Jan 9, 2020, 11:17 AM Amazon confirms Ring fired employees for attempting to access customer video data Amazon confirmed Thursday that its subsidiary Ring fired employees for attempting to access customer video data beyond the scope of… Read More
Jan 9, 2020, 9:20 AM In just 3 years, Amazon has amassed nearly 3M square feet of real estate in this Seattle-area city Amazon opened its first office in Bellevue, Wash., a little more than two years ago. A dizzying expansion followed, multiplying… Read More
Jan 9, 2020, 9:00 AM Game streaming report: ‘Just Chatting’ category takes over Twitch; Facebook Gaming sees growth The quickly-growing audience for streaming sites has continued to embrace the “Just Chatting” category, which overtook more games-oriented programming on… Read More
Jan 8, 2020, 2:00 PM Amazon devices chief on Sonos accusations: ‘We have tried to be a great partner to them’ Amazon’s head of devices is maintaining an amicable tone toward Sonos despite accusations of stolen technology and bullying from the… Read More
Jan 8, 2020, 11:21 AM Bernie Sanders enlists Amazon employee activists in climate change campaign Sen. Bernie Sanders and employee activists have been thorns in Amazon’s side over the past year as they repeatedly call… Read More
Jan 8, 2020, 10:21 AM Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff on ‘productizing’ privacy and staying the course amid controversy Jamie Siminoff won’t be deterred. The Ring CEO told GeekWire as much at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas… Read More
Jan 8, 2020, 9:55 AM Inside Amazon’s CES media event: Shaq shows up, touts Ring, makes drinks with celeb chef Guy Fieri LAS VEGAS — The celebs were out in full force at Amazon’s happy hour media event at CES on Tuesday.… Read More
Jan 7, 2020, 6:10 PM Sonos vs. Google: Amazon won patent for ‘distributed speaker synchronization’ four years ago Is this why Sonos decided to sue Google rather than going after Amazon? Our search of U.S. patent records this… Read More
Jan 7, 2020, 9:51 AM Ring customers with cameras breached by hackers sue Amazon in proposed class action lawsuit An 8-year-old in Mississippi, a Georgia woman lying in bed, a Michigan family watching TV, and dozens of other Ring… Read More
Jan 6, 2020, 12:33 PM Why Amazon got smacked by Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes jab at Apple over labor practices With Apple CEO Tim Cook in the audience and a recent report on labor violations in the news, it’s no… Read More
Jan 6, 2020, 6:16 AM ‘Alexa, pay for gas’: Amazon unveils voice control feature to buy fuel at Mobil and Exxon stations Later this year, drivers will be able to pay for gas at more than 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations across… Read More
Jan 6, 2020, 6:00 AM Amazon’s Ring to let customers opt out of receiving police video requests Ring, the Amazon-owned home security and video doorbell company, will update its app to let customers opt out of receiving… Read More
Jan 6, 2020, 6:00 AM Fire TV passes 40M users as Amazon expands its streaming media device to cars Amazon’s push to control the television-viewing experience is expanding beyond the living room and into cars. Amazon is partnering with… Read More
Jan 3, 2020, 10:02 AM CES 2020 preview: Ivanka Trump, Amazon, pizza robots, and more as GeekWire heads to Vegas Get your best walking shoes ready, load up on the Emergen-C, and pack extra batteries — it’s time to go… Read More
Jan 2, 2020, 11:54 AM These tech stocks were the biggest winners and losers in the Seattle area for 2019 Microsoft and Amazon are the centerpieces of Seattle’s booming tech scene, and 2019 was a big year for both of… Read More
Jan 1, 2020, 9:25 AM Tech’s extraordinary decade: What mattered most in the past 10 years of innovation What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn,… Read More
Jan 1, 2020, 9:21 AM The decade when tech turned dark: Learning from the mistakes of the past 10 years The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for… Read More
Dec 29, 2019, 5:06 PM Wyze data leak: Key takeaways from server mistake that exposed information from 2.4M customers Post updated at 6 p.m. on Dec. 29. Seattle-area startup Wyze, a provider of home video cameras and other Internet… Read More
Dec 28, 2019, 10:36 AM Seattle tech’s extraordinary year: These are the stories we’ll remember in the business of innovation From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from… Read More
Dec 27, 2019, 5:50 AM New patent application points to development of palm scanning tech for Amazon Go stores Amazon Go customers could someday enter the store with a simple wave of the hand, replacing today’s process of swiping… Read More
Dec 26, 2019, 7:06 AM Amazon and its big retail rivals power record e-commerce holiday spending Amazon is claiming record shopping volumes this holiday season as the tech giant and its retail rivals brought e-commerce sales… Read More
Dec 26, 2019, 5:15 AM F5 Tower and new Amazon building sold in $1.2B deal as big tech drives Seattle real estate boom Big real estate companies are paying top dollar to get their hands on brand new office buildings in Seattle leased… Read More
Dec 24, 2019, 12:10 PM Self-driving delivery vehicles plus self-flying drones? Now there’s an Amazon patent for that For a long time, Amazon has been looking into applications for self-driving vehicles — and testing fleets of self-flying drones… Read More
Dec 23, 2019, 9:26 AM Amazon among investors again as electric vehicle maker Rivian raises another $1.3B Amazon has made another investment in Rivian, the electric vehicle maker which announced Monday that it had raised $1.3 billion… Read More
Dec 20, 2019, 6:57 AM SpaceX seeks to block Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband program from skipping a regulatory hurdle A space battle is brewing over access to a limited slice of radiowaves between several companies that want to launch… Read More
Dec 19, 2019, 3:27 PM Thousands of Ring user passwords exposed following reports of hackers accessing cameras Amazon’s home security business, Ring, landed in more hot water Thursday when researchers discovered thousands of user passwords had been… Read More
Dec 18, 2019, 9:00 PM Amazon is moving Project Kuiper satellite operation to huge Redmond facility Amazon announced today that its Project Kuiper satellite operation has outgrown its current office space, and will move into 219,000… Read More
Dec 18, 2019, 8:44 AM Amazon’s top 10 Alexa skills for 2019 show broader ambitions amid questions about growth Amazon has established itself as a smart home leader, with its digital assistant Alexa powering and controlling everything from speakers,… Read More
Dec 18, 2019, 6:14 AM As Amazon disrupts its business, FedEx shares drop on ‘very disappointing’ financial results FedEx reported lackluster financials for the second quarter of its fiscal year and cut profit expectations going forward, continuing the… Read More
Dec 16, 2019, 1:01 PM Report: Ahead of holiday push, Amazon blocks its third-party sellers from using FedEx Ground Just a week before Christmas, third-party sellers on Amazon have been instructed by the tech giant to not use FedEx… Read More
