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Amazon

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.

Amazon adds automatic ordering capabilities to washing machines, dog bowls, printers and more

The next time you begin to run out of detergent or your printer starts to run low of ink, Amazon might know it… Read More

It’s official: Uber to start delivering hot lunches around Seattle next week

Uber is getting ready to launch its UberEATS service in Seattle on Oct. 7, making the city the first battleground where Uber and… Read More

Survey shows consumers may need some time to warm up to Amazon’s new crowdsourced deliveries

While companies like Uber and Amazon continue to turn to tech savvy city-dwellers to test new business models that rely on crowdsourced… Read More

Aerial photos show Amazon’s epic biospheres taking shape in Seattle

Amazon says the sphere-shaped structures it’s building as a centerpiece for its new urban campus in Seattle won’t open until 2017, but… Read More

Amazon takes on CafePress, Teespring to offer no-risk merch shirts for app and game developers

Amazon is getting into the on-demand t-shirt game with Merch by Amazon, a new program announced today for companies and individuals who want… Read More

Confirmed: Amazon Flex officially launches, and it’s like Uber for package delivery

Amazon officially launched its new Amazon Flex package delivery option on Tuesday, taking a page out of Uber’s book by… Read More

Thumbtack raises $125M as home improvement battle with Pro.com, Porch and Amazon heats up

There’s a war brewing in the home improvement tech industry with giants like Amazon and Google just starting to get involved and… Read More

Amazon will employ a full-time horticulturalist for its new plant-filled Seattle biodomes

We all know Amazon has an army of coders working away in offices behind that reflective glass around its Seattle headquarters,… Read More

Amazon exec touts contributions, avoids NYT controversy in talk to Seattle business leaders

Jeff Wilke, the head of Amazon’s consumer business, spoke to Seattle business leaders on Monday, the first major public appearance… Read More

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Life as an Amazon bike courier, an epic gathering of tech moguls, and a GeekWire Summit preview

It was a big week in Seattle, with President Xi Jinping’s visit bringing some of biggest names in tech to Microsoft’s Redmond… Read More

Amazon Video debuts in Japan, starts pre-orders for Fire TV and Fire TV Stick today

Amazon Video is now available to Japanese Prime subscribers, and the company rolling out pre-orders for the new Amazon Fire TV and… Read More

Life as an Amazon bicycle courier: Steep hills and even steeper expectations

Amazon has a growing list of seemingly magical new delivery services, promising to bring household items, high-tech gadgets and even dinner to your… Read More

GeekWire Summit is one week away! Check out the agenda for our biggest event ever

We’re one week away from the GeekWire Summit, our biggest event ever and a must-attend conference for anyone interested in… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg wears a suit, Jeff Bezos is best-dressed at meeting with China president

Many of the world’s top technology CEOs were looking fancy and fresh at Microsoft’s headquarters on Wednesday — even Mark Zuckerberg… Read More

Photos: Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg meet China’s president at Microsoft

If the tech world had an All-Star Game, today’s Internet Forum at Microsoft could certainly qualify. Top CEOs like Apple’s Tim Cook,… Read More

A new chapter for e-books?: Sales plunge 10% in the first five months of the year

Sales of e-books, which were expected to overtake print by 2015, have suddenly slowed sharply, leaving industry observers to wonder the digital apocalypse was… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec looks to disrupt healthcare at Providence Ventures, taps former Swype CEO as entrepreneur-in-residence

Over the past year, Providence Health & Services, a 159-year old not-for-profit Catholic health care provider, has quietly built a sophisticated… Read More

Amazon’s 6 new pilots include shows from heavy hitters Louis CK and Sacha Baron Cohen

Amazon’s amping up for fall and announced six new pilots with Hollywood heavyweights, including shows created by Louis CK and… Read More

Amazon slashes Prime price to $67 for new customers to celebrate Emmy wins

Amazon is cutting the price of Amazon Prime to $67 this Friday in celebration of its five Emmy wins for its original… Read More

Exclusive: Uber to launch restaurant delivery in Seattle and 5 other new cities in big expansion

Watch out, Amazon — you’re not the only tech giant looking to dominate the restaurant delivery business. Uber has been adding… Read More

India’s Flipkart recruits three high-level execs from Amazon, Microsoft and Google

Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce site founded by two former Amazonians, has hired three top executives, including one from Amazon, to continue… Read More

Amazon is Hollywood’s ‘new BFF’ as Transparent scores Emmy wins

Transparent creator Jill Soloway gave Amazon some high praise on Sunday night — ranking the company right after “The Goddess” on the list… Read More

Google scoops up former Amazon Lab126 employees for reboot of Google Glass

Amazon’s Fire Phone may have been a total flop, but Google seems to think the engineers may have been on… Read More

Amazon’s new Fire tablet is so inexpensive, they’re selling a 6-pack for $250

Got $250 to spend? That won’t get you even one new iPad, but it’s enough for six Amazon tablets. The company… Read More

Amazon’s Fire Phone is MIA from new lineup, but execs won’t confirm its death

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon announced a sweeping update to its hardware lineup on Thursday, but there was one device noticeably… Read More

Amazon unveils seven new devices, including $50 tablet and new Fire TV with Alexa and 4K video

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon invited a small group of reporters to a perfectly staged house in San Francisco this week… Read More

Amazon expands Prime Now one-hour delivery service to Los Angeles

Amazon Prime members in Los Angeles and Orange County now have access to Prime Now. Amazon announced today that its one-hour delivery… Read More

Amazon converting Prime members into Washington Post digital subscribers with new promotion

Amazon launched a new promotion with The Washington Post this morning, offering its tens of millions of Amazon Prime members the opportunity to… Read More

Authors of ‘Amazonian Manifesto’ hire marketing firm to spread message at Amazon HQ

The mysterious group that authored the “Amazonian Manifesto” to urge changes in Amazon’s workplace culture has hired a marketing company to get the message out to employees… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa coming to Fire TV? Site points to ‘overwhelming evidence’ in Fire OS source code

The Fire TV isn’t dead, but its brains may be getting updated with Amazon’s Alexa, the virtual assistent first introduced… Read More

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