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From college basement to e-commerce apparel: Amazon marketer debuts custom outerwear startup

The lightbulb went off when Nick Marvik was sewing custom ski jackets for friends in the basement of his home… Read More

Amazon’s latest experiment: Installing your TV and other household items

In another example of Amazon expanding its footprint in new ways, the online retail giant is now contracting with a… Read More

Amazon Deal of the Day: $50 off Kindle Fire HD 8.9″

For those looking to snag the biggest and newest Kindle Fire HD, today might be the day to do it.… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Tablets, travel, kids, and a ukulele rock band, live in studio

We usually talk about a wide variety of topics on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, but even by our… Read More

Home delivery of liquor is now legal in Washington: Will Amazon jump on board?

Washington liquor lovers rejoice: Beginning this weekend, you can now have that bottle of Jack or some high-quality Patron delivered right to… Read More

More meals at your door? Munchery may expand to Seattle

Amazon’s new food delivery program might soon have some competition. Munchery, a San Francisco-based startup that delivers meals to customers, is planning to… Read More

Keeping up: Windows lowers Azure prices to stay even with Google, Amazon

Amazon and Google recently dropped their cloud storage prices, and now Microsoft is following suit. The Redmond-based company is reducing… Read More

Tablet prediction: Microsoft to steal some thunder from Android and iPad by 2016

The latest tablet predictions from the IDC research firm is out and here’s the lowdown: Android is gaining traction while… Read More

Amazon plans Kindle Fire subscription service for children’s books, apps, shows

Look out, iPad? Amazon hopes to win the hearts of parents, and their kids, with a new subscription service called… Read More

Amazon Kindle brings ‘X-Ray’ feature to iPhone and iPad app

Amazon just updated its Kindle app for iOS with its “X-Ray” feature, which lets readers quickly get background information on… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Fabulous’ iPad app finds shoes by shape

Amazon’s A9 search subsidiary this morning released a new iPad app called Fabulous that uses visual search technology to help… Read More

Hey, Seattle: Amazon wants to deliver your next meal

Some of Seattle’s hottest restaurants have partnered with Amazon Fresh to deliver everything from lobster bisque to fancy donuts to ready-to-cook… Read More

Touting a ‘post-editorial world,’ Wikia raises cash from Amazon and others

Wikia, which operates a platform that powers more than 200,000 community-powered Web sites, has raised more than $10 million from… Read More

Google buys BufferBox, a rival to Amazon Lockers

The combination of the bricks and clicks world is getting a bit more interesting. Google today announced that it is… Read More

Welcome to Bezosville: Seattle planners approve Amazon’s massive new tower project

Amazon.com is one step closer to kicking off construction on a massive new campus in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood, an… Read More

Jeff Bezos: 7 gems from his Amazon Web Services talk

Jeff Bezos spoke this afternoon at the Amazon Web Services re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, interviewed on stage by… Read More

LivingSocial cuts 400 staffers, Seattle office takes a hit

LivingSocial, the Washington D.C.-based daily deals site, has laid off 400 staffers as it aims to turn a profit, a… Read More

Amazon vet’s new robot-powered apparel startup aims to revolutionize how we buy clothes

By the look on his face and sound of his voice, you’d never guess that Dave Cotter just spent the… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Andy Jassy: The ‘economics of what we’re doing is extremely disruptive’ to the old-guard

Why is Amazon.com going to kick the butt of Microsoft, IBM and everyone else in cloud computing for a long… Read More

Online holiday shopping off to a fast start, jumps 16 percent

Americans are spending more money online this holiday shopping season. For the first 26 days of the November-December 2012 holiday season,… Read More

An Amazon hotel: Developer wants to fill vacancy on company’s Seattle campus

Guests of Amazon employees might soon have a convenient place to spend the night. The Seattle Times reports that San Francisco-based developer Stanford… Read More

Here’s more evidence that Microsoft and Amazon are planning their own smartphones

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was grilled by both Charlie Rose and Jimmy Fallon last week about the potential of an… Read More

Kindle sales reach new record, whatever that means

Amazon announced this morning that Cyber Monday was the biggest day on record for Kindle sales, and sales of the… Read More

Amazon’s other Cyber Monday deal: $3B in debt

Amazon.com raised $3 billion on Monday by selling bonds for the first time in nearly 15 years. The company says… Read More

Amazon’s big Cyber Monday deal: Kindle Fire for $129

It was a good Black Friday for Amazon.com, but the stakes are especially high for the online retailer today as… Read More

Turkey, stuffing and online shopping: Amazon.com leads the way on Thanksgiving Day

Americans just didn’t chow down on turkey and cranberry relish on Thanksgiving Day. They also took some time to do… Read More

Why I walked away from $1 million (and why you should help us combat youth poverty)

[Editor’s note: GeekWire has partnered with Seattle non-profit Vittana for the Geeks Give Back campaign, an effort to help combat… Read More

Shopping 2020: What will the future of e-commerce look like in eight years?

Imagine, for a second, that it is the year 2004. The latest trends are Bluetooth technology, the revolution of video… Read More

It’s holiday shopping season, and Jeff Bezos is everywhere

It’s the equivalent of the groundhog coming out of his hole. For 12 months out of the year, Amazon.com founder… Read More

Amazon settles suit over alleged manipulation of IE browser settings

Amazon.com has entered into a settlement agreement in a 20-month-old case which alleged that it circumvented a user’s attempts to block… Read More