Jeff Bezos to shareholders: ‘Invention is in our DNA’ It’s been a tough few days for Amazon.com. The Seattle online retailer took a PR beating after a massive outage… Read More
Geek humor: How Adolf Hitler would have reacted to the Amazon Web Services outage It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on… Read More
Amazon.com profits tank as company adds whopping 4,200 employees in one quarter Amazon.com just reported quarterly profits significantly below Wall Street’s expectations, despite revenues that exceeded them, and the reason is spelled… Read More
AWS outage: Mum’s the tweet For many companies these days, the first instinct in a crisis is to turn to Twitter to get the message… Read More
‘Amazon should be the one apologizing,’ and other comments of the week BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations… Read More
Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And… Read More
Amazon introduces library lending for Kindle books Amazon.com plans to launch a new service later this year in which Kindle users can borrow digital books from 11,000… Read More
Jeff Bezos-backed Social Gaming Network sells out to Chris DeWolfe’s new gig, MindJolt Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online… Read More
Amazon tells music labels it doesn’t need their permission for Cloud Drive, yet Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical… Read More
Free Kindle? Don’t count on it For many months there has been speculation that Amazon.com might ultimately give away its Kindle e-reader as a way of… Read More
Kindle for Cheapskates: Amazon debuts $114 e-reader, with ads and deals Amazon.com’s Kindle just got cheaper for anyone willing to put up with some ads, or wanting to score some special… Read More
Is Bezos’ Starship Enterprise a French-Built Luxury Jet? Seeing news of Amazon’s Trekkie-themed corporate meeting is a reminder that CEO Jeff Bezos created an entity called Zefram LLC… Read More
Report: Amazon.com is the best at ‘customer experience’ Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos likes to preach the merits of customer service. And that near maniacal laser-focus has paid off.… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1 This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More
Hey developers: Forget the cheeseburgers, have a LOLcat The guys from Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell will be our guests on the next GeekWire Podcast. And it looks like… Read More
Nightly Notes: Nintendo 3DS, Amazon’s Scratchpad, Android, Space Shuttles and spam First-day U.S. sales of the Nintendo 3DS set a new company record. Look next for aspirin shortages. The record labels… Read More
Microsoft uses Amazon to bolster Apple ‘App Store’ fight Microsoft’s fight against Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store” took on new significance last week when Apple sued… Read More
Amazon unveils Cloud Drive, a cloud-based online music service Can Amazon.com knock Apple off its digital music perch? The Seattle online retailer sure is trying to make inroads against… Read More
NYT paywall: Time to buy the cow; the milk’s no longer free Guest Commentary: The day of reckoning has arrived. Journalists and PR professionals have been holding their breath for 18 months,… Read More
Groupon, LivingSocial challenged over terms of daily deals More and more people have been embracing daily deals, figuring out how to work within the rules and limitations to… Read More
Amazon expanding data center operations in Oregon Cheap hydroelectric power continues to entice big technology companies to the Columbia River towns of the Pacific Northwest. Amazon.com —… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: AT&T, T-Mobile and a wild week in tech This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We look back on one of the biggest weeks we can remember in technology… Read More
Weekend Reading: Apple vs. Amazon.com, the full text Who needs a novel when there are juicy court filings to read? When the news broke this week that Apple… Read More
Walgreens to buy drugstore.com for $429 million Drugstore.com, the Bellevue online drugstore that survived the dot-com bust to become one of the leading online distributors of drugs,… Read More
Traffic, techies and South Lake Union’s transformation The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood — sparked by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate — continues as Amazon.com… Read More
Amazon.com opens its Android ‘Appstore,’ Apple be damned Amazon.com this morning launched its new Appstore for Android, despite a last-minute lawsuit from Apple over the “App Store” trademark. … Read More
Did Amazon just kill Lendle? Electronic book lending service Lendle may be entering its last chapter. Amazon.com today revoked API access to the company, essentially… Read More
Apple suing Amazon.com over “Appstore” name Amazon.com has made a point of calling its upcoming mobile marketplace for Android an “Appstore,” as opposed to an “App… Read More
Wired: Amazon’s Android app store set to debut Tuesday Amazon.com plans to unveil its much-anticipated Android app store on Tuesday, according to a report in Wired. There’s been plenty… Read More
Look out, Amazon’s Kindle unit is hiring Android devs Nice catch by the New York Times this morning: Amazon.com’s Lab 126, which develops the company’s Kindle e-reader, has posted… Read More
