Free Kindle? Don’t count on it For many months there has been speculation that Amazon.com might ultimately give away its Kindle e-reader as a way of… Read More
Wal-Mart to test ‘Project Titan,’ an online grocery delivery service The online grocery business is littered with the carcasses of old dot-coms, from HomeGrocer.com to Webvan to PublixDirect. But companies… Read More
Kindle for Cheapskates: Amazon debuts $114 e-reader, with ads and deals Amazon.com’s Kindle just got cheaper for anyone willing to put up with some ads, or wanting to score some special… Read More
Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More
Is Bezos’ Starship Enterprise a French-Built Luxury Jet? Seeing news of Amazon’s Trekkie-themed corporate meeting is a reminder that CEO Jeff Bezos created an entity called Zefram LLC… Read More
Lockerz taps former Amazon exec, plans deeper Facebook integration Fast-growing, youth-oriented social networking site Lockerz has been undergoing a serious growth spurt since moving its headquarters from Pittsburgh to… Read More
Amazon employees need to eat, so Cactus plans massive restaurant in South Lake Union Amazon.com’s arrival in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is bringing thousands of geeks to the once run-down neighborhood. And those… Read More
Mozy executive Russ Stockdale on VMware deal: ‘I’d classify it as a transfer of talent’ Mozy has built a big business around online backups. But most people don’t realize that the company’s headquarters is located… Read More
Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More
Report: Amazon.com is the best at ‘customer experience’ Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos likes to preach the merits of customer service. And that near maniacal laser-focus has paid off.… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1 This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More
Hey developers: Forget the cheeseburgers, have a LOLcat The guys from Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell will be our guests on the next GeekWire Podcast. And it looks like… Read More
Study: Microsoft’s Ballmer sees approval rating decline Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest… Read More
Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More
How to recruit an Amazon.com coder: Free cheeseburgers? You can recruit smart developers in a lot of ways, offering stock incentives, big salaries or cool perks. But Cheezburger… Read More
Nightly Notes: Nintendo 3DS, Amazon’s Scratchpad, Android, Space Shuttles and spam First-day U.S. sales of the Nintendo 3DS set a new company record. Look next for aspirin shortages. The record labels… Read More
Amazon Cloud Drive: What the critics, naysayers and fanboys say Since its debut Monday night, Amazon.com’s new Cloud Drive music storage service has attracted plenty of attention. (Team GeekWire, in… Read More
Microsoft uses Amazon to bolster Apple ‘App Store’ fight Microsoft’s fight against Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store” took on new significance last week when Apple sued… Read More
Amazon unveils Cloud Drive, a cloud-based online music service Can Amazon.com knock Apple off its digital music perch? The Seattle online retailer sure is trying to make inroads against… Read More
Kindle readers of The New York Times to get free access of the newspaper’s Web site Here’s one way to get access to The New York Times on the Web. Buy a Kindle, and then shell… Read More
Groupon, LivingSocial challenged over terms of daily deals More and more people have been embracing daily deals, figuring out how to work within the rules and limitations to… Read More
Amazon expanding data center operations in Oregon Cheap hydroelectric power continues to entice big technology companies to the Columbia River towns of the Pacific Northwest. Amazon.com —… Read More
Weekend Reading: Apple vs. Amazon.com, the full text Who needs a novel when there are juicy court filings to read? When the news broke this week that Apple… Read More
Walgreens to buy drugstore.com for $429 million Drugstore.com, the Bellevue online drugstore that survived the dot-com bust to become one of the leading online distributors of drugs,… Read More
Traffic, techies and South Lake Union’s transformation The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood — sparked by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate — continues as Amazon.com… Read More
Excerpt: Setback for Google in book-scanning case In the mood for some evening reading about the future of online books? Here’s the full text of the ruling… Read More
Apple hits adult ‘app store’ MiKandi with cease-and-desist over trademark Amazon.com isn’t the only company being targeted by Apple for using the phrase “app store” in conjunction with its Android… Read More
Amazon.com opens its Android ‘Appstore,’ Apple be damned Amazon.com this morning launched its new Appstore for Android, despite a last-minute lawsuit from Apple over the “App Store” trademark. … Read More
Did Amazon just kill Lendle? Electronic book lending service Lendle may be entering its last chapter. Amazon.com today revoked API access to the company, essentially… Read More
Apple suing Amazon.com over “Appstore” name Amazon.com has made a point of calling its upcoming mobile marketplace for Android an “Appstore,” as opposed to an “App… Read More
