Amazon.com continues to grow, gobbling up prime real estate Amazon.com added more than 8,000 employees during the third quarter — a mind-numbing hiring pace for the Seattle-based online retailer.… Read More
Cyber Monday’s $1.25 billion haul marks biggest online shopping day in history The numbers are in, and Cyber Monday lived up to its name. U.S. retail e-commerce spending hit $1.25 billion this… Read More
Starbucks to serve beer and wine on Amazon campus Amazon employees in need of an after-work drink will soon have even more options, thanks to another Seattle corporate giant,… Read More
Cyber Monday: Are you buying it? Today is “Cyber Monday,” in case you somehow missed all those ads from all those retailers trying to distract you… Read More
Amazon: Kindle sales jump 4X to unspecified levels of greatness Amazon is infamous for declining to release specific sales figures for its Kindle devices, but that doesn’t keep the company… Read More
Microsoft’s reality distortion field, shopping with pepper spray … and other quotes of the week The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “She was competitive shopping.” — Los Angeles Fire… Read More
Online retail sales surge 26% on Black Friday: Amazon ranks as most visited site Online retailers are supposed to get their big boost on Cyber Monday — the first Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday… Read More
When eBooks attack, mass paperbacks die The mass market paperback is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Ailing for months, its demise is now all… Read More
Chart: The most visited retail sites on Thanksgiving Day Americans not only chowed down on turkey and dressing on Thanksgiving Day. They also visited their favorite online retailers. According… Read More
Microsoft loses its bacon … and other news of the week Catching up on some noteworthy headlines and items from the past week … Microsoft received lots of press this past… Read More
Big publisher restores Kindle public library books, for now Book publisher Penguin Group has made electronic versions of its books available again for lending on Amazon’s Kindle via public… Read More
Amazon’s Kindle DX price cut: Prelude to bigger Kindle Fire? Calling it an early Black Friday deal, Amazon.com today dropped the price of its Kindle DX — a.k.a. the big… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt Some of the biggest names in venture capital are putting their faith in Lockerz, a Seattle upstart that came on… Read More
Barnes & Noble slashes Nook price to $79 to compete with Kindle on Black Friday The Kindle and Nook are locked in a heated battle, and the rivalry is about to get a little hotter… Read More
Holiday e-commerce sales are already off to a very fast start Americans appear to be a giving mood this holiday season — at least when it comes to buying items on… Read More
Analyst: Amazon will control 15% of the tablet market next year Have you purchased a Kindle Fire yet? Priced at $199 and released just a few weeks before the holiday rush,… Read More
Will Netflix become acquisition bait? Shares of Netflix have been absolutely hammered in the past five days, with the one-time high-flying video streaming service shedding… Read More
Kindle public library books decline as Penguin pulls titles The number of e-books available for digital lending on Amazon’s Kindle through public libraries around the country has declined noticeably… Read More
Amazon offers megadiscount on smartphones, sells a slew of Android devices for a penny Black Friday hasn’t hit yet, nor has cyber Monday. But that’s not stopping Amazon.com from rolling out big discounts on… Read More
Seattle companies dominate Consumer Reports ‘Naughty & Nice’ holiday list Maybe the “Seattle Nice” stereotype really does hold true. Well, at least when it comes to doing business. Consumer Reports… Read More
Sorry, Silicon Valley: Seattle ranks as top city for tech jobs One of the biggest story lines of the past couple of years in the Seattle tech community has been the… Read More
Should books be social? Amazon looks to improve Kindle @author beta It’s one of those cool concepts that points to the potential of the digital age. You’re reading a Kindle book… Read More
Report: LivingSocial is raising $200 million at a $5 billion valuation Groupon has already taken the public markets by storm, with the Chicago-based daily deal site posting a massive $16 billion… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: iTunes Match, Google Music and Tunebox take tracks to the cloud This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we break down the latest developments in online music — including… Read More
Apple turns up heat on Amazon over use of ‘appstore’ for Kindle Fire Apple’s attack on Amazon.com and its use of the phrase “appstore” continues. The Cupertino, California maker of the iPad and… Read More
Amazon on the hunt for more locker locations in Seattle Amazon.com is searching for more sites for its new Amazon Lockers in Seattle, expanding beyond its initial testing of the… Read More
Research firm estimate: The $199 Kindle Fire costs $201.70 to make There’s been a lot of speculation that Amazon.com is selling its new Kindle Fire tablet at a loss, hoping to… Read More
Kindle Fire will outsell iPad, Windows Phone will rebound, and six other tech predictions Facebook will go public in 2012. Apple will lose some of its innovative edge without Steve Jobs. And the majority… Read More
Amazon smartphone is ‘next logical step,’ analysts say With the Kindle Fire tablet release under its belt, Amazon.com may be aiming to release its own smartphone next year,… Read More
Tunebox: A new way to listen to music from your Dropbox account Seattle developer Phil Kast was rock climbing in Eldorado Canyon near Boulder two months ago when he slipped off a… Read More
