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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 fights patent suit using little-noticed clause in standard AWS customer agreement

As recently as 2011, according to Amazon, someone at Appistry Inc. registered the genomics data technology company to use Amazon Web Services. As part… Read More

Tech Moves: LivingSocial adds former eBay exec to board; TV news anchor joins Amazon; INRIX taps CMO; etc.

—LivingSocial, the Washington, D.C.-based daily deals company, has appointed former eBay executive Lorrie Norrington to its board, where she will serve as an… Read More

Why Amazon opened a storefront on Alibaba’s online marketplace

Amazon has launched a storefront on Alibaba’s e-commerce portal. So why would Amazon would be willing to partner with one of its biggest competitors?… Read More

Amazon is bringing its original video games to Apple’s iPad and iPhone

Amazon announced today that several of the original video game titles developed by its in-house gaming studio will be available… Read More

European court says e-books are not books, must face higher taxes

A European high court has ruled against France and Luxembourg, saying that the two countries cannot charge lower value-added tax… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing unit is worth up to $50B, analyst says

Starting this year Amazon shareholders will know exactly how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business when it starts to… Read More

Alibaba opens first U.S. data center, challenging Amazon in the cloud

Alibaba is opening a data center in Silicon Valley — its first outside of China — stepping up its competition with Amazon… Read More

Target outlines big tech plans, with expectations for digital sales to rise 40 percent this year

Target laid out an aggressive growth strategy today during a two-hour long meeting with the investment community that includes boosting digital sales… Read More

Twitter campaign urges Amazon to rename ‘Amazon Mom’ to ‘Amazon Family’ in U.S.

The death of a popular dad blogger has re-ignited a campaign calling on Amazon to rename its “Amazon Mom” program to “Amazon Family” in… Read More

March Madness becomes ‘Math Madness’ for Amazon’s edtech company

March as “Math Madness?” No, it’s not an alternate calendar for those who tend more toward nerd than jock. Today TenMarks,… Read More

Amazon Echo getting third-party apps: SDK planned for smart speaker

Amazon’s Echo team is working on a software development kit, setting the stage for outside developers to create third-party apps for the intelligent,… Read More

Amazon hires former White House press secretary Jay Carney as senior exec, reporting to Jeff Bezos

Amazon has hired Jay Carney, the political commentator and former White House press secretary, as senior vice president for Worldwide… Read More

Amazon Fresh truck

Patent filing reveals Amazon’s idea to 3D-print products on delivery trucks

Why bother with delivery by drone when you can deliver — and make — the product on the same truck?… Read More

Amazon’s crowdsourced ‘Kindle Scout’ program picks first 10 digital books for publication

Amazon this morning named the first 10 digital books to be published through its “Kindle Scout” program, which lets customers nominate… Read More

Amazon textbook rental competitor Chegg chucks physical inventory

Online college textbook rental company Chegg is getting out of textbook ownership to stay in the textbook rental business. Chegg,… Read More

Amazon picks up second seasons for ‘Annedroids,’ ‘Tumble Leaf’ and two other original kids shows

Amazon is doubling down on its stable of original programming for kids. The company has picked up second seasons of… Read More

Target unleashes new challenge to Amazon’s perks, drops free shipping threshold to $25/order

Target Corp. this morning took a new competitive swipe at Amazon, reducing its minimum online order requirement to $25 to qualify… Read More

‘Alexa, show me the money!’ Amazon updates Echo to deliver famous movie retorts

Amazon’s Echo team is having lots of fun with the ability to regularly update the intelligent, talking home speaker. Just… Read More

Amazon’s Twitch will hold inaugural ‘TwitchCon’ in S.F. in September

Twitch, the game streaming and social video company acquired by Amazon last year for $1 billion, was teasing a big announcement on… Read More

App developers bailing on Fire Phone, in new challenge for Amazon

It’s no secret that Amazon’s first smartphone was a flop with consumers, but behind the scenes, the Fire Phone is also struggling with another… Read More

Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction

Amazon Web Services continues to dominate cloud computing, with 57 percent of technical professionals saying in a new survey that… Read More

Amazon plays it safe, green lighting five pilots from its latest season

Amazon announced today that it green lit three new adult-oriented shows for its stable of original video programming out of seven pilots… Read More

Amazon expands one-hour delivery service to all of Manhattan

Amazon now promises one-hour delivery of daily essential items to anyone in Manhattan. Mashable reported today that Amazon has expanded Prime… Read More

News Brief

Cha-ching!: U.S. e-commerce sales surpass $300B for the first time in 2014

Amazon wasn’t the only one that finished the year strong. The U.S. Commerce Department released new statistics today showing that e-commerce… Read More

Report: Amazon packages do occassionally arrive late — but no more than average

Last week Amazon dismissed the results of a study claiming that 10 percent of packages arrived later than shoppers were expecting during the holidays.… Read More

Seattle’s KING-TV building sells for $42.5M, clearing way for more office towers near Amazon

The longtime home of KING-TV in Seattle, just up the street from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood,… Read More

Amazon’s aerial delivery ambitions dealt a blow by FAA’s newly proposed rules for commercial drones

Updated below with Amazon comment. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday released its proposed rules for commercial unmanned aircraft… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Candy Crush maker arrives in Seattle, Expedia’s big moves, and cutting the cord with Sling TV

This week on the GeekWire Radio Show: The maker of Candy Crush makes a sweet deal in Seattle, acquiring Battle… Read More

FTC clears Zillow’s $1.8 billion acquisition of Trulia, deal could close next week

Seattle-based online real estate company Zillow announced Friday afternoon that it plans to close its $1.8 billion acquisition of San Francisco-based Trulia… Read More

Inside Amazon’s heavy-duty fulfillment center: A ‘perfect symbiosis’ of robots and humans

DUPONT, Wash. — It has actually been in operation since last summer, but Amazon marked the grand opening of its… Read More

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