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Amazon got 850K job applications in one month after announcing a $15 minimum wage

People apparently lined up to work at Amazon’s warehouses and Whole Foods stores in the weeks following the tech giant’s… Read More

Amazon’s big new business: Here’s how much advertising revenue the company generated in 2018

Amazon’s advertising business is showing no signs of letting up. Amazon reports record profits of $3B, crushes Wall Street expectations… Read More

Amazon patents a plan to have packages ride public buses for customer pickup

Amazon’s inventors have suggested using drone-dispensing trucks, rail cars and airships to deliver packages, but one of the company’s latest… Read More

AWS revenue grows 45% to $7.4B in fourth quarter; full-year revenue hits $25B

Revenue from Amazon Web Services’ market-leading cloud business crossed $7 billion for the first time during the last quarter of… Read More

Amazon reports record profits of $3B, crushes Wall Street expectations for holiday quarter

Amazon’s “record-breaking” holiday season powered the tech giant to a strong quarter, breaking a streak of two consecutive revenue misses.… Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Can tech giant snap streak of revenue misses?

Another day, another case of the most-valuable U.S. company reporting its latest financial results. Amazon again claimed the title this… Read More

Amazon to tease Prime series ‘Hanna’ during Super Bowl and give users 24-hour access to first episode

Amazon is trotting out more than just a fun ad for Alexa during Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII. The tech giant… Read More

Alexa toothbrush, dog collar and more failed gadgets make cut in Amazon Super Bowl ad

Amazon may appear to be trying to get its voice assistant Alexa into a dizzying array of gadgets these days,… Read More

Amazon reportedly eyes Middle East expansion

Amazon appears to have found its next area for e-commerce expansion: the Middle East. CNBC reports that Amazon has been… Read More

New York labor leaders join mounting resistance to Amazon HQ2

Two New York labor unions are joining a growing opposition movement to Amazon’s planned 25,000-person office in Queens. Leaders of… Read More

Amazon to fund computer science classes at 130 New York high schools as part of Future Engineer program

Amazon today pledged to provide introductory and advanced computer science classes in 130 high schools in New York City, home… Read More

AOC vs. Amazon: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of bias in tech giant’s facial detection tech

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s utilizes technology as only a digital native can. The 29-year-old Congresswoman knows the power of an authentic… Read More

The Jeff Bezos portfolio: Here’s how the Amazon chief has invested billions

Jeff Bezos is the richest person on earth. He amassed the world’s largest individual fortune largely thanks to his shares… Read More

Key Amazon exec Jeff Wilke invests in furniture rental startup Fernish as part of $30M round

Fernish, the furniture rental startup from Los Angeles that recently expanded to Seattle, just got a big jolt of fresh… Read More

‘We cannot let the next generation down’: Women in Cloud Summit rallies crowd to turn the tide in tech

In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology… Read More

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Week in Geek: Amazon’s delivery robot, the app that helped AOC, and a rough game for the Surface Pro

While we’ve been watching the sky and waiting for drone deliveries from Amazon, the tech giant came at us from… Read More

Amazon turns to Harrison Ford, astronaut twins and more celebs in tease for Alexa Super Bowl ad

Amazon stole the Super Bowl advertising show last year with a celebrity-filled spot centered around a storyline in which Alexa… Read More

Did Amazon overextend itself with its rapid Alexa devices expansion?

Last September, Amazon unveiled a dozen new and updated devices at its annual big hardware unveiling — double the number… Read More

Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo

Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project,… Read More

Amazon reveals new Thursday Night Football streaming stats, brings back first female NFL broadcasting duo

Amazon is bringing back Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer to commentate its Thursday Night Football streams on Prime Video next season. The… Read More

UnitedHealth sues exec for taking trade secrets to Amazon health care joint venture

Amazon’s joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is just getting started, but it’s already rattling health care giants.… Read More

Amazon’s HQ2 picks are conspicuously absent from America’s 10 best-performing cities list

When Amazon announced it would split its second headquarters between New York City and the Washington, D.C., area, it seemed… Read More

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Amazon temporarily stops selling its Echo Wall Clock: Why we wouldn’t buy another one anyway

Amazon has decided to temporarily stop selling its Echo Wall Clock, a device that displays the time of day and… Read More

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Geared Up: A review of the DJI Osmo Pocket, new iPhone battery case, and testing out Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock

Geared Up is back! Our weekly consumer electronics podcast and live video show returns this week with a new co-host:… Read More

In the year of HQ2, Amazon’s 2018 lobbying budget ballooned to a record $14.2 million

Amazon spent more money lobbying the government in 2018 than any year in the company’s history. The Seattle tech giant’s… Read More

Amazon rolls out autonomous package-delivery robot ‘Scout’ to a test area north of Seattle

Amazon today unveiled a cooler-sized package delivery robot named Scout that it is testing in the Seattle area. Scout is… Read More

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Amazon and Microsoft diverge on approach to housing crisis in their home region

As two of the world’s most valuable companies, Amazon and Microsoft have created mind-boggling wealth and economic vitality in the… Read More

I read MacKenzie Bezos’ books, and this is what I learned

She was an aspiring fiction writer with an audacious start along that path. She pursued creative writing at Princeton, and… Read More

Time’s up, Alexa: After one lukewarm leftover too many, we pulled the plug on Amazon’s microwave

Instead of using our fingers to push the buttons on a microwave keypad over the past couple months, we here… Read More

Shareholders pressure Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

Amazon shareholders have filed a resolution asking the company to stop selling its facial recognition software to government agencies until… Read More