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Amazon’s Fire TV devices get Sling TV’s new $20/month streaming service

Amazon continues to roll out upgrades for its Fire TV family of devices. Today, the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick… Read More

How Jeff Bezos influenced the design, creation of Washington Post’s Amazon Fire app

Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about Jeff Bezos’ leadership style at Amazon.com and to some extent, how involved… Read More

Amazon disputes report claiming deliveries arrived late this holiday

Amazon is downplaying the results of a new study today that claims 10 percent of shoppers said packages arrived later than expected over… Read More

Hachette’s parent says Amazon dispute partly to blame for fewer e-book sales last year

The seven-month long dispute between Hachette and Amazon was a costly one, with the company disclosing weaker sales for the… Read More

Testing #AmazonGiveaway: Here’s your chance to win a Chromecast from GeekWire!

[Update: The Chromecast giveaway has ended, as all three prizes have been awarded. Thanks for testing this out with us,… Read More

Amazon unveils ‘Giveaway’ service, aiming to modernize and automate promotional contests

Amazon is unveiling a new service this morning called Amazon Giveaway — promising to simplify and streamline the process of running promotional… Read More

Sears plans new Seattle engineering office, hires ex-Amazon execs for big home-services tech push

Sears is recruiting engineers for a new software development office in downtown Seattle, and the venerable retailer has hired a group… Read More

Alibaba makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative List, Amazon falls off

Fast Company announced its annual ranking of the world’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse, ranks… Read More

Cracking down on non-compete deals: Bill would change Wash. state law to mirror Calif. approach

New legislation introduced in the Washington State House of Representatives would make it much tougher for employers in the state to… Read More

Amazon considers data center expansion in Oregon, lobbies to fix tax issue

Amazon.com continues to expand its data center footprint all over the world, and the online retailing and cloud computing powerhouse… Read More

Amazon’s Instant Video catches up to Netflix in key measure of user engagement

Amazon picked up a couple Golden Globe Awards last month for its original video programming, and now it seems the… Read More

Where is the love? Seattle drops out of Amazon’s ‘most romantic cities’ list

According to Amazon, Seattleites are becoming less and less romantic. The online retail giant unveiled its annual list of “Most Romantic… Read More

Amazon SVP Steve Kessel returns from sabbatical to work on ‘super secret’ project

Steve Kessel, the Amazon executive responsible for developing the company’s first e-reader, returned to the company in 2012 following a sabbatical and… Read More

Amazon fires back at IDC over tablet sales estimates

Amazon isn’t happy with a recent report from IDC that showed the company only shipping 1.7 million Fire tablets during… Read More

New Amazon app lets anyone digitize physical books

Amazon wants to make it easier for people to get their old books digitized and onto a Kindle. The company… Read More

What’s in store for Amazon: Company’s latest moves signal a new push into physical retail

What if there was an Amazon store in almost every U.S. neighborhood? That scenario is probably years away, but late… Read More

10 years later, Amazon releases every Prime number — except the one everyone cares about

Amazon is marking the 10th anniversary of its Amazon Prime membership program today, celebrating an initiative that has turned into a key… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft reportedly pay to avoid Adblock Plus filtering

When it comes to getting around web browser ad blockers, it’s apparently more than who you know. It’s how much you… Read More

This is bleeping awesome: Amazon Echo’s Alexa will cuss on command

Alexa, the virtual personality behind Amazon Echo, will now repeat anything you want. As long as you don’t step into NSFW language,… Read More

Tablet shipments slip in Q4 for a lackluster 2014

Despite new tablet launches and the holiday shopping season, tablet sales fell in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to… Read More

Amazon expands college campus program to get students hooked on Prime

Amazon is partnering with even more universities to offer discounts on textbooks, one-day delivery and other services. Amazon now has deals with… Read More

Amazon: Seahawks fans are top purchasers of TVs and team gear

It seems like every other person in Seattle is wearing Seahawks gear on this Super Bowl Weekend, and now we can quantify the 12th… Read More

Amazon stock up 14 percent as investors rally around fourth quarter profits

Amazon turned an unexpected profit during its holiday quarter, and Wall Street has responded by driving the company’s stock up… Read More

Chart: Amazon tops 154,000 employees, a whopping 31 percent increase in 2014

There’s a good reason why Amazon needs all that shiny new office space in Seattle: the company’s employee headcount keeps… Read More

Amazon will break out Amazon Web Services financials in 2015; AWS usage up 90% in one year

Amazon investors and the public will soon have a better idea of how much revenue the company generates from its cloud… Read More

Amazon Prime memberships grow 53% in 2014, despite $20 price hike

Amazon’s decision to increase the price of its Prime membership doesn’t seem to be hurting the company. In the company’s… Read More

Amazon shares up 14% after posting EPS of $0.45, crushing holiday quarter expectations

Amazon today posted revenue of $29.3 billion and $214 million in profit for the 2014 holiday quarter. While Amazon missed… Read More

Amazon-owned Twitch more than doubled its viewership in 2014

Video game streaming is shaping up to be big business. Twitch announced today that the service saw 100 million unique… Read More

Zappos tries out surge pay for call center workers

Zappos.com, the online shoe and clothing retailer owned by Amazon.com, is bringing the concept of Uber’s surge pricing to customer… Read More

Amazon jumps into corporate email market with new ‘WorkMail’ service

Amazon is launching a new email and calendar service, dubbed WorkMail, to compete with Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps and other behind-the-scenes… Read More