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Apr 24, 2011, 5:59 AM

Are Wal-Mart and Amazon on a collision course?

Two developments this past week signal that Wal-Mart is getting more serious about the online world, and could very well… Read More

Apr 24, 2011, 5:22 AM

‘Amazon should be the one apologizing,’ and other comments of the week

BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations… Read More

Apr 23, 2011, 2:36 PM

GeekWire Podcast: iPhone tracking, Kindle lending, and a tech news extravaganza

This week’s GeekWire Podcast is a little different — a technology reporters’ roundtable featuring special guests Tricia Duryee of AllThingsD… Read More

Apr 22, 2011, 8:05 AM

Day 2: Amazon Web Services cites progress on cloud glitches, not everyone seeing it

As some sites continue to show signs of Amazon.com’s cloud computing glitches, the company updated its public Amazon Web Services… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 6:02 PM

Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication

Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 3:42 PM

Rewind: UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 7:03 AM

Massive failure at Amazon Web Services causes havoc for Quora, Foursquare and others

Amazon.com is experiencing a serious outage this morning with its Elastic Compute Cloud and other Web services, causing downtime at… Read More

Apr 20, 2011, 8:29 AM

Amazon introduces library lending for Kindle books

Amazon.com plans to launch a new service later this year in which Kindle users can borrow digital books from 11,000… Read More

Apr 19, 2011, 10:59 AM

Kobo inks $50 million round for electronic reading gadgets, digital bookstore

Amazon.com’s Kindle may have a leadership position right now in electronic reading devices and digital books. But the market continues… Read More

Apr 19, 2011, 12:35 AM

Jeff Bezos-backed Social Gaming Network sells out to Chris DeWolfe’s new gig, MindJolt

Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online… Read More

Apr 16, 2011, 7:34 AM

Sales of ‘e-books’ soar, now the #1 format over paper

I confess, I’ve never read an “e-book.” But, it turns out, I very well be in a shrinking class. According… Read More

Apr 15, 2011, 1:45 AM

Meet Neil Roseman: The ex-Amazon exec leading the charge for Zynga in Seattle

Neil Roseman probably could have used his technical talents to build a new startup company in Seattle. Instead, the former… Read More

Apr 13, 2011, 2:55 PM

Priceline founder Jay Walker pulls a Paul Allen, sues nearly every big name in tech

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen surprised many in the tech industry last summer when he sued some of the biggest names… Read More

Apr 12, 2011, 10:23 PM

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: ‘We are a confederation of entrepreneurs’

Zynga’s remarkable growth may be tied to hit games such as FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars. But there’s another secret… Read More

Apr 12, 2011, 2:30 PM

Amazon tells music labels it doesn’t need their permission for Cloud Drive, yet

Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical… Read More

Apr 12, 2011, 7:43 AM

Free Kindle? Don’t count on it

For many months there has been speculation that Amazon.com might ultimately give away its Kindle e-reader as a way of… Read More

Apr 11, 2011, 5:25 PM

Wal-Mart to test ‘Project Titan,’ an online grocery delivery service

The online grocery business is littered with the carcasses of old dot-coms, from HomeGrocer.com to Webvan to PublixDirect. But companies… Read More

Apr 11, 2011, 3:25 PM

Kindle for Cheapskates: Amazon debuts $114 e-reader, with ads and deals

Amazon.com’s Kindle just got cheaper for anyone willing to put up with some ads, or wanting to score some special… Read More

Apr 7, 2011, 1:09 PM

Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets

Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More

Apr 7, 2011, 8:50 AM

Is Bezos’ Starship Enterprise a French-Built Luxury Jet?

Seeing news of Amazon’s Trekkie-themed corporate meeting is a reminder that CEO Jeff Bezos created an entity called Zefram LLC… Read More

Apr 7, 2011, 5:15 AM

Lockerz taps former Amazon exec, plans deeper Facebook integration

Fast-growing, youth-oriented social networking site Lockerz has been undergoing a serious growth spurt since moving its headquarters from Pittsburgh to… Read More

Apr 6, 2011, 10:16 AM

Amazon employees need to eat, so Cactus plans massive restaurant in South Lake Union

Amazon.com’s arrival in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is bringing thousands of geeks to the once run-down neighborhood. And those… Read More

Apr 5, 2011, 1:21 PM

Mozy executive Russ Stockdale on VMware deal: ‘I’d classify it as a transfer of talent’

Mozy has built a big business around online backups. But most people don’t realize that the company’s headquarters is located… Read More

Apr 4, 2011, 10:34 PM

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Apr 4, 2011, 11:42 AM

Report: Amazon.com is the best at ‘customer experience’

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos likes to preach the merits of customer service. And that near maniacal laser-focus has paid off.… Read More

Apr 2, 2011, 11:46 AM

GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More

Apr 1, 2011, 2:48 PM

Hey developers: Forget the cheeseburgers, have a LOLcat

The guys from Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell will be our guests on the next GeekWire Podcast. And it looks like… Read More

Apr 1, 2011, 12:41 PM

Study: Microsoft’s Ballmer sees approval rating decline

Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest… Read More

Mar 31, 2011, 9:11 PM

Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla

The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More

Mar 31, 2011, 10:37 AM

How to recruit an Amazon.com coder: Free cheeseburgers?

You can recruit smart developers in a lot of ways, offering stock incentives, big salaries or cool perks. But Cheezburger… Read More