Jun 18, 2020, 10:27 AM Amazon adjusts delivery routes in Seattle protest area as some customers can’t get orders delivered Amazon customers living in and around the protest area in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood are having trouble getting their orders… Read More
Jun 17, 2020, 10:48 AM Congressman slams Amazon’s use of facial recognition technology, calls for new disclosures Amazon may have halted the sale of its facial recognition software to police, but the move hasn’t eased pressure on… Read More
Jun 17, 2020, 10:21 AM Amazon and Techstars revamp Alexa Accelerator to help later-stage companies, unveil new cohort Amazon and Techstars on Wednesday unveiled the seven companies participating in Alexa Next Stage, its voice tech startup program originally… Read More
Jun 17, 2020, 9:19 AM How Amazon, Uber and others are commemorating Juneteenth in honor of emancipation Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is encouraging employees to cancel meetings and “take some time to reflect, learn and support each… Read More
Jun 17, 2020, 7:08 AM Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of fallout without ‘strong national law’ on facial recognition Decisions by Microsoft and Amazon to refrain from sales of facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies could have negative… Read More
Jun 17, 2020, 6:00 AM Amazon teams with Zynga for an Alexa-enabled version of popular game ‘Words With Friends’ Amazon is teaming with Zynga to bring a voice-enabled version of the interactive entertainment company’s popular game “Words With Friends”… Read More
Jun 16, 2020, 2:11 PM Secrets of successful strategies: How Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and others make winning bets Twenty-five years ago, more than a decade before the debut of the iPhone, a different piece of technology had people… Read More
Jun 16, 2020, 10:35 AM Seattle City Council unveils new payroll tax targeting Amazon and other large companies The Seattle City Council introduced a new proposal Tuesday to tax the largest companies in the city, the latest in… Read More
Jun 16, 2020, 6:44 AM Amazon’s ‘Distance Assistant’ uses augmented reality to show workers if they’re far enough apart Amazon is rolling out a system that uses sensors and a large-screen display to let workers see, in real time,… Read More
Jun 16, 2020, 4:37 AM Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge’ gets its first additional signatories: Verizon, Infosys and RB Telecom giant Verizon, tech powerhouse Infosys, and Lysol and Calgon parent Reckitt Benckiser (RB) have become the first global companies… Read More
Jun 15, 2020, 2:22 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is reportedly willing to testify before Congress in antitrust inquiry Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos could testify before Congress along with other Big Tech leaders this summer, according to a letter… Read More
Jun 15, 2020, 10:40 AM How Amazon’s treatment of third-party sellers became an antitrust target in the US and abroad Antitrust scrutiny of Amazon is intensifying as new details reveal how the company treats third-party sellers in its marketplace. Regulators… Read More
Jun 15, 2020, 8:10 AM Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot… Read More
Jun 13, 2020, 7:09 AM GeekWire Podcast: Tech and the police; Amazon sues former VP; remembering Manny Vellon Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: As protests over police violence continue across the country,… Read More
Jun 12, 2020, 9:39 AM Photos: Inside an Amazon fulfillment center, masked up and spaced apart during COVID-19 KENT, Wash. — So long, door desk. Hello, plexiglass-enclosed roaming human help desk. Not far from where hundreds of robots… Read More
Jun 11, 2020, 8:24 AM Is Amazon’s facial recognition moratorium a victory for police reformers or just good PR? Amazon’s surprise reversal on selling facial recognition software to police this week helped the company earn some goodwill at a… Read More
Jun 11, 2020, 7:20 AM Report: Amazon to be hit with antitrust charges as soon as next week over third-party seller data European regulators are set to file antitrust charges against Amazon over the alleged use of third-party seller data to compete… Read More
Jun 10, 2020, 2:55 PM Amazon bans police use of its Rekognition facial recognition software for one year amid protests Amazon will ban police use of its facial recognition software for one year, in an abrupt reversal that shows how… Read More
Jun 10, 2020, 7:19 AM Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from… Read More
Jun 9, 2020, 9:38 AM ‘Amazon isn’t going away, and neither are we.’ Employee group presses ahead on climate and race An Amazon employee group has taken some hits recently, but vows to keep fighting for members concerned about the company’s… Read More
Jun 8, 2020, 3:41 PM Stock market rally: Amazon, Microsoft, other Seattle companies bounce back from March lows U.S. stocks have come roaring back despite millions of people still unemployed due to pandemic-related layoffs and the threat of… Read More
Jun 8, 2020, 2:00 PM Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job Follow-up: Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches A lawsuit filed… Read More
Jun 8, 2020, 11:20 AM Analyst: Amazon stock to reach $3,300 as survey results show more Prime members and purchases The COVID-19 pandemic has crushed companies across various industries, but Amazon will emerge as a “structural winner” from the global… Read More
Jun 8, 2020, 10:30 AM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos posts customer’s racist message, calls him a ‘customer I’m happy to lose’ As part of its vaunted leadership principles, Amazon likes to say it starts with the customer and works backwards to… Read More
Jun 7, 2020, 1:00 PM Slack and Amazon vs. Microsoft Teams: Why voice and video are essential in enterprise messaging Slack and Amazon recently announced a significant partnership where Slack will power its voice and video infrastructure with Amazon Chime.… Read More
Jun 5, 2020, 2:00 PM Is that message really from Amazon? Tech giant cracks down on fraudulent email campaigns Amazon this week filed lawsuits in three states, aiming to squash what it describes as fraudulent affiliate marketing schemes driven… Read More
Jun 4, 2020, 3:08 PM Slack expands Amazon partnership, will switch to AWS Chime infrastructure for user calls Slack will shift to Amazon Web Services’ Chime infrastructure for voice and video calls on its platform under an expanded… Read More
Jun 4, 2020, 12:26 PM Elon Musk tweets, ‘Time to break up Amazon’ as he defends author in dispute over COVID-19 book Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission… Read More
Jun 4, 2020, 10:11 AM Virtual internships: Tech companies and students adjust as pandemic forces remote experience After receiving an offer letter in February to work as an intern at Amazon, Yaminee Patel envisioned a summer “running… Read More
Jun 4, 2020, 9:31 AM Warehouse workers sue Amazon over COVID-19 exposure after death of an employee’s relative Barbara Chandler believes she contracted COVID-19 in March at her job, working in an Amazon warehouse in New York where… Read More
