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Novel Effect raises $3M from Amazon and VCs for voice-enabled children’s storytelling app

Novel Effect is on a roll. After participating in the inaugural Alexa Accelerator, appearing on Shark Tank, and winning a… Read More

Amazon’s new Marketplace Appstore gives sellers a place to find tech tools

Amazon is building a new app store to connect the millions of sellers on its platform with companies building tools… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa arrives on Windows 10 laptops for the first time this week via Acer devices

Amazon’s Alexa is live on a Windows 10 laptop for the first time, making its debut on a pair of… Read More

Trump’s chief economic adviser didn’t want to talk about Amazon’s relationship with the Post Office

President Donald Trump likes to paint Amazon as a negative force for the U.S. Postal Service, even reportedly asking U.S. Postmaster… Read More

Tacoma courts Seattle tech companies and other businesses with ‘No Head Tax Here’ pitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrixN6_jSA The city of Tacoma, Wash., has long envied the big concentration of tech companies to the north, and Seattle’s… Read More

Traditional publishers’ ebook sales drop as indie authors and Amazon take off

Ebook sales are dying. Ebooks are insanely popular. If the short definition of cognitive dissonance is holding two contradictory ideas… Read More

Trump reportedly lobbied postmaster general to double USPS package delivery rates on Amazon and others

President Donald Trump personally urged U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double how much the U.S. Postal Service charges Amazon… Read More

If Amazon puts HQ2 in D.C. area, employees leaving Seattle would feel some gain, but plenty of pain

If Amazon chooses Washington, D.C., or its Virginia or Maryland suburbs for its second headquarters, Amazon employees transferring to the… Read More

Amazon Alexa VP departs as companies continue to target tech giant’s executives

Amazon Alexa Vice President Jim Freeman left the company for the second time to rejoin German e-commerce company Zalando. Freeman spent… Read More

TLDR: MLB’s streaming deal with Facebook, diversity on Amazon’s board, PicoBrew

[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

After the tax: What happens if Amazon puts the brakes on its Seattle growth?

A standoff between Amazon and the city of Seattle ended this week when the City Council passed a pared-down version… Read More

Amazon Prime members to get 10% off many Whole Foods items nationwide starting this summer

Amazon is taking the next step in its integration with Whole Foods Market, confirming that it will offer 10 percent… Read More

TLDR: Starbucks & Amazon respond to Seattle tax vote, Surface Hub 2, new Star Wars movie

[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 board diversity in the spotlight as tech giant agrees to officially adopt ‘Rooney Rule’

Amazon says it is simply formalizing a practice that was already in place, but the company’s new policy pledging to… Read More

Amazon shipping ‘SmileCodes’ on some boxes to give customers creative cardboard projects

Depending on how much stuff you order from Amazon, there’s probably a fair amount of cardboard coming into your house… Read More

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS tool for building AR/VR applications, is now generally available

Amazon Web Services is ready to let all of its customers start playing with Amazon Sumerian, a tool that helps… Read More

TLDR: Seattle Passes Smaller ‘Amazon Tax’

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

Amazon responds to tax vote: Seattle’s ‘hostile approach and rhetoric … forces us to question our growth here’

Amazon will resume construction on a Seattle skyscraper in the wake of the City Council’s decision to tax its top-grossing… Read More

Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on Amazon and other big companies after impassioned debate

Updated below with Amazon statement. The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a smaller version of the controversial “head tax” on… Read More

Amazon Go to open in Chicago and San Francisco, expanding cashier-less store footprint

Amazon is opening additional Amazon Go locations in Chicago and San Francisco as the company expands its cashier-less grocery store… Read More

FAQ: Everything you need to know about Seattle’s proposed ‘Amazon tax’

UPDATE, Monday afternoon: Seattle passes smaller ‘head tax’ on big companies, but will compromise appease Amazon? The full Seattle City… Read More

March on Amazon HQ: Seattle housing activists demand ‘head tax’ on big business

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood — a.k.a. Amazonia — is typically sleepy on the weekends without thousands of Amazon employees buzzing… Read More

How Amazon could end its Seattle tax battle and tackle one of the world’s biggest problems

COMMENTARY: Amazon’s showdown with elected officials in its hometown has been fascinating to cover, disappointing to watch, and ultimately not… Read More

Seattle mayor’s compromise voted down as original ‘Amazon tax’ on big business moves forward

The Seattle City Council rejected a compromise version of the so-called “head tax” proposed by Mayor Jenny Durkan late Thursday… Read More

Amazon would resume Seattle construction if mayor’s ‘head tax’ alternative passes

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is proposing a smaller “head tax” on the city’s largest businesses instead of controversial legislation currently… Read More

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More

Amazon Web Services is sitting on around $12.4 billion in deferred revenue

For the first time this week, Amazon disclosed how much revenue Amazon Web Services will eventually realize from multiyear cloud… Read More

Seattle’s proposed ‘Amazon tax’ would also hit Facebook, Google and other out-of-town tech titans

Seattle’s proposed “head tax” would cost Amazon about $20 million annually, earning it the nickname of the “Amazon tax.” But… Read More

As Seattle ‘head tax’ debate rages, Amazon eyes major expansion in nearby city

Amazon is gearing up for a potentially major expansion in Bellevue, Wash., Seattle’s neighbor to the east, at the same… Read More

Tech workers, labor unions, and housing advocates pack Seattle City Hall to debate tax on big business

A sea of signs filled Seattle City Hall Wednesday displaying slogans like “Tax Amazon,” “Don’t Vote Our Jobs Away,” “Homeless… Read More