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Attention robot fans: Amazon.com unveils ‘Drone Store’

Amazon isn’t just interested in making its own drones to deliver items — now the company has opened up an online… Read More

Dropping the price of the Amazon Fire Phone to 99 cents doesn’t go far enough

Apple will suck the air out of the room tomorrow after its 10 a.m. press event, where it is expected to unveil new… Read More

Amazon drops Fire Phone to 99 cents after lackluster debut

Following a lackluster debut for its new flagship smartphone, Amazon this morning announced that it is dropping the price of the… Read More

Instacart inks deal with Whole Foods for in-store pick-up, speedier grocery delivery

Instacart has struck a formal partnership with Whole Foods Market, one which will allow for grocery delivery in less than… Read More

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Amazon to borrow up to $2 billion under new credit agreement

Amazon this afternoon disclosed a new credit agreement with Bank of America that will let the Seattle company borrow as much as… Read More

Amazon expands partnership with USPS to deliver groceries

Amazon confirms that it has begun testing grocery delivery service in San Francisco with the help of the U.S. Postal… Read More

Google agrees to refund customers $19M over kids’ in-app purchases

Google will refund at least $19 million to parents who paid for in-app purchases that their children made on Android devices without their knowledge… Read More

Amazon launches its first iPad game, pairing Apple tablets with the Fire TV

Amazon launched “Sev Zero: Air Support” for the iPad today, in a move that will connect Apple’s tablets with the… Read More

Tech Moves: Big Fish lures former PopCap CFO; Her Interactive names CEO; Pendrell’s new CFO; and more

—Big Fish just hooked a new finance chief. The Seattle casual games company today announced that Bob Chamberlain recently joined… Read More

Amazon launches new direct publishing program for kids’ e-books

Amazon announced today that children’s book authors have a new way to get their stories in front of young readers… Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson to Amazon: Please, release your diversity numbers

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter all have released data about the diversity of their workforces in recent months. But there’s… Read More

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Amazon begins rolling out the Fire TV in Europe at a huge discount

Amazon announced today the Amazon Fire TV is now available for pre-order in the United Kingdom and Germany for a generous… Read More

Amazon’s longtime finance boss will retire in 2015

Tom Szkutak, Amazon’s chief financial officer for the past 12 years, will retire from the company next summer, the company… Read More

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Jeff Bezos taps Politico co-founder as new Washington Post publisher

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has tapped Politico co-founder Fred Ryan as the new publisher of The Washington Post. Ryan will… Read More

Avoiding news copters and skyscrapers: NASA developing automated air traffic control system for drones

Everyone is talking about drones. From bans at National Parks to Google’s new experimental Project Wing, unmanned aerial vehicles are… Read More

Amazon’s new TV pilots: Which shows to watch — and which to skip

It’s that time of year again: Amazon has just released its third set of original web video pilots, and the… Read More

The Seattle freeze is real; the geekiest bicycle in the world; and other top posts of the month

Wow, what happened to the summer? It’s already Labor Day, and the dog days of summer have simply slipped away.… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: How the big wireless carriers stack up

Are you happy with your current wireless carrier? This week on the GeekWire radio show, we explore the relative strengths… Read More

An open letter to Jeff Bezos: How to generate an extra $2B for Amazon

Hi Jeff, I am a small online merchant who primarily sells fitness products through our website. After a customer buys… Read More

Look out, Amazon: Google is taking to the skies with its own delivery drones

As it turns out, Amazon isn’t the only major internet company that plans to provide drone delivery. Google has been… Read More

Who’s up for some binge-watching? Amazon’s new slate of original TV pilots arrives

Well, I know what I’m doing this weekend. Amazon launched its new slate of five new original television pilots today… Read More

Amazon’s Zocalo launches broadly, taking on Google, Box and Microsoft in enterprise collaboration

Amazon Zocalo, the new enterprise collaboration service from Amazon Web Services, is now available for everyone to use, the company… Read More

Amazon touts Student program with $5K college scholarships

Amazon is handing out college scholarships in an effort to have more people sign up for its Amazon Student program. The Seattle company today announced… Read More

Watch out, GoDaddy: Google’s no-fuss domain service poses threat to traditional registrars

Yesterday morning, Google let me into its new invite-only domain registration service, and I decided to give it a test run… Read More

AT&T shuffles the deck: Glenn Lurie to head up Mobility; Ralph de la Vega tapped for larger role

The wireless industry has seen more executive changes recently than it has in a decade. Today’s big move comes from… Read More

Amazon vs. Google: Twitch deal highlights growing war between tech giants

Now that the initial shock from Amazon’s purchase of Twitch is starting to wear off, the synergies between the two… Read More

Amazon Fire Phone sales estimated at 35,000 — equal to just 25% of employee base

Amazon never releases sales figures for any of the hardware it builds, but that isn’t stopping others from making their best guesses as… Read More

Here are Amazon’s top 5 biggest acquisitions of all time

Amazon.com is betting big on video streaming platform for gaming geeks Twitch, announcing today that it is paying $970 million… Read More

Amazon’s $970M acquisition of Twitch is largest in its history

Confirming reports from earlier this morning, Amazon announced this afternoon that it has agreed to acquire video game streaming site… Read More

Update: Amazon acquires video game streaming site Twitch for $970M

Update: Amazon’s $970M acquisition of Twitch is largest in its history Original story: Amazon is on the verge of acquiring video game streaming… Read More