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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 Echo now available for preorder without invitation, price set at $180

After seven months, the Amazon Echo is finally available without an invitation. Customers can now purchase the smart Bluetooth speaker… Read More

Don’t worry, Amazon: Not many plan to sign up for Walmart’s new shipping program

How many people will sign up for Walmart’s upcoming shipping service that is aiming to rival Amazon’s own membership program? Not that many,… Read More

What Amazon Echo users really think: Reviews finally go live on stealthy Amazon page

While the Amazon Echo has been available to some lucky users since November, there hasn’t been a way for customers to give… Read More

Amazon to start paying some Kindle authors based on pages read, not downloaded

Amazon is changing the formula for how it pays book royalties after authors complained that they should be rewarded based on how… Read More

Amazon changes its key formula for calculating product ratings and displaying reviews

Amazon has made a behind-the-scenes change to one of its most important technological formulas, with big implications for the millions… Read More

FedEx to Amazon, Uber: Don’t be fooled, we make delivering packages look easy

FedEx shared a few words of wisdom today about tech giants who think they can find cheaper or more efficient ways of delivering… Read More

Amazon exec makes case for drone use beyond pilot’s line of sight in Congressional testimony

Amazon.com continues to push the U.S. Government to adopt regulations that will allow for the operation of automated drones beyond… Read More

Amazon’s new Paperwhite introduces exclusive ‘Bookerly’ font and new typesetting engine

Amazon this morning announced a new version of its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, with a higher-resolution screen and a new font, called “Bookerly”… Read More

Amazon may experiment with crowdsourcing to deliver packages

Amazon has a large network of ways to deliver packages, from FedEx to the U.S. Postal Service, but now it wants to… Read More

With latest moves, Amazon gets serious about game development

Amazon Game Studios is working on a computer game. Kim Swift, Senior Designer at Amazon, posted a hiring call a… Read More

Amazon premiering first episode of ‘Catastrophe’ for free on Facebook

Facebook has been talking about video for a long time. It’s likely safe to say Facebook buys into the almighty… Read More

Amazon now allowing some third-party merchants to ship directly with Prime

Whenever you buy something on Amazon.com that’s marked with the Prime symbol, you expect it to arrive in two days… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon meeting hijacked; Twitter shakeup; and the future of municipal broadband

What if Amazon held its annual shareholders meeting and nobody talked about the company’s actual business? That’s essentially what happened this… Read More

Google’s YouTube creating game-streaming site after losing Twitch to Amazon

After losing Twitch to Amazon last year, YouTube is rolling out its own video game-streaming platform. The new site, YouTube Gaming, will… Read More

Europe launches investigation into Amazon’s e-book contracts with publishers

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s e-book contracts with publishers, examining whether their terms give the… Read More

Amazon launching daily live show to drive product sales, says deleted job posting

A now-deleted job posting from Amazon appears to have spilled the beans on a new video unit for the company. The listing was… Read More

Where’s the Fire Phone? What Jeff Bezos didn’t say at Amazon’s annual meeting

During his presentation at Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting this morning, Jeff Bezos took a moment to tout the company’s device lineup… Read More

Amazon has three great businesses, and Jeff Bezos is hunting for a fourth

Amazon operates in so many markets, sometimes it’s hard to know what makes the company successful. But at the company’s annual shareholders meeting… Read More

Social issues dominate Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting

Amazon’s hiring of former presidential press secretary Jay Carney might have seemed like an unusual move at the time, but… Read More

Amazon annual meeting picketed by affordable housing and workers’ rights advocates

More than 100 protesters gathered outside of Amazon’s annual meeting in Seattle this morning to call on executives to address… Read More

Next stop for Rev. Jesse Jackson: Amazon’s shareholders meeting

Jesse Jackson, meet Jeff Bezos. The civil rights activist, continuing his push for diversity in the tech industry, is planning… Read More

Amazon wants to be your SSL certificate provider, applies to be a root Certificate Authority

Amazon Web Services continues to extend its reach into IT products, applying today to Mozilla and the Android Open Source… Read More

Amazon plans ‘ambitious new PC game’ with Halo and Half-Life vets

Amazon’s early attempts at making epic video games have been underwhelming, but the company is gearing up for a new push — announcing… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon same-day delivery, Windows 10 launch, and farewell to Urbanspoon

This week on the GeekWire radio show: What happened when we tested Amazon same-day delivery on a weekend; what’s at… Read More

Groupon exec shake-up: CFO Jason Child steps down; Rich Williams named COO

Groupon announced two major executive changes this morning, both having to do with former Amazon executives. Groupon CFO Jason Child,… Read More

Amazon brings Minions ads to delivery boxes, marking its first advertising deal on packaging

Your next Amazon box might double as a billboard. The company has started sending boxes featuring advertisements for the new Minions movie… Read More

Amazon introduces free shipping on ‘small and light’ products that weigh less than 8 ounces

Amazon is now offering free shipping with no minimum order requirement on thousands of new items that are small and inexpensive.… Read More

Amazon Fire TV adds 600 new channels, games, apps in the past three months

Amazon Fire TV is continuing to rapidly expand consumers’ selection for new games, channels and apps. Amazon said this morning that… Read More

Seattle tops Amazon’s ‘Most Well-Read Cities’ list

Seattle is filled with tech geeks — and bookworms. According to Amazon, our fair city tops their list of the… Read More

Like magic: Testing Amazon Prime free same-day delivery — on a Sunday

Time is a precious commodity, even on the weekend. So as I woke up Sunday morning and contemplated the errands on my list,… Read More

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