Dec 5, 2017, 12:00 PM Review: Amazon Cloud Cam is a solid security camera, but clearly just a start for the tech giant Amazon’s Cloud Cam made a big splash when it was unveiled in October, but not because it’s a flashy piece… Read More
Dec 5, 2017, 9:50 AM Amazon and Facebook to compete for live sports supremacy in 2018, new report predicts Amazon is poised to become a live sports powerhouse as soon as next year, a new report predicts, as more… Read More
Dec 5, 2017, 3:00 AM Amazon adds ‘Handmade’ artisan products to Prime Now 2-hour delivery service as it battles Etsy Artisans who sell products on Amazon’s Handmade platform can now leverage the company’s 2-hour Prime Now delivery service. Amazon announced… Read More
Dec 4, 2017, 12:29 PM Why Amazon patented a delivery drone that’s designed to self-destruct Most inventors look for ways to make their machines more robust, but Amazon has won a patent for delivery drones… Read More
Dec 4, 2017, 11:36 AM Amazon’s flirtation with pharmaceuticals may have driven CVS to acquire health insurer Aetna for $69B CVS is buying one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Aetna, for $69 billion, and analysts and observers say… Read More
Dec 4, 2017, 9:03 AM Instacart and Kroger’s QFC strike grocery delivery deal to counter Amazon-Whole Foods QFC is teaming up with Instacart to provide grocery delivery at most of its stores in the Seattle and Portland… Read More
Dec 3, 2017, 10:30 AM Will Seattle benefit when Amazon grows elsewhere? An economist and an investor weigh in Seattle has done its fair share of hand-wringing in the months following Amazon’s announcement that it will establish a second… Read More
Dec 2, 2017, 7:39 AM Amazon Web Services ramps up advertising to provide ‘air cover’ for developers LAS VEGAS — For the first decade of its existence, Amazon Web Services flew a bit under the radar of… Read More
Dec 1, 2017, 4:09 PM Report: Amazon calls for meeting with Seattle leaders as city looks to repair relationship with tech titan Amazon has responded to a letter Seattle politicians sent to the company in October, seeking to “hit the refresh button”… Read More
Dec 1, 2017, 10:59 AM Instacart signs up Albertsons, continues to surge following Amazon-Whole Foods megamerger Last month at the GeekWire Summit Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta said Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion would… Read More
Nov 30, 2017, 4:10 PM Amazon FreeRTOS will connect embedded IoT devices with Amazon Web Services’ cloud The internet of things is here to stay, and Amazon Web Services rolled out several extensions to its IoT product… Read More
Nov 30, 2017, 1:49 PM Amazon’s Alexa can now control Hulu, Showtime and more third party Fire TV apps Amazon’s digital brain Alexa Alexa can now control a variety of third-party apps like Hulu and Showtime on the Fire… Read More
Nov 30, 2017, 9:31 AM An Echo in every conference room: Amazon Web Services confirms Alexa for Business If you’ve even been in a meeting at work that gets derailed by clumsy conference calling software or complicated presentation… Read More
Nov 30, 2017, 9:00 AM Amazon Cloud Cam update enables ceiling installation, app audio shutoff and night vision controls Post updated below with correct information about the new audio features. Amazon is releasing the first major software update for… Read More
Nov 30, 2017, 4:00 AM Amazon Alexa Fund backs connected car startup Mojio as part of $23M funding round Mojio, a Vancouver, B.C. startup that aims to connect cars to the internet, has raised a $23 million funding round,… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 5:15 PM Report: Amazon to unveil ‘Alexa for Business,’ expanding voice assistant into workplace Amazon is preparing to bring its Alexa voice-based assistant into the workplace, according to a report by CNBC this afternoon.… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 12:56 PM Will Amazon ever spin off Amazon Web Services? CEO Andy Jassy would be “very surprised” As the financial strength of Amazon Web Services has started to become clear over the last several years, a lot… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 12:09 PM Amazon continues sports push, partners with NFL to power ‘Next Gen Stats’ with AWS The National Football League is tapping Amazon Web Services to help power its “Next Gen Stats” platform. The NFL announced… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 12:00 PM Building permit analysis sheds light on how much Amazon has spent on massive Seattle footprint Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include official data on capital investments from Amazon’s HQ2 website. As Amazon… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 10:54 AM New machine-learning services from Amazon Web Services include video recognition, transcription LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services added several new items to its suite of machine-learning driven services Wednesday at AWS… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 10:28 AM Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers Amazon’s newest hardware product is meant to help developers run deep learning and image recognition models directly from a video… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 9:36 AM All’s fair in love and new databases for Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy LAS VEGAS — Database technology has become a rather contentious segment of the enterprise tech market over the last few… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 8:49 AM Amazon Web Services goes all-in on Kubernetes, launches new container deployment service LAS VEGAS — As the year of Kubernetes wraps up, Amazon Web Services joined its cloud rivals by rolling out… Read More
Nov 29, 2017, 6:33 AM Amazon Web Services expands cloud business with NFL, Expedia, and Disney deals Amazon Web Services, aiming to boost its reach among big corporate customers, announced major expansions of its relationships with the… Read More
Nov 28, 2017, 11:03 PM Amazon GuardDuty is a new account-wide cloud security service from Amazon Web Services Security is a perennial concern for cloud skeptics and cloud enthusiasts alike, and Amazon Web Services hopes to stay one… Read More
Nov 28, 2017, 9:26 PM That’s so metal: Amazon Web Services unveils bare-metal instances for EC2 compute customers Server virtualization was one of the great breakthroughs in enterprise computing over the last 20 years, allowing people to get… Read More
Nov 28, 2017, 1:21 PM Google eliminates Kubernetes cluster-management fees just before the main event at AWS re:Invent LAS VEGAS — With the cloud computing industry gathered in Las Vegas for Amazon Web Services’ big re:Invent conference, Google… Read More
Nov 28, 2017, 12:21 PM Amazon gives $500K first place Alexa Prize award to Univ. of Washington team’s ‘socialbot’ The winning team of Amazon’s inaugural Alexa Prize competition sits right in the company’s backyard. The Seattle-based tech giant today… Read More
Nov 28, 2017, 12:19 PM Nonprofit Project Veritas — which targeted Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post — eligible for donations via AmazonSmile Project Veritas, the nonprofit organization caught this week in an apparent undercover scheme to deceive The Washington Post with a… Read More
Nov 28, 2017, 12:13 PM Amazon Web Services previews a new partner program alongside new services and competencies LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services plans to make a few changes to its partner program next year, it told… Read More
