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
Jun 3, 2020, 2:31 PM Amazon Air adding 12 more cargo aircraft to delivery fleet Amazon is adding more airplanes to its growing Amazon Air fleet, announcing Wednesday that it is leasing 12 Boeing 767-300… Read More
News Brief Jun 3, 2020, 12:28 PM Amazon donates $10M to ACLU, Equal Justice Initiative, NAACP, other social justice organizations Amazon will donate $10 million to “organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of… Read More
Jun 2, 2020, 10:08 AM Amazon will offer temporary backup childcare to 650K U.S. employees through October Amazon will join other tech giants by offering a backup childcare benefit to employees, but only temporarily. The Seattle-based company… Read More
May 31, 2020, 10:36 AM Amazon, Microsoft, other tech leaders sound off amid protests over death of George Floyd Seattle tech giants Amazon and Microsoft issued statements this weekend in response to the outrage and protests over George Floyd’s… Read More
News Brief May 30, 2020, 10:41 AM Protesters shatter Amazon Go windows in Seattle as outrage over Minneapolis man’s death spreads across country Demonstrators broke the windows of an Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle during a protest Friday evening over the death… Read More
May 30, 2020, 9:54 AM GeekWire Podcast: Dueling visions of Amazon; HBO Max launches; Saving the Cinerama Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Amazon and critics wage a PR war in the… Read More
May 28, 2020, 10:27 AM Lights, camera, Amazon: Should the tech giant buy Seattle’s iconic Cinerama movie theater? Seattleites love coming in out of the rain for a movie. Especially if there is chocolate popcorn. So when news… Read More
May 28, 2020, 8:12 AM Amazon will offer permanent jobs to 70% of workers hired in response to the pandemic Amazon is planning to offer permanent roles to 70% of the 175,000 temporary workers the company brought on to deal… Read More
May 27, 2020, 10:53 AM Amazon and critics wage PR war in annual meeting with starkly opposing portraits of tech giant Working at Amazon is either like “winning a golden ticket,” or dealing with a “vein of toxicity” that runs through… Read More
May 27, 2020, 8:52 AM Amazon reportedly in advanced talks to acquire autonomous vehicle startup Zoox Amazon is in advanced talks to buy the self-driving vehicle startup Zoox Inc., according to the Wall Street Journal. The… Read More
May 27, 2020, 7:53 AM Made in Seattle, HBO Max streaming service launches without Amazon Fire TV support Updated below with Amazon statement. The new HBO Max streaming service launches today, at $14.99/month. Developed at the company’s engineering… Read More
May 26, 2020, 10:23 PM What to expect as Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting goes virtual for the first time Amazon’s response to COVID-19 will be under a microscope Wednesday morning as the company holds its shareholder meeting virtually for… Read More
May 25, 2020, 10:03 AM Amazon group that created Kindle and Echo is working on technology for COVID-19 testing Amazon is enlisting its cutting-edge Lab126 hardware group, best known for creating its Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets and Echo smart… Read More
