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I read MacKenzie Bezos’ books, and this is what I learned

by Molly Brown on January 19, 2019January 19, 2019 at 10:33 am 4 Comments

She was an aspiring fiction writer with an audacious start along that path. She pursued creative writing at Princeton, and studied and worked as a research assistant for Nobel prize-winning… Read More

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Time’s up, Alexa: After one lukewarm leftover too many, we pulled the plug on Amazon’s microwave

by Kurt Schlosser on January 19, 2019January 19, 2019 at 10:38 am 2 Comments

Instead of using our fingers to push the buttons on a microwave keypad over the past couple months, we here at GeekWire have relied on a voice-enabled unit featuring Amazon’s… Read More

Shareholders pressure Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 at 3:33 pm 2 Comments

Amazon shareholders have filed a resolution asking the company to stop selling its facial recognition software to government agencies until the board has determined that the technology doesn’t pose risks… Read More

Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis? The politics of private companies taking on public issues

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 at 10:33 am 2 Comments

Big tech companies are stepping in to help solve the housing crunch in the face of mounting frustration from their communities, where big increases in home prices and homelessness are… Read More

Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill

by Nat Levy on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 at 8:20 amComment

Microsoft no longer views Cortana as a competitor to the Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa, and the priority has changed to make it a skill that works within other digital… Read More

Amazon Alexa now does her best ‘newscaster’ impression when reading the headlines

by James Thorne on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 at 2:56 pmComment

Is that you, Walter Cronkite? Amazon unveiled a feature that alters Alexa’s voice to imitate the way broadcast news anchors read the news. When users ask “Alexa, what’s the latest,”… Read More

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Think you know news? Don’t ‘Wait Wait’ to prove it as NPR brings popular quiz show to smart speakers

by Kurt Schlosser on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 at 11:35 amComment

If you’re used to just talking at the radio on Saturday mornings and playing along with NPR’s weekly news quiz show “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” now you can… Read More

Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups

by Tom Krazit on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 at 10:19 amComment

One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on, from networking performance to security threats. A new cloud service… Read More

New survey estimates Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. exceeds 100M

by Nat Levy on January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 at 10:13 amComment

Last year, Amazon disclosed for the first time the number of Prime subscribers worldwide — 100 million. A new survey estimates that the fast-growing program has exceeded that milestone in… Read More

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AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project

by Tom Krazit on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 2:21 pmComment

The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom needs. It sounds like Amazon Web Services is getting ready… Read More

Amazon is officially hiring at New York ‘HQ2’

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 2:45 pmComment

Over the weekend, the first job listings cropped up for Amazon HQ2, the now imprecise moniker for the 50,000-person second headquarters Amazon plans to establish across two cities: New York… Read More

With another new office lease for Amazon, this Seattle-area city is almost out of downtown space

by Nat Levy on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 10:49 am1 Comment

Amazon will take another high rise tower in Bellevue, Wash., according to a real estate brokerage report, and because of the tech giant’s rapid growth, the downtown area is virtually… Read More

Amazon bundles new second generation Alexa remote with Fire TV Stick for $40

by Nat Levy on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 at 8:59 amComment

Amazon is updating its Fire TV Stick bundle to include the new Alexa Voice Remote, which was released late last year, at the same $40 price point. The next generation… Read More

Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Round 2: Digital assistants duke it out in the desert

by Nat Levy on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 at 5:04 pm1 Comment

LAS VEGAS — Sin City has served as the backdrop to some of the most famous bouts and rematches in fighting history, and last week it was home to another.… Read More

More than half of DC workers would consider leaving their jobs to work for Amazon, survey finds

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 at 3:12 pm 2 Comments

Workers in Washington D.C. appear eager to jump ship for Amazon jobs, according to a new survey. Millennials and IT employees are particularly open to considering a gig with the… Read More

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Glasses give sight to the legally blind, opening eyes to the broader potential of making tech accessible

by Starla Sampaco on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 at 10:53 amComment

LAS VEGAS ― More than 180,000 people attended CES to see the latest in consumer technology. From autonomous suitcases to a laundry-folding robot, there were many wacky gadgets making headlines throughout the… Read More

Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis

by Tom Krazit on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 at 12:23 pmComment

It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase Vancouver’s TSO Logic, according to a notice posted on TSO… Read More

Trump mocks Amazon’s ‘Jeff Bozo’ over divorce and tabloid exposure

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 at 10:23 am 3 Comments

Perhaps it was only a matter of time until the president tweeted about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years. Donald Trump is a… Read More

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

by Tom Krazit on January 13, 2019January 14, 2019 at 10:22 am1 Comment

Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain of Chinese tech companies. Like many other tech revolutions kicked… Read More

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Facebook, groceries and … divorce? Catch up on the week’s big stories with the GeekWire Podcast

by Todd Bishop on January 12, 2019January 15, 2019 at 8:10 pmComment

We’re back! John Cook, Monica Nickelsburg and Todd Bishop get the GeekWire Podcast rolling for 2019 with our weekly news discussion, exploring the potential implications of Jeff Bezos’ divorce for… Read More

Amazon reportedly working on game streaming service, talking to publishers about signing up

by Nat Levy on January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 at 12:01 pmComment

Amazon is looking to get into game streaming, joining its tech titan contemporaries Microsoft and Google, according to a report from The Information. Amazon is reportedly developing its own game… Read More

Amazon’s IMDb launches Freedive, a free movie and TV streaming service — with ads

by Kurt Schlosser on January 10, 2019January 14, 2019 at 10:27 pm1 Comment

IMDb, which has proven over the years to know a thing or two about movies, is getting into the business of streaming them, along with TV shows, via a new… Read More

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure

by Tom Krazit on January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 at 9:32 amComment

Amazon Web Services customers might find some new disaster-recovery services in their account dashboards later this year now that the company has confirmed its acquisition of CloudEndure. An AWS representative… Read More

As Fire TV passes 30M users, Amazon execs eye more voice integrations and global expansion

by Taylor Soper on January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 at 10:30 amComment

Whether it’s through a dongle, a cube, or even baked inside your giant TV, Amazon wants to control the streaming experience inside your living room. The tech giant is well… Read More

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I read MacKenzie Bezos’ books, and this is what I learned

Time’s up, Alexa: After one lukewarm leftover too many, we pulled the plug on Amazon’s microwave

Shareholders pressure Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis? The politics of private companies taking on public issues

Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill

Amazon Alexa now does her best ‘newscaster’ impression when reading the headlines

Think you know news? Don’t ‘Wait Wait’ to prove it as NPR brings popular quiz show to smart speakers

Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups

New survey estimates Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. exceeds 100M

AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project

Amazon is officially hiring at New York ‘HQ2’

With another new office lease for Amazon, this Seattle-area city is almost out of downtown space

Amazon bundles new second generation Alexa remote with Fire TV Stick for $40

Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Round 2: Digital assistants duke it out in the desert

More than half of DC workers would consider leaving their jobs to work for Amazon, survey finds

Glasses give sight to the legally blind, opening eyes to the broader potential of making tech accessible

Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis

Trump mocks Amazon’s ‘Jeff Bozo’ over divorce and tabloid exposure

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

Facebook, groceries and … divorce? Catch up on the week’s big stories with the GeekWire Podcast

Amazon reportedly working on game streaming service, talking to publishers about signing up

Amazon’s IMDb launches Freedive, a free movie and TV streaming service — with ads

Amazon Web Services confirms acquisition of Israeli disaster-recovery company CloudEndure

As Fire TV passes 30M users, Amazon execs eye more voice integrations and global expansion

The world’s first e-bike with Amazon’s Alexa built in

Amazon Web Services calls MongoDB’s licensing bluff with DocumentDB, a new managed database

The $100 billion question: What will happen to Bezos and Allen fortunes as they change hands?

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos plan to divorce after 25 years of marriage

There’s always money in the (Amazon) banana stand, even at CES

Reports: Amazon adds new disaster-recovery tech to AWS with purchase of CloudEndure

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