Apr 2, 2021, 9:35 PM Amazon offers rare apology, says it will look for solutions to drivers peeing in bottles Amazon issued a rare apology Friday night, stepping back from comments made on Twitter last week in a response to… Read More
Apr 2, 2021, 10:44 AM Amazon reveals design plans for second skyscraper as part of major campus project in Bellevue Amazon has revealed its proposed design for a second office tower as part of its Bellevue 600 project, further solidifying… Read More
Mar 31, 2021, 5:12 PM Incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on why remote work hurts innovation: ‘You don’t riff the same way’ As GeekWire reported earlier Wednesday, Amazon is headed back to the office after letting people work from home for the… Read More
Mar 31, 2021, 3:50 PM Biden calls out Amazon for not paying federal income tax: ‘I’m going to put an end to that’ The debate over how much Amazon pays in federal income tax is heating up yet again. President Joe Biden called… Read More
Mar 31, 2021, 1:22 PM Same as the old boss: How Amazon honed its anti-union bent at a Seattle call center 20 years ago Among the biggest stories in the country is an effort to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. The final… Read More
Mar 31, 2021, 10:11 AM Amazon updates remote work guidance, plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’ The news: Amazon expects most U.S. corporate office workers back in the office by early fall, the company said in… Read More
Mar 30, 2021, 12:43 PM Amazon donates $1.5M to support Seattle-area hunger relief efforts through four organizations Amazon announced Tuesday that it is donating more than $1.5 million to a variety of organizations in the Seattle area… Read More
Mar 29, 2021, 4:28 PM Amazon employees, bots or trolls? New Twitter bios emerge to speak out mostly against union effort Amazon is getting some help in its efforts to beat back a unionization movement at one of its fulfillment centers… Read More
Mar 29, 2021, 7:02 AM Amazon worker union leader on Alabama vote: ‘This has breathed new life into the labor movement’ Harried, sleep-deprived, and again on his way back to Bessemer, Ala. for what could be the most momentous week of… Read More
Mar 25, 2021, 10:57 AM Amazon wades into ‘pee bottle’ controversy and whether its workers can catch a break on the job Amazon’s decision to publicly fire back at a Wisconsin congressman’s tweet about working conditions at the company has turned into… Read More
Mar 24, 2021, 4:28 PM Amazon exec says tech giant is ‘Bernie Sanders of employers’ as senator supports union effort Dave Clark is feeling the snark. The Amazon exec on Wednesday tweeted about the ongoing unionization efforts at the company’s… Read More
Mar 24, 2021, 11:35 AM Day 2: How this third-party Amazon seller turned the tech giant’s knockoff product into a win Peter Dering and his colleagues at Peak Design could write the playbook for a successful response to Amazon knocking off… Read More
Mar 23, 2021, 1:29 PM Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take… Read More
Mar 23, 2021, 10:25 AM Amazon Games hires ‘Rainbow Six’ devs to head up new development studio in Montreal Amazon Games announced on Tuesday that it’s opened a new internal studio in Montreal. The studio, simply called Amazon Games… Read More
Mar 22, 2021, 12:52 PM Who is Lina Khan? Biden’s FTC commissioner pick is an antitrust expert and Amazon critic The news: President Joe Biden on Monday announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan as commissioner of the Federal Trade… Read More
Mar 18, 2021, 2:04 PM In new NFL deal, Amazon to be exclusive home for ‘Thursday Night Football’ at a reported $1B per year Amazon is going deep in its relationship with the National Football League, signing on for a new 10-year deal that… Read More
Mar 18, 2021, 1:04 PM Florida space officials discuss satellite factory with ‘Project Kraken,’ but it’s not Project Kuiper An unnamed space company may have picked up a code name with Seattle connotations during negotiations for a satellite factory… Read More
Mar 18, 2021, 10:20 AM GeekWire’s new ‘Day 2’ podcast scrutinizes Amazon’s impact on tech, business and the world It feels sometimes like the “enemy hordes are at the gates,” an Amazon shareholder told Jeff Bezos at the company’s… Read More
Mar 17, 2021, 8:36 AM Amazon will expand Amazon Care telemedicine service nationwide to all companies Amazon announced Wednesday that it will expand its Amazon Care healthcare service to non-Amazon employees, first in Washington state and… Read More
Mar 15, 2021, 8:19 AM COVID-19 e-commerce report: Pandemic boosted online shopping spending by $183B New data from Adobe puts a number on the huge pandemic-driven acceleration of e-commerce over the past year. Some key… Read More
Mar 12, 2021, 3:35 PM Jeff Bezos says no thanks to Bernie Sanders’ request to testify on income inequality Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not testify at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on income inequality next week — a… Read More
Mar 12, 2021, 7:24 AM Republican Senator Marco Rubio unleashes blistering attack on Amazon, says he stands with union effort and criticizes company’s ‘woke’ culture It wasn’t a huge surprise when President Joe Biden earlier this month voiced support for Amazon warehouse workers’ unionization efforts… Read More
Mar 10, 2021, 8:41 AM Amazon throws support behind low-carbon fuel standard bill in Washington state Melissa Santos is a reporter for Crosscut, where this story first appeared. Amazon is embracing the adoption of a low-carbon fuel standard… Read More
Mar 9, 2021, 8:49 AM Amazon leases another Bellevue office tower as it makes room for planned 25k employees in city Amazon is making room for some of the 25,000 employees it plans to add in Bellevue, Wash., announcing Tuesday that… Read More
Mar 7, 2021, 3:19 PM Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle science teacher MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist whose fortune is tied to the early days of Amazon, has married Seattle science teacher… Read More
Mar 5, 2021, 3:06 PM Tech meme wars: Shopify takes a shot at Amazon over alleged copycat products The Amazon vs. Shopify battle just got a little more juicy. Shopify’s sassy social media team — or, SaaSy, if… Read More
Mar 4, 2021, 6:29 AM Amazon Halo users get option to connect with Alexa devices for personal health updates via voice Amazon Halo users will be able to ask Echo speakers and other Alexa-enabled devices for updates on their activity scores,… Read More
Mar 3, 2021, 8:27 PM Amazon opening cashierless Fresh grocery in London, its first physical retail store outside U.S. Amazon is taking its physical retail ambitions and grocery store technology overseas, opening an Amazon Fresh store in the United… Read More
Mar 3, 2021, 12:13 PM Amazon releases surprise Alexa app for Microsoft Xbox, with voice controls and video features Amazon is bringing new voice control capabilities to Microsoft’s gaming consoles with the surprise release of a new “Alexa for… Read More
Mar 3, 2021, 8:00 AM Parler unleashes 15-count lawsuit on Amazon, alleging defamation, bullying and bias for Twitter Parler wasn’t ending its fight against Amazon Web Services last night when it abruptly dropped its suit seeking to require… Read More
