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Amazon reportedly leases more than a dozen sites in Los Angeles for rapid grocery expansion

Amazon’s grocery push is kicking into high gear, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. WSJ reports… Read More

Amazon unveils new ‘IP Accelerator’ to battle fraud on its platform, help sellers trademark products

Amazon’s quest to stamp out fraud on its online retail platform is getting a jolt as the tech giant today… Read More

Amazon launches AWS IQ, a marketplace of third-party cloud experts for on-demand projects

Amazon.com opened up its online retail marketplace to third-party sellers early on, shaking up the e-commerce industry and extending the… Read More

Report: Amazon Go cashierless store technology could be coming to airports and movie theaters

As it slowly rolls out new Amazon Go locations in Seattle and other cities, Amazon is reportedly eyeing other ways… Read More

Washington Post Web Services? Publishing tech play an example of Bezos’ influence on the newspaper

Jeff Bezos’ day-to-day influence as the owner of the Washington Post has been a subject of much speculation, but a… Read More

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Amazon expands Alexa’s horizons while attempting to alleviate consumer privacy concerns

Amazon announced a long list of new Echo and Alexa products and initiatives this week — from smart glasses to… Read More

Why Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sees new opportunity in the yard, on the sidewalk, and beyond

Alexa is finally moving out of the house. That was the underlying theme of Amazon’s annual hardware and services unveiling… Read More

Tech industry continues push to shape federal facial recognition laws

Tech companies developing facial recognition software want to write the rules that will govern the controversial technology. A coalition of… Read More

Alexa will sync podcasts with smartphone apps, letting listeners pick up where they left off

Updated below with additional information. Almost lost amid the flurry of announcements from Amazon’s devices and services team Wednesday was… Read More

Bezos: Facial recognition ‘a perfect example’ of the need for regulation, and Amazon is working on it

Jeff Bezos made a surprise appearance at an Amazon press reception Wednesday evening to introduce singer-songwriter Charlie Puth to the… Read More

We swear, using Samuel L. Jackson to voice Alexa is Amazon’s best new idea

It’s been 30 years since Samuel L. Jackson gave the weather report as a DJ in Spike Lee’s “Do the… Read More

Amazon unveils new Alexa-powered Echo Buds, undercuts Apple’s AirPods with $129.99 price tag

Amazon is taking on Apple with its own wireless earbuds called the Echo Buds, powered by Alexa voice technology and… Read More

Amazon and Discovery cook up ‘Food Network Kitchen,’ a streaming service aimed at home chefs

Discovery and Amazon think they have the right ingredients to get food lovers to subscribe to yet another streaming service.… Read More

Everything Amazon announced at its devices event — Echo Buds, Echo Frames, Echo Studio, and more

Editor’s note: Read on for our real-time updates from Amazon’s event. The company published its own rundown of the products announced… Read More

Amazon acquires INLT to help sellers import goods to the U.S.

Amazon has acquired INLT, a startup that helps merchants deal with cross-border shipping. As first reported by Reuters, the deal… Read More

Q&A: Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer get ready for second season calling Amazon’s NFL games

There was limited time to interview Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer last week, so I made sure to ask the… Read More

NFL fans can access live Next Gen Stats for first time via Amazon’s Thursday Night Football stream

https://youtu.be/r1cnSpbPrnI Amazon is geeking out its Thursday Night Football streams this season by giving viewers access to advanced statistics during… Read More

Amazon launches on-demand healthcare clinic for Seattle-area employees

Healthcare is getting the Amazon treatment. The tech giant today launched Amazon Care, a primary care service for its employees… Read More

Amazon unveils voice interoperability initiative with more than 30 companies — but not Google or Apple

Amazon announced a big partnership on Tuesday called the Voice Interoperability Initiative, taking a stand on how it believes voice… Read More

Amazon reportedly building wireless earbuds with fitness tracking and a ‘bulkier’ Echo device

Watch out, Apple and FitBit — Amazon is making its own wireless earbuds with fitness-related features. Related: Alexa, how are… Read More

Amazon’s ‘Show and Tell’ feature for Echo Show enables Alexa to use vision to help blind customers

Amazon’s Alexa isn’t just using voice to provide assistance to users. A new feature called “Show and Tell” enables the… Read More

Alexa, how are Amazon’s devices doing? Assessing the company’s big hardware unveiling, a year later

One year ago, in a splashy press event at its Seattle headquarters, Amazon unveiled more than a dozen new devices,… Read More

Amazon wins 15 Emmys including best comedy for ‘Fleabag’; HBO rules again with ‘Game of Thrones’

It was another historic night for comedy and Amazon Prime Video at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday as… Read More

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Tech workers unite for the climate, pushing Amazon and other big companies to take action

The climate crisis surged to the top of the tech industry’s agenda this week, encouraged by a groundswell of activity… Read More

Thousands of tech workers fighting for climate action descend on Amazon HQ

Thousands of tech workers crowded around Amazon’s iconic Spheres on Friday to answer a call from youth activists to stand… Read More

Report: Walmart and Oracle among secret funders behind ‘grassroots’ campaign to blast Amazon

Peruse through the social media feed and website of the Free & Fair Markets Initiative, and it’s clear that the… Read More

Jeff Bezos announces Amazon ‘Climate Pledge,’ promising to cut emissions and pushing other companies to follow suit

At a news conference this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the… Read More

Heavily funded real estate startup Compass moves in on Amazon with big new Seattle tech center

From the outside, it would make total sense for New York-based real estate brokerage and tech company Compass to put… Read More

Career Day bump: Amazon says it received 208K online job applications in the last week

Amazon spent the last week highlighting a nationwide hiring push, headlined by the six-city Career Day event yesterday, in a… Read More

Amazon begins its airlift of Hurricane Dorian relief supplies to the Bahamas

Amazon says it’s completed the first of two relief flights to the Bahamas, delivering tons of supplies earmarked for the… Read More