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Revealed: Here’s the ‘secret product’ Amazon is selling at midnight on Sunday

It’s Harry Potter. Amazon’s “secret product” release at midnight on Sunday, which we first reported on last week, is the… Read More

Amazon launches Prime service in India, offering speedy shipping to members

Amazon Prime has arrived in India. Amazon today launched its membership program to customers across more than 100 cities in India, offering free… Read More

Can Amazon Web Services keep up its torrid pace? Cloud juggernaut eyes $10B in yearly revenue

Amazon Web Services has been essential in keeping Amazon profitable. Last quarter, the cloud computing platform accounted for 56 percent of… Read More

Amazon to expand drone delivery tests in U.K., partnering with government, after U.S. setbacks

Amazon announced Monday it is partnering with the United Kingdom to expand testing for its Prime Air drone delivery service.… Read More

New badges for Amazon employees spark controversy over black-and-white design

Amazon is redesigning employee badges, but not everybody is happy with the new look. The Seattle Times reported that the… Read More

Birkenstock walks away from Amazon, plans to pull products over surge in counterfeit sandals

Birkenstock, the German shoemaker famous for its sandals, has announced it will stop selling products on Amazon and will prevent third… Read More

7-Eleven completes ‘historic’ Slurpee delivery via drone, beating Amazon to the punch

Amazon has grabbed headlines with its plans to deliver packages via drone, but 7-Eleven says it got there first this… Read More

Former Microsoft Xbox Live leader Marc Whitten joins Amazon after stint with Sonos

Marc Whitten, a longtime Xbox Live leader who was most recently chief product officer at Sonos, is now working as an… Read More

Amazon and Wells Fargo partner to offer discounted student loans

Amazon Student subscribers are now eligible for discounted interest rates when applying for private student loans through Wells Fargo. The… Read More

Amazon plans ‘secret’ midnight product launch next week, according to internal message to Flex drivers

Amazon is preparing to launch a secret product later this month. In an email sent to Amazon Flex delivery drivers, obtained… Read More

Amazon isn’t done growing: Here’s how much space the tech giant expects to occupy in Seattle by 2022

Amazon’s Seattle presence totaled about 640,000 square feet when John Schoettler, director of global real estate and facilities, started with the company in… Read More

Lunch Wars: Testing Amazon’s new ‘Daily Dish’ workplace meal delivery service

It’s just before noon on the fifth floor of F5 Networks on another sunny summer day in Seattle. A delivery driver… Read More

Inside Amazon’s orbs: an office building, retail space and forest all in one

Picture this: a retail hub, with several stories of office space on top. But also, it’s in a forest full of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: ‘Tinder for roommates’ RentHoop helps you find people to live with

Fresh out of college, Paul Burke went to hear Zillow and Expedia co-founder Rich Barton speak at a Startup Week… Read More

Amazon tests Daily Dish workplace lunch delivery service, rivaling former employees’ startup Peach

Amazon has quietly begun testing a workplace lunch delivery service in Seattle, letting employees at specific companies order lunch specials… Read More

What it’s like to take Amazon’s new Seattle headquarters tour

When we heard Amazon was planning to offer tours of its Seattle headquarters, we had to sign up. And apparently so… Read More

Amazon envisions drone recharging stations on street lights, patent filing shows

Imagine sitting at an intersection, waiting for the light to change, when your dazed reverie is interrupted by a drone… Read More

Amazon scores original kids series ‘The Kicks,’ based on books by U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan

Amazon has a new original kids series called “The Kicks” coming to Prime Video that seizes on the popularity of youth… Read More

Amazon goes Bollywood, plans to spend $300M on original Prime Video content in India, report says

Amazon plans to spend approximately $300 million to fund original movies and series in India, as part of its $3 billion… Read More

Amazon launches Singles Classics, selling historic essays on Kindle for $1 a pop

Amazon is rolling out a new service, called Singles Classics, that allows anyone with the Kindle app to purchase famous… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plays role in ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ fulfilling a dream

As a kid growing up in Texas, Jeff Bezos loved to play “Star Trek” with his friends from the neighborhood,… Read More

Amazon banana stand is extra busy as thousands split from work for free ice cream

Those free Amazon bananas are fine for filling a whole in your belly, but on Friday, in honor of National… Read More

Amazon Video starts letting Android users download movies and shows directly to SD card

It’d be great to download a full season of “The Americans” to watch on a long international flight, but most… Read More

Amazon Web Services buys Cloud9, a maker of online development tools

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a privately held company that sells an online, collaborative integrated development… Read More

Amazon stock hits record high, passes Berkshire as fifth-most valuable U.S. public company

Amazon’s stock hit a record-high on Monday, making the tech giant one of the top 5 most-valuable U.S. public companies. Bloomberg noted… Read More

Prime Day 2016 kicks off with deals on TVs, Amazon devices

Amazon’s second Prime Day is off and running. As the clock struck midnight, some of the first big deals included… Read More

Prime Day primer: Everything you need to know about Amazon’s biggest sale ever

The second Amazon Prime Day starts at midnight tonight, but you probably already knew that. The company has been making… Read More

New study: Amazon reaches 63M U.S. Prime members — surpassing half of customer base for first time

Amazon’s Prime program has reached 63 million members in the U.S. — an increase of 43 percent over the past… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Seattle ranks 3rd best tech city; end of an era at Microsoft; and more

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Seattle is the third best tech city in the U.S., according to a… Read More

‘Alexa, make Amazon some money’: Online retail giant promotes voice-enabled purchasing with exclusive deals

Amazon is making a big push into voice-enabled purchasing by offering a series of deals to people who order items using its… Read More