Fire TV passes 40M users as Amazon expands its streaming media device to cars Amazon’s push to control the television-viewing experience is expanding beyond the living room and into cars. Amazon is partnering with… Read More
CES 2020 preview: Ivanka Trump, Amazon, pizza robots, and more as GeekWire heads to Vegas Get your best walking shoes ready, load up on the Emergen-C, and pack extra batteries — it’s time to go… Read More
These tech stocks were the biggest winners and losers in the Seattle area for 2019 Microsoft and Amazon are the centerpieces of Seattle’s booming tech scene, and 2019 was a big year for both of… Read More
Tech’s extraordinary decade: What mattered most in the past 10 years of innovation What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn,… Read More
The decade when tech turned dark: Learning from the mistakes of the past 10 years The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for… Read More
Wyze data leak: Key takeaways from server mistake that exposed information from 2.4M customers Post updated at 6 p.m. on Dec. 29. Seattle-area startup Wyze, a provider of home video cameras and other Internet… Read More
Play Podcast Seattle tech’s extraordinary year: These are the stories we’ll remember in the business of innovation Play From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from… Read More
New patent application points to development of palm scanning tech for Amazon Go stores Amazon Go customers could someday enter the store with a simple wave of the hand, replacing today’s process of swiping… Read More
Amazon and its big retail rivals power record e-commerce holiday spending Amazon is claiming record shopping volumes this holiday season as the tech giant and its retail rivals brought e-commerce sales… Read More
F5 Tower and new Amazon building sold in $1.2B deal as big tech drives Seattle real estate boom Big real estate companies are paying top dollar to get their hands on brand new office buildings in Seattle leased… Read More
Self-driving delivery vehicles plus self-flying drones? Now there’s an Amazon patent for that For a long time, Amazon has been looking into applications for self-driving vehicles — and testing fleets of self-flying drones… Read More
Amazon among investors again as electric vehicle maker Rivian raises another $1.3B Amazon has made another investment in Rivian, the electric vehicle maker which announced Monday that it had raised $1.3 billion… Read More
SpaceX seeks to block Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband program from skipping a regulatory hurdle A space battle is brewing over access to a limited slice of radiowaves between several companies that want to launch… Read More
Thousands of Ring user passwords exposed following reports of hackers accessing cameras Amazon’s home security business, Ring, landed in more hot water Thursday when researchers discovered thousands of user passwords had been… Read More
Amazon is moving Project Kuiper satellite operation to huge Redmond facility Amazon announced today that its Project Kuiper satellite operation has outgrown its current office space, and will move into 219,000… Read More
Amazon’s top 10 Alexa skills for 2019 show broader ambitions amid questions about growth Amazon has established itself as a smart home leader, with its digital assistant Alexa powering and controlling everything from speakers,… Read More
As Amazon disrupts its business, FedEx shares drop on ‘very disappointing’ financial results FedEx reported lackluster financials for the second quarter of its fiscal year and cut profit expectations going forward, continuing the… Read More
Report: Ahead of holiday push, Amazon blocks its third-party sellers from using FedEx Ground Just a week before Christmas, third-party sellers on Amazon have been instructed by the tech giant to not use FedEx… Read More
By land and by air, Amazon delivery hardware takes on a new look in truck and plane photos Amazon vans zipping around neighborhoods making holiday deliveries aren’t the only relatively new transportation hardware that the tech giant has… Read More
Amazon’s Twitch embroiled in Russian legal dispute over English Premier League streams Amazon is fielding a major lawsuit from Russian internet giant Rambler Group, which claims Twitch has violated its rights to… Read More
Play Podcast What the Ring camera hacks say about security, privacy and technology Play The hacking of multiple Ring cameras this week brought the sometimes abstract world of tech security and privacy into stark relief,… Read More
Amazon is delivering half of its own packages, reducing reliance on third-parties, analysts find Amazon is coming for couriers. The Seattle tech giant is now delivering 50 percent of packages itself, according to Morgan… Read More
Despite Amazon’s legal challenge, Microsoft reportedly moving forward with JEDI hiring push Microsoft’s push to recruit people to work on the JEDI project to build cloud infrastructure for the U.S. Department of… Read More
Tech industry’s password problems come home to roost with Ring security camera hacks After a series of high-profile hacks involving in-home Ring security cameras, some people are finding that devices they bought to… Read More
Be cool, Alexa … actor Samuel L. Jackson now voices the weather and more for Amazon “I’m in the cloud, baby!” Only Samuel L. Jackson, the longtime Hollywood star with a distinct voice and vocabulary, could… Read More
Hackers infiltrate Ring cameras in Florida and Tennessee and harass children Hackers accessed Ring security cameras in Florida and Tennessee over the last few days and communicated with children, raising questions… Read More
New employer satisfaction data hints at techlash’s impact and Microsoft’s exception It’s been a tough year for tech, and the barrage of negative headlines dogging the industry may be hitting companies… Read More
Company reportedly exposed 752,000 birth certificate applications stored on Amazon Web Services A company that lets users get copies of their birth and death certificates exposed more than 752,000 application documents it… Read More
Amazon accuses Trump of using Pentagon cloud contract for ‘his own personal and political ends’ A newly unsealed court document reveals more details about Amazon’s strategy to get the Defense Department to overturn its award… Read More
‘Do you want a strong national defense or don’t you?’ Bezos defends big tech’s government work Big tech should continue to play a key role in national defense, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, painting the work… Read More
