Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. AWS is… Read More
Despite a growing list of challengers, Amazon remains the dominant force in the global smart speaker market, accounting for more than a third of all sales in the quarter, according… Read More
A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces in a new effort to boost cloud security by protecting… Read More
— Former Alibaba executive Michael Zeisser joined the board of directors at Seattle-based mobile marketplace OfferUp. “Very few consumer companies can build an ecosystem that includes millions of buyers, sellers,… Read More
Today’s featured stories Years after patenting the concept, Amazon admits putting workers in a cage would be a bad idea Updated: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma plans to retire after building… Read More
Almost 20 years after he founded Alibaba, the Amazon of China, Executive Chairman Jack Ma plans to retire to focus on philanthropy, according to a report. In an interview with… Read More
Kroger today announced a deal with Chinese tech giant Alibaba to sell groceries online in China as the U.S. chain continues to invest in new technology efforts as it battles… Read More
A legal battle over 3D-printed guns is heating up once again. Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a new lawsuit this week to prevent a Seattle-area group from publishing blueprints online… Read More
Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate apps and partner on delivery as coffee culture takes hold… Read More
Starbucks will integrate its online store and customer rewards program with Alibaba’s popular apps and online services, used by more than 500 million people in China, and launch a new delivery… Read More
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson appears to be planning something with China e-commerce giant Alibaba, chief rival to Amazon, the tech titan in Wilson’s hometown. Wilson tweeted a video from… Read More
Ofo has raised a massive $866 million in funding. The Beijing-based company operates millions of lemon-yellow dockless shared bicycles around the world. The round was led by China’s e-commerce giant… Read More
Machines can already outplay us in chess, poker and other games, and now they are becoming better readers as well. AI programs from both Microsoft and Alibaba outperformed humans earlier… Read More
AUSTIN – Two of the biggest cloud companies on the planet have agreed to support the work of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, adding their names to a list that… Read More
[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every week.] TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: Another… Read More
China’s Baidu is opening an engineering office in the Seattle region, giving the Beijing-based Internet powerhouse an additional U.S. outpost to expand its reach in artificial intelligence and the cloud.… Read More
The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new market share assessment released by Gartner Wednesday, and the overall… Read More
Alibaba, the China-based e-commerce giant determined to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, is coming out with its answer to the Echo smart speaker. The device will be powered by voice, an… Read More
Kicking off a week in which it plans to encourage American businesses to invest in China, Alibaba Group announced plans to give something back to the cloud computing community: Alibaba… Read More
Amazon has expanded its Prime subscription program to China in a move to compete with the country’s dominant e-commerce player Alibaba. Information on Prime in China first appeared on Amazon’s China website… Read More
Alibaba Pictures, the film and television arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is teaming up with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners to finance, produce, market and distribute films in China and… Read More
iPinYou, a Chinese company that automates programmatic digital ad buying through bidding algorithms, has opened a U.S. headquarters, and it has chosen to put it in Bellevue, Wash. Dr. Sara Ye, who has… Read More
Alibaba has moved its Seattle engineering office to Bellevue, the Chinese tech giant confirmed today. The Hangzhou, China-based company, which hosted a Technology Forum in downtown Bellevue on Saturday, employs 40 people… Read More
Amazon Web Services occupies the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s new “magic quadrant” report on worldwide public cloud storage services, which the research firm released yesterday. That placement denotes that, in… Read More
Amazon’s second Prime Day is off and running. As the clock struck midnight, some of the first big deals included TVs, video games and consoles and headphones. Amazon offered discounts on… Read More
The second Amazon Prime Day starts at midnight tonight, but you probably already knew that. The company has been making a big push to make sure this year’s Prime Day,… Read More
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., has appointed former longtime Microsoft executive Jingren Zhou as its chief scientist. Zhou will lead big-data and artificial… Read More
Alibaba’s film arm on Monday announced a new deal with Paramount Pictures, with the Chinese tech giant helping fund two new Hollywood movies: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his charm offensive in China this week, meeting with the country’s propaganda tsar and going on a controversial jog in the smog as part a long-term… Read More
Consumers in India trust Amazon’s brand more than any other web retailer, according to a survey of 2,500 people there. When it came to trust, Amazon inspired more of it… Read More