Jay Carney checks out of Amazon, lands at Airbnb: Inside ex-White House press secretary’s tech career Jay Carney, a former White House press secretary under President Obama, will leave his role as Amazon’s senior vice president… Read More
Amazon begins rollout of Rivian electric delivery vans across U.S. in drive to shrink carbon footprint In a bid to make its fleet of delivery vehicles more sustainable and reduce its carbon footprint, Amazon began rolling… Read More
Amazon to acquire One Medical primary care company for $3.9B Amazon announced a deal to acquire publicly traded primary care company One Medical for $3.9 billion, further fueling the Seattle-based… Read More
Amazon aims to take Alexa automation to the next level with new ambient home developer kit When you leave home and arm your security system, shouldn’t your robot vacuum know, without being told, that it’s time… Read More
Amazon files lawsuit against thousands of Facebook group admins over fake reviews Amazon is taking aim at fake reviews on its marketplace in a new lawsuit targeting more than 10,000 Facebook group… Read More
Amazon rolls out big Prime Video redesign Prime Video is getting a makeover. Amazon announced Monday it is rolling out a new look and feel for its… Read More
Amazon’s drone delivery program will launch in Texas Amazon is bringing its drones to Texas. The tech giant said Friday that customers in College Station, Texas, will be… Read More
Amazon will pause Bellevue towers to study impact of hybrid work on its offices, still plans 25k jobs Citing ongoing uncertainty about the impact of hybrid work on its office designs, Amazon says it will pause construction on… Read More
What’s the deal with Prime Day? A reality check on Amazon’s big shopping event Time was running out, and my fear of missing out was going up. With just a few hours left in… Read More
New trailer for Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series offers epic views of the return to Middle Earth Amazon released the first full-length trailer Thursday for its upcoming Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings… Read More
‘Mrs. Maisel’ leads Amazon to 30 Emmy Award nominations; HBO’s ‘Succession’ dominates pack Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” was marvelous again on Tuesday, scoring 12 Emmy nominations to help the tech… Read More
Starbucks and Amazon open second ‘Pickup and Go’ joint retail location in New York Starbucks and Amazon have teamed on their second “Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go” location in New York City. The physical… Read More
Forecast for Amazon Prime Day is cloudy with a chance of consumer caution Economic uncertainty, inflation, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are tempering expectations for this year’s Prime Day, the annual… Read More
Play Podcast ‘We’re in this for good’: Amazon plans more home robots despite early skepticism about Astro Play Amazon unveiled Astro, its first home robot, in September, after developing the rolling Alexa device in secret for several years.… Read More
M1 Macs in the cloud: Amazon Web Services releases upgraded Mac EC2 instances Amazon Web Services is doubling down on the latest Apple technologies with the general availability of its EC2 M1 Mac… Read More
Amazon pulls out of planned regional air hub in New Jersey after unions and others object Amazon’s efforts to grow its operations in the New York area have been thwarted again as the tech giant has… Read More
In SEC complaint, union coalition alleges Amazon deceived investors with ‘cherry-picked’ injury data A coalition of three labor unions is asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate and take action against… Read More
Amazon and Microsoft deny using Flickr pics for facial recognition, as suits test limits of privacy law Facing a pair of related lawsuits, Amazon and Microsoft both acknowledge that people working on their respective facial-recognition technologies downloaded… Read More
Amazon partners with Grubhub and adds new Prime food delivery perk Three years after giving up on its own food delivery service, Amazon is trying a new tactic, partnering with delivery… Read More
Amazon rolls out fleet of e-cargo bikes to make deliveries in the UK Amazon is rolling out a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff in the United Kingdom as part of… Read More
Bezos reignites Biden inflation feud, says president is misdirecting public or misunderstanding market Updated below with White House response. Jeff Bezos called out President Joe Biden for telling gas station owners to lower… Read More
Former Amazon senior leader Alicia Boler Davis lands at Alto Pharmacy as CEO Alicia Boler-Davis, previously a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team, will become CEO at Alto Pharmacy in September. Boler Davis… Read More
Amazon analytics service will use shopper data to give brands product insights in physical stores Amazon has spent years building technology to reshape how shoppers use its physical retail stores. Now the company is introducing… Read More
Amazon invests $23M to build 568 homes in Seattle as part of affordable housing initiative Amazon is investing $23 million to support the construction of 568 homes in Seattle as part of its Housing Equity… Read More
How this Amazon cloud device made it to the International Space Station, and what it did in orbit LAS VEGAS — Axiom Space tested an Amazon Web Services Snowcone cloud device in orbit in April during the first… Read More
More AI for devs: Amazon unveils CodeWhisperer machine-learning ‘coding companion’ LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to generate code suggestions for software… Read More
Amazon previews Alexa capability that synthesizes a person’s voice from less than a minute of audio LAS VEGAS — A short video of a child asking Alexa to have his grandma read the Wizard of Oz… Read More
Internal memo: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on senior exec departures, ‘s-team’ diversity Amazon CEO Andy Jassy addressed the news that the company is losing two of its most senior Black executives, including… Read More
Amazon’s Zoox completes ‘critical checkpoint’ in robotaxi testing and rollout LAS VEGAS — Zoox, the robotaxi company acquired by Amazon for more than $1 billion in 2020, says it has… Read More
With new warehouse robots, Amazon looks to invent its way out of its safety problems LAS VEGAS — Amazon unveiled a new fleet of robots and automated systems, including the first fully autonomous robot that… Read More
