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

Amazon exec explains the meaning of company’s newest leadership principle and how to avoid ‘Day 2’

Building a successful company is hard enough. Being able to avoid becoming a large bureaucratic organization that stops innovating in… Read More

TLDR: Amazon wants to expand presence in movie biz, Boring Co. plans high-speed transit under Dodger Stadium, Toronto’s innovation district

Today’s featured stories Amazon movie theaters? Tech giant vying to acquire Landmark chain, report says Elon Musk’s Boring Company takes… Read More

Amazon movie theaters? Tech giant vying to acquire Landmark chain, report says

Amazon wants to acquire Landmark Theatres, expanding its presence in the movie business and adding another brick-and-mortar chain to its… Read More

TLDR: Alexa-Cortana integrations now available, thousands block Fortune 500 companies on Twitter, T-Mobile wants to fix customer service

Today’s featured stories Microsoft and Amazon begin public rollout of first Alexa-Cortana integrations, promise more to come Cortana meets Alexa,… Read More

Cortana meets Alexa, Lesson No. 1: Keep your Windows 10 PC away from your Amazon Echo

I’m testing out the new integration of Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa, released as a public preview for the first… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon begin public rollout of first Alexa-Cortana integrations, promise more to come

In a somewhat surreal moment three months ago, an Amazon executive appeared on stage at the Microsoft Build developer conference… Read More

TLDR: Real estate market slows, HQ2 cities that Seattleites are most interested in, Google’s massive Seattle campus

Today’s featured stories Redfin CEO warns of slowing national real estate market, as frustrated buyers are sitting out Seattleites are… Read More

Kroger inks deal with Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as it battles Amazon

Kroger today announced a deal with Chinese tech giant Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as the U.S. chain… Read More

Seattleites are most likely to move to these Amazon HQ2 cities — does that give them an edge?

In its hometown, Seattle, Amazon benefits from a well-educated, tech-savvy pool of talent. The company is looking for another city… Read More

TLDR: Amazon plans to open health clinics, Steve & Connie Ballmer’s $59M commitment for at-risk students, Samsung smart speaker

Today’s featured stories Report: Amazon plans internal healthcare clinics for employees at Seattle headquarters Steve and Connie Ballmer commit $59M… Read More

Hey, roomie, I’m Alexa: Saint Louis University putting 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in student housing

Students headed back to school at one university this fall will be getting to know a new kind of roommate… Read More

Report: Amazon plans internal healthcare clinics for employees at Seattle headquarters

Amazon is planning to open primary care clinics for employees at its Seattle headquarters, according to a report Thursday by CNBC.… Read More

Amazon doubles down on vehicles as the next domain for digital brain Alexa with new tools

Amazon’s mission to put Alexa everywhere took another step forward today with the announcement of a new set of tools… Read More

TLDR: Amazon’s Whole Foods grocery pick-up service, Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset, Ofo bike graveyard

Today’s featured stories Amazon to offer Whole Foods drive-up grocery pickup for the first time, starting at two stores  Hype… Read More

Amazon apprentice vets

Amazon enlists first class of military veterans to graduate from Apprenti technical training program

Amazon’s commitment to hiring military veterans took another step forward on Wednesday as the tech giant hosted a graduation event… Read More

Amazon offers Whole Foods drive-up grocery pickup for the first time, starting at two stores

Amazon plans to offer drive-up grocery pickup at Whole Foods Market stores for the first time — the latest integration… Read More

Downstream raises almost $2M in seed funding to ride the growing Amazon advertising wave

The founders of Downstream are betting that Amazon’s somehow-stealthy surge in advertising revenue will attract lots of brands that need… Read More

TLDR: A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa, Spin’s uncertain future in Seattle, fighting robots at Seattle Art Fair

Today’s featured stories A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI… Read More

Tim Wagner, leader of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda serverless team, moving over to Coinbase

Thanks to its early start, Amazon Web Services is pretty far ahead of its cloud competitors when it comes to… Read More

Tony Reid

A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI

Inside its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Amazon provided NBC’s “Today” show with an exclusive look behind closed doors at the… Read More

Inside Tokyo’s epic electronics store: Apple vs. Microsoft; plenty of Google Home; no Amazon Echo

TOKYO — Talk about geek paradise. I’ve been hopping around Japan for the past week, trekking up Mt. Fuji and… Read More

Sonos Beam

Sonos confident in Alexa partnership despite competition from Amazon in smart speakers

Amazon and Sonos are more friends than enemies, according to a top executive with the smart speaker company. Sonos has… Read More

Amazon removes racist items from e-commerce marketplace after backlash

Amazon has pulled items with Nazi and racist symbolism from its website after advocacy groups raised concerns about the content,… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft, Zillow and more tech giants join Innovation Council to address Seattle challenges

Seattle’s tech industry titans are joining forces to advise the city on some of the pressing challenges that have arisen… Read More

Former Amazon smart home executive Charlie Kindel reveals his next gig

Charlie Kindel, founder of Amazon’s Alexa Smart Home division, has found his next gig, and he ended up there in… Read More

Amazon creates USPS lobby with other retailers to influence postal service policy

For months, President Donald Trump has been accusing Amazon of ripping off the U.S. Postal Service. The e-commerce giant has… Read More

Amazon Web Services continues to lock customers into long-term cloud deals as deferred revenue and the length of contracts grew in Q2

As more and more companies have gotten used to the idea of renting servers from a bookseller, Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon canceling Echo Spot orders after Alexa device was briefly offered for free

This story has been updated with comments from Amazon. Shoppers were thrilled over the weekend when one of Amazon’s newest… Read More

Amazon challenges ACLU study on facial recognition tech and police

Amazon defended the law enforcement use cases for its facial recognition technology Friday in an effort to throw water on… Read More

Amazon challenges Google and Facebook with surprising new multi-billion dollar business

Amazon’s cloud business may get much of the attention for bolstering the company’s bottom line. But an emerging new advertising… Read More

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