Amazon (AMZN) News – Page 26 of 236

Amazon Go app is checking out, as shoppers can now use company’s main app at all physical stores

The Amazon Go app is going away. In another move to streamline its shopping services and family of mobile apps,… Read More

Bringing books into the TikTok era: Amazon’s Kindle Vella and the rise of the new ‘story platforms’

Amazon’s Kindle Vella spotlights the growing market for episodic stories, designed for mobile devices, unfolding as larger narratives over time.… Read More

Amazon moves further into video game publishing with new project from English studio Glowmade

Amazon Games has partnered with the independent studio Glowmade, headquartered in Guildford, England, to publish an original video game. This expands… Read More

Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena to feature Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to avoid lines in select stores

Amazon may have skipped putting its name on the outside of the renovated stadium where the Seattle Kraken will begin… Read More

Amazon gives $7.5M to complete bike and walking trail in Bellevue, where it is growing rapidly

Amazon contributed $7.5 million to complete the Wilburton and Wilburton Trestle trail segments in Bellevue, Wash., the city just east… Read More

Amazon boosts Kindle Paperwhite screen size and battery life in first major upgrade in 3 years

Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite, announced Tuesday morning, is the first major upgrade to the company’s front-lit e-reader since 2018, offering… Read More

Amazon adds former Slack, Etsy director Edith Cooper to board

Amazon has added former Goldman Sachs exec Edith Cooper to its board of directors. Cooper previously served on the board… Read More

Remote work already changing Seattle permanently, tech worker survey indicates

The majority of Seattle tech workers don’t expect to ever return to their offices full time and the effects of… Read More

Carpenters’ union halts work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook expansions in Seattle area

Construction work on several major tech company expansion projects, including those by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, slowed to a… Read More

California legislation to aid Amazon warehouse workers won’t replace ongoing unionization efforts

Stuart Applebaum has heard the argument before. That, perversely, a union organizer should quietly root against non-union higher wages or… Read More

Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group

Microsoft confirmed that it has hired longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell to lead a newly formed engineering organization… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says it’s ‘hard to argue’ its retail business is a monopoly

Facing a new slate of regulators and legislators calling for new principles of antitrust scrutiny, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made… Read More

Rep. Jayapal: Biden administration supports Amazon-busting ‘Ending Platform Monopolies Act’

Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Amazon-busting legislation, the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” that would potentially force the company’s dismantling, has earned Biden… Read More

Rep. Adam Schiff rips Amazon and Facebook for ‘directly profiting’ on COVID-19 misinformation

Rep. Adam Schiff, in separate letters to bosses of tech giants Amazon and Facebook, criticized the efforts of both companies… Read More

Amazon’s new co-op mode on Luna offers an interesting use case for cloud gaming service

Amazon announced a number of big additions to its cloud gaming service Luna on Thursday morning, including a new family-oriented… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, pop superstar Ciara, and other luminaries to speak at GeekWire Summit

Andy Jassy will join us for an on-stage interview at the 10th annual GeekWire Summit in October in Seattle, making… Read More

Amazon to spend $1.2B to pay college tuition and expand skills training for operations workers

Amazon is increasing its investment in the education and training of its front-line operations workers, announcing Thursday that it will… Read More

Amazon is now selling its own branded TV sets embedded with Alexa

Amazon unveiled its first smart TVs on Thursday. The tech giant is selling the Amazon Fire TV 4-Series starting at… Read More

Sen. Elizabeth Warren concerned that Amazon is ‘peddling misinformation’ about COVID-19

In a six-page letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren expressed concerns that the “search and ‘Best Seller’… Read More

From Go to go bigger, Amazon bringing cashierless ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to two Whole Foods stores

Amazon is bringing more of its technology to Whole Foods Market, announcing Wednesday that the “Just Walk Out” cashierless experience… Read More

Podcast

Interview: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on why her new legislation might make Amazon an illegal monopoly

Few lawmakers have gotten Amazon’s attention like the one who hails from the company’s hometown, Rep. Pramila Jayapal. The 7th… Read More

Here’s how the #ADayOffTwitch strike impacted viewer hours on Amazon-owned Twitch

Sept. 1 saw a day-long strike by some of the most popular streamers on Twitch, and according to numbers released… Read More

As Amazon booms in California, cities want state to fix ‘tremendous inequity’ in sharing of tax revenue

Some California cities are calling on the state to return to a more equitable method of sharing tax revenue generated… Read More

Amazon plans 20% jump in global corporate and tech roles by adding 55k jobs in latest hiring spree

Amazon is looking to fill 40,000 corporate and tech jobs across more than 220 locations in the United States, the… Read More

Report: Amazon expanding into live audio

Amazon Music is leading an effort to expand the company into live audio, joining the likes of Clubhouse, Twitter, Facebook… Read More

A welcome interloper? Amazon Fresh opens in Seattle’s historic and changing Central District

To some longtime residents of Seattle’s Central District, a grocery store stocked like the one Amazon opened recently in the… Read More

Amazon will offer ‘buy now, pay later’ option via partnership with Affirm

Customers shopping on Amazon.com will be able to buy more products in monthly payments thanks to a new partnership with… Read More

Amazon cloud exec Charlie Bell’s new Microsoft job puts non-compete deals back in the spotlight

What exactly will longtime Amazon executive Charlie Bell do at Microsoft? It’s possible that even Bell doesn’t know the precise… Read More

Former Amazon grocery leader Wei Gao lands at event management company Hopin

Wei Gao is hopping to Hopin. The longtime Amazon executive who helped lead the company’s grocery efforts just took a… Read More

Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior… Read More