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What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week

Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More

Amazon dominates global smart speaker sales as Google continues to lag behind

Despite a growing list of challengers, Amazon remains the dominant force in the global smart speaker market, accounting for more… Read More

Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others join forces for cloud security in ‘confidential computing’ group

A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Alibaba dealmaker joins OfferUp board; Google hires ex-Microsoft natural language expert

— Former Alibaba executive Michael Zeisser joined the board of directors at Seattle-based mobile marketplace OfferUp. “Very few consumer companies… Read More

TLDR: Why Amazon wanted to put workers in cage-like devices + GIVEAWAY

Today’s featured stories Years after patenting the concept, Amazon admits putting workers in a cage would be a bad idea… Read More

Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building China’s biggest retail and cloud computing empire

Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus… 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

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Week In Geek Podcast: How blueprints for 3D printed guns turned into a national lawsuit

A legal battle over 3D-printed guns is heating up once again. Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a new lawsuit this… Read More

TLDR: Apple becomes a $1 trillion company, Starbucks & Alibaba launch delivery service, George Takei joins TraceMe

Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate… Read More

Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate apps and partner on delivery as coffee culture takes hold in China

Starbucks will integrate its online store and customer rewards program with Alibaba’s popular apps and online services, used by more than… Read More

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson visits Amazon rival Alibaba, promising ‘ground breaking things’ with Chinese e-commerce giant

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson appears to be planning something with China e-commerce giant Alibaba, chief rival to Amazon, the… Read More

Chinese bike-sharing juggernaut Ofo raises $866 million from Alibaba and other investors

Ofo has raised a massive $866 million in funding. The Beijing-based company operates millions of lemon-yellow dockless shared bicycles around… Read More

Microsoft and Alibaba AI programs beat humans in Stanford reading comprehension test for 1st time

Machines can already outplay us in chess, poker and other games, and now they are becoming better readers as well.… Read More

Alibaba, Baidu step up support for cloud-native tech as CloudNativeCon kicks off

AUSTIN – Two of the biggest cloud companies on the planet have agreed to support the work of the Cloud… Read More

Alibaba co-founder buys part of NBA team, SeatGeek and Facebook ink partnership, and more sports tech news from this week

[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every… Read More

Chinese tech powerhouse Baidu opens Seattle-area office, expanding its reach in AI and the cloud

China’s Baidu is opening an engineering office in the Seattle region, giving the Beijing-based Internet powerhouse an additional U.S. outpost… Read More

Gartner: Amazon Web Services on top of the public cloud, as Alibaba gains the most ground

The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new… Read More

Report: Top Amazon rival Alibaba is about to launch an Echo competitor

Alibaba, the China-based e-commerce giant determined to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, is coming out with its answer to the Echo… Read More

Chinese tech giant Alibaba joins key open-source cloud computing foundation

Kicking off a week in which it plans to encourage American businesses to invest in China, Alibaba Group announced plans… Read More

Look out Alibaba: Amazon brings Prime to China in bid to take on e-commerce rival

Amazon has expanded its Prime subscription program to China in a move to compete with the country’s dominant e-commerce player Alibaba.… Read More

Alibaba goes Hollywood: e-commerce giant strikes deal to finance Steven Spielberg movies and bring them to China

Alibaba Pictures, the film and television arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is teaming up with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners… Read More

Chinese ad buying company iPinYou opens U.S. HQ in Seattle region

iPinYou, a Chinese company that automates programmatic digital ad buying through bidding algorithms, has opened a U.S. headquarters, and it has chosen… Read More

Alibaba moves Seattle hub to Bellevue with 40 employees, no plans to grow office

Alibaba has moved its Seattle engineering office to Bellevue, the Chinese tech giant confirmed today. The Hangzhou, China-based company, which hosted… Read More

Amazon Web Services tops Microsoft, Google and everyone else in Gartner’s new public cloud ratings

Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services,… Read More

Prime Day 2016 kicks off with deals on TVs, Amazon devices

Amazon’s second Prime Day is off and running. As the clock struck midnight, some of the first big deals included… Read More

Prime Day primer: Everything you need to know about Amazon’s biggest sale ever

The second Amazon Prime Day starts at midnight tonight, but you probably already knew that. The company has been making… Read More

Fast-growing Alibaba Cloud promotes ex-Microsoft exec Jingren Zhou to chief scientist

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., has appointed former longtime Microsoft executive Jingren Zhou… Read More

Alibaba inks deal with Paramount to produce new Star Trek and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies

Alibaba’s film arm on Monday announced a new deal with Paramount Pictures, with the Chinese tech giant helping fund two new… Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Here is what China is getting right

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his charm offensive in China this week, meeting with the country’s propaganda tsar and going on… Read More

Taj Mahal

Amazon voted India’s most trusted web store as retailer readies to vie for market with Alibaba

Consumers in India trust Amazon’s brand more than any other web retailer, according to a survey of 2,500 people there.… Read More

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