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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 workers in Germany strike again over wages

Amazon warehouse workers in Germany are voicing their concern again over wages, with 2,000 workers walking off the job at five… Read More

A trip to the mall reveals many fires for Amazon to put out — but not many Fires being sold

For the past seven years, Apple fans have been waiting in lines to buy the latest iPhones, and the new iPhone 6’s have proven… Read More

AT&T starts bundling Amazon Prime with HBO and broadband

Bundles of services are nothing new in the “triple play” world of telecom providers, but here’s a different twist: AT&T is… Read More

Ex-Amazon payments vet leaves to ‘drive the future of commerce at Microsoft’

An Amazon payments veteran is leaving the Seattle online giant and heading across town. Iain Kennedy, who had spent the past six years helping… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos hosts Campfire: A top secret literary retreat in Santa Fe

Amazon.com is warring with publishing giant Hachette, placing the Seattle online retailer in the crosshairs of hundreds of well-known authors… Read More

Amazon app for iPhone adds Touch ID support, but nobody knows how to turn it on…or off

Shoppers who want to grab deals as fast as they possibly can now have a new tool at their disposal:… Read More

Alibaba CEO Jack Ma says he’d be open to partnering with Amazon

Alibaba CEO Jack Ma seemed stunned initially when Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang asked about a possible joint venture with Amazon.com.… Read More

Analyst: Amazon may have 50 million Prime members

Amazon’s Prime membership program may have as many as 50 million members worldwide, RBC analyst Mark Mahaney said in a… Read More

Alibaba prices IPO, valuing company at $167B — more than Amazon

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has priced its impending IPO on the New York Stock Exchange at $68 per share, at the… Read More

Amazon pays $4.6M for control of .buy

Amazon has beat Google to purchase the new .buy top-level domain, paying just under $4.6 million dollars in an auction… Read More

Kindle’s new ‘Family Library’ feature links Amazon accounts for content sharing

As part of the big update to its Kindle lineup, announced overnight, Amazon is planning a feature for its new Kindle… Read More

Amazon unveils 2 new tablets, 2 new e-readers in massive Kindle refresh

Not content to sit back while Apple claimed all the headlines today, Amazon announced a quartet of new Kindles in… Read More

Leaks reveal Amazon ‘Kindle Voyage’ e-reader, with new sensors in bezel for turning pages

Leaks on the German and Japan versions of Amazon.com this morning reveal new details about the company’s next-generation Kindle e-reader,… Read More

Ex-Diapers.com CEO raises $25M more for Amazon competitor

Exactly what Marc Lore, the former CEO of Diapers.com, has in store for Jet.com is not clear, but he has plenty… Read More

Amazon spent $158 million on Google search ads in 2013, more than anyone

Amazon.com is competing with Google in a number of arenas, from phones to cloud services to drones. But this could… Read More

Amazon reveals plans to spend whopping $1.1 billion on Ohio data center

Seattle-based Amazon.com is considering a big expansion in the Buckeye State, revealing plans to spend us much as $1.1 billion… Read More

Amazon exec: Twitch’s culture made it a natural fit for acquisition

SAN FRANCISCO – When asked about Amazon’s $970 million acquisition of Twitch, Mike Frazzini, the Vice President of Amazon Game… Read More

Amazon games chief explains strategy for making new titles, attracting talent

SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon Game Studios has picked up a lot of high-profile talent in the form of developers who… Read More

How Amazon’s new Seattle office buildings will recycle ‘waste heat’ from nearby data centers

The biodomes Amazon is planning for its new Seattle campus aren’t the only green aspects to the company’s expansion in the… Read More

News Brief

Alibaba’s higher IPO price would make it more valuable than Amazon, Disney

Alibaba, the largest e-commerce company in China, is now seeking to raise $66 to $68 a share in its U.S.… Read More

Coke resurrects Surge cola as Amazon exclusive — and it sells out in a flash

Amazon was only an online bookstore when The Coca-Cola company first launched Surge, but that didn’t stop the beverage giant from… Read More

Hachette vs. Amazon: Writers plan to appeal to online retailer’s board

Amazon.com’s board will be the next group to be dragged into a months-long dispute between the online retailer and publishing… Read More

It’s getting too dang hard to move around Seattle

I love Seattle. The mountains, the water and the quirky neighborhoods that make this one of the most beautiful and… Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook digs at Amazon: ‘They’re not a product company’

Apple CEO Tim Cook was on The Charlie Rose Show last night for the first of a two-part interview about… Read More

Amazon plans London office tower with room for 5,000 employees

Amazon is opening up more office space not only in its hometown of Seattle, but also overseas. The company announced today… Read More

Expansion continues: Amazon to add 778K square feet of office space with two more buildings in Seattle

Another day, another Amazon building going up in Seattle. Amazon has submitted proposals with the city to construct two buildings on a block near the company’s new 3.3… Read More

Tim Cook

Why did Apple’s live stream fail? Devs debate caching problems, Amazon S3 configuration

Attempting to watch Apple’s live stream yesterday from Cupertino was an exercise in frustration, at least for the first half… Read More

Taking stock of the winners and losers: How Wall Street reacted to Apple’s announcements

You would have thought that new iPhones, the Apple Watch and an extensive mobile payments service would be enough to… Read More

Amazon tries to lure Android users to its AppStore with Prime Video streaming

Amazon has finally launched Prime Instant Video for Android phones today, allowing users of Google’s mobile OS to access its… Read More

Twitch CEO says they sold to Amazon to maintain independence

SAN FRANCISCO – When the rumor mill heated up about a potential acquisition of online video game streaming website Twitch,… Read More

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