Aug 6, 2018, 3:50 PM Tim Wagner, leader of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda serverless team, moving over to Coinbase Thanks to its early start, Amazon Web Services is pretty far ahead of its cloud competitors when it comes to… Read More
Aug 6, 2018, 10:26 AM A more ‘humanlike’ Alexa? Amazon shows off ‘home of the future’ and what’s next for voice AI Inside its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Amazon provided NBC’s “Today” show with an exclusive look behind closed doors at the… Read More
Aug 4, 2018, 10:49 AM Inside Tokyo’s epic electronics store: Apple vs. Microsoft; plenty of Google Home; no Amazon Echo TOKYO — Talk about geek paradise. I’ve been hopping around Japan for the past week, trekking up Mt. Fuji and… Read More
Aug 3, 2018, 3:44 PM Sonos confident in Alexa partnership despite competition from Amazon in smart speakers Amazon and Sonos are more friends than enemies, according to a top executive with the smart speaker company. Sonos has… Read More
Aug 3, 2018, 3:08 PM Amazon removes racist items from e-commerce marketplace after backlash Amazon has pulled items with Nazi and racist symbolism from its website after advocacy groups raised concerns about the content,… Read More
Aug 2, 2018, 2:18 PM Amazon, Microsoft, Zillow and more tech giants join Innovation Council to address Seattle challenges Seattle’s tech industry titans are joining forces to advise the city on some of the pressing challenges that have arisen… Read More
Aug 2, 2018, 1:35 PM Former Amazon smart home executive Charlie Kindel reveals his next gig Charlie Kindel, founder of Amazon’s Alexa Smart Home division, has found his next gig, and he ended up there in… Read More
Aug 2, 2018, 8:50 AM Amazon creates USPS lobby with other retailers to influence postal service policy For months, President Donald Trump has been accusing Amazon of ripping off the U.S. Postal Service. The e-commerce giant has… Read More
Aug 1, 2018, 12:23 PM Amazon Web Services continues to lock customers into long-term cloud deals as deferred revenue and the length of contracts grew in Q2 As more and more companies have gotten used to the idea of renting servers from a bookseller, Amazon Web Services… Read More
Jul 30, 2018, 10:47 AM Amazon canceling Echo Spot orders after Alexa device was briefly offered for free This story has been updated with comments from Amazon. Shoppers were thrilled over the weekend when one of Amazon’s newest… Read More
Jul 27, 2018, 1:26 PM Amazon challenges ACLU study on facial recognition tech and police Amazon defended the law enforcement use cases for its facial recognition technology Friday in an effort to throw water on… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 6:01 PM Amazon challenges Google and Facebook with surprising new multi-billion dollar business Amazon’s cloud business may get much of the attention for bolstering the company’s bottom line. But an emerging new advertising… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 5:16 PM TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 2:36 PM Amazon hiring slows in favor of internal reshuffling as headcount hits 575K Amazon’s headcount jumped to 575,700 people worldwide in the second quarter, but that figure isn’t rising as fast as it… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 1:21 PM Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent The world’s leading cloud infrastructure service continues to grow at a solid clip, with Amazon Web Services recording $6.1 billion… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 1:19 PM Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on sales Amazon came up a hair short on revenue expectations in the second quarter, but posted record profits, doubling Wall Street’s… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 10:25 AM Amazon aims to make it easier to play music on Echo speakers with new Alexa Cast feature Amazon is out with a new feature that makes it easier to control music on Echo smart speakers and other… Read More
Jul 26, 2018, 10:22 AM One of Amazon’s earliest investors has this advice for winning HQ2 city Nick Hanauer was the first outside investor in Amazon and he has watched the company transform its hometown, Seattle, over… Read More
Jul 25, 2018, 10:59 AM Amazon pays $1.5M to fund more public bus service around its Seattle HQ Amazon is paying $1.5 million to fund increased public bus service around its Seattle headquarters in South Lake Union. The… Read More
Jul 25, 2018, 10:49 AM The case for Amazon HQ2 in Toronto gets stronger amid Trump attacks and tech boom Amid a steady drumbeat of attacks from President Trump that probably don’t make Amazon feel particularly loyal to the leader… Read More
Jul 24, 2018, 9:32 AM Why Forbes took down that controversial op-ed calling for Amazon to replace public libraries Forbes has taken down a head-scratching opinion piece that makes the case for Amazon to take over public libraries after… Read More
Jul 23, 2018, 5:11 PM TLDR: Trump’s false claim about Amazon, teleporting holograms & Imagine Cup, balloon-powered internet service Today’s featured stories Trump falsely claims Amazon lost Supreme Court tax case in ongoing Washington Post tirade Teleporting holograms, a… Read More
Jul 23, 2018, 2:55 PM Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors Target is one of Google Cloud’s newest big customers, furthering a trend of major retailers opting to join up with… Read More
Jul 23, 2018, 12:00 PM With new equalizer feature, Amazon Echo devices get bass and treble control Amazon is giving users more control over their Echo smart speakers with a series of new commands to adjust bass,… Read More
Jul 23, 2018, 9:45 AM Amazon introduces new ‘Tap to Alexa’ accessibility feature for Echo Show Amazon has added a new accessibility feature to the touchscreen smart speaker Echo Show to help customers who are deaf… Read More
Jul 23, 2018, 9:07 AM Trump falsely claims Amazon lost Supreme Court tax case in ongoing Washington Post tirade President Donald Trump resumed his attacks on the “Amazon Washington Post” Monday morning, this time with a peculiar twist. Trump once… Read More
Jul 23, 2018, 8:50 AM Amazon and Techstars unveil 9 voice tech startups in the second Alexa accelerator cohort The Amazon Alexa accelerator today unveiled the nine companies in its second cohort. The startups hail from Seattle to Tel… Read More
Jul 20, 2018, 12:13 PM Amazon opening 1st distribution center in Eastern Washington, 4th overall in home state Amazon said it will open a fulfillment center in Spokane, Wash., the state’s second largest city. The 600,000-square-foot facility, which… Read More
Jul 20, 2018, 8:18 AM ‘It’s actually my favorite holiday’: Singer Demi Lovato plays to Amazon’s Prime crowd in Seattle Amazon’s latest Prime Day is in the books, and now so is the celebration for employees in Seattle. The tech… Read More
Jul 19, 2018, 12:51 PM Report: Amazon underestimated traffic demands for Prime Day, scrambled to add servers in hopes of fixing widespread glitches Even though it has the world’s leading cloud-computing service within the corporate family, Amazon engineers have to configure its retail… Read More
