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Startup Spotlight: Moovn wants to be the Uber for the developing world

Competing with Uber is no easy feat, as investors are quick to point out. That’s what they told Godwin Gabriel… Read More

Amazon expands Prime Now options with pet-supply deliveries in the Seattle region

If your dog or cat demands the best treat or toy and it has to be there right away, Amazon… Read More

New Amazon Vehicles feature aims to take some of the pain out of car shopping

Amazon is looking to provide relief to people embarking on one of the more stressful retail experiences in life: buying a… Read More

GeekWire launches new Cloud Tech channel, with underwriting support from Salesforce

Cloud technology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing and important areas of the tech industry, and GeekWire has… Read More

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More

Amazon plans discount music subscription service tied to Echo hardware, new report says

Amazon is aiming to launch a standalone streaming music service in two forms — a standard $10/month version, plus another that would be about… Read More

Amazon cites progress in crackdown on fake online product reviews

Amazon is making progress in its ongoing battle to eliminate fake product reviews. The company said today that via litigation,… Read More

Amazon partners with Hyundai to let Prime members book test drives

Over the weekend, Amazon facilitated test drives for prospective Hyundai buyers in an unorthodox move for the Seattle-based tech giant.… Read More

Report: Lyft met with tech giants like Amazon and Apple about potential acquisition

Lyft wants to sell itself, but no one is biting. The New York Times reported Friday that the ride-hailing company… Read More

Polaroid, vinyl…and paperbacks? Bookstore sales are up for the first time in 8 years

The battle between digital and analog is a David and Goliath match. But peddlers of antiquated products do have a… Read More

Mysterious ‘Project X’ points to Amazon drive-up grocery store in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood

Amazon is planning to open a drive-up grocery store in Seattle, newly discovered planning documents suggest. Permit filings uncovered by GeekWire show plans to… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Knack helps busy people create custom gift boxes online

Knack is putting a new spin on an old concept: Gift baskets. The Seattle startup uses advanced stock keeping, recommendation… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa Fund awards biggest investment yet, joining in $35M round for smart thermostat maker ecobee

Smart thermostat maker ecobee Thursday announced it has closed a funding round totaling $35 million from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Thomvest and Relay… Read More

The roof is always greener: How Amazon is capturing water atop its new buildings

Amazon wants its new downtown Seattle campus to be green and sustainable, and one part of that is capturing and… Read More

Amazon to host a BBQ for homeless families in Seattle

Amazon is throwing a summer barbecue for families, staff, and volunteers from homeless shelters operated by the non-profit Mary’s Place.… Read More

Amazon experiments with tech teams consisting entirely of part-time employees, with full benefits

A new pilot program inside Amazon is creating technical teams consisting entirely of part-time employees — including managers — in the company’s latest attempt to… Read More

Amazon partners with Product Hunt on Amazon Launchpad startup product portal

Amazon is adding “Featured on Product Hunt” badges to selected products on its Amazon Launchpad startup e-commerce portal as part of a newly announced… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ technical adviser Maria Renz keynotes Amazon’s first Women’s Entrepreneur Conference

Maria Renz is a trailblazer. A year ago, she became the first woman named technical advisor to CEO Jeff Bezos (a coveted… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch acquires gaming content and resource platform Curse

Amazon-owned Twitch today announced the acquisition of Curse, a gaming content and resource hub visited by more than 30 million people… Read More

Amazon patent filing provides a peek at shrouded delivery drone designs

A newly published patent application almost literally delves into the nuts and bolts of the package-delivering drones that Amazon is… Read More

Amazon releases show pilots on YouTube and Facebook to attract more Prime sign-ups

Amazon wants to get you hooked on Prime. In the latest attempt to lure members to its $99 per year subscription… Read More

Lost phone? No problem, Alexa will find it thanks to new skill from TrackR

Amazon’s digital AI assistant Alexa allows us to do less and less all the time. She can call for a ride, order a… Read More

Adam Selipsky, sales and marketing head at Amazon Web Services, leaving company

Adam Selipsky, the head of sales and marketing at Amazon Web Services and a lieutenant to AWS CEO Andy Jassy,… Read More

Jibo ‘social robot’ cancels overseas orders, as Amazon Echo redefines the category

Jibo is having trouble. The round, cute “social robot,” which raised more than $3.7 million on Indiegogo, was originally scheduled to be… Read More

Amazon bringing 13-episode original series on Playboy’s Hugh Hefner to Prime Video

The story of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is coming to Amazon. A 13-episode original docuseries called “American Playboy: The Hugh… Read More

Amazon Web Services announces Layer 7 application load balancer, 47% cut in cost of Elastic Block Store ‘snapshots’

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new application load balancer as part of the… Read More

Microsoft Xbox acquires Beam interactive game streaming service, embracing alternative to Amazon’s Twitch

Microsoft’s Xbox group announced Thursday that it has acquired Seattle-based interactive game streaming service Beam, bringing the Redmond, Wash.-based tech… Read More

Walmart wanted Jet.com CEO Marc Lore so much they locked him up for at least 5 years

When rumors first surfaced that Walmart was interested in buying Amazon competitor and discount online retailer Jet.com, the assumption was… Read More

New Amazon original kids series ‘The Stinky and Dirty Show’ coming to Prime next month

A new Amazon original kids series, born out of the company’s pilot development process last year, will make its debut on Prime… Read More

Amazon will stream original TV pilots on Twitch, in biggest collaboration since acquisition

[Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that two pilots, not three, will stream on Twitch, and one of the… Read More