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Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K-12 technology

Rohit Agarwal, general manager for Amazon’s K-12 Education unit, has left the Seattle-based tech giant. His exit comes about three… Read More

In new immigration twist, U.S. suspends option to pay for faster H-1B visa processing

Companies that bring software engineers and other highly skilled workers into the U.S. under H-1B visas will not be able to pay for… Read More

Report: Amazon eyes new Alexa-powered devices that can make phone calls

Amazon is working on Alexa-powered devices with voice-activated phone calling capabilities, according to a report from Recode. Citing unnamed sources, Recode… Read More

Amazon establishes Alexa Fund Fellowship to support universities researching voice technology

Amazon Thursday announced the Alexa Fund Fellowship, a program designed to fund and support researchers and universities working on voice… Read More

Amazon explains big AWS outage, says employee error took servers offline, promises changes

Amazon has released an explanation of the events that caused the big outage of its Simple Storage Service Tuesday, also… Read More

Amazon’s pilot season kicks off March 17 — here are 5 new shows up for review

Amazon Studios has a new lineup of pilots and starting March 17, the company will ask customers to help decide… Read More

Amazon plans massive solar energy installations on fulfillment center rooftops

Amazon is pledging to install solar energy systems on 50 of its fulfillment center rooftops around the world by 2020, starting with… Read More

Amazon Web Services cloud migration service 2nd Watch raises $19M

2nd Watch, which helps large organizations such as Crate & Barrel, Condé Nast, Coca-Cola North America and Lenovo build and… Read More

Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

UPDATE: Amazon has released an explanation of what caused the big outage this week and has started putting safeguards in… Read More

Amazon quietly kills a program that rewards high-volume affiliate sellers, in favor of flat commission structure

Amazon is eliminating a program that rewards websites with a commission based on the number of products people buy when… Read More

Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet

The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or… Read More

Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and… Read More

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: LevelTen Energy makes it easier for corporations to buy clean power

Big companies are increasingly seeking out renewable energy to cope with carbon emissions caps and keep their budgets more stable,… Read More

Mysterious object appears at Amazon’s drive-up grocery store in Seattle — but when will it open?

Yes, this is ANOTHER update on Amazon’s future drive-up grocery store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood — and, no, it still… Read More

Amazon-owned streaming giant Twitch to start selling video games

Twitch is adding an e-commerce element to its game streaming platform. The Amazon-owned company announced today that it will sell video… Read More

Amazon wins 3 Oscars in a first for streaming studio — and Jeff Bezos gets a fun shout-out

Amazon Studios won its first-ever Academy Awards on Sunday night, taking home three Oscar statues in what was a historic… Read More

Report: Israel’s Holocaust museum asks Amazon to stop selling books that deny it happened

The Director of Libraries from Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, Yad Vashem, reportedly sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant reaches 10,000 skills, up from just 1K in June

Amazon’s Alexa reached a new milestone today: 10,000 skills. The company’s digital assistant now has 10,000 skills — the voice… Read More

Amazon fights search warrant for Echo voice data in Arkansas hot tub murder case

Amazon is fighting part of a search warrant that would require the online retail giant to hand over audio recordings and… Read More

What ‘Chime’ is it? Amazon sued over name of its new online conferencing technology

A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant’s newly launched Chime online… Read More

Podcast

‘Upstarts’ author Brad Stone on Uber’s scandals, Airbnb’s regulatory fight, and lessons from Amazon

When it comes to disruption, Brad Stone wrote the book. Twice. The best-selling author of The Everything Store, a detailed account… Read More

Why Amazon is giving all customers a puzzling $8.62 discount today

Sometimes, even history’s most successful e-commerce company needs to take a moment to pat itself on the back. Amazon is… Read More

Amazon applies to sell beer and wine at Amazon Go store, and liquor at Ballard drive-up

Beer and wine could be on the shelves when Amazon Go opens to the public in the next few months.… Read More

Major League Baseball streaming service taps Amazon Video exec to lead BAMTech

Embed from Getty Images Michael Paull, a long-time digital media veteran who spent the last three years heading up Amazon’s ambitious video efforts,… Read More

Look out, Amazon? Walmart’s $3.3B Jet.com deal starts to pay off with big growth in online sales

Walmart has invested heavily in e-commerce over the last year, most notably its $3.3 billion acquisition of Amazon competitor Jet.com, and… Read More

Amazon quietly reduces free shipping minimum back to $35/order for non-Prime members

Facing new competition from Walmart’s free shipping program, Amazon has reverted to a minimum order of $35 for people who aren’t members… Read More

Amazon and nonprofit FareStart team up to launch job training through five new restaurants in Seattle

It’s not news that Amazon has wildly transformed Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood since moving there in 2008. Once an… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market… Read More

Amazon tops Harris Poll for corporate reputation, again, and Jeff Bezos emails ‘kudos and congrats’

You love Amazon. Admit it. OK, you don’t have to admit it here, but enough people out there appreciate what… Read More