Jeff Bezos recruits Business Insider’s Henry Blodget to advise Washington Post staff Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos is serious about improving the Washington Post’s digital footprint — and he’s having Business Insider founder… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos backs cancer research startup Juno Therapeutics Juno Therapeutics, a new Seattle startup that’s trying to eliminate cancer from the human body, raised a hefty $120 million… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos rescued by Ecuadorian Navy after kidney stone attack Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos suffered a kidney stone on New Year’s Day while vacationing in the Galapagos Islands and was… Read More
Vote: What was the top tech news story of the year? OK, geek fans. We’ve compiled our list of the top quotes of 2013, and just yesterday posted the top 50… Read More
The year in quotes: From Ballmer to Bezos to Bitcoin Wow, what a year! From Amazon drones to Steve Ballmer’s retirement to spectacularly performing IPOs, the tech industry took some… Read More
Amazon Prime tops 20 million members as company touts its best holiday season ever Amazon is exiting the 2013 holiday season with “tens of millions” of Amazon Prime members, according to a statement this… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Amazon at $400, favorite gadgets of 2013, and the new world of airplane tech etiquette We have a lot to talk about this week on the GeekWire radio show, starting with Amazon’s gravity-defying share price,… Read More
New milestone: Amazon stock surpass $400 for first time ever This summer, Amazon.com’s stock hit $300 for the first time. Now, five months later, it has reached a new milestone:… Read More
NASA chooses SpaceX for launchpad lease, passing over Bezos-backed Blue Origin In a victory for Elon Musk and a blow to Jeff Bezos, NASA said today that it has entered negotiations… Read More
Top tech CEOs: Zillow’s Rascoff second only to Salesforce’s Benioff in survey The Street announced the results of its Top Tech CEO competition today, and two of the top three are from… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Amazon Drones, Artefact’s ‘Juice Box,’ a beautiful app and a classic console challenge We’re getting very futuristic on this week’s GeekWire radio show — starting with our thoughts on Amazon’s surprising “Prime Air”… Read More
Bill Gates: Jeff Bezos overly optimistic on drones, but they will have a positive impact Will Amazon really have fleets of aerial drones delivering products to customers’ doorsteps in four to five years? Bill Gates,… Read More
Paul Allen snags key Amazon architect as top tech advisor Paul Allen has created a new position of executive technology advisor, to work with him across all of his personal… Read More
Here they are: GeekWire’s 2013 Newsmakers of the Year It has been a giant year for news at many of the Seattle region’s technology companies — with successful IPOs,… Read More
Jeff Bezos says Don Graham talked him into buying Washington Post Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with Charlie Rose that was posted on the 60… Read More
Amazon’s aerial delivery drones: How Jeff Bezos’ big idea could actually fly Amazon is getting lots of attention this morning for its plan to deploy autonomous flying drones to deliver packages to… Read More
Jeff Bezos had to take 60 meetings to raise $1 million for Amazon, giving up 20% to early investors Amazon.com almost didn’t make it out of the gate, with a young Jeff Bezos encountering a common entrepreneurial challenge: raising… Read More
Amazon’s big surprise: Flying drones will deliver packages to customer doorsteps Here is the big surprise unveiled by Amazon on 60 Minutes tonight: The company is working on an R&D project… Read More
60 Minutes promises to reveal a ‘big surprise’ from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Follow-up: Amazon’s big surprise: Flying drones will deliver packages to customer doorsteps Now this is a teaser. 60 Minutes is… Read More
Jeff Bezos remembers Joy Covey, Amazon’s first CFO who was killed in bike accident Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was among those who spoke Saturday at a memorial service for Joy Covey, the former Amazon.com… Read More
Author of Amazon book responds to review by Bezos’ wife — and Amazon disputes his response Brad Stone, the journalist whose detailed account of Amazon’s rise received a withering, one-star review from Jeff Bezos’ wife MacKenzie… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ wife issues 1-star review for new Amazon book, deems it ‘misleading’ Updated, 2:10 P.M. — Comment from Amazon added near the bottom of this story Out of the 44 reviews for “The… Read More
Amazon debuts weekly literary journal and it has Jeff Bezos’ influence written all over it Amazon is making another move into the publishing space today with the announcement of its own weekly literary journal that will feature one… Read More
New ‘Amazon Smile’ site will donate slice of sales to customer’s favorite cause Whenever Amazon is criticized about its dearth of charitable giving, the company responds by saying that it will make its… Read More
Amazon: Wall Street braces for 2nd straight quarterly loss “Bezos has chosen to run Amazon to be the biggest, most powerful and successful retailer on Earth 20 years from… Read More
Apple vs. Microsoft, Google and Amazon: Why the future of ‘computing’ is a free-for-all Talking about Apple’s new Mac lineup yesterday, CEO Tim Cook had this to say about the unnamed “competition.” “They’re confused,”… Read More
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is in great shape, may be in ‘astronaut training,’ says author Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is looking so fit these days that he may be prepping to go to space. That… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: The inside story of Amazon, with author Brad Stone In less than two decades of existence, Amazon has emerged as a force not just in online commerce but in the… Read More
The ‘Amazon.love’ memo: Jeff Bezos sizes up Amazon’s rivals and their fans One of the more interesting parts of Brad Stone’s new book about Amazon is a previously unpublished memo from Jeff… Read More
Why Jeff Bezos is determined to avoid “Steve Jobs’ mistake” Amazon is legendary for its thin profit margins, but there’s a method to the company’s madness, as detailed in Brad… Read More
