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If you’re looking for a holiday read or you want to gift a great book to a loved one, consider… Read More

‘Good Girls Revolt’ executive producer ‘flabbergasted’ over Amazon cancellation as fans rally around axed series

Amazon’s abrupt cancellation of the critically acclaimed series “Good Girls Revolt” has struck a nerve with feminists and fans in… Read More

How ‘Amazon Go’ works: The technology behind the online retailer’s groundbreaking new grocery store

Amazon this morning unveiled its first convenience store, a high-tech retail location called “Amazon Go,” currently in a private beta testing in… Read More

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The end of grocery checkers? Amazon’s high-tech store points to the future of physical retail

First there were supermarket shelves. Then barcode scanners, then self-checkout lines, then online shopping. Amazon’s move to take the grocery… Read More

Online grocery wars: Fred Meyer expanding drive-up service this week in Amazon country

Fred Meyer will open a new drive-up grocery location this Wednesday at its store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood — expanding its “ClickList” service… Read More

Amazon to open first ‘self-driving’ grocery store, with no checkout lines, in Seattle in early 2017

Amazon just unveiled details of a new brick-and-mortar convenience store that will let shoppers pick up items off the shelves… Read More

Video: Marshawn Lynch drives Amazon Treasure Truck, autographs bags of Skittles and Beast Mode Amazon Echo devices

Ex-Seahawks star running back Marshawn Lynch was at CenturyLink Field in Seattle today, but this time he was there to… Read More

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Ex-NFL star Marshawn Lynch teams up with Amazon to drive the Treasure Truck, autograph ‘Beast Mode’ Echo devices

The Treasure Truck is going Beast Mode. Amazon’s deals-on-wheels truck has a cool offering for customers today with an extra special guest:… Read More

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Week in Geek: New Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has deep roots in tech

Howard Schultz will be replaced as Starbucks CEO by longtime technology executive Kevin Johnson, a veteran of Microsoft and other… Read More

AWS cheat sheet: Here are the key re:Invent announcements to know about today

LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services unleashed another wave of technologies today at its re:Invent conference during a keynote by… Read More

Seattle-based Apple team will use drones to improve Maps app in bid to catch up to Google

Apple is doubling down on its Maps app, assembling a team of robotics and data-collection experts to quickly update conditions… Read More

Amazon debuts Pinpoint to help mobile developers engage users with targeted push notifications

For developers, building an app is hard enough. Actually getting people to use a product is another story. That’s why Amazon… Read More

Amazon enables AWS CodeBuild, a managed service to build applications

While many developers use build servers running in AWS, typically those build environments are deployed, configured and managed by the… Read More

Amazon unveils AWS X-Ray and Personal Health Dashboard to help monitor application health in the cloud

Developers who deploy applications on AWS now have a new set of tools from Amazon to help them monitor and… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils ‘Shield’ to protect sites from crippling online attacks

A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties,… Read More

AWS serves up new Chef integration, boosting Seattle-based software automation startup

LAS VEGAS — This morning at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference, Seattle-based software-automation firm Chef announced that the full capabilities… Read More

Stream on: Amazon adds premium networks HBO and Cinemax to Channels feature

Amazon’s claim to the streaming throne may have just gotten a little stronger. The Seattle retail giant this morning announced… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy ‘optimistic’ AWS will become a $100B business, but no spinoff plans

LAS VEGAS — After his two-hour keynote at re:Invent 2016 this morning, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy fielded questions from… Read More

Amazon partners with Techstars for new Alexa accelerator at University of Washington

Amazon is looking for startups that can build innovative technologies using the company’s Alexa artificial intelligence platform. The tech giant today… Read More

Book a trip with your voice? Travel giant Expedia launches new Amazon Alexa skill

Today, Expedia is rolling out a new skill for Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices in advance of the busiest travel season of… Read More

Amazon reveals AWS Snowmobile, a 45-foot semi-trailer that moves exabytes of data to the cloud

LAS VEGAS — Snowball, a physical device introduced by Amazon last year to quickly move 50 TB of data out… Read More

Amazon launches new artificial intelligence services for developers: Image recognition, text-to-speech, Alexa NLP

Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on Amazon Web Services. At the company’s AWS re:invent… Read More

New Amazon Athena service enables SQL queries on data stored in Amazon S3

Amazon introduced a new SQL query service called Amazon Athena at the re:invent conference in Las Vegas this morning. Athena… Read More

Amazon launches Amazon Lightsail with low-cost $5 virtual private servers

Providers of low-costs virtual private servers (VPS) are facing a major new competitor this morning, as AWS announced the new… Read More

Netflix now lets you download movies and TV shows to watch offline

Binging your favorite shows just got a lot easier. Netflix this morning announced the much-anticipated ability to download shows and… Read More

AWS Storage Gateway adds virtual on-premises file server and lowers pricing

Amazon Web Services wants enterprises to move their data storage to the cloud, replacing on-premise file servers, SANs and backup… Read More

Amazon Web Services pledges to power data centers with 50% renewable energy by end of 2017

Large-scale data centers consume huge amounts of power, but Amazon Web Services is making an effort to move more of… Read More

NASA unveils a skill for Amazon’s Alexa that lets you ask questions about Mars

Amazon’s Alexa has gained many skills over the past year, such as being able to read tweets or deliver election… Read More

Tableau goes with Amazon Web Services for new expansion into public cloud

Seattle-based Tableau Software is making a big move into the public cloud, expanding the subscription-based, hosted version of its data visualization… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy implores partners to commit to AWS to receive business

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy told a room full of its cloud partners and consultants to fully commit to… Read More

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