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Gadgets galore: More than a quarter of Americans now own an e-reader or tablet computer

Nooks. iPads. Kindles. PlayBooks. Kobos. Americans are getting more familiar with tablet computers and e-readers, with a new study out… Read More

Unemployment rate drops slightly to 8.5% in Washington

There’s more good news on the job front in Washington state, as the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent during… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM Kindel to advise FreePriceAlerts; Amazon gets a Yahoo; etc.

Charlie Kindel, who left his general manager job on the Windows Phone team last August, is finding plenty of stuff… Read More

Textbooks as software: Apple debuts iBooks 2, iBooks Author in new digital education push

At an event in New York City this morning, Apple unveiled a new version of its iBooks platform for reading… Read More

Amazon’s DynamoDB: What it is, and why it matters

Guest Commentary: Amazon Web Services this morning announced a new service called DynamoDB — rolling out, in public form, a… Read More

Angry shopper sues Amazon over data theft at Zappos.com

Just three days after online shoe retailer Zappos.com suffered a serious data breach, a Texas woman has sued Amazon.com over… Read More

Amazon launches ‘DynamoDB’ cloud database service

Amazon Web Services has been dropping hints about a big announcement planned for this morning, and this is it. The… Read More

Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA

Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More

Microsoft is the third most valuable brand in the world, but it loses some fizz to Apple

Apple is already much bigger than Microsoft in terms of market value. But Microsoft still has a leg up on… Read More

Tech Moves: Here’s the guy Walmart just hired to take on Amazon.com overseas

Amazon.com grew its international sales by 44 percent during the third quarter to $4.94 billion, driven in part by the… Read More

Amazon starts offering free Windows Server in the cloud

Amazon Web Services plans to start letting businesses run Windows Server applications for free for up to 750 hours of… Read More

Hacker infiltrates Zappos network, gets customer info but not full credit cards

Amazon.com’s Zappos and its sister shopping site 6pm are informing users this weekend that portions of their internal network and… Read More

Impressions of Seattle: Thoughts on Microsoft, Amazon and Adobe

Although I’m a tech geek, I haven’t actually worked for a tech company yet. My background is in finance, so… Read More

Zuckerberg’s most admired companies: Amazon, Apple, Google (but no Microsoft?)

Microsoft may start feeling like the Rodney Dangerfield of tech. It just gets no respect. The latest example comes via an… Read More

Who could buy RIM? A laundry list of potential suitors

RIM has been discussed as potential acquisition bait now for years, yet no one has stepped up to take the… Read More

Tech Moves: Scott Blanksteen leaves AppStoreHQ for Amazon; Maveron promotes Jason Stoffer; and more

Fast-growing Amazon.com continues to gobble up talent from the Seattle tech community. The latest addition is Scott Blanksteen who just… Read More

Say, what? Seattle M&A expert says Microsoft should buy Barnes & Noble

We’ve heard a lot of wild M&A chatter to start off the new year, including Amazon.com’s reported interest in RIM. But… Read More

Amazon: Indie authors raking it in with Kindle exclusives

Amazon.com doesn’t traditionally disclose a lot of numbers when it comes to the Kindle, but the company is getting specific… Read More

Amazon.com workers get a new unflattering nickname in their hometown: Am-holes

Perhaps no Seattle neighborhood has undergone as radical a transformation in such as short period as South Lake Union. And… Read More

Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl to publish out-of-print books with help from Amazon.com

Nancy Pearl is perhaps the only celebrity librarian that we know of, regularly appearing on National Public Radio and immortalized… Read More

The Climate Corp. picks Seattle for branch office, looks to cultivate talent to crunch weather data

Over the course of the past 18 months, a number of California tech titans (Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Hulu) have… Read More

Analyst report: Amazon sold 5.5 million Kindle Fires last quarter

It’s always a guessing game trying to figure out how many Kindle devices Amazon.com has sold during a selected period.… Read More

Free Nook? B&N cuts prices with purchase of NYT or People subscription

Posting from Las Vegas: Barnes & Noble this morning rolled out a new promotion that brings the price of its… Read More

CES: Amazon.com is here … teaching classes and looking for ‘ninja coders’

Posting from Las Vegas: As the Consumer Electronics Show begins this week, one of the big subjects of conversation will… Read More

This is the 40-year-old actress suing Amazon for revealing her age

The 40-year-old actress who sued Amazon.com’s Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for revealing her age disclosed her identity in a court… Read More

Tech Moves: RealNetworks VP joins Amazon’s Kindle team; etc.

Another day, another executive departure from RealNetworks. Yesterday, we reported that chief financial officer Michael Eggers — a 14-year veteran… Read More

Meet the new ‘four horsemen’ of tech: Sorry, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel

Oh, how the technology landscape has changed. Ten years ago, the industry was dominated by names such as Microsoft, Intel,… Read More

Amazon’s LoveFilm inks deals with BBC and ITV as battle with Netflix intensifies in Europe

Amazon.com is expanding its attack on Netflix in Europe, announcing today that it has landed deals to stream programs such… Read More

Flotype raises cash from Ignition, Salesforce and others to help coders build applications faster

Flotype, a cloud startup led by former Amazon.com and University of California Berkeley employees and researchers, has raised $1.4 million… Read More

Amazon.com settles patent dispute over Kindle Fire

Amazon.com has settled a patent infringement suit brought against the online retailer by Smartphone Technologies, a subsidiary of Acacia Research,… Read More