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With guaranteed three-day delivery, eBay looks to challenge Amazon on shipping speed

Online marketplace eBay will launch a new “Guaranteed Delivery” initiative in the US starting this summer, promising delivery in three… Read More

Boy meets artificial girl: My son got an Echo Dot, and here’s what he’s saying to Amazon’s Alexa

In my 10 years as a parent, I’ve served as the authority on a number of subjects, ranging from when… Read More

Gundam? Alien? It’s Jeff Bezos, piloting a giant robot at Amazon’s MARS conference

If you’re one of Amazon’s competitors, be afraid. Be very afraid. Jeff Bezos, the Seattle-based online giant’s billionaire founder, has… Read More

Fashion sense on-demand: Amazon’s new ‘Outfit Compare’ reviews pics, tells people what to wear

Amazon’s newest Prime benefit is a sense of fashion. The online retail giant has quietly rolled out a feature for its iOS app called… Read More

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The Week in Geek: AmazonFresh Pickup, a world without Uber, and Xbox 360 at the Supreme Court

You might have noticed GeekWire has been reporting — rather a lot — on a pair of secretive drive-up grocery store… Read More

Venture capitalist William ‘Bing’ Gordon resigns from Amazon’s board after 14-year run

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers chief product officer William “Bing” Gordon, who has served on the Amazon board since 2003, when… Read More

Analyst: AWS growth could ‘moderate’ as Microsoft and Google see new cloud momentum

Amazon Web Services’ growth “could moderate this year and next” amid rising competition from Microsoft and Google, according to a new… Read More

How Amazon’s new shopping concept, Seattle’s Monorail, and drones may affect Key Arena renovation

Tim Leiweke knows that Seattle is one of the nation’s most tech-savvy cities and his ideas for renovating Key Arena… Read More

Alexa coming to Amazon iPhone app in bid to expand its lead in voice assistant market

Alexa is the brain behind the Amazon Echo, and has helped Amazon become a leader in the voice assistant market,… Read More

Amazon at SXSW: Tech giant promotes drones, original TV series, AWS, and more at annual festival

AUSTIN, TX. — Amazon has turned into something much more than an e-commerce business, and that much was evident this… Read More

Clean your floors and your plate: Amazon Alexa skills added to Roomba vacuums and Grubhub

If you want to clean up before ordering in some food, or you need to clean up after eating that… Read More

Amazon Web Services starts offering free cloud storage and computing for Alexa skills

Amazon Web Services will offer $100 in promotional credit and up to an additional $100/month to cover any extra cloud computing and storage… Read More

What day is it at Amazon? Jeff Bezos knows in this photo from inside the company’s all-hands event

For 20 years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has known exactly what day it is. It’s always Day 1. Saying it’s… Read More

Inside Amazon’s Spheres: Official Instagram account launches to chronicle plant life and views

Photographers and passersby who have been captivated by the spheres taking shape on Amazon’s campus north of downtown Seattle now… Read More

Amazon patents drones with telescoping landing legs and foldable propellers

Amazon’s inventors are taking a page from Inspector Gadget’s playbook to design drones with adjustable landing legs and reconfigurable propellers.… Read More

Microsoft Teams launches globally, taking on Slack, Amazon, Google, others in high-stakes chat battle

REDMOND, Wash. — After four months in preview, Microsoft is officially launching its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in… Read More

Documents reveal ‘AmazonFresh Pickup’ as the tech giant’s next physical retail concept

UPDATE, March 16: The signs are up at the Ballard location, but covered. See pictures below. New permit documents reveal… Read More

‘Transparent’ director Jill Soloway wants to create a VR film with Amazon that shows a ‘post-matriarchal revolution’

AUSTIN, TX. — Jill Soloway wants people to feel what the world would be like in a post-matriarchal revolution —… Read More

Amazon scoops up yet another Seattle office building as it continues to juice downtown construction boom

Amazon has inked a lease for another new office building in Seattle, the latest sign that the online retail giant has no… Read More

Millennials’ favorite place to buy clothes online is, believe it or not, Amazon

Amazon is, apparently, very on-trend. Last year, the coveted millennial demographic bought more clothing from the online retailer than any other… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes another acquisition and then evidence of it disappears

Amazon Web Services appears to have acquired Do.com, a San Francisco-based startup that aims to streamline meetings, for its new… Read More

Microsoft says Google’s cloud reliability claim vs. Azure and Amazon Web Services does not compute

A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for… Read More

Amazon to open 10th brick-and-mortar bookstore, second in Seattle region, later this year

Amazon is opening another brick-and-mortar bookstore in 2017 — its 10th such retail location — in downtown Bellevue, Wash. Building… Read More

Google Cloud touts new customers, reliability and machine learning — says it’s ‘here for real’

Google is on a mission to become a leading option for businesses making the shift to the cloud, and in the wake of… Read More

Instacart raises $400M at a reported $3.4B valuation as it battles Amazon for grocery delivery supremacy

Grocery delivery startup Instacart has raised a $400 million round as it battles Amazon and others for grocery delivery supremacy. Previous… Read More

Amazon launches Prime in Mexico, offering video streaming and free shipping for $46 per year

Amazon has launched Prime in Mexico, expanding its subscription membership service to cover all of North America. The membership will immediately include… Read More

Inspired by Amazon? Mysterious ‘Relocated Joe’ action figure spotted at Seattle Goodwill

Relocated Joe … the hero Seattle deserves? In case you need further evidence that the tech industry is reshaping Seattle… Read More

Amazon hands over Alexa data in Arkansas hot tub murder case, but 1st Amendment questions remain

Amazon has dropped its motion to protect audio recordings and other records for an Echo belonging to the suspect in a 2015… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes another deal, acquiring Thinkbox media rendering tech company

Amazon Web Services has acquired Thinkbox Software, which makes technology used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms… Read More

Amazon closes cable store that resold packages from Comcast and Frontier

Amazon has shuttered its “cable store,” where it resold bundles of cable, internet and telephone services. The store launched last… Read More