Dec 6, 2019, 1:55 PM Amazon touts ‘technical superiority’ over Microsoft as it seeks to reopen JEDI bidding in newly unsealed court filing Amazon is asking a federal judge to block the Defense Department from enlisting Microsoft for a contentious and lucrative cloud… Read More
Dec 6, 2019, 7:53 AM Amazon experiencing shipping delays amid busy holiday season and shift to one-day delivery Amazon is experiencing some shipping delays as the busy holiday season continues to heat up. As first reported by Recode,… Read More
Dec 5, 2019, 4:52 PM Amazon expands Bezos’ elite ‘S-team,’ adding 6 execs from emerging branches of the company Amazon’s executive suite, nicknamed the “S-team,” is adding six new members as the company doubles down on emerging fields such… Read More
Dec 5, 2019, 1:06 PM NFL partners with Amazon Web Services to improve player safety and ‘shape the future of football’ The National Football League is turning to Amazon’s cloud technologies as it looks to improve the safety of its players.… Read More
Dec 5, 2019, 8:12 AM AWS antitrust? How Amazon’s cloud unit would defend against an expanded FTC inquiry LAS VEGAS — Kicking off the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference earlier this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy offered an… Read More
Dec 4, 2019, 10:23 AM The buzz at AWS re:Invent: What tech leaders are talking about at Amazon’s big cloud confab LAS VEGAS — S. “Soma” Somasegar has a unique perspective on Amazon Web Services, as the former leader of Microsoft’s… Read More
Dec 4, 2019, 5:20 AM Amazon introduces portable Echo smart speaker in India with 11 hours of battery life Amazon added a new portable Echo device to its lineup of smart speakers, but for now it is only available… Read More
Dec 3, 2019, 10:26 AM Amazon cloud boss targets Microsoft’s core business, eyes $3.7 trillion enterprise IT market LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy put the company’s neighboring tech giant directly in his sights here… Read More
Dec 3, 2019, 7:16 AM Amazon doubles truck fleet to 20,000 to boost shipping capacity amid booming holiday sales A record number of Amazon-branded trucks are driving up and down freeways across the U.S. this holiday season, the latest… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 10:11 AM What ’60 Minutes’ didn’t say about Amazon and Seattle’s homelessness crisis The tent cities that spring up in the shadows of some of the world’s wealthiest tech companies landed on “60… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 8:54 AM Amazon reportedly experimenting with temporary warehouse space to speed up holiday deliveries As Amazon enters its first holiday season under the shifting shipping standard of one-day delivery, the tech giant is looking… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 7:31 AM Amazon unveils musical keyboard that uses AI to compose surprisingly good original songs Amazon Web Services likes to spice things up at its annual AWS re:Invent conference with unexpected hardware announcements, with past… Read More
Dec 2, 2019, 6:30 AM What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More
Nov 29, 2019, 7:41 AM Holiday e-commerce spending already hitting records as Amazon and others gear up for peak shopping season In between parades, football games and huge meals, people turned to their phones in record numbers to shop holiday deals… Read More
Nov 28, 2019, 7:16 AM We’ve been wearing Amazon’s Allbirds lookalikes: Here’s how they compare to the real thing Amazon’s 206 Collective Men’s Galen Wool Blend Sneakers look like Allbirds Wool Runners, for less than half the price. Comparing… Read More
Nov 27, 2019, 9:32 PM Amazon to double seasonal hiring to record 200k workers as business continues to boom Amazon plans to hire 200,000 seasonal workers this year, twice as many as last year, suggesting that it expects a… Read More
Nov 27, 2019, 7:00 AM Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Seattle office for Sweden’s Sinch; Glossier hires CTO from Amazon — Swedish cloud communications platform Sinch named Vikram Khandpur, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, as chief product officer. He’ll be based… Read More
Nov 26, 2019, 4:30 PM Alexa, why so emotional? Because Amazon has created realistic new voice tones for its assistant If you’ve ever felt like Amazon’s Alexa was using the wrong tone with you, well, there was really no point… Read More
Nov 26, 2019, 1:00 PM Australian shipping company Sendle opens U.S. headquarters in Seattle to help small businesses Sendle, an Australian shipping company that bills itself as the first carrier built specifically to help small e-commerce businesses, is… Read More
Nov 26, 2019, 12:01 PM Amazon gives a Seattle brick-and-mortar business reason to smile with a busy sip, ship, shop formula Diana Naramore is all smiles. Maybe it’s contagious, since she’s surrounded all day by so many Amazon packages with that… Read More
Nov 26, 2019, 6:59 AM Amazon’s Alexa can now order prescription refills and remind people to take their medicine Amazon’s digital brain Alexa can now refill prescriptions via voice command and remind people to take their medicine, the latest… Read More
Nov 26, 2019, 12:01 AM Amazon awards shine spotlight on third-party sellers, including Bellevue-based startup nutpods As a big business, Amazon is definitely keen on the small businesses that sell in its online stores. To show… Read More
Nov 25, 2019, 4:57 PM Report spotlights high injury rates at Amazon warehouses ahead of holiday shopping season Amazon’s warehouse culture is making headlines again this week after a nonprofit news organization obtained injury records from 23 of… Read More
Nov 25, 2019, 12:50 PM Alexa in every light switch? Amazon reduces requirements for voice controls in small devices Amazon is releasing a new integration designed to help hardware makers build its Alexa voice assistant directly into smaller devices,… Read More
Nov 25, 2019, 10:57 AM Amazon adds new features to Rekognition software amid ongoing debate over facial recognition tech Amazon is rolling out new features that make it easier for customers to search for specific items in large databases… Read More
Nov 25, 2019, 10:47 AM Allbirds calls out Amazon for ‘strikingly similar’ sneaker, urges tech giant to steal approach to sustainability instead Allbirds raced to a valuation of more than $1 billion on the popularity of its trendy wool shoes. Now the… Read More
Nov 25, 2019, 6:51 AM Seattle Seahawks partner with Amazon Web Services for cloud deal to ‘fuel future championships’ Amazon is expanding its work with the NFL, scoring a deal with the Seattle Seahawks to provide the team with… Read More
Nov 23, 2019, 7:28 AM GeekWire Podcast: Why this Amazon adversary is emboldened to escalate challenge to tech giant Every week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind-the-scenes of some of the biggest and most interesting stories we’ve been… Read More
Nov 22, 2019, 4:30 PM Amazon cites Fox News segment, Trump rally in formal protest of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI award Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft’s victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract, citing video evidence that… Read More
Nov 22, 2019, 6:56 AM Lawsuits allege Amazon Web Services illegally stored biometric data obtained by customers Amazon’s cloud division has been hit with multiple lawsuits, alleging the tech giant violated state law in Illinois by obtaining… Read More
