Jan 31, 2014, 7:57 AM Chart: Here’s why Amazon needs to jack up the price of Prime Amazon’s net shipping costs — the difference between how much it charges customers for shipping and how much it actually… Read More
Jan 30, 2014, 4:57 PM Chart: Amazon continues hypergrowth, tops 117,000 employees Though its total headcount has already blown past Microsoft’s, it doesn’t look like Amazon is planning on slowing down its… Read More
Jan 30, 2014, 3:08 PM Amazon considers $20-$40 price hike for Amazon Prime Increased shipping costs are forcing Amazon to consider boosting the price of its Amazon Prime subscription service by $20-to-$40 a… Read More
Jan 30, 2014, 1:24 PM Amazon shares fall 10% after big holiday earnings miss Amazon this afternoon posted lighter sales and profits for the critical holiday shopping season than Wall Street was expecting, sending… Read More
Jan 30, 2014, 9:13 AM Meet Bussell Wilson: Amazon exec transforms short bus into Seahawks tailgate hotspot Brian Valentine and his buddies needed more space. The tailgate parties they threw before every Seahawks home game were becoming… Read More
Jan 29, 2014, 9:41 AM Walmart now lets you buy groceries online, pick up at store in Denver Those living in Denver can now shop for groceries online and pick them up outside of a Walmart store. Walmart… Read More
Jan 28, 2014, 12:37 PM Amazon shows HTML5 some love, letting devs charge for web apps in Android AppStore Amazon announced today that developers of HTML5 mobile apps can now charge money for the apps distributed through the company’s… Read More
Jan 27, 2014, 10:32 PM College bookstore learns to live with Amazon in first-ever pilot program Traditional bookstores have long viewed Amazon as a competitor, and rightly so, but one university bookstore is figuring out what… Read More
Jan 25, 2014, 2:45 PM Commentary: An MBA’s take on Seattle’s tech scene Even before coming to Seattle for the first time on MIT Sloan’s Tech Trek, I had a feeling that I’d… Read More
Jan 24, 2014, 4:07 PM Amazon buys yet another slice of Seattle land for $52M Amazon continued its expansion throughout Seattle today with another purchase of a block just near the company’s new 3.3 million square… Read More
Jan 24, 2014, 12:29 PM Cloud Storage Wars: Microsoft’s Azure battles Amazon Web Services on price Microsoft this morning followed through on its promise to match Amazon Web Services’ prices for commodity cloud computing services, saying… Read More
Jan 24, 2014, 8:46 AM Chart: These 10 tech giants spent millions lobbying in D.C. The tech industry is boosting its spending in Washington D.C., looking to grease the wheels of democracy and promote agendas… Read More
Jan 23, 2014, 10:35 AM Amazon expands into Christian book publishing Amazon announced today that it is launching Waterfall Press, a new imprint that will publish Christian fiction and non-fiction. The label… Read More
Jan 22, 2014, 2:29 PM Q&A: Alibaba’s CTO on Amazon, smartphones and the Chinese tech giant’s global ambitions Alibaba may not be a household name in the United States yet, but the company is a giant in China… Read More
Jan 21, 2014, 11:35 PM Alibaba on tour: Chinese tech giant draws a crowd in Amazon and Microsoft land A standing-room-only crowd filled a hotel ballroom in Bellevue on Tuesday evening to hear from some of Alibaba’s top executives —… Read More
Jan 21, 2014, 2:28 PM Update: Amazon denies report that it plans pay TV service with live channels Update, Wednesday morning: Amazon issued a statement denying the Wall Street Journal report. “We continue to build selection for Prime… Read More
Jan 21, 2014, 9:58 AM Barbarella, reborn? Amazon reportedly considers TV reboot of kinky sci-fi film Amazon’s next foray into original programming might be a bit more risqué than its usual offerings. The company has picked… Read More
Jan 17, 2014, 3:06 PM Amazon SVP Brian Valentine retiring from company Brian Valentine, the senior vice president of Amazon’s e-commerce platform for the past seven years, is retiring from the Seattle… Read More
Jan 17, 2014, 1:58 PM ‘Anticipatory shipping’: Amazon wants to ship purchases even before you buy Never one to stop thinking about new ways to deliver online purchases to your door, Amazon.com has another ambitious idea… Read More
Jan 17, 2014, 10:51 AM Security researchers: Amazon hosts nearly half of the top 10 malware distributors Thousands upon thousands of people use Amazon Web Services to host their websites — including some of the most tenacious… Read More
Jan 16, 2014, 9:11 AM Pew: More people reading e-books, but print is still most popular People reading with e-books is becoming a more common sight, but print books don’t seem to be going away anytime… Read More
Jan 15, 2014, 8:07 PM Amazon workers at Delaware facility reject unionization push in 21-6 vote A small group of Amazon.com workers at a fulfillment center in Delaware overwhelmingly rejected an effort to unionize under the International… Read More
Jan 15, 2014, 9:02 AM Spotted in Seattle: Amazon starts placing ads on Locker machines Everything can be a canvas for an advertisement these days, it seems. I spotted the latest example on a stroll… Read More
Jan 15, 2014, 8:33 AM Amazon workers at Delaware warehouse consider unionizing A small group of about 30 Amazon employees are considering joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which… Read More
Jan 14, 2014, 1:28 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos backs cancer research startup Juno Therapeutics Juno Therapeutics, a new Seattle startup that’s trying to eliminate cancer from the human body, raised a hefty $120 million… Read More
Jan 13, 2014, 10:54 AM Amazon Fresh wooing potential San Francisco customers with free food Amazon Prime customers in San Francisco are getting a little extra incentive to try out Amazon Fresh, thanks to the… Read More
Jan 13, 2014, 9:33 AM Amazon tops list of most favored brands in America Amazon is now the most favored brand in America, according to a new report. YouGov’s annual BrandIndex Year in Review… Read More
Jan 13, 2014, 8:44 AM Overstock CEO predicts Amazon will start taking Bitcoin, too Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said in a recent interview with CNN International that Amazon will soon have no choice but… Read More
Jan 10, 2014, 10:32 AM Limited-time offer: Amazon slashes $30 off Kindle prices If you’re in the market for a Kindle, now might be a good time to buy. Amazon is offering up… Read More
Jan 10, 2014, 9:52 AM Target security breach encompasses 70 million Target revealed today that the massive security breach that hit 40 million customers’ credit and debit cards also encompasses the… Read More
