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Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis? The politics of private companies taking on public issues

Big tech companies are stepping in to help solve the housing crunch in the face of mounting frustration from their… Read More

Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill

Microsoft no longer views Cortana as a competitor to the Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa, and the priority has changed… Read More

Amazon Alexa now does her best ‘newscaster’ impression when reading the headlines

Is that you, Walter Cronkite? Amazon unveiled a feature that alters Alexa’s voice to imitate the way broadcast news anchors… Read More

Think you know news? Don’t ‘Wait Wait’ to prove it as NPR brings popular quiz show to smart speakers

If you’re used to just talking at the radio on Saturday mornings and playing along with NPR’s weekly news quiz… Read More

Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups

One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on,… Read More

New survey estimates Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. exceeds 100M

Last year, Amazon disclosed for the first time the number of Prime subscribers worldwide — 100 million. A new survey… Read More

AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project

The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom… Read More

Amazon is officially hiring at New York ‘HQ2’

Over the weekend, the first job listings cropped up for Amazon HQ2, the now imprecise moniker for the 50,000-person second… Read More

With another new office lease for Amazon, this Seattle-area city is almost out of downtown space

Amazon will take another high rise tower in Bellevue, Wash., according to a real estate brokerage report, and because of… Read More

Amazon bundles new second generation Alexa remote with Fire TV Stick for $40

Amazon is updating its Fire TV Stick bundle to include the new Alexa Voice Remote, which was released late last… Read More

Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Round 2: Digital assistants duke it out in the desert

LAS VEGAS — Sin City has served as the backdrop to some of the most famous bouts and rematches in… Read More

More than half of DC workers would consider leaving their jobs to work for Amazon, survey finds

Workers in Washington D.C. appear eager to jump ship for Amazon jobs, according to a new survey. Millennials and IT… Read More

Glasses give sight to the legally blind, opening eyes to the broader potential of making tech accessible

LAS VEGAS ― More than 180,000 people attended CES to see the latest in consumer technology. From autonomous suitcases to a… Read More

Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis

It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase… Read More

Trump mocks Amazon’s ‘Jeff Bozo’ over divorce and tabloid exposure

Perhaps it was only a matter of time until the president tweeted about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie… Read More

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain… Read More

Podcast

Facebook, groceries and … divorce? Catch up on the week’s big stories with the GeekWire Podcast

We’re back! John Cook, Monica Nickelsburg and Todd Bishop get the GeekWire Podcast rolling for 2019 with our weekly news… Read More

Amazon reportedly working on game streaming service, talking to publishers about signing up

Amazon is looking to get into game streaming, joining its tech titan contemporaries Microsoft and Google, according to a report… Read More

Amazon’s IMDb launches Freedive, a free movie and TV streaming service — with ads

IMDb, which has proven over the years to know a thing or two about movies, is getting into the business… Read More

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure

Amazon Web Services customers might find some new disaster-recovery services in their account dashboards later this year now that the… Read More

As Fire TV passes 30M users, Amazon execs eye more voice integrations and global expansion

Whether it’s through a dongle, a cube, or even baked inside your giant TV, Amazon wants to control the streaming… Read More

The world’s first e-bike with Amazon’s Alexa built in

LAS VEGAS — The first ever electric bicycle with Amazon’s digital assistant built in made its public debut at CES… Read More

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database

The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between… Read More

The $100 billion question: What will happen to Bezos and Allen fortunes as they change hands?

Although the passing of a loved one and the dissolution of a marriage are deeply personal experiences, they inevitably raise… Read More

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos plan to divorce after 25 years of marriage

Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, announced this morning via the Amazon CEO’s personal Twitter account that they’ve decided… Read More

There’s always money in the (Amazon) banana stand, even at CES

LAS VEGAS — Amazon is all over the place at CES — with major announcements from subsidiary Ring, new offerings… Read More

Reports: Amazon adds new disaster-recovery tech to AWS with purchase of CloudEndure

Amazon has reportedly acquired one of the disaster-recovery service providers within the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, purchasing CloudEndure for around… Read More

This voice-activated alarm clock from Lenovo is Google’s answer to Amazon’s Echo Spot

It’s the Echo Spot vs. Lenovo Smart Clock. Google today at CES unveiled a new nightstand alarm clock built in… Read More

As Amazon becomes world’s most valuable company, analyst sees ‘mostly unconstrained’ opportunities

As the closing bell rang Monday, Amazon had surpassed fellow Seattle-area tech giant Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company.… Read More

‘No, that’s not true,’ Amazon’s Alexa tells Qualcomm executive during CES demo

Alexa is center stage at the big CES tech show in Las Vegas this week, and Monday she went way… Read More