Apr 8, 2012, 10:49 AM A Kindle e-reader with a front-lit screen? Yes, please One of the down sides of traditional E Ink, used in devices such as Amazon Kindle e-readers, is the inability… Read More
Apr 6, 2012, 8:36 AM Chart: Amazon S3 grows, with 905 billion objects now stored Amazon has released new numbers showing continued growth for its Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, one of the… Read More
Apr 5, 2012, 3:58 PM Amazon Kindle gets 62% of U.S. e-reader usage, and Kindle Fire is 14% of tablets The Pew Internet & American Life Project is out today with an epic report on the “rise of e-reading”… Read More
Apr 4, 2012, 4:36 PM America’s Best CEO: Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos Forbes magazine today released its list of America’s best and worst CEOs, and Seattle’s Jeff Bezos finished in the top… Read More
Apr 4, 2012, 7:50 AM Don’t pay up, just show up: What’s Amazon’s obligation to the local idea economy? Is Amazon as involved as it should be in Seattle? How involved is that? And how much does it matter?… Read More
Apr 3, 2012, 3:14 PM Labor activists hijack pie-cutter product page to bite Amazon The pro-labor group Working Washington is escalating its battle against Amazon.com, this time through an unusual tool: A pie cutter. Members… Read More
Apr 3, 2012, 2:04 PM PS3 gets Amazon video app, Xbox 360 still stuck with workaround, for now If you own a PlayStation 3 and subscribe to Amazon Prime, it’s your lucky day. Amazon today announced the availability… Read More
Apr 3, 2012, 10:25 AM Amazon tests in-app purchasing In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app… Read More
Apr 3, 2012, 9:27 AM Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we know it One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund,… Read More
Apr 1, 2012, 8:39 AM Amazon.com dubbed a corporate scrooge by hometown newspaper Amazon.com’s lack of philanthropic involvement in its hometown of Seattle is getting renewed attention as The Seattle Times kicked off… Read More
Mar 30, 2012, 2:31 PM Amazon Lockers are pretty much empty at this 7-Eleven Amazon.com started rolling out lockers at 7-Eleven stores in the Seattle area last fall, an innovative way for shoppers to… Read More
Mar 29, 2012, 3:54 PM Will a $199 Google tablet hurt or help the Kindle Fire? Next to politics, perhaps no industry loves speculation more than tech. We may couch it as “analysis” or — if… Read More
Mar 29, 2012, 12:46 PM Best Buy’s 50 closing big-box stores may be Amazon’s victims There’s a lot of speculation about who or what is to blame for Best Buy’s decision to shutter 50 of… Read More
Mar 29, 2012, 9:20 AM Top 10 tech CEOs: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes a big fall (and Steve Ballmer is nowhere to be found) Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also… Read More
Mar 29, 2012, 6:45 AM Obama pledges $200 million for ‘big data’ initiative “Big data” is perhaps the hottest buzzword in technology these days. And now President Obama is jumping on the bandwagon,… Read More
Mar 28, 2012, 4:57 PM Kindle Fire software update allows readers to share favorite passages Amazon has begun pushing out a new update specifically for Kindle Fire owners that adds the ability to share favorite… Read More
Mar 28, 2012, 1:12 PM Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos plans historic deep-sea Apollo 11 engine recovery A massive bit of space history that inspired an entire generation of geeks has been found by Jeff Bezos —… Read More
Mar 28, 2012, 12:25 AM Raveld reveals Klout-like score for cloud spending on AWS It may start getting easier to make optimal Amazon Web Services purchasing decisions. Or, at least, less expensive. Raveld, a… Read More
Mar 27, 2012, 10:50 PM Architects describe Amazon’s proposed Seattle campus as an ‘urban room’ with ‘sun pockets’ Amazon.com’s ambitious plans to erect three massive 37-story office towers in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle isn’t about… Read More
Mar 27, 2012, 3:42 PM Kindle Touch to launch in Europe April 27 Amazon’s Kindle Touch will finally make it across the pond to Europe, five months after its U.S. launch — but… Read More
Mar 27, 2012, 2:13 PM Amazon adds DRM to ‘DRM-free’ Harry Potter eBooks Those expecting to unwind with all seven Harry Potter volumes in glorious, DRM-unencumbered pixel are likely in for a disappointment,… Read More
Mar 27, 2012, 10:26 AM Labor group takes aim at Amazon Amazon.com could face some scrutiny tonight as City of Seattle design officials consider the company’s planned expansion near downtown. The… Read More
Mar 27, 2012, 8:38 AM Harry Potter arrives on Kindle Amazon.com has struck a deal with author J.K. Rowling to distribute all seven of the best-selling Harry Potter titles on… Read More
Mar 26, 2012, 10:21 AM Paul Allen-backed Xiant Mobile brings ‘smarter’ email to Kindle Fire with $9.99 app Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire is known as a solid reading and media device. But when it comes to email, well, maybe… Read More
Mar 23, 2012, 8:44 AM Walmart versus Amazon: The next great tech battle? One of the most fascinating rivalries going on in tech right now isn’t between Apple and Microsoft. Or Google and… Read More
Mar 21, 2012, 4:30 AM Amazon’s discounted gift cards set blistering pace for daily deals [Correction: Post updated to reflect the fact that Amazon’s deal was one of the fastest-selling in daily deals history, but… Read More
Mar 20, 2012, 7:53 AM Amazon boosts AmazonLocal with $10 gift card for $5 Many companies are still trying to make it in the market for daily deals, competing with giant Groupon and a… Read More
Mar 19, 2012, 4:53 PM Jeff Bezos, fashion icon? Amazon boss named honorary chair of Met fashion gala It’s one of the biggest events of the year for the fashion world in New York, generating speculation about which… Read More
Mar 19, 2012, 1:47 PM Amazon paying $775M for Kiva warehouse robotics company Amazon.com just announced an agreement to pay $775 million in cash to acquire Kiva Systems Inc., a maker of automation… Read More
Mar 16, 2012, 2:27 PM New iPad: First impressions, and 5 locally grown apps to try We’ve been spending some quality time with a new iPad here today at GeekWire, focusing on the new and updated apps… Read More
