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Amazon’s stock reaches another record, capping a big week of news

Amazon made even more news than usual this week — acquiring Middle East e-commerce company Souq.com, unveiling a new brick-and-mortar retail… Read More

Amazon greenlights new season of ‘All or Nothing’ behind-the-scenes NFL series

Amazon’s popular behind-the-scenes NFL series is getting another season. The tech giant announced today that it has greenlit season two… Read More

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

Sephir Hamilton is helping his organization grapple with major change. As the engineering and technology innovation officer at Seattle City… Read More

Amazon to shutter Diapers.com parent Quidsi, cites lack of profits 7 years after $545M acquisition

Less than seven years after spending $545 million to acquire Quidsi — home to Diapers.com and Soap.com — Amazon announced… Read More

Amazon exec shares secrets of company’s culture, tries unsuccessfully to keep his talk secret

Amazon offered a rare glimpse inside its culture on Tuesday at an entrepreneurship conference in Seattle — but also asked… Read More

Amazon finally unveils grocery pickup service — but it’s only for employees at first

Amazon this morning confirmed what we’ve been reporting since last year: The technology giant is opening grocery pickup locations starting at… Read More

Amazon Web Services jumps into call-center market with new ‘Amazon Connect’ service

Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own… Read More

Amazon wins bidding for Souq.com, announces deal to acquire Middle East e-commerce giant

Confirming widespread reports anspeculation, Amazon this morning announced an agreement to acquire Souq.com, a 12-year-old e-commerce company sometimes called the Amazon… Read More

Public cloud could become a utility like electricity, lifting AWS, Azure and others, Morgan Stanley says

The public cloud has the potential to become a global utility, analogous to electricity — driving higher valuations for cloud providers… Read More

Amazon keeps adding pop-up stores in malls across U.S. as it expands physical presence

Amazon’s pop-up stores keep popping up in malls across the U.S. The tech giant now has 29 “pop-up” kiosks in 15… Read More

Reports: Amazon considers furniture, appliance and electronics stores, as Amazon Go launch is delayed

Amazon is exploring the possibility of new retail outlets in categories including furniture, home appliances and electronics, according to a New York… Read More

Amazon will collect sales tax in four additional states starting April 1

Amazon will start collecting sales tax in four additional states starting next month. Customers in Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, and New… Read More

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The Week in Geek: How Starbucks and Amazon are becoming more alike

Starbucks and Amazon, two of Seattle’s iconic corporate giants, started off very different from each other. At heart, Starbucks is… Read More

Mobile ad developer claims in lawsuit it was cut out of Amazon smartphone deal by partner

An expansion of Amazon’s discounted smartphone program for Prime members is at the center of a lawsuit filed in Los… Read More

Amazon drone with Bloe Origin spaceship at MARS 2017

Video provides another look at Amazon delivery drone (and Blue Origin spaceship)

We already knew that Amazon provided a rare public demonstration of its delivery drone dropping off some sunscreen at this… Read More

Amazon adds Alcatel and Moto devices to discounted Prime smartphone program

Amazon today added two new devices to its discounted smartphone program for Prime members. The unlocked Alcatel A30 and Moto… Read More

With over 2,000 dogs coming to work at Amazon, #NationalPuppyDay is just another day at the office

Dogs are a big deal at Amazon. And on #NationalPuppyDay, which is apparently today, it’s worth noting just how big. The… Read More

Amazon blocks and then restores sale of sci-fi book for reportedly copying another’s cover

In a saga that could very well be ripped from the pages of the very books involved, two science-fiction novels with… Read More

Amazon reportedly to acquire Middle East e-commerce giant Souq.com

Amazon is reportedly set to acquire Middle East e-commerce giant Souq.com as it furthers its quest of global online shopping… Read More

Amazon and DHL reportedly team up for Prime Air and Amazon Fresh deliveries

Amazon is reportedly partnering with the German-based DHL delivery service for its Prime Air transport operation in Kentucky as well… Read More

Amazon Chime team responds to trademark suit, claims it wasn’t aware of competing Chime service

An Amazon Web Services employee claims the company had never heard of CafeX Communications and its competing Chime service when it… Read More

Adobe unveils new Microsoft HoloLens and Amazon Alexa integrations

Adobe is in the middle of its big Summit conference, where it is introducing a variety of new technologies, including… Read More

Starbucks teams up with Ford and Amazon to allow in-car orders via Alexa

Ford owners and coffee drinkers will soon have a new voice-enabled way to order their morning cup of joe from Starbucks.… Read More

Report: Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri battling to be digital assistant in Marriott hotel rooms

Hotels are quickly becoming the latest front in the battle for dominance of the nascent voice assistant market. Last year the… Read More

Reports point to caution signals for Amazon Go checkout-free store

Amazon Go, the online retailer’s “Just Walk Out” convenience store in downtown Seattle, is still in private beta mode three… Read More

Watch dramatic new video shot by a drone flying high over the Amazon Spheres in Seattle

Rudy Willingham, a Seattle drone photographer with a thing for architecture, has captured dramatic new video footage of the Amazon… Read More

‘Alexa, order beer:’ Amazon adds Prime Now two-hour delivery voice ordering to digital assistant

Amazon has added Prime Now rapid delivery voice ordering to its Alexa-powered family of devices. That means owners of any… Read More

Amazon Prime Air delivery drone drops off sunscreen during semi-public U.S. debut

Amazon’s Prime Air drone made its first package delivery in December, in England, but regular folks haven’t seen it in action… Read More

Delivery robots and robo-farms: Here’s what’s headlining Amazon’s MARS meet-up

Walking robots that could potentially delivery your Amazon Prime package … robotic bees and robo-farms … a cheetah robot controlled… Read More

I let Amazon’s new ‘Outfit Compare’ choose my clothes — but I just couldn’t follow the advice

There are plenty of things I’m happy to hand over to Amazon, rather than doing them myself. Recommending a movie?… Read More