Here’s why Amazon pays $5K to warehouse workers who quit In Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders, the Amazon.com CEO and founder revealed an interesting program that pays workers at… Read More
Amazon buys digital comic book purveyor comiXology Amazon.com is making a big push into the digital comic book arena, announcing today that it has acquired New York-based… Read More
Is Amazon Prime a scam? Shoppers asking tough questions as prices go higher James Froelich’s daughter asked him to buy her a magazine for the low cost of $5.21, but when he logged into… Read More
Shareholder letter: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on innovation, urban campuses and Mayday marriage proposals Amazon.com can no longer be described in just a few simple sentences. The company is engaged in almost every corner… Read More
Amazon taps Chloë Sevigny, Ron Perlman and other stars for new TV pilots Amazon announced today that it has green-lit two new original pilots that will compete to become a part of its… Read More
Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech companies deploy fixes for ‘Heartbleed’ bug Amazon Web Services has rolled out fixes for several of its online services to address the “Heartbleed” vulnerability that has roiled… Read More
Amazon wins appeal against Rovi in TV patent dispute Chalk up a patent win for Amazon. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that… Read More
Review: Amazon’s Fire TV sets a new bar for streaming boxes Does the world really need another streaming box? The answer is a resounding YES! Having just purchased the Amazon Fire… Read More
Tech Moves: Apple poaches Amazon A9 VP to head up search products, Modumetal names CFO, and more —Benoit Dupin, previously Vice President of Search Technology for Amazon A9, has left the company to go work for Apple. His… Read More
Top 50 retail brands: Amazon ‘a force to be reckoned with,’ but Walmart more valuable Walmart and Amazon may appear to be in a close fight to be the go-to retailer for everyday low prices,… Read More
Amazon tops Hulu, Apple to become No. 3 streaming video service behind Netflix, YouTube Amazon’s streaming video service has come a long way: Citing third-party research, the company announced today that Prime Instant Video… Read More
Looking for the season premiere of Game of Thrones? You won’t find it on the new Amazon Fire TV Maybe you just bought the new Amazon Fire TV — and just maybe you thought that meant you were getting… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and family donate $20M to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center The family of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos just made the largest single contribution to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: How technology shapes our cities, politics and everything else How does the technology industry impact our communities and sense of place? What are the ingredients for a strong regional… Read More
Amazon Dash: A shopping device that lets you scan, speak to order groceries First the Fire TV, and now the Dash. Only a few days after Amazon unveiled its Fire TV set-top box,… Read More
Using the Fire TV: First take on Amazon’s set-top box A few members of team GeekWire stayed late at the office on Thursday to set up and run Amazon’s Fire… Read More
Sev Zero: Hands-on with Amazon’s Halo knock-off GeekWire’s Amazon Fire TV arrived on Thursday, and we’ve been doing some in-depth product testing at the GeekWire Labs. After… Read More
Early Amazon employee raises $1.3M for GemShare, a friend-based recommendation app Maryam Mohit was one of the first employees at Amazon.com, joining the company just months after founder Jeff Bezos began… Read More
Amazon bolsters gaming team, hires veteran designers Kim Swift and Clint Hocking Amazon is loading up on talent for its new gaming arm and has hired two highly-regarded designers from the Seattle… Read More
Amazon vs. Microsoft: Who is winning today’s big tech PR battle? Two of Seattle’s tech giants are battling it out for tech media mindshare today, with Amazon.com announcing its much-anticipated $99… Read More
Amazon’s Fire TV: The inside view from an early partner Amazon’s new $99 Fire TV set-top box came out of the gate this morning with a range of apps and… Read More
Amazon Fire TV spokesman Gary Busey lambasts Roku in strange new ad Amazon today unveiled a $99 Fire TV set-top box for the living room and is using Gary Busey — yes,… Read More
A look at Amazon’s first game developed in-house for the Fire TV Amazon’s relatively obscure games studio unveiled its first game today for the brand-new Fire TV platform. The game can be considered… Read More
Amazon’s video player is bringing cheap mobile games to the living room Amazon’s streaming video box will also serve as a video game console, especially for those who don’t want to buy two… Read More
Amazon’s new set-top box is the Amazon Fire TV and it costs $99 Amazon has announced the Amazon Fire TV live from a New York press conference, where the set looks like a decked… Read More
A dirty cloud? Amazon and Twitter receive failing grades in ‘green Internet’ report Facebook, Google and Apple are considered leading innovators when it comes to deploying renewable energy to power its data centers… Read More
Amazon enables returns through delivery lockers Amazon is now letting customers return purchased items through its Amazon Lockers — a new feature of the large delivery… Read More
Cloud wars, episode 3: Microsoft cuts Azure prices following price drops from Amazon, Google It seems like Microsoft is keeping up with its promise to cut prices for its cloud services in lockstep with… Read More
Amazon workers protest again in Germany over wages Amazon.com warehouse workers in Germany protested again today in yet another act of opposition against what they say are unfair… Read More
Amazon: Education’s passive lurker gets aggressive If you want to see the future of Amazon in education, don’t look to Seattle. Look to Sao Paulo. For… Read More
