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Nordstrom pays the price for bigger e-commerce investment

Nordstrom is making a large investment in its e-commerce initiatives, spending even more than it had planned to better compete… Read More

Can Harry Potter reverse Amazon Kindle’s bad spell?

New clues suggest that Amazon’s Kindle e-reader business have been suffering more than has been letting on — with E Ink… Read More

Ready, Indian food fans? A Vij’s offshoot to open in ‘Amazonland’ with help from Paul Allen

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has added a lot to the Seattle landscape over the years, from the Seattle Seahawks to… Read More

Dog-friendly Amazon plans a place for pooches in new downtown Seattle campus

Amazon.com has long been known as a workplace where dogs are welcome, so long as their owners abide by certain… Read More

Amazon tops e-retail satisfaction survey with highest score ever

Amazon.com has few physical touch points with its customers, operating somewhat mysteriously from its headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union… Read More

Amazon vs. Nordstrom: Call in the fashion police for another crosstown rivalry

We wondered what the heck was going on a few weeks ago when Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was named the… Read More

Green space and glass: Amazon’s vision for its new downtown Seattle campus

Architects for Amazon.com have submitted new drawings that show, in much greater detail, the company’s plans for three new… Read More

Amazon’s Kindle Fire slips to 4% of worldwide tablet market

The Kindle Fire may have captured more than 50 percent of the Android tablet market in the U.S., according to… Read More

Facebook sets IPO range: Social networking giant to be valued at more than $75 billion

Facebook is getting one step closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the social networking powerhouse today disclosing in a… Read More

Amazon’s new CloudDrive app still leans heavily on web

One of the nice things about storage services Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive is the ability to upload, browse… Read More

Twilio partners with Microsoft’s Windows Azure

Twillio, the cloud-based communications upstart led by former Amazon.com employee Jeff Lawson, has inked a partnership that could bring its communications… Read More

Next up on Amazon.com: A casting call for original comedy and kid’s shows

Word has quietly been leaking out over the past few weeks that Amazon.com plans to expand into original video content,… Read More

Report: Target to dump Kindle

This could get very interesting, especially in light of the new alliance between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft. The Verge reports… Read More

Amazon completes Kiva deal, welcomes its new warehouse robot overlords

Amazon today finished its $775 million purchase of Kiva Systems, the Massachusetts-based maker of automation technology for fulfillment centers —… Read More

This M&A expert predicted Microsoft’s tie-up with Barnes & Noble 4 months ago

So often in the tech industry, industry pundits make predictions and get things dead wrong. But Nat Burgess, president of… Read More

Microsoft vs. Amazon? Plot thickens with Barnes & Noble pact

Issues of competition and cooperation are never simple in the technology industry, but Microsoft’s surprise $300 million investment in Barnes… Read More

Spoiler Alert: Amazon takes heat over ‘Hunger Games’ ad

If you saw the “Hunger Games” movie but haven’t bothered reading ahead in the books, you might want to keep… Read More

Microsoft invests $300M in Barnes & Noble’s Nook unit, settles patent litigation

[Follow-up: Microsoft vs. Amazon? Plot thickens with Barnes & Noble pact] Looking to jumpstart its upcoming Windows 8 operating system… Read More

Amazon’s stock soars, tops $100 billion in market value

Amazon.com is once again in the $100 billion club after posting strong quarterly earnings this week. The company’s stock is… Read More

Amazon settles $269M Texas tax bill with jobs, investment and ‘immaterial payment’

Amazon.com has reached a settlement in one of its largest and longest-running state tax disputes, striking a deal with the… Read More

Kindle Fire captures majority of U.S. Android tablet market

The Kindle Fire is just five months old. But Amazon.com’s touchscreen device already accounts for 54 percent of the Android… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Drugstore.com CEO Kal Raman hired at Groupon

Kal Raman, the former Amazon.com and drugstore.com executive who stepped down as CEO of Bellevue-based GlobalScholar last September, has been named senior… Read More

Amazon adds 9,400 workers — largest growth ever, now employs 65,000 people

Looks like they can’t build those new office towers soon enough. Amazon.com added 9,400 employees to its payroll in the… Read More

“Amazon tax” struck down in Illinois in boost for affiliates

The state of Illinois has lost a lawsuit against the state’s attempt to collect sales tax from out-of-state, online retailers… Read More

Amazon.com: How low can this company’s profits go?

With its roots in online retail, Amazon.com isn’t a traditional technology company, which means that its profit margins are much… Read More

Amazon.com, Nevada reach agreement on sales tax collection

Part of whatever Amazon.com sells in Vegas will soon stay in Vegas … or more accurately, in the state of… Read More

Ticketmaster opens Seattle office led by Amazon vets

Technology companies continue to arrive on the shores of Seattle, attracted by the region’s top-notch software talent. The latest example… Read More

Netflix gains subscribers, tracks Amazon “carefully”

“Given Amazon’s size and ambitions, we continue to track their progress carefully as well.” With that brief statement, Netflix CEO… Read More

Amazon.com makes a new push into nuts and bolts

Amazon.com this morning announced a new site called AmazonSupply, offering everything from lab equipment and hydraulics to fasteners, gauges and ball… Read More

Apple investing $250 million in central Oregon data center

The Pacific Northwest data center boom continues, with The Oregonian’s Mike Rogoway reporting last week that Apple has struck a… Read More