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Alexa Inside: What it’s really like to use Amazon’s voice assistant on a new Windows 10 laptop

Alexa is all over the place these days, from the fridge to the bathroom mirror, and now on Windows 10… Read More

In cities competing for Amazon HQ2, reaction to tech giant’s Seattle tax battle is all over the map

Three days after the Seattle City Council passed a head tax on large businesses, the editorial board of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,… Read More

Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services and lock-in: ‘You never want your customers to be trapped’

Enterprise tech buyers have worried about the prospect of “lock-in” — in which their vendors make it nearly impossible to… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft’s Ability Summit, Amazon’s 4th pillar, testing out Getaround

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Inspired by mother’s cooking, ex-Amazon engineer creates Indian food delivery startup

The unique workplace culture at Amazon provided Mitra Raman both the motivation to quit the technology giant and the engineering… Read More

Amazon targets small businesses, takes aim at Tableau and Microsoft Power BI with new QuickSight pricing model

Amazon Web Services said Thursday that it will offer QuickSight, its data analytics and visualization software, to companies and organizations on… Read More

What will be the next big driver of Amazon’s business? Jeff Bezos points to 3 possibilities

There were billboard trucks circling the block, a giant Bezos Bot looming over the crowd and, new to the show… Read More

TLDR: Amazon shareholders meeting, Valve removes school shooting game, new Pokemon products

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ newest database, Amazon Neptune, is now generally available

After showing it off last year at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that its new cloud graph… Read More

Amazon’s impact on e-commerce, smart speakers and streaming quantified in Mary Meeker’s massive tech report

Amazon showed up all over tech expert Mary Meeker’s massive annual Internet Trends report this year, demonstrating how much the… Read More

Amazon’s board diversity policy stirs debate at annual shareholder meeting

Earlier this month, after Amazon’s board initially opposed a shareholder proposal requiring the company to consider women and minorities for… Read More

Jeff Bezos: Amazon deserves to be scrutinized as a giant company, aims to ‘pass with flying colors’

It sometimes feels that the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” in a way that Amazon hasn’t seen in years… Read More

Best Buy unveils new Amazon Fire-powered smart TV as part of partnership between oft-rival retailers

Best Buy showed off the first byproduct of its unusual partnership with Amazon, a new Toshiba 4K TV coming next… Read More

‘Bezos needs a boss’: Protesters ask for CEO oversight outside Amazon’s shareholders meeting

Protestors made their return to Amazon’s shareholders meeting in Seattle, this year asking the tech giant to create more oversight… Read More

Travel giant Sabre bets big on multicloud, signing deal with Microsoft Azure weeks after a new deal with Amazon Web Services

Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a… Read More

Amazon expands 10% off discount deal at Whole Foods for Prime members to 12 additional states

Amazon today expanded its new 10 percent discounts on sale items and other special deals for Prime members at Whole… Read More

Amazon shareholder meeting preview: Tech giant to face protests and proposals at annual event

Amazon shareholders will congregate in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday morning for the tech giant’s annual meeting, listening to CEO Jeff… Read More

TLDR: Starbucks stores close for racial bias training

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Amazon patent covers how to signal a delivery drone (and how it signals back)

For an earlier generation, one of the sweetest sounds of summer was the music coming from an ice-cream truck. For… Read More

New sign of the times? Imagining a modern version of Seattle’s iconic ‘turn out the lights’ billboard

It was fascinating to read that the creators of the “Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights” billboard are… Read More

As Alexa’s Flash Briefing tops 5,000 skills, content providers learn more about what you want to hear

Smart home hub. Streaming music source. Dad joke repository. But Amazon’s Alexa has one skill that dates back to the… Read More

Amazon drives another real estate record in Seattle

Five years ago an Amazon-occupied building in Seattle sold for a record price of $749 per square foot. This week,… Read More

Amazon shuttering Seattle delivery support team, sending jobs to Arizona

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with comments from Amazon Amazon is cutting a team in Seattle that supports… Read More

Here’s what Amazon had to say after investigating an unusual case of Alexa eavesdropping

Amazon says it is taking steps to make sure that its Alexa-powered Echo home speaker devices do not secretly record… Read More

TLDR: How Europe’s new privacy law affects U.S. tech companies, Getaround expands to Seattle, ‘float’ above Seattle on the Space Needle

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Controversial Seattle ‘head tax’ may head south: Silicon Valley cities weigh tax on tech giants

Seattle is an innovator in a lot of things — from speciality coffee to cloud computing to commercial spacecraft. Could… Read More

Here’s how much Amazon, Starbucks and Vulcan donated to campaign to repeal Seattle head tax

Amazon and Starbucks have donated $25,000 each to a referendum campaign on Seattle’s divisive new head tax, according to disclosure… Read More

Google Home overtakes Amazon Echo in smart speaker sales for the first time, study says

Google outsold Amazon in the competitive smart speaker market for the first time ever in the first quarter, a report… Read More

TLDR: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to police, Paul Allen’s $1M donation to gun safety initiative, GlimpseCam

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

‘Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse’: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to local governments

Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify Americans walking down the street, the American Civil… Read More