Amazon unpacked: Brad Stone on his new book, ‘The Everything Store’ Brad Stone’s new book about Amazon.com, “The Everything Store,” will be released on Tuesday — a definitive and unvarnished account… Read More
Review: ‘The Everything Store’ is the definitive story of Amazon When journalist Brad Stone first sat down with Jeff Bezos to discuss his plan to write a book about Amazon,… Read More
Advice from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Be proud of your choices, not your gifts A fourth grader asked the question, but it really could have applied to anyone. Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos,… Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the most important traits of innovators A willingness to fail. A willingness to be misunderstood. And maintaining a childlike wonder in the world. Whether you’re a… Read More
Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture now employs 300 people, gearing up for commercial operations Blue Origin, the Seattle-based space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working for the past 13… Read More
Photos: Bezos Center for Innovation showcases Seattle’s inventions, aims to inspire future entrepreneurs Jeff Bezos knows a little something about innovation and what it can mean for an individual, a company, a city,… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ biological dad didn’t know his son was Jeff Bezos, until journalist informed him last year Ted Jorgensen is a 69-year-old former circus performer and unicyclist who runs a small bike shop in Glendale, Ariz. He has… Read More
The top 50 disruptors: Jeff Bezos leads Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ list At the GeekWire Summit last month, venture capitalist Bill Gurley and Zillow chairman Rich Barton pointed out their belief that… Read More
Which Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post? William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer. John S. Knight. Katharine Graham. And now … Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has… Read More
Week in Review: Kindle Fire HDX, Ballmer’s goodbye, and Control-Alt-Delete revisited Need to catch up at the end of the week? Here’s a roundup of highlights from GeekWire this week. Steve… Read More
Three book recommendations for executives from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos isn’t the first guy you’d expect to host a book club. But that’s exactly what he did this… Read More
Jeff Bezos explains the next step in Amazon’s strategy — the ‘hardest and coolest’ part In a series of briefings with reporters this week at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, Jeff Bezos started by going to the… Read More
First look: Amazon’s Kindle Fire ‘Origami’ stand in action How does your tablet stand up? No, literally. A day after Microsoft debuted a new version of its Surface tablet… Read More
Amazon debuts ‘second screen’ TV experience for Kindle HDX, but Bezos mum on further living room plans The debut of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX tablet lineup is bringing a new feature to the company’s Instant Video… Read More
With new Kindle Fire HDX, Jeff Bezos sees Amazon’s big bets coming together Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos can hardly wait to demo this feature. Sitting in a conference room in the middle of… Read More
Rich Barton and Bill Gurley agree: Jeff Bezos is the most respected CEO by people in Silicon Valley For every successful company out there, there is a plethora of highly-talented CEOs running great companies. But there is one… Read More
New York Times interactive editor: We’re excited to compete with Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post There’s been quite a bit of reaction — and confusion — to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos purchasing The… Read More
Jeff Bezos gives first interview since buying Washington Post, will use Amazon tactics for newspaper Up until Monday evening, Jeff Bezos’ motivations for acquiring the Washington Post for $250 million were largely unknown. The newspaper… Read More
The demise of Contour; Steve Ballmer’s surprising exit; and other top posts of the month August is supposed to be the month when the tech industry takes a breather, relaxing for a few moments before… Read More
What Bezos buying The Post teaches us about business threats Jeff Bezos set off quite a bit of handwringing and soul-searching when he purchased The Washington Post earlier this month for $250… Read More
Update: Amazon back online after 40-minute outage Amazon.com is back up and running. We’ve updated this post with details. Original story: Online shoppers take notice: Amazon.com is… Read More
Images: Amazon’s latest biosphere designs look like Starfleet Command New renderings submitted by Amazon’s architects show updated designs for the three giant, connected biospheres that will serve as the… Read More
A wild idea for Bezos and the Post: Develop a ‘Kindle Printer’ and shut down the main press The economics of delivering a local newspaper to your doorstep just don’t make sense anymore. The reasons? Declining subscriber counts… Read More
Jeff Bezos declines Washington Post interview about his Washington Post acquisition The Washington Post this weekend published an epic profile of its soon-to-be owner, Jeff Bezos, with contributions from six reporters… Read More
Bill Gates on Google’s Internet balloons; Contour hits the wall; and other comments of the week The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “The Internet is transforming almost every element of the… Read More
Comedians have fun with Jeff Bezos buy of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post was the big news of the week, making great fodder for late-night comedians.… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post and the future of media This week on the GeekWire radio show, we analyze one of the biggest news stories of the week, which is… Read More
Fruitcake, anyone? Amazon’s Kindle Fire slips out of Top 5, showing extreme seasonality The latest tablet shipment numbers from the IDC research firm show Apple’s iPad leading the worldwide market in the second… Read More
Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company Maybe I am splitting hairs here, or quibbling over something that really doesn’t matter. But, I’ve got to just say… Read More
Why Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post: Best reactions, commentary and insights I guess at this point we shouldn’t be surprised by the moves of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who in the… Read More
