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Amazon

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.

In New York and Washington D.C., Amazon is moving into President Trump’s stomping grounds

NEW YORK — Amazon’s plan to move at least 25,000 employees with annual salaries averaging $150,000 into skyscrapers in Long… Read More

Amazon Web Services promises to support OpenJDK through 2023 with release of internal tool as new open source project

Developers using the popular OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) software tool can breathe a little easier Wednesday after Amazon Web Services… Read More

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New Yorkers protest Amazon HQ2: ‘We should be investing in housing … not in helicopters’

NEW YORK — Shawn Dixon’s life changed overnight. On Tuesday he was surprised to learn that Amazon plans to build… Read More

Jeff Bezos at Museum of Flight

Dan Primack is right: Amazon has not sparked a startup wave in Seattle

Dan Primack is one of my favorite journalists on the startup and venture capital beat, and his Pro Rata newsletter… Read More

Empire State Building glows orange for Amazon and New Yorkers are seeing red on Twitter

The Empire State Building in New York City has been bathed in light to celebrate everything from the Fourth of… Read More

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Virginia forms new neighborhood for Amazon, bracing for radical change in a sleepy DC suburb

ARLINGTON, Va. — Tell residents of this city that Amazon is moving into their National Landing neighborhood, and they’ll have… Read More

Flying to HQ2? Amazon’s picks intensify competition between Alaska and Delta in Seattle

Want to get from Amazon’s HQ1 city to all three of the new cities revealed by the tech giant on… Read More

Take a virtual tour of Amazon’s Virginia dreamland, where the sun shines and drones deliver packages

Circle the block all you want, there is no view of Mount Rainier or Puget Sound. You can’t see the… Read More

Watch Live: GeekWire’s analysis of Amazon’s HQ2 selections

Our live broadcast will start above at 10:00 a.m. PST After a year of high-stakes competition and frenzied speculation, Amazon’s… Read More

There go the neighborhoods: Home searches spike in new Amazon HQ cities as tech giant reveals expansion plans

The housing markets in Northern Virginia and New York City — winners of the Amazon HQ2/3 sweepstakes — are in… Read More

Far from the Seattle it changed, Amazon finds new headquarters cities — and new backlash on Day 1

There go the neighborhoods. Whether they’re going in a good or bad direction depends on how you feel about Amazon,… Read More

Amazon has chosen its HQ2 city, and guess what, Seattle? It’s us

Amazon has spoken. The race is over. The winner (or some may argue loser) of Amazon’s much ballyhooed HQ2 search… Read More

Crystal City just the latest addition to Amazon’s sprawling Northern Virginia cloud operation

Just a few miles away from Amazon’s proposed new headquarters in the soon-to-be created “National Landing” neighborhood split between Crystal… Read More

Google plans to double NYC workforce to 14K, vying for talent against Amazon’s new headquarters site

Amazon isn’t the only tech giant doubling down on the Big Apple. RELATED: Amazon announces HQ2 cities, splitting second headquarters as… Read More

Music City strikes a chord with Amazon: Nashville lands logistics hub with 5,000 corporate jobs

Well, it’s not quite HQ2 or HQ 1.5, or whatever Amazon’s headquarters search may now be called. But Nashville —… Read More

HQ2 incentives revealed: Here’s what NYC and Virginia gave up to get Amazon’s new headquarters

One of the most controversial aspects of Amazon’s year-long search for a second headquarters was the request for government incentives… Read More

Amazon announces HQ2 cities, splitting second headquarters as extraordinary contest concludes

ARLINGTON, Va. — After more than a year of reconnaissance, frenzied speculation, and non-stop media coverage, Amazon’s remarkable “HQ2” search… Read More

Report: Amazon to name New York and Virginia as HQ2 winners as early as Tuesday; other cities may get ‘major sites’

Amazon will announce New York City and Northern Virginia as the winners of its year-long search for a second headquarters… Read More

Company founded by U.S. Army vet develops cannabis-based products to help people struggling with pain

As the founder of G&G Laboratories, Mike Lui wants to help people who struggle with pain, such as veterans and… Read More

Amazon’s second home? GeekWire treks from Seattle to Virginia for new insights into HQ2 search

ARLINGTON, Va. — Why not? What if?  It’s hard not to read those words, emblazoned on a piece of street… Read More

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What’s going on with HQ2? Here’s everything we know — and the implications for finalists

Amazon’s continent-wide search for a second headquarters took a strange turn this week after a series of surprising news leaks.… Read More

4 tech trends from the Seattle International Auto Show, and why self-driving cars aren’t one

This year, the Seattle International Auto Show will feature more than 700 cars, including many that are not available for… Read More

HQ2 heartbreak? Don’t worry Austin, Atlanta and others, you’ll be just fine without Amazon (Take it from this HQ1 survivor)

A ploy. A farce. A PR stunt. Amazon is taking it on the chin this week following reports that it… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa delves deeper into the Windows universe with new ‘Alexa for PC’ app

Amazon today unveiled a new Alexa for PCs app that will bring the digital assistant to a lot more Windows… Read More

International booksellers end strike against Amazon’s AbeBooks after company reverses stand

A strike by international rare book dealers to withhold their books from Amazon-owned AbeBooks is over, after an organization that… Read More

After a broken leg and blood clot, this entrepreneur built a portable recumbent exercise bike

A broken leg doesn’t typically lead to startup idea creation. But that’s what happened to Michele Mehl. The Seattle-based entrepreneur… Read More

My kids sat in front of Amazon’s first-ever printed toy catalog: ‘Whoa! … Is everything in here free?’

Forty or so years after I did the same thing with a Sears holiday catalog, and about a month after… Read More

Urbanist Richard Florida on what splitting Amazon HQ2 means for cities: ‘It never was about a second headquarters’

In many ways, reports that Amazon will split its ballyhooed second headquarters between two cities came as a shock this… Read More

Zillow Group hires Amazon veteran Allen Parker as new CFO

Zillow Group today announced the hiring of Allen Parker as the company’s new chief financial officer. Parker previously spent more than… Read More

With new support from Amazon Web Services, AMD unveils its best shot in years at denting Intel’s data center dominance

Chip watchers think the second generation of AMD’s Eypc server processors could finally inject some competition into the market for… Read More

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