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Amazon to double presence in Portland, Ore., adding 400 new tech roles

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 at 8:52 amComment

Amazon is growing its Portland, Ore. tech team by 400 people and moving into a new 84,000 square foot office in the city’s urban core. The company said Wednesday it… Read More

Jeff Bezos shows up on stage at Amazon’s epic employee concert, helps introduce Katy Perry

by Taylor Soper on August 20, 2019August 21, 2019 at 7:06 am 2 Comments

It was quite a Tuesday night for thousands of Amazon employees in Seattle as the tech giant took over CenturyLink Field for an epic evening that featured a Katy Perry… Read More

Amazon HQ2 becomes nation’s most competitive region for home buyers as Seattle market cools

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 at 9:44 am1 Comment

Amazon hasn’t broken ground on its first HQ2 building in Northern Virginia yet but its plans to build a 25,000-person campus there over the next decade have already sparked a… Read More

Amazon passes French digital tax on to sellers as Trump admin investigates toll on tech industry

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 at 10:14 amComment

Amazon is raising the fees it charges third-party sellers in France by 3 percent in direct response to the country’s new tax on tech companies. The tax was designed to… Read More

Why everyone is talking again about the Amazon ‘ambassadors’ who talk up warehouse conditions

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 16, 2019August 16, 2019 at 10:24 amComment

For more than a year, Amazon has been marshaling an army of ambassadors to defend conditions inside its warehouses, but the program is in the spotlight again, and not in… Read More

Amazon continues physical retail expansion with plans for new bookstore in Nashville and 4-star store in Boston

by Nat Levy on August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 at 11:13 pmComment

Amazon’s brick-and-mortar portfolio is about to get even bigger. The tech giant said Thursday it will open an Amazon Books location in Nashville and an Amazon 4-star store in Boston.… Read More

Walmart’s next-day delivery now available to 75% of U.S. population, escalating shipping race with Amazon

by Nat Levy on August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 at 11:09 pm1 Comment

Walmart and Amazon are locked in a race to bring one-day shipping to the masses, and today Walmart hit a major milestone. The retail giant said its NextDay shipping program… Read More

Amazon launching donation program for third-party sellers’ excess inventory

by Nat Levy on August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 at 8:29 am1 Comment

Amazon will launch a new program to let its third-party sellers in the U.S. and U.K. donate unsold items rather than throw them away. Amazon announced the new Fulfillment by… Read More

Amazon HQ is getting a new store: Inside the tech giant’s new ‘4-star’ shop in its hometown

by Nat Levy on August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 at 4:32 pmComment

The windows outside the ground floor of Amazon’s new re:Invent tower in Seattle are carefully blocked, shielding the bustling activity inside from public view. Stepping through multiple layers of black… Read More

Civil rights activists up in arms over Amazon update adding fear detection to facial recognition tech

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 14, 2019August 15, 2019 at 8:46 am 3 Comments

Amazon’s latest update to its Rekognition software is renewing an outcry from civil rights groups over facial recognition technology. Amazon said Tuesday that its algorithm can now detect fear from… Read More

Bernie Sanders echoes Trump accusation that Amazon influences Washington Post coverage

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 at 12:32 pm 5 Comments

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ ownership of The Washington Post is uniting two ideologically opposed politicians frustrated with the newspaper’s media coverage of them. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested on Monday… Read More

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Platform Power: Amazon, Facebook, Google, and the hidden forces driving the world’s top businesses

by Todd Bishop on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 at 8:48 amComment

Amazon, Uber, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other big companies have something in common. They’re all platforms, providing underlying technologies that others use to build or facilitate their own businesses.… Read More

US lawmakers raise questions about ‘misleading’ Amazon’s Choice recommendations

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 at 3:53 pm 2 Comments

Shopping on Amazon.com can be overwhelming. A search for an everyday item frequently yields tens of thousands of results. Inundated customers often gravitate toward items stamped with an “Amazon’s Choice”… Read More

Senators urge Amazon, Google, eBay to crack down on unauthorized sales of gun accessories

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 9, 2019August 10, 2019 at 9:27 am1 Comment

A handful of Senate Democrats sent letters to Amazon, Google, and eBay Friday urging the companies to better enforce their gun sale policies. The letter follows shootings in Dayton, Ohio… Read More

Amazon seeks to root out any ties to 8chan, as tech firms grapple with implications of extremist sites

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 at 1:26 pm 6 Comments

Amazon’s cloud powers vast swaths of the internet, so perhaps it was only a matter of time until the debate over blacklisting extremist sites ended up at the company’s feet.… Read More

Amazon’s Treasure Truck wheels and deals into four more U.S. cities three years after Seattle launch

by Kurt Schlosser on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 at 11:45 amComment

Amazon’s Treasure Truck keeps on truckin’. Two years after expanding on its quirky, Seattle-only deals-on-wheels idea, Amazon announced Wednesday that the Treasure Truck shopping experience is coming to Charlotte, N.C.,… Read More

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Amazon wins patent for spoilage-sniffing refrigerator … but don’t hold your breath

by Alan Boyle on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 at 11:34 amComment

Years after making its application, Amazon has won a patent for a refrigerator that uses cameras and chemical sensors to sniff out spoiled food. But if you’re waiting to get… Read More

Rollin’ down the street … After test ride near Seattle, Amazon delivery robot Scout adds California to mix

by Kurt Schlosser on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 at 10:36 amComment

Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’re proud in a grumpy sort of way about our aversion to California imports, mainly as that relates to people who can’t resist (what used… Read More

Amazon introduces Alexa speed controls, letting users determine how quickly voice assistant talks

by Todd Bishop on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 at 10:02 amComment

If only we could do this with certain people in our lives! Alexa will speak up to two times slower or four times faster than normal with a new capability… Read More

FedEx cutting shipping ties with Amazon as delivery competition escalates

by Nat Levy on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 at 10:10 amComment

FedEx said it is ending a ground shipping deal with Amazon, the shipping giant’s latest move to distance itself from its logistics rival. The contract is set to expire at… Read More

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Amazon lays out a technology to guide delivery agents with augmented reality

by Alan Boyle on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 at 2:53 pmComment

Efficient package delivery is one of the keystones of Amazon’s retailing business, and a newly issued patent opens up a new frontier in efficiency: augmented reality. The patent, published today,… Read More

Senator Wyden wants answers from Amazon on Capital One hack

by Monica Nickelsburg on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 at 8:54 pm1 Comment

A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data from more than 100 million Capital One credit card applicants.… Read More

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Amazon to double presence in Portland, Ore., adding 400 new tech roles

Jeff Bezos shows up on stage at Amazon’s epic employee concert, helps introduce Katy Perry

Amazon HQ2 becomes nation’s most competitive region for home buyers as Seattle market cools

Amazon passes French digital tax on to sellers as Trump admin investigates toll on tech industry

Why everyone is talking again about the Amazon ‘ambassadors’ who talk up warehouse conditions

Amazon continues physical retail expansion with plans for new bookstore in Nashville and 4-star store in Boston

Walmart’s next-day delivery now available to 75% of U.S. population, escalating shipping race with Amazon

Amazon launching donation program for third-party sellers’ excess inventory

Amazon HQ is getting a new store: Inside the tech giant’s new ‘4-star’ shop in its hometown

Civil rights activists up in arms over Amazon update adding fear detection to facial recognition tech

Bernie Sanders echoes Trump accusation that Amazon influences Washington Post coverage

Platform Power: Amazon, Facebook, Google, and the hidden forces driving the world’s top businesses

US lawmakers raise questions about ‘misleading’ Amazon’s Choice recommendations

Senators urge Amazon, Google, eBay to crack down on unauthorized sales of gun accessories

Amazon’s Treasure Truck wheels and deals into four more U.S. cities three years after Seattle launch

Amazon wins patent for spoilage-sniffing refrigerator … but don’t hold your breath

Rollin’ down the street … After test ride near Seattle, Amazon delivery robot Scout adds California to mix

Amazon introduces Alexa speed controls, letting users determine how quickly voice assistant talks

FedEx cutting shipping ties with Amazon as delivery competition escalates

Amazon lays out a technology to guide delivery agents with augmented reality

Senator Wyden wants answers from Amazon on Capital One hack

Amazon seeks FCC’s go-ahead to test mobile broadband devices in Silicon Valley

Earmuffs, Alexa! Amazon to let users opt out of human review of voice recordings, amid scrutiny

Goodbye, Dash: Amazon will end support for geeky shopping gadgets

eBay accuses Amazon of illegal scheme to poach e-commerce sellers in new lawsuit

Esports star Ninja ditches Amazon’s Twitch, inks exclusive streaming deal with Microsoft’s Mixer

Update: Jeff Bezos sells $2.8B in Amazon stock as ownership stake in tech giant drops to 12%

Amazon singled out in Democratic debates — again

Key Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn to take one-year sabbatical in 2020

Data Science for Social Good Final Presentation

Bellevue College Continuing Education Open House

YEAR OF THE EAR – a workshop for brands