Amazon Fresh launches in San Francisco with $299/year ‘Prime Fresh’ membership Welcome to the Bay Area, Amazon Fresh. As anticipated earlier this week, Amazon’s same-day and next-day grocery delivery service is… Read More
Amazon had to shoot the promotional video for its drones outside the U.S. While it’s become abundantly clear that Amazon faces regulatory challenges to offering drone delivery, a newly surfaced piece of information… Read More
Bezos, we have biodomes: City approves Amazon sphere design The most eye-catching element of Amazon’s new Seattle campus — a three-sphere biodome — has received design approval from the… Read More
Amazon running ads on freshly-sighted grocery delivery trucks in San Francisco As rumors around a potential Amazon Fresh rollout in San Francisco reach a fever pitch, Brad Stone, the author of… Read More
Top tech CEOs: Zillow’s Rascoff second only to Salesforce’s Benioff in survey The Street announced the results of its Top Tech CEO competition today, and two of the top three are from… Read More
Can Amazon make your kid smarter? Kindle Fire getting automated educational goals It’s the digital equivalent of the classic parental mandate: “Not until you do your homework!” It’s also the latest example… Read More
Fast-growing IT automation startup Opscode raises $32M, changes name to Chef Seattle entrepreneur Barry Crist likes to say that the best time to raise money is when you don’t really need… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Amazon Drones, Artefact’s ‘Juice Box,’ a beautiful app and a classic console challenge We’re getting very futuristic on this week’s GeekWire radio show — starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s surprising “Prime Air”… Read More
Report: Google prepping Nexus TV set-top box According to a report by Amir Efrati at The Information, Google is working on a set-top box called the Nexus… Read More
eBay CEO on Amazon’s drones: ‘We’re not focused on long-term fantasies’ It looks like eBay isn’t too concerned about its competitor’s audacious plans to have fleets of aerial drones delivering products to… Read More
Tech Moves: Ex-Microsofties join Amazon drone team; Skype CFO to Puppet Labs; Porch hires 3 execs —It seems as though just about everyone has heard of Amazon’s audacious plan to deploy flying delivery drones. Some are… Read More
Report: Amazon Fresh coming to San Francisco next week Amazon’s bright green grocery trucks might finally make their way to the heart of California’s tech world. All Things D… Read More
Living with Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX: This fruitcake is pretty sweet The first step when deciding which tablet to buy, as with any device, is to ask yourself how you’ll use… Read More
New Amazon WorkSpaces app brings Windows 7 to iPad Amazon made a splash last month when it announced WorkSpaces, a desktop virtualization system that streams a Windows 7 desktop… Read More
Amazon Publishing adds a new label for short stories Following on the launch of Day One, the company’s first literary journal, Amazon announced today that it has created StoryFront,… Read More
Bill Gates: Jeff Bezos overly optimistic on drones, but they will have a positive impact Will Amazon really have fleets of aerial drones delivering products to customers’ doorsteps in four to five years? Bill Gates,… Read More
Amazon: Kindle e-reader and tablet sales soar to new levels of undisclosed greatness Amazon said this morning that the post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend was the best on record for its Kindle product line,… Read More
Paul Allen snags key Amazon architect as top tech advisor Paul Allen has created a new position of executive technology advisor, to work with him across all of his personal… Read More
The secret to getting Amazon’s best customer service There’s a classic tech industry joke. A jet is lost in dense fog and low on fuel. The pilot, desperate… Read More
UPS reportedly investigating its own drone delivery service Amazon isn’t the only company with its eyes on drone-powered delivery, it seems. According to a new report by The… Read More
Geek humor: Parodies take to the skies after Amazon’s drone announcement One of the great things about the Internet is that any news event of sufficient size will be parodied to… Read More
Hey kids, no binge-watching: New Netflix animated series will be released in installments While “binge watching” – sitting down and viewing a whole season in one go – has been one of the… Read More
Amazon Cloud Player updates iOS app for music streaming in BMW, Mini Cooper cars Those who own a BMW or Mini Cooper built in 2011 or later can now use Amazon Cloud Player for… Read More
Monday was biggest online shopping day in U.S. history, mobile traffic tops 31% Cyber Monday is traditionally the day that office workers troll for deals at their desks when the boss isn’t looking,… Read More
Amazon donating $20 to charity for every Kindle HDX purchase made this week Back in October, Amazon debuted its Amazon Smile program that allows customers to donate 0.5 percent of the price of eligible… Read More
Music service Rdio names former Amazon and Microsoft exec Anthony Bay CEO Rdio, the online music service that faces competition from the likes of Spotify, Pandora and Rhapsody, has named Anthony Bay… Read More
Netflix aims to prevent another Christmas Eve disaster with new technology On Christmas Eve of last year, problems with Amazon Web Services brought down Netflix’s platform, causing frustrated customers to take… Read More
Jeff Bezos says Don Graham talked him into buying Washington Post Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with Charlie Rose that was posted on the 60… Read More
Amazon’s aerial delivery drones: How Jeff Bezos’ big idea could actually fly Amazon is getting lots of attention this morning for its plan to deploy autonomous flying drones to deliver packages to… Read More
Jeff Bezos had to take 60 meetings to raise $1 million for Amazon, giving up 20% to early investors Amazon.com almost didn’t make it out of the gate, with a young Jeff Bezos encountering a common entrepreneurial challenge: raising… Read More
