Bezos, Ballmer make top 10 in Vanity Fair’s lists of movers and shakers Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has held onto his No. 3 spot on the New Establishment side of Vanity Fair’s annual… Read More
Closer look: Amazon’s new Paperwhite and Immersion Reading features I’m back in Seattle after a whirlwind trip to California for Amazon’s Kindle news conference yesterday morning. Here are… Read More
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD puts new price pressure on Microsoft Surface Back in June, when Microsoft announced plans for its Surface tablet, the company said the pricing for the initial model,… Read More
Jeff Bezos on the ‘Amazon Doctrine,’ and why it’s better than Apple’s approach Posting from Santa Monica, Calif.: One of the most striking moments during Amazon’s press conference here today was a manifesto,… Read More
Video: Amazon’s 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD in action Posting from Santa Monica, Calif.: The new 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD was the one new device that Amazon didn’t let… Read More
Live: Amazon unveils new Kindles and ‘Kindle Fire HD’ Posting from Santa Monica, Calif.: I’m here this morning for Amazon’s big press event at an airplane hangar, where the… Read More
Why eBooks won’t rule the Earth The certainty in the headlines is almost palpable. “eBooks Now ‘Dominant Single Format’ in Adult Fiction Sales,” shouted book publishing… Read More
Amazon TV ad gives sneak peek at ‘Paperwhite’ Kindle and new Kindle Fire Amazon will hold a news conference Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif., where it’s expected to show its new Kindle lineup… Read More
Californians hurry up and shop, shop, shop ahead of Amazon.com tax deadline There’s a bit of an e-commerce gold rush going down in California, where Amazon.com customers are scrambling to squeeze in some… Read More
Amazon HQ getting even bigger with 2 new buildings Amazon.com is expanding its footprint again in Seattle with an agreement to occupy a new 380,000-square-foot project on the edge… Read More
Ads on a tablet? How Amazon could upend the market Here’s an important story to note, in the category of news you may have missed over the holiday. The Wall… Read More
Tech Moves: Amazon hires privacy officer; Blucora bolsters board; CTI’s new hire; and more TaxACT co-founder Lance Dunn has been appointed to the board of Blucora, the search and tax preparation company formerly known as InfoSpace. Blucora purchased TaxACT… Read More
Netflix loses out as Amazon inks deal with Epix for popular movies Amazon.com continues to bolster its collection of movie titles for its Prime Instant Video service, announcing today that it has… Read More
City vs. Suburbia: Tech companies seek urban cool For years, one of the great debates that always stirred the pot around these parts was whether Seattle or the… Read More
Amazon pinpoints Nokia as mapping partner for next-generation Kindle Fire Amazon.com has reportedly chosen Nokia to provide the mapping technology on the next-generation Kindle Fire, a device that is expected… Read More
Paul Allen’s Vulcan looks to sell Amazon.com campus Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has spent years revamping Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, first with the failed Commons project in… Read More
FAA’s electronics review: Good for Kindle, bad for SkyMall? Many of us have experienced it before: Our flight is descending or taking off, and we’re told to turn off… Read More
Amazon’s Kindle Fire sells out, signaling new hardware ahead Amazon has sold out of its Kindle Fire one week before a news conference where the company is expected to… Read More
Amazon publishing unit to make e-books available via rival retailers Amazon.com’s New York-based publishing business has entered into a deal with Ingram to distribute its e-book titles, opening up the… Read More
Zappos to let Pinterest users show picks via PinPointing With all the social networking and such online it was only a matter of time until shopping got more into… Read More
Kathy Savitt goes to Yahoo, Lockerz names new CEO Marissa Mayer continues to put her mark on Yahoo, announcing today that Seattle public relations veteran and entrepreneur Kathy Savitt… Read More
Amazon Prime celebrates an amazingly vague milestone It’s interesting how often a company as numbers-driven as Amazon.com asks its customers and shareholders to judge its progress with… Read More
Amazon’s top lawyer leaving job, will return in new role Michelle Wilson, the general counsel of Amazon.com since 1999, will step down from the position next month, taking a parental… Read More
Better screen for the Kindle? Amazon testing a device with 768×1024 resolution GeekWire is hearing from a reliable industry source that Amazon is testing a device with a screen resolution of 768×1024 pixels.… Read More
Amazon adds Battlestar Galactica, Parks & Rec, other shows to Prime Video service Amazon this morning announced a deal with NBCUniversal to add more shows to the Amazon Prime Instant Video service, including… Read More
Study of Seattle consumers shows how weather influences online shopping One particularly bleak January day, while staring at my computer screen for what seemed the 17th hour on an incredibly… Read More
Amazon sets press event for Sept. 6 in California We’re still waiting to see how Amazon will upgrade its Kindle lineup, but at least now we know when we’ll… Read More
Amazon prepares fall launch of AfterSchool.com, a new site for sports and outdoor gear for kids Amazon.com’s Quidsi unit is gearing up to launch a new sports and activities site called AfterSchool.com, designed to outfit kids… Read More
Amazon unveils new storage and backup service ‘Glacier’ Another day, another new offering from Amazon Web Services. Today, the company rolled out Amazon Glacier, described as a low-cost… Read More
Best of Startup Day: Angel investor Dave McClure — don’t do a startup you idiot! Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at… Read More
