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Amazon Web Services bracing for Hurricane Irene in Virginia

Seems like Amazon.com’s data center in Northern Virginia just can’t catch a break lately. And now here comes Hurricane Irene. Officials… Read More

Nerd Notes: Aviation High School launches with a rocket; Paul Allen’s private island for sale; and more

Cheezburger has added to its line-up of weird and wacky sites. Introducing “Bronies.” Men and boys who love the animated… Read More

Amazon ‘ElastiCache’ promises to boost web app performance

Amazon Web Services this morning made a new pitch for running web apps on its cloud computing platform, introducing a… Read More

Weekend Humor: Hitler gets the bad news about HP ditching the TouchPad

I am huge fan of Downfall, a classic war film that depicts Adolf Hitler’s last days in Berlin. But even… Read More

Amazon Web Services suffers another outage: Company says issue now resolved

Amazon.com’s EC2 service suffered another outage this evening, taking out several high-trafficked Web sites and adding another black eye to… Read More

Social innovators to compete for $150,000 in prize money

Can you do well, by doing good? An upcoming event — hosted by Social Venture Partners — will highlight entrepreneurial… Read More

Amazon expands Start-Up Challenge worldwide

Amazon Web Services today announced that it is expanding its annual Start-Up Challenge competition to include a total of 15… Read More

Tech Moves: ISB attracts an all-star fundraiser; Blue Nile taps a Starbucks vet; and more

We’ve been tracking a number of key departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent… Read More

Citrix buys Cloud.com, challenges Amazon and Microsoft’s Azure

Citrix Systems announced today that it is acquiring Cloud.com, raising the competitive bar on other cloud infrastructure services such as… Read More

Amazon eyes new Seattle tower for even more growth

Amazon.com has been growing like crazy — adding 4,200 people worldwide in the first three months of this year alone.… Read More

Looking to mine data, Amazon backs analytics startup ParAccel

Amazon.com is investing an undisclosed amount of money into ParAccel, a Campbell, California maker of business analytics software that helps… Read More

Amazon alters prices on Cloud Drive amid digital music war

It is being billed as a digital music war. Amazon.com today announced adjustments to the pricing plans of its Cloud… Read More

How Amazon helped groom Zynga for success, and where the alliance heads next

Without Amazon.com, Zynga might not be where it is today. The social gaming powerhouse, which just last week filed to… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts prices on Data Transfer, CloudFront

Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage back in April, one that caused all sorts of havoc developers. So, here’s… Read More

Report: Amazon’s upcoming tablet will feature free movie streaming

Amazon.com’s plans for a new color-screen tablet computer has got to be one of the worst kept secrets in the tech… Read More

Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’

One question at Amazon.com’s shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary… Read More

How Amazon’s 99 cent Lady Gaga promotion mirrors Walmart’s age-old strategy

Amazon.com spent $3.2 million on last week’s Lady Gaga promotion, with Billboard magazine citing industry sources who said that the… Read More

Amazon touts 99 cent Lady Gaga album again, and says this time they’re ready

Amazon.com’s first attempt at selling Lady Gaga’s new album for 99 cents didn’t go so well, with the promotion crashing… Read More

Amazon sells Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way’ for 99 cents

Lady Gaga released her new album today, and Amazon.com is using the much-anticipated second-full length release from the singer to… Read More

Sony to PlayStation users: We’re back, we’re sorry, now please change your password

Well, at least they got it back online before E3. After more than three weeks of downtime following an online… Read More

Another black eye for Amazon? Hackers may have used AWS in crippling Sony attack

Amazon Web Services has been taking some PR knocks in recent weeks. First, came the massive outage which sparked anger… Read More

Microsoft apologizes for Online Services glitches, massive email delays

Microsoft tonight detailed and apologized for a series of glitches that caused a huge email backlog in its cloud-based Microsoft… Read More

Google snubs labels with new music service, takes similar path to Amazon.com

Amazon.com beat rivals Google and Apple to the punch with its new cloud-based music service Cloud Drive, snubbing music labels by… Read More

ExtraHop Networks scores $14 million in ‘oversubscribed’ round

ExtraHop Networks didn’t have to raise cash. But the fast-growing company has reeled in $14 million in a hot, oversubscribed… Read More

Amazon starts MP3 price war with 69 cent popular tracks

Used to be that Amazon.com’s 69-cent MP3 section was the digital equivalent of the bargain bin at the record store,… Read More

Jeff Bezos to shareholders: ‘Invention is in our DNA’

It’s been a tough few days for Amazon.com. The Seattle online retailer took a PR beating after a massive outage… Read More

Geek humor: How Adolf Hitler would have reacted to the Amazon Web Services outage

It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on… Read More

Amazon.com profits tank as company adds whopping 4,200 employees in one quarter

Amazon.com just reported quarterly profits significantly below Wall Street’s expectations, despite revenues that exceeded them, and the reason is spelled… Read More

AWS outage: Mum’s the tweet

For many companies these days, the first instinct in a crisis is to turn to Twitter to get the message… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: iPhone tracking, Kindle lending, and a tech news extravaganza

This week’s GeekWire Podcast is a little different — a technology reporters’ roundtable featuring special guests Tricia Duryee of AllThingsD… Read More