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
Dec 16, 2019, 10:23 AM By land and by air, Amazon delivery hardware takes on a new look in truck and plane photos Amazon vans zipping around neighborhoods making holiday deliveries aren’t the only relatively new transportation hardware that the tech giant has… Read More
Dec 16, 2019, 9:40 AM Amazon’s Twitch embroiled in Russian legal dispute over English Premier League streams Amazon is fielding a major lawsuit from Russian internet giant Rambler Group, which claims Twitch has violated its rights to… Read More
Dec 14, 2019, 10:35 AM What the Ring camera hacks say about security, privacy and technology The hacking of multiple Ring cameras this week brought the sometimes abstract world of tech security and privacy into stark relief,… Read More
Dec 13, 2019, 10:31 AM Amazon is delivering half of its own packages, reducing reliance on third-parties, analysts find Amazon is coming for couriers. The Seattle tech giant is now delivering 50 percent of packages itself, according to Morgan… Read More
Dec 13, 2019, 5:16 AM Despite Amazon’s legal challenge, Microsoft reportedly moving forward with JEDI hiring push Microsoft’s push to recruit people to work on the JEDI project to build cloud infrastructure for the U.S. Department of… Read More
Dec 12, 2019, 3:09 PM Tech industry’s password problems come home to roost with Ring security camera hacks After a series of high-profile hacks involving in-home Ring security cameras, some people are finding that devices they bought to… Read More
Dec 12, 2019, 11:15 AM Be cool, Alexa … actor Samuel L. Jackson now voices the weather and more for Amazon “I’m in the cloud, baby!” Only Samuel L. Jackson, the longtime Hollywood star with a distinct voice and vocabulary, could… Read More
Dec 12, 2019, 9:55 AM Hackers infiltrate Ring cameras in Florida and Tennessee and harass children Hackers accessed Ring security cameras in Florida and Tennessee over the last few days and communicated with children, raising questions… Read More
Dec 11, 2019, 10:26 AM New employer satisfaction data hints at techlash’s impact and Microsoft’s exception It’s been a tough year for tech, and the barrage of negative headlines dogging the industry may be hitting companies… Read More
Dec 10, 2019, 8:22 AM Company reportedly exposed 752,000 birth certificate applications stored on Amazon Web Services A company that lets users get copies of their birth and death certificates exposed more than 752,000 application documents it… Read More
Dec 9, 2019, 9:37 AM Amazon accuses Trump of using Pentagon cloud contract for ‘his own personal and political ends’ A newly unsealed court document reveals more details about Amazon’s strategy to get the Defense Department to overturn its award… Read More
Dec 9, 2019, 7:40 AM ‘Do you want a strong national defense or don’t you?’ Bezos defends big tech’s government work Big tech should continue to play a key role in national defense, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said, painting the work… Read More
Dec 7, 2019, 10:35 AM Cloud Wars: Why Amazon is escalating its battle against Microsoft in enterprise tech The leaders of Amazon’s cloud division made a few things clear this week at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference… Read More
