Jul 3, 2017, 8:20 AM Amazon completes $580M acquisition of Middle East e-commerce giant Souq.com Amazon has completed its purchase of Souq, a 12-year-old e-commerce company sometimes called the Amazon of the Middle East. Amazon paid… Read More
Jul 3, 2017, 7:51 AM Report: Top Amazon rival Alibaba is about to launch an Echo competitor Alibaba, the China-based e-commerce giant determined to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, is coming out with its answer to the Echo… Read More
Jul 1, 2017, 10:39 AM Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More
Jun 29, 2017, 5:57 PM Nike confirms plan to sell products on Amazon, starting with ‘limited’ pilot Nike today confirmed that it will start selling products on Amazon.com, starting with “a limited Nike product assortment,” setting aside… Read More
Jun 29, 2017, 10:31 AM Geared Up Podcast: Amazon Echo Show unboxing and first impressions Amazon shipped the new Echo Show this week, a $230 device featuring the company’s Alexa voice-enabled assistant PLUS a touch… Read More
Jun 29, 2017, 9:18 AM Fresh off IPO, Blue Apron CEO says Amazon’s grocery focus is ‘good for us and good for others’ Blue Apron went public Wednesday, slicing its individual share price to $10 and bringing the meal-kit delivery company’s market value… Read More
Jun 28, 2017, 10:00 PM Amazon says third annual Prime Day will start July 10, running for 30 hours There just aren’t enough hours in the day, at least for Amazon and its summer shopping holiday Prime Day. Amazon… Read More
Jun 28, 2017, 5:48 PM Amazon gobbling up Whole Foods has Blue Apron eating humble pie as food delivery company chops IPO price It seems meal-kit delivery company Blue Apron bit off more than it could chew in planning the share price for… Read More
Jun 28, 2017, 9:00 AM Recipes via robot: As voice technology shakes up cooking, Allrecipes adapts with help from Amazon If your grandmother was anything like mine — at home in the kitchen with a recipe box full of hand-written… Read More
Jun 28, 2017, 7:22 AM Trump targets Amazon over ‘internet taxes’ in new tweet criticizing Bezos-owned Washington Post President Donald Trump resurfaced his complaints against Amazon this morning in a tweet targeting the Washington Post’s coverage of his… Read More
Jun 28, 2017, 12:01 AM Best Buy introducing Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences to 700 U.S. stores There’s going to be a lot of chatter about and with voice-activated assistants in Best Buy stores thanks to new Amazon… Read More
Jun 27, 2017, 10:41 AM Google’s Amazon defense: Search giant cites rival’s rise in response to $2.7B EU antitrust fine Google has been fined $2.7 billion by European regulators for using its dominance in the search engine market to favor… Read More
Jun 27, 2017, 6:00 AM Amazon adds 5 new devices from Alcatel, Nokia, Motorola to discounted Prime smartphone program Amazon today added five new devices to its Prime smartphone program. Nokia will sell the new unlocked Nokia 6 smartphone,… Read More
Jun 26, 2017, 3:31 PM As Amazon expands beyond online commerce, retailers look to compete with unique experiences It’s been another rough year in the brick-and-mortar retail world, as retailers of all sizes search for answers to deal with… Read More
Jun 26, 2017, 1:54 PM Amazon rolls out Alexa intercom function, letting users ‘drop in’ on Echo speakers remotely Amazon is taking a big step forward in its quest to turn Alexa into the operating system for the home.… Read More
Jun 26, 2017, 1:21 PM Reviews: Appearances aside, Amazon’s Echo Show looks like a hit The first reviews are in for the Echo Show, Amazon’s newest $230 Alexa-powered device, and it appears the company has… Read More
Jun 26, 2017, 8:42 AM Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More
Jun 23, 2017, 2:37 PM Report: Walmart has no appetite for challenging Amazon’s $13.7B Whole Foods deal As investors continue to speculate about a potential rival bidder to Amazon’s $13.7 billion price for Whole Foods Market, Reuters… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 6:33 PM Amazon’s delivery drone hive looks like it came from a sci-fi movie nightmare If filmmakers ever decide to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” with drones instead of birds, they could… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 5:32 PM Why Amazon’s rapid growth encourages developer of $564M Key Arena renovation The area around Seattle’s Key Arena — Seattle Center, South Lake Union — is a lot different than it was… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 1:59 PM Why the NFL loves Amazon: Key league exec explains tech giant’s football streaming deal Everyone these days wants to be like Amazon, even the NFL apparently. At the 2017 GeekWire Sports Tech Summit, NFL… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 9:43 AM King County Metro adds buses as Amazon summer interns flood Seattle Summer has finally reached Seattle: The sun is out, the water is less chilly, and thanks to Amazon’s summer intern… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 9:35 AM Last chapter for Nook? Sales fell 23 percent during Barnes & Noble’s 2017 fiscal year It’s going to take quite the plot twist to save the fate of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader, judging by… Read More
Jun 22, 2017, 6:00 AM Amazon says Echo Show will connect to Nest, Ring and other security cameras via Alexa Amazon this morning is announcing the first home-monitoring and security cameras that will be compatible with the new $230 Echo… Read More
Jun 21, 2017, 2:52 PM Amazon drops contentious non-compete lawsuit against former AWS exec who left for new job at Smartsheet Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from Amazon. The former executive at Amazon Web Services who… Read More
Jun 21, 2017, 2:34 PM Amazon Web Services’ new DAX database accelerator juices performance without an app overhaul Amazon Web Services’ in-memory cache for its DynamoDB database, introduced just two months ago in preview mode, has been promoted… Read More
Jun 21, 2017, 12:09 PM Transcript: Here’s what Microsoft, Amazon and Apple CEOs told Trump about tech this week President Trump said that he was joined by “an incredible group of leaders” as he kicked off a meeting of… Read More
Jun 20, 2017, 12:47 PM Watch: Giant tree is hoisted into the Amazon Spheres in milestone planting for Seattle structures A 48-year-old tree, sent by truck from a Southern California farm two weeks ago, has a new home inside the… Read More
Jun 20, 2017, 10:57 AM Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building? Amazon is building a new “two pizza team” within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the… Read More
Jun 20, 2017, 8:39 AM Geographic analysis: Amazon and Whole Foods footprints in U.S. are remarkably similar Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market, the largest acquisition in the Seattle company’s history, will give the e-commerce… Read More
