New Madden NFL game is Amazon’s best-selling pre-order sports title ever Looks like EA Sports’ decision to partner with DirectTV for the newest version of Madden NFL was a good one.… Read More
AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard People posting photos, recording videos, making room reservations and reading the news on Sunday afternoon had to take a break… Read More
What Bezos buying The Post teaches us about business threats Jeff Bezos set off quite a bit of handwringing and soul-searching when he purchased The Washington Post earlier this month for $250… Read More
Amazon livid over decision to re-open bidding for $600 million CIA contract Amazon.com’s federal complaint over a $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency was made public today and shows… Read More
Amazon deal: Swap your Xbox 360 game to Xbox One for $10 Amazon is offering up a deal for those who want to upgrade their Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One.… Read More
Want WIRED on your iPad? Amazon starts selling Condé Nast ‘All Access’ subscriptions Moving further into the world of publishing, Amazon.com this morning announced a deal with Condé Nast to sell and oversee “All… Read More
Amazon just lost $4.8M after going down for 40 minutes When you’re an online retail giant, every second that your website stays inaccessible means thousands of dollars out the virtual… Read More
Update: Amazon back online after 40-minute outage Amazon.com is back up and running. We’ve updated this post with details. Original story: Online shoppers take notice: Amazon.com is… Read More
Images: Amazon’s latest biosphere designs look like Starfleet Command New renderings submitted by Amazon’s architects show updated designs for the three giant, connected biospheres that will serve as the… Read More
Images: Amazon plans dedicated ‘cycle tracks’ around new Seattle campus Amazon.com’s planned three-block campus on the northern edge of downtown Seattle is making headlines again, this time for an amenity… Read More
Former Amazon manager takes Chinese e-commerce company global Watch out, Amazon.com. A Chinese e-commerce company is out to redefine notions of customer service. If you think free shipping… Read More
A wild idea for Bezos and the Post: Develop a ‘Kindle Printer’ and shut down the main press The economics of delivering a local newspaper to your doorstep just don’t make sense anymore. The reasons? Declining subscriber counts… Read More
Amazon.com launches cross-platform push notifications through AWS Amazon is continuing its push to attract mobile app developers to its Amazon Web Services cloud platform with a one-stop… Read More
Morgan Stanley: Kindle sales will be a $4.5B business for Amazon this year Amazon is notorious for being coy about its Kindle sales numbers, but a new report released last week says that… Read More
Jeff Bezos declines Washington Post interview about his Washington Post acquisition The Washington Post this weekend published an epic profile of its soon-to-be owner, Jeff Bezos, with contributions from six reporters… Read More
Bill Gates on Google’s Internet balloons; Contour hits the wall; and other comments of the week The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “The Internet is transforming almost every element of the… Read More
Comedians have fun with Jeff Bezos buy of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post was the big news of the week, making great fodder for late-night comedians.… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post and the future of media This week on the GeekWire radio show, we analyze one of the biggest news stories of the week, which is… Read More
Amazon rumored to be working on a game console If a new rumor is true, Amazon may be getting into the console business by the end of this year.… Read More
Amazon drops Kindle Fire HD to $159 for ‘limited time’ Looks like Microsoft isn’t the only tablet maker aiming to clear the shelves of its remaining inventory. Amazon.com right now… Read More
Instacart adds $99 ‘express’ membership, fires another shot at Amazon Fresh In the ongoing grocery delivery cold war between Instacart and Amazon, Instacart has fired another salvo, saying that they’re launching… Read More
Fruitcake, anyone? Amazon’s Kindle Fire slips out of Top 5, showing extreme seasonality The latest tablet shipment numbers from the IDC research firm show Apple’s iPad leading the worldwide market in the second… Read More
Video: This man is mad as hell about his Amazon.com package being stolen (and he’s not going to take it anymore) It happens all of the time. Packages are stolen off a doorstep, a petty and annoying crime. Most people let… Read More
Not just native anymore: Amazon Appstore starts accepting HTML5 web apps Amazon is upping the ante in the app-store wars, announcing this morning that it has started accepting HTML5 web apps… Read More
Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company Maybe I am splitting hairs here, or quibbling over something that really doesn’t matter. But, I’ve got to just say… Read More
Why Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post: Best reactions, commentary and insights I guess at this point we shouldn’t be surprised by the moves of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who in the… Read More
‘Amazon Art’ puts multi-million dollar paintings in your shopping cart A $2.5 million Monet? Sure, what the heck, add it to the cart. Just make sure 1-Click ordering isn’t turned… Read More
Robots? Kindles? Door desks? How should Bezos reinvent the Washington Post? Free Kindles for every newspaper subscriber! Papers delivered by Amazon’s Kiva robots! Door desks in the newsroom! Certainly Jeff Bezos… Read More
Memo: Bezos already giving Washington Post employees some of that Amazon religion Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million in his individual capacity, separate from his role at… Read More
Breaking: Jeff Bezos buying Washington Post for $250M In a surprise move, Jeff Bezos has reached a deal to acquire the Washington Post Co.’s newspaper publishing business for… Read More
