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TLDR Editor’s Picks: GeekWire’s top Amazon stories of the year (so far)

This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: the… Read More

Revealed: Amazon Go’s new Seattle location signals tech giant’s growing ambitions for checkout-free retail concept

Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company’s backyard, GeekWire has learned. The… Read More

We sent GeekWire’s summer intern on an Amazon HQ tour, and it was an eye-opening experience

In downtown Seattle, the land known as “Amazonia” is dense. And I didn’t know I was walking into it until… 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

Vote for Innovation of the Year: Cashier-less store, synthetic biology, ‘parallel reality,’ and more

A display technology that creates “parallel reality.” A machine learning platform that predicts when patients get sick. And a cashier-less… Read More

Amazon spent close to $23B on R&D in 2017, outpacing fellow tech giants

Amazon powered its prolific 2017, which saw the release of a cavalcade of new products and services, with $22.6 billion… Read More

Report: Amazon eyes additional Amazon Go stores in Seattle and Los Angeles

Amazon is going ahead with an expansion of its cashier-free convenience store concept Amazon Go, according to a report from… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: The tech behind Amazon Go, Xbox Game Pass ups the ante, and a chance to win an in-car Alexa device

Amazon Go sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons: A fully automated convenience store that tracks what you grab… Read More

How’s the food at Amazon Go? We tested out the tech giant’s foray into sandwich making

We’ve heard all about the technology that powers Amazon Go — and eliminates cashiers — but once you’ve swiped in,… Read More

As Amazon Go makes its public debut, job postings point to future expansion

The first Amazon Go store is finally open to the public today, and it looks like Amazon is just getting started… Read More

Amazon Go automated retail store handles a crowd on opening morning — and the only line was outside

UPDATE, noon: There’s now a line of people around the block. See pictures below. A crowd of people lined up… Read More

Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail

Smartphone in hand, I stood inside the Amazon Go store and turned the screen over to scan a unique QR… Read More

Amazon Go is finally a go: Sensor-infused store opens to the public Monday, with no checkout lines

The first Amazon Go grocery and convenience store will open to the public Monday in Seattle — letting any person with… Read More

Amazon HQ

Amazon’s epic year: 5 biggest storylines from 2017, and what to watch in 2018

2017 has been the year of Amazon. On a Friday morning in June, the world woke up to the shocking… Read More

Walmart reportedly developing Amazon Go rival and text message shopping service

Walmart is reportedly working on several new high tech initiatives, as it continues to battle Amazon in both the physical… Read More

Report: Amazon building fashionable AI that can quickly spot and reproduce the latest trends

Amazon is building trendy artificial intelligence tools that can identify the latest fashion craze. MIT’s Technology Review reports that Amazon… Read More

This Bay Area startup is arming retailers with the technology to take on Amazon Go

Amazon is still tinkering with the checkout-free technology behind its Amazon Go retailer concept, but Palo Alto, Calif. startup Standard… Read More

Walmart cuts in front of Amazon Go with app that lets shoppers check out without lines or registers

Walmart is deploying technology that allows shoppers to purchase items in-store without waiting in line or paying at a register,… Read More

Moby Mart

Will convenience go further than Amazon? Moby Mart is a rolling store that comes to you

If Amazon Go ever really gets going with its ultra-convenient convenience store plan, it may be too late if Moby… Read More

Video: French grocer parodies Amazon Go, claiming checkout-free shopping is nothing new

Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Zillow exec Chloe Harford finds new home at OfferUp; Exec in charge of Amazon Go joins Opendoor; etc.

Longtime Zillow executive Chloe Harford is leaving the real estate tech company to join OfferUp as the company’s new vice president of… Read More

Amazon Go job posting points to potential expansion of checkout-free retail concept

Amazon is still refining its checkout-free grocery experience, Amazon Go, but there are new signs that the online retail giant… Read More

Amazon Go across the pond? Filings point to possible international expansion of checkout-free grocery

Amazon last week trademarked several phrases that point to a possible international expansion of its checkout-free Amazon Go grocery concept.… Read More

Startup led by ex-Amazon manager and Obama tech policy guru raises $3.5M to navigate the ‘opaque, intimidating, and high-stakes’ immigration process

Boundless, a Seattle startup that aims to help people navigate the U.S. immigration process, has come out of stealth mode and… Read More

Ex-Amazon manager’s new startup mixes smart home tech with modular construction to make housing more affordable

Aaron Holm was an important player in Amazon’s physical retail push. As a product manager, he worked on the company’s… Read More

Amazon exec shares secrets of company’s culture, tries unsuccessfully to keep his talk secret

Amazon offered a rare glimpse inside its culture on Tuesday at an entrepreneurship conference in Seattle — but also asked… Read More

Reports: Amazon considers furniture, appliance and electronics stores, as Amazon Go launch is delayed

Amazon is exploring the possibility of new retail outlets in categories including furniture, home appliances and electronics, according to a New York… Read More

Reports point to caution signals for Amazon Go checkout-free store

Amazon Go, the online retailer’s “Just Walk Out” convenience store in downtown Seattle, is still in private beta mode three… Read More

How Amazon’s new shopping concept, Seattle’s Monorail, and drones may affect Key Arena renovation

Tim Leiweke knows that Seattle is one of the nation’s most tech-savvy cities and his ideas for renovating Key Arena… Read More

Documents reveal ‘AmazonFresh Pickup’ as the tech giant’s next physical retail concept

UPDATE, March 16: The signs are up at the Ballard location, but covered. See pictures below. New permit documents reveal… Read More

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