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Amazon Web Services: A year after the big outage, one startup’s perspective

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the big April 2011 Amazon Web Services outage. But we… Read More

A Glympse of the future in Seattle’s South Lake Union

My first clue that something had changed forever was the police. In bright yellow vests, they descended on the area,… Read More

Greenpeace scales building to prod Amazon, Microsoft with ‘clean cloud’ sign

Earlier this week Greenpeace released a report criticizing Microsoft, Amazon and Apple for not using enough renewable energy to power… Read More

Amazon launches new online store for cloud-based software

Amazon Web Services is hoping to make it easier for customers to find Web-based software with today’s launch of AWS Marketplace,… Read More

Stat of the day: A third of all Internet users visit a site that uses Amazon’s infrastructure

Amazon.com’s lead in the cloud computing arena is well known, but just how far ahead is the company in providing… Read More

Jeff Bezos, Melinda Gates named to Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, philanthropist Melinda Gates and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center director Dr. Larry Corey are among those who’ve been… Read More

Microsoft reaches carbon goal, but Greenpeace says its cloud is still too dirty

Reaching a goal it established three years ago, Microsoft says it has reduced its carbon emissions as a proportion of its… Read More

As battle with Amazon rages, Walmart nominates Google vet Marissa Mayer to board

Walmart’s intensifying rivalry with Amazon.com has been well documented. And Walmart’s desires to become an even bigger presence in the… Read More

Amazon digital book veteran Steven Kessel takes sabbatical

Amazon.com senior vice president of worldwide digital media Steven Kessel — who helped lead the early efforts behind the Kindle… Read More

Bezos defends Amazon: ‘Society is the beneficiary’ of its approach

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is out with his annual letter to shareholders this morning, but a large portion of the… Read More

Amazon launches new ‘CloudSearch’ for sites and apps

Amazon has tried a variety of different projects in search over the years, with its A9 search engine never becoming… Read More

Here’s what one record store clerk thinks of Amazon’s plans to trade gift cards for old CDs

If you’re like me, you’ve got dozens, possibly hundreds of old CDs lying around the house, just collecting dust. Now,… Read More

DOJ: How Apple and book publishers conspired to combat Amazon, raise e-book prices

The U.S. Justice Department today filed its long-awaited lawsuit against Apple and major U.S. book publishers, alleging that they conspired… Read More

Amazon rolls out in-app purchasing for Kindle Fire, Android

Amazon this morning publicly launched in-app purchasing for apps sold through its Appstore for Android, hoping to make its mobile… Read More

HP takes aim at Amazon.com with new cloud services

Hewlett-Packard is the latest technology giant looking to chip away at Amazon.com’s lead in cloud computing services, with the computer… Read More

A Kindle e-reader with a front-lit screen? Yes, please

One of the down sides of traditional E Ink, used in devices such as Amazon Kindle e-readers, is the inability… Read More

Chart: Amazon S3 grows, with 905 billion objects now stored

Amazon has released new numbers showing continued growth for its Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, one of the… Read More

Amazon Kindle gets 62% of U.S. e-reader usage, and Kindle Fire is 14% of tablets

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is out today with an epic report on the “rise of e-reading”… Read More

America’s Best CEO: Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos

Forbes magazine today released its list of America’s best and worst CEOs, and Seattle’s Jeff Bezos finished in the top… Read More

Don’t pay up, just show up: What’s Amazon’s obligation to the local idea economy?

Is Amazon as involved as it should be in Seattle? How involved is that? And how much does it matter?… Read More

Labor activists hijack pie-cutter product page to bite Amazon

The pro-labor group Working Washington is escalating its battle against Amazon.com, this time through an unusual tool: A pie cutter. Members… Read More

PS3 gets Amazon video app, Xbox 360 still stuck with workaround, for now

If you own a PlayStation 3 and subscribe to Amazon Prime, it’s your lucky day. Amazon today announced the availability… Read More

Amazon tests in-app purchasing

In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app… Read More

Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we know it

One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund,… Read More

Amazon.com dubbed a corporate scrooge by hometown newspaper

Amazon.com’s lack of philanthropic involvement in its hometown of Seattle is getting renewed attention as The Seattle Times kicked off… Read More

Amazon Lockers are pretty much empty at this 7-Eleven

Amazon.com started rolling out lockers at 7-Eleven stores in the Seattle area last fall, an innovative way for shoppers to… Read More

Will a $199 Google tablet hurt or help the Kindle Fire?

Next to politics, perhaps no industry loves speculation more than tech. We may couch it as “analysis” or — if… Read More

Best Buy’s 50 closing big-box stores may be Amazon’s victims

There’s a lot of speculation about who or what is to blame for Best Buy’s decision to shutter 50 of… Read More

Top 10 tech CEOs: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes a big fall (and Steve Ballmer is nowhere to be found)

Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also… Read More

Obama pledges $200 million for ‘big data’ initiative

“Big data” is perhaps the hottest buzzword in technology these days. And now President Obama is jumping on the bandwagon,… Read More