Amazon is like Walmart. That’s… Read More

Amazon partners with UC Berkeley for first foray into investigative journalism

Amazon is getting into the news business, once again proving that the company’s appetite for new industries knows no limits.… Read More

Amazon cleanup robot

Meet the robo-janitor designed by Amazon for cleaning up robotic warehouses

How does Amazon plan to keep automated warehouses free of debris? With automated cleanup robots, of course. At least that’s… Read More

Android creator Andy Rubin is back with Amazon Echo competitor and new Essential smartphone

Android creator Andy Rubin is back and aiming to change up the digital assistant and smartphone markets with a pair… Read More

Amazon abruptly cancels trailblazing ‘Style Code Live’ shopping show

“Style Code Live,” Amazon’s experiment with a QVC-style show for the internet era, has been canceled. The news was first… Read More

Amazon patents shipping label with built-in parachute for dropping packages from drones

It’s a bird, it’s a plane … oh wait, it’s my package of diapers. Amazon customers could someday be repeating… Read More

Amazon stock briefly tops $1,000 per share

Amazon stock briefly topped $1,000 per share for the first time early this morning, putting its market value at $478… Read More

Click to trunk in 15 minutes? Testing Amazon’s new ridiculously fast order fulfillment

AmazonFresh Pickup is the tech giant’s new experiment in brick-and-mortar retail, but it’s also a new frontier for the rapid fulfillment… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: We finally get to try AmazonFresh Pickup, and your driver’s license might be coming to your smartphone

Thursday morning, we awoke to a surprise: AmazonFresh Pickup, the company’s previously secretive grocery pickup service, was finally opening to… Read More

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