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Jul 21, 2017, 8:52 AM

Amazon Inspire educational site opens to all schools, applying lessons learned in year-long beta

Amazon Inspire, a site that lets teachers and schools upload and access unlimited educational and classroom resources, is now available to all educators… Read More

Jul 20, 2017, 12:20 PM

Report: Amazon secretly acquired a Santa Barbara search startup to bolster Alexa

Amazon reportedly acquired Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Graphiq back in May, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times, citing “four sources familiar… Read More

Jul 20, 2017, 8:46 AM

Sears starts selling Kenmore line on Amazon for the first time, with Alexa-enabled smart appliances

One of the oldest brick-and-mortar operations in the country is finally ready to do business with the company that disrupted… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 4:21 PM

Trump’s small business chief praises Amazon during Seattle stop: ‘We all have to work together’

President Donald Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have certainly had their clashes in recent years, but it was a… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 2:26 PM

Day 1 of summer camp at Amazon gives kids a peek inside the tech giant and STEM possibilities

Amazon kicked off its “A to Z Experience” STEM summer camp on Wednesday by offering kids the chance to tour… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 10:58 AM

We made dinner at home with Amazon Meal Kits, the tech giant’s new Blue Apron rival

Is Amazon about to crush Blue Apron and completely change how Americans purchase, prepare, and eat dinner every night? Probably… Read More

Jul 19, 2017, 8:51 AM

Amazon Treasure Truck set for national expansion, taking flash deals on wheels beyond Seattle

Amazon is teasing plans to expand its Treasure Truck to more U.S. cities, a year-and-a-half after debuting the roving flash sales-mobile in… Read More

Jul 18, 2017, 2:50 PM

Leadership advice: How Amazon maintains focus while competing in so many industries at once

Amazon started as an online book-seller in 1994, but fast forward two decades later and the company finds itself competing… Read More

Jul 18, 2017, 1:06 PM

Amazon starts selling Spectacles with snappy delivery

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is selling its camera-enabled Spectacles on Amazon. It’s the first time the company has sold the… Read More

Jul 18, 2017, 11:49 AM

Amazon Spark is a new Instagram-inspired shopping feed featuring Prime members as influencers

Amazon launched a new feature today that allows Prime members to post stories to a feed, similar to those popular… Read More

Jul 18, 2017, 11:28 AM

Amazon promises to match $1M in revenue as FareStart opens 5 new restaurants in partnership

Amazon already donated more than 25,000 square feet of space and furnishings to help the nonprofit FareStart open five new… Read More

Jul 18, 2017, 10:59 AM

Amazon patents a power-charging robot that’ll come when you call

Have you ever scrambled around at an airport, hunting down a power outlet for your laptop or smartphone? Amazon’s inventors… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 2:10 PM

Amazon is already selling pre-packaged ‘Meal Kits’ as it bites into service from Blue Apron and others

Amazon’s newly-discovered desire to begin offering pre-packaged ingredients for home-cooked meals is already a real thing as a selection of… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 10:40 AM

Amazon files trademark for potential meal-kit service as Blue Apron stock sinks

Last week, shares of Zillow went down after reports of Amazon launching its own real estate referral service surfaced. This… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 10:25 AM

New, simpler sign-in experience for Amazon Web Services users coming soon

Amazon Web Services is simplifying the way users can sign into their accounts, dumping a clunky web address that used… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 9:01 AM

Grocery union claims Amazon’s $13.7B Whole Foods acquisition will hurt consumers and workers

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, an organization that represents more than 1 million retail workers across the U.S.,… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 8:41 AM

Report: Amazon Web Services working with VMware on hybrid cloud product for data centers

In what would be a strategy shift for Amazon Web Services, the public cloud market leader is apparently thinking about… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 7:45 AM

Small businesses on Amazon sell 40M items on Prime Day, up from 20M last year

Amazon today announced that small businesses and entrepreneurs sold more than 40 million items on Prime Day this month, which… Read More

Jul 17, 2017, 6:24 AM

Alexa Accelerator names 9 startups for inaugural Amazon and Techstars program

The Alexa Accelerator, a new program that Amazon is running in partnership with Techstars, kicked off its first class on… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 2:21 PM

A drum circle, petting zoo, the rock band Day Juan and more: It’s Amazon’s massive summer picnic

Thousands of Amazonians are expected to descend on CenturyLink Field in Seattle this weekend for the tech giant’s annual employee… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 2:07 PM

Amazon Web Services adds IP protection while dropping controversial patent clause from user agreement

Around the same time it modified its basic user agreement to drop a patent-related clause that troubled customers, Amazon Web… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 11:37 AM

Prime Day is a big deal for Amazon — but is it a good deal for Prime members?

Amazon set a series of records with Prime Day this week, reporting sales up 60 percent from last year in… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 10:41 AM

Amazon Web Services rolls out new instances for customers that need high-performance graphics

Graphic artists and industrial designers have some new tools to play with from Amazon Web Services, with the upgrade of… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 9:25 AM

Prime shape: Buff Bezos flexes his muscles at elite Sun Valley getaway

Embed from Getty Images Maybe Amazon’s signature catchphrase is helping CEO Jeff Bezos stay motivated at the gym. It’s still… Read More

Jul 14, 2017, 8:01 AM

Congressman calls for hearing on Amazon’s $13.7B bid for Whole Foods, says deal could impact neighborhood grocery stores

A U.S. Congressman who serves as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee is calling for a hearing on… Read More

Jul 13, 2017, 6:33 PM

Amazon Alexa and Echo chief Mike George is leaving after nearly two decades with the company

Mike George, the Amazon vice president who oversaw two of the company’s most successful products — the Alexa virtual assistant… Read More

Jul 13, 2017, 3:49 PM

Amazon Web Services drops controversial patent clause from standard user agreement

Amazon Web Services has quietly dropped a controversial provision from its user agreement that essentially forced customers to agree that… Read More

Jul 13, 2017, 10:28 AM

‘Alexa, change the channel’: Amazon Echo speakers can now control some smart TVs

Amazon just released a new capability for its digital brain Alexa that is sure to delight chronic TV remote misplacers.… Read More

Jul 13, 2017, 8:26 AM

Report: Amazon acquires UK video game startup, pushing further into gaming

Amazon has acquired GameSparks, a UK company that builds backend tools for developers behind marquee game franchises such as Assassin’s… Read More

Jul 12, 2017, 9:11 AM

Prime Day was Amazon’s ‘biggest shopping event’ ever as sales spike 60% from last year

Surprise, surprise: Amazon sold a lot of stuff on Tuesday. The Seattle-based online retailer broke all kinds of records during… Read More