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Amazon enlists Prime Air jet in cancer fight, aiming to take charitable profile to new heights

Amazon has been criticized in the past for not doing enough in terms of philanthropy. But it’s going to be… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon’s potential as an advertising behemoth and ‘working 2 or 3 years into the future’

In addition to being a retail giant, a cloud leader and a grocery heavyweight, Amazon is rapidly ascending to the… Read More

Jeff Bezos hints at how Amazon’s two HQs could work together across time zones

It has been almost a year since Amazon surprised the world with plans for a second North American headquarters, with… Read More

Amazon briefly tops $1T market cap, joining Apple among most valuable U.S. public companies

UPDATE: Amazon stock closed the day at $2,039.51, putting its market cap at $994.75 billion, according to Google Finance. Amazon became… Read More

Third Amazon Go location opens a week after second store, accelerating Amazon’s quest to end grocery checkout lines

Amazon today debuted the third location of its checkout-less grocery concept Amazon Go, the second store opening in a week.… Read More

Amazon awarded $75K in dispute with e-book marketer over Kindle Direct Publishing scheme

Amazon has been awarded $75,000 in an arbitration case against an e-book marketer that allegedly inflated reader numbers artificially in… Read More

TLDR: Amazon stock hits $2K, Microsoft’s new parental leave policy, Google debunks Trump video

Today’s featured stories Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5… Read More

Seattle among top 10 cities where people are Googling ‘Amazon package stolen’ the most

“Porch pirates” are the bane of shoppers who have shifted their allegiance to the convenience of online retail. Stolen packages… Read More

Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5 trillion valuation

Amazon hit a new high mark this morning as its stock crossed the $2,000 threshold, and analysts are predicting even… Read More

TLDR: Bernie Sanders targets Amazon, Uber & Lyft want to offer dockless bikes, WeWork Labs startup incubator to open in Seattle

Today’s featured stories Amazon calls Bernie Sanders’ crusade for warehouse workers ‘inaccurate and misleading’ Seattle could greenlight 3 bikeshare services… Read More

Amazon calls Bernie Sanders’ crusade for warehouse workers ‘inaccurate and misleading’

Update: Amazon and Sanders continued their spat Thursday with the following tweets: https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1035254274446577670 https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1035243392094093312 Original story: Amazon and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders… Read More

Amazon opens children’s book subscription service to all U.S. customers

Amazon on Tuesday opened its Prime Book Box subscription service to all U.S. Prime members. Originally announced in May, the… Read More

TLDR: New Amazon Go store in Seattle, mass shooting at Florida esports tournament, new Xbox subscription service

Today’s featured stories Amazon makes another Go of checkout-free retail: Here’s what’s different inside latest Seattle location Mass shooting at… Read More

Amazon makes another Go of checkout-free retail: Here’s what’s different inside latest Seattle location

The second location of the Amazon Go checkout-free concept is here, and while the store didn’t feature too many significant… Read More

Amazon Web Services extends hybrid cloud push, reveals new database management service for VMware users

Amazon Web Services and VMware expanded their hybrid-cloud partnership Monday, announcing that AWS will ship a new version of its… Read More

Amazon’s Treasure Truck pulling into select Seattle Starbucks locations to generate buzz

Amazon’s Treasure Truck is refueling today — on caffeine — as pickups in the Seattle area are taking place inside… Read More

Second Amazon Go store opens in Seattle with further expansion on the horizon

Amazon has opened the second location of its checkout-less grocery concept Amazon Go in Seattle. The store, first discovered by… Read More

Mass shooting at Florida video game tournament livestreamed on Twitch, multiple fatalities reported

Update, 6:35 p.m. PT: Authorities confirmed that three people died at the shooting, including the suspect, David Katz, a 24-year-old from… Read More

Smart speaker sales take off globally, but consumer appetite for novel uses is fickle

While the quarter-by-quarter battle for smart speaker market share gets all the attention, the longer-term struggle to change consumer behavior… Read More

Amazon pays employees to tweet about how much they like working inside fulfillment centers

Amazon is using Twitter to combat negative public sentiment about the working conditions inside its warehouses. As spotted by TechCrunch and… Read More

Stormy Daniels, Santa and marijuana: Amazon cleans up Alexa’s answers to certain kid questions

We know kids have always said the darndest things, but in 2018, with the growing ubiquity of voice assistants in… Read More

TLDR: Using drones to analyze vineyards, tech giants team up to tackle Seattle issues, Amazon leases Expedia HQ tower

Today’s featured stories Can drones make better wine? Pollen Systems launches service to analyze vineyards from the air Amazon, Zillow,… Read More

Amazon bump? Target reports record online sales during its Prime Day rival event

Target had its best non-holiday digital sales day ever in July, and the retailer might have its rival Amazon to… Read More

From Amazon to Zillow, new coalition of tech titans will rally their workers around city’s tough problems

Seattle’s tech industry and the rest of this booming city are at odds like never before, and tech leaders acknowledge… Read More

Amazon and Kohl’s expand partnership to 100 stores in Chicago, L.A. and Milwaukee

Amazon and Kohl’s are expanding a pilot program to allow customers to return Amazon items for free at its stores,… Read More

Amazon leases entire Expedia HQ tower as travel giant prepares for move to Seattle

Amazon has scooped up the Bellevue, Wash., Expedia headquarters building that the travel giant will soon vacate as it prepares… Read More

Amazon ends 20% video game pre-order discounts for Prime members, cuts back Twitch Prime benefits

Amazon is changing the terms of its Prime benefits for video game pre-orders, replacing the 20 percent discount with a… Read More

Amazon and startups bet big on checkout-free grocery tech, but widespread adoption is unclear

Food samples, loyalty programs, magazine subscriptions and, of course, Girl Scout cookies are among the items typically featured at promotional… Read More

Amazon is said to work on a new device to record and stream live TV, challenging TiVo

Amazon is working on a new type of device that can record live TV and stream it on demand, encroaching… Read More

First impressions: Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana are friendly acquaintances, not best friends

“Cortana, open Alexa. … Play Jeopardy!” Just like that, we heard the famous theme song and voices of announcer Johnny… Read More