Where’s my jetpack? It was at MARS conference, along with Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Billionaire Jeff Bezos missed out on his usual chauffeuring duties at the West Texas launch orchestrated today by his Blue… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy makes Time’s ‘100 Most Influential Companies’ cover; Rec Room, Wyze also on list Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has landed on the cover of Time as the magazine released its second annual list of… Read More
New Amazon CEO Andy Jassy crosses tough items off tech giant’s to-do list — what’s next? An Amazon stock split has long been on shareholders’ wish list, promising to make the company’s shares more affordable for… Read More
Play Episode Podcast GeekWire Podcast: The realities of Amazon’s pay increase; inside Microsoft’s HoloLens business Play Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week, Ashley Stewart, is a Seattle-based senior tech correspondent for Insider who reports… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k for corporate and tech workers, citing labor market Play Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from $160,000 previously, as part of… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Top Stories of ’21: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, COVID, and what’s next for tech in Seattle and beyond Play Looking at GeekWire’s most-read stories for 2021, this series of headlines stands out as a symbol of the past year,… Read More
Amazon’s second chance: Bellevue gives tech giant an opportunity to reshape its regional legacy BELLEVUE, Wash. — Amazon is poised to transform a major swath of this city, much as the company reshaped Seattle… Read More
Ship out of luck? 2021 holiday season will put Amazon’s workforce strategy to the test Amazon has spent billions of dollars to expand its fulfillment capacity and develop its own package delivery network in recent… Read More
Return of the JEDI: Pentagon’s multicloud sequel puts Microsoft and Amazon in leading roles The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of… Read More
Amazon delivers big earnings miss, Jassy warns Q4 will bring ‘several billion dollars of additional costs’ Amazon’s profits plunged to $3.2 billion in the third quarter, dropping by nearly half year-over-year, and CEO Andy Jassy told… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: Antitrust bills risk ‘very serious unintended consequences’ for sellers Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says online sellers should consider the implications of U.S. antitrust legislation that could force the company… Read More
Did Amazon lie to Congress? Lawmakers give CEO Andy Jassy ‘final opportunity’ to correct record Citing news reports indicating that Amazon gamed its marketplace to favor its own products, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon reach truce allowing former AWS executive Charlie Bell to start in new role Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start… Read More
Amazon will leave remote work decisions to individual team leaders in new policy twist [Updated below with additional details from internal FAQ.] Amazon no longer plans to bring corporate employees back to the office… Read More
Play Episode Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Andy Jassy on Amazon’s future; Yoky Matsuoka on Google and Apple; Ciara on music and business creativity Play This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re sharing a few highlights from the GeekWire Summit, our annual business and technology… Read More
Why Amazon didn’t give up on games: Andy Jassy on ‘spectacular failures’ and long-term vision Amazon has long viewed failure as a natural part of innovation, and the early success of the company’s New World… Read More
Amazon CEO: Relationship with Seattle City Council has become ‘rougher,’ but hope remains Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy admitted his company’s relationship with Seattle political leaders has become rocky over recent history,… Read More
Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena to feature Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to avoid lines in select stores Amazon may have skipped putting its name on the outside of the renovated stadium where the Seattle Kraken will begin… Read More
Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group Microsoft confirmed that it has hired longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell to lead a newly formed engineering organization… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says it’s ‘hard to argue’ its retail business is a monopoly Facing a new slate of regulators and legislators calling for new principles of antitrust scrutiny, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made… Read More
Rep. Adam Schiff rips Amazon and Facebook for ‘directly profiting’ on COVID-19 misinformation Rep. Adam Schiff, in separate letters to bosses of tech giants Amazon and Facebook, criticized the efforts of both companies… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, pop superstar Ciara, and other luminaries to speak at GeekWire Summit Andy Jassy will join us for an on-stage interview at the 10th annual GeekWire Summit in October in Seattle, making… Read More
Sen. Elizabeth Warren concerned that Amazon is ‘peddling misinformation’ about COVID-19 In a six-page letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren expressed concerns that the “search and ‘Best Seller’… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Interview: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on why her new legislation might make Amazon an illegal monopoly Play Few lawmakers have gotten Amazon’s attention like the one who hails from the company’s hometown, Rep. Pramila Jayapal. The 7th… Read More
Amazon plans 20% jump in global corporate and tech roles by adding 55k jobs in latest hiring spree Amazon is looking to fill 40,000 corporate and tech jobs across more than 220 locations in the United States, the… Read More
Amazon cloud exec Charlie Bell’s new Microsoft job puts non-compete deals back in the spotlight What exactly will longtime Amazon executive Charlie Bell do at Microsoft? It’s possible that even Bell doesn’t know the precise… Read More
White House cybersecurity summit to include Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, and Apple CEO Tim Cook are among the tech executives who’ve been… Read More
U.S. senators question Amazon about its use of palm-reading biometric data New Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is facing questions about how the company plans to use the data it gathers from… Read More
Amazon sales of $113B disappoint Wall Street but profits of $7.8B exceed expectations Amazon posted net sales of $113.1 billion for the second quarter, up 27%, but fell short of Wall Street expectations,… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the natural ‘tension’ in the company’s new leadership principles Newly minted Amazon CEO Andy Jassy didn’t subject himself to an intensive round of press interviews upon taking over from… Read More
