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Amazon strikes Disney-ABC deal, Netflix basically matches it

Amazon.com announced a content deal with Disney-ABC Television Group this morning, continuing to expand the catalog of streaming movies and TV shows… Read More

Bill Gates on the price of burgers; and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I can understand wanting to have millions… Read More

Ouch: Amazon.com hit with more than eight patent suits in 55 days

Amazon.com’s corporate lawyers are going to be pretty busy in the coming weeks. According to the company’s quarterly report released… Read More

Wall Street loses patience with Amazon, shares fall more than 10%

Shares of Amazon.com are taking a beating today after the online retailer posted weak earnings on Tuesday that disappointed Wall Street. The… Read More

Amazon vet Anne Krook puts roots down at Mindbloom

Anne Krook, who spent 13 years at Amazon.com, most recently overseeing disaster response and disaster recovery, has joined Seattle startup Mindbloom… Read More

Amazon.com employment tops 50,000, more than doubling in past two years

Amazon.com added more than 8,000 new workers in the third quarter, bringing its total employment to more than 50,000 full-… Read More

Amazon misses earnings expectations, making ‘millions more’ Kindle Fires than planned

Amazon just reported profits of $63 million for the third quarter, down 73 percent. The profit of 14 cents a… Read More

Amazon patents gift cards that can tattle on what you buy

Happy Birthday! Here’s the Creepiest Gift Card Ever! U.S. Patent & Trademark Office records show that Amazon today received a… Read More

Steve Jobs biography quickly rises to #1 spot on Amazon.com

Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has already hit the number one position on Amazon.com, just hours… Read More

Amazon: It’s safer to work for us than a department store

Amazon.com continues to defend itself against claims by workers that its warehouse facilities in Pennsylvania are unsafe. In a statement… Read More

Amazon unit expands into groceries, selling tea to jam

In Seattle, Amazon.com customers have long been able to purchase groceries and have them delivered to the doorstep. Now, the… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Steve Jobs bio, Microsoft Store, TechStars, and Pioneer Square’s tech future

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we look ahead to the upcoming Steve Jobs biography, and go… Read More

Amazon touts better design, graphics in new Kindle format

Amazon.com has released new details on the next generation of its Kindle e-book format — dubbed Kindle Format 8 —… Read More

Engineer who ripped Jeff Bezos returns with mea culpa, and a story about the Amazon founder

Last week, Google engineer Steve Yegge accidentally posted a fascinating 4,771 word rant in which he attacked his employer and… Read More

How to buy a phone: Watch the AmazonWireless rap video

Buying a new mobile phone can be a serious pain. To sort through the mess, Amazon.com has resorted to short-form… Read More

As Amazon threat mounts, Barnes & Noble expands beyond books online

Barnes & Noble typically conjures images of books, calendars, CDs and other published items. But the retailer is looking to… Read More

EMC boss Joe Tucci loves being in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft

EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot… Read More

New $60 million data center slated for downtown Seattle

Citing Seattle as a communications hub and an important portal to Asia, Redwood City, California-based Equinix announced today that it… Read More

Foxconn reportedly set to produce next-generation Kindle Fire in 2012

This has the makings of the perfect Mike Daisey monologue. Foxconn, the giant Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, has reportedly entered into… Read More

Amazon Prime adds Ken Burns, NOVA and other PBS shows

Popular PBS shows such as Nova, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, and documentaries by Ken Burns will be added to the streaming… Read More

Amazon exclusive with DC Comics angers booksellers, comic book fans

At an industry event Tuesday afternoon, a group of Seattle techies chatted privately with me about Amazon.com’s new-found power in… Read More

Apple’s Cook confident vs. Kindle Fire, sees tablet market eventually bigger than PCs

Apple CEO Tim Cook was just asked on the company’s earnings call to offer his thoughts on Amazon’s upcoming Kindle… Read More

Ron Wiener unveils EquaShip, looks to upend UPS and FedEx

Ron Wiener is back in the package delivery business. The Seattle entrepreneur who previously founded Earth Class Mail today is… Read More

Amazon.com, Costco among the most trusted brands

Amazon.com has been taking some hits lately, with at least two congressmen arguing that the company’s new Silk browser for… Read More

Texas actress sues Amazon for displaying age in IMDb listing

In the annals of litigation, this has to be one of the stranger cases involving Amazon.com. A Texas actress is… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amazon Lockers, iOS 5, and an inside look at a Facebook ‘casino’

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the pilot of the Amazon Locker delivery system,… Read More

Congressman lobs bombshell at Amazon’s new Silk browser, claims shades of Orwell’s 1984

There may be a new “big brother” in town, and it might just go by the name of Amazon.com. That’s… Read More

With Hulu off the market, Amazon on its own in online video

The consortium behind Hulu said late yesterday that the popular web video service is no longer for sale — pulling… Read More

Classic rant by Google engineer rips apart Google + and describes Jeff Bezos as a micromanager

I’ve never met Steve Yegge. But after reading the Google engineer’s 4,771-word rant — in which he slashes everything from… Read More

Amazon’s new locker delivery system now live in New York

Amazon.com has activated its new Amazon Locker package delivery system in New York City, expanding a test that first surfaced… Read More