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An open letter to Jeff Bezos; Microsoft Surface revenues; and more top posts from July

Amazon and Microsoft news dominated the pages of GeekWire during the month of July. In fact, every single one of… Read More

DOJ’s proposed Apple order could help Amazon sell more Kindle books on iPad, iPhone

The U.S. Justice Department’s proposed remedy in the Apple e-book price-fixing case, made public this morning, includes a key provision… Read More

Amazon just won an Emmy

Amazon.com has joined the ranks of Susan Lucci — though it didn’t take the Seattle tech company 18 failed nominations… Read More

Amazon’s new Pinterest-style ‘Collections’ feature goes live

Amazon has released a new feature called “Collections” on its e-commerce site, and the approach will look familiar to anyone… Read More

Mobile commerce upstart Conductiv raises cash to help retailers battle Amazon

Conductiv, a Bothell mobile commerce startup which boldly says that it is setting out to “change the face of retail,”… Read More

Photos: Obama tours Amazon fulfillment center

President Obama just wrapped up his trip to an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he toured the facilities and… Read More

President Obama on jobs: ‘Amazon is a great example of what’s possible’

President Obama just finished speaking at an Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., outlining his new jobs plan and casting… Read More

Obama to propose ‘grand bargain’ on jobs during Amazon visit

President Obama is expected to use his visit to an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., today to announce a… Read More

Publisher on Amazon: ‘No American monopoly has ever been so cozy with the government’

President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at an Amazon fulfillment center Tuesday to discuss the economy and some independent… Read More

Amazon announces 5,000 new fulfillment jobs in advance of Obama visit

Amazon.com, which has already more than tripled its workforce over the past three years, says it will add another 5,000… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds SDK support for Windows Phone, Windows Store apps

Amazon Web Services has been beefing up support for Microsoft Windows as of late, and this week it released a new… Read More

Amazon hit with six new patent lawsuits covering Kindle, cloud and retail

Amazon has been hit with six new patent infringement lawsuits, covering everything from the technology behind the Kindle Paperwhite display… Read More

Amazon hits 97,000 employees, more than tripling in size in three years

Amazon.com’s quarterly report this afternoon disclosed a $7 million loss for the company, but there was another notable number farther down… Read More

Why is Jeff Bezos hanging out in Silicon Valley this summer?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is not enjoying this beautiful Seattle summer. Instead, it appears Bezos is camped out in Silicon… Read More

Amazon won’t say if grocery delivery business is profitable: ‘It was set up as a test’

Amazon.com spent more than five years testing Amazon Fresh in the Seattle area only and finally introduced the grocery delivery… Read More

Amazon misses profit expectations, reports net loss of $7M in Q2

Amazon’s second quarter earnings just posted and the Seattle online giant reported a net loss of $7 million, or $0.02 per… Read More

An open letter to Jeff Bezos: A contract worker’s take on Amazon.com

Dear Jeff Bezos, In your position, I imagine that you rarely have an opportunity to receive feedback from one of… Read More

Obama to discuss economy at Amazon fulfillment center; protest plans already underway

President Barack Obama will visit an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Tennessee next week to talk about the country’s economy, manufacturing… Read More

Shimon Peres in Kindle interview: Facebook’s Zuckerberg ‘made a revolution with a billion people’

Amazon is expanding its Kindle Singles lineup into a new area, promising “major long-form interviews with iconic figures and world… Read More

Report: Amazon.com files federal complaint to preserve $600 million CIA contract

Amazon.com has filed a federal complaint over a $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency,… Read More

Students: Now you can rent e-textbooks with Google

Along with the announcement today of the new Nexus 7, Google said it will be making a play for a… Read More

Amazon, Google employees ranked as ‘least loyal’

These days, it’s not as common for employees to stay with one company for their entire careers, with people working… Read More

Amazon book lovers social network Goodreads doubles membership to 20M in 1 year

Amazon’s acquisition of San Francisco book social network Goodreads is looking like a good move for the Seattle online giant. Goodreads, which offers… Read More

Hastings: Netflix, Hulu and Amazon becoming more like HBO, Showtime and Starz

Netflix and Amazon are increasingly becoming very distinct choices for online streaming, as evidenced by the latest stats released by… Read More

Groupon growing fast in Seattle, eyes expansion as it looks to be the ‘operating system of local commerce’

When Vinayak Hegde joined Groupon from Amazon.com 18 months ago, he imagined growing the new Seattle engineering office to about… Read More

eBay takes on Amazon and Google, rolls out same-day delivery service to desktop

eBay today rolled out its eBay Now same-day delivery service to the desktop, positioning itself further to make same-day deliveries… Read More

Jeff Bezos: Yes, it’s Apollo 11! Serial numbers confirm historic engine find

This is a pretty big piece of American history. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos revealed today that his expedition and research… Read More

Amazon vet’s robot-powered apparel startup now beating Amazon prices, partners with Google Shopping

Back in November, Hointer seemed like a pretty cool idea when we first checked out the robot-powered apparel startup in Seattle’s… Read More

Now you can buy movie tickets with Amazon’s IMDb app

Movie database resource giant IMDb, launched in 1990 and acquired by Amazon in 1998, just updated its mobile apps to allow… Read More

Game of Thrones, Daft Punk and other Amazon best-sellers so far in 2013

People are loving Daft Punk and Justin Timberlake while Bruce Willis continues to demand the attention of movie fans. Those… Read More