It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on YouTube. The parody is absolutely hilarious (see below), with the… Read More
Amazon.com just reported quarterly profits significantly below Wall Street’s expectations, despite revenues that exceeded them, and the reason is spelled out in the employment data accompanying the report. The company… Read More
For many companies these days, the first instinct in a crisis is to turn to Twitter to get the message out and communicate with customers and other people affected by… Read More
BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations with Amazon.com’s lack of communication following the massive AWS outage.… Read More
Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And like most startups, we are braced for bad stuff to… Read More
Amazon.com plans to launch a new service later this year in which Kindle users can borrow digital books from 11,000 U.S. libraries. Dubbed Kindle Library Lending, the service will be… Read More
Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online gaming entrepreneur. DeWolfe’s profitable company, MindJolt, has made two recent… Read More
Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical divide over the Seattle company’s Cloud Drive music locker and… Read More
For many months there has been speculation that Amazon.com might ultimately give away its Kindle e-reader as a way of cementing its position in the market and selling more digital… Read More
Amazon.com’s Kindle just got cheaper for anyone willing to put up with some ads, or wanting to score some special deals. The Seattle company this afternoon announced a new, $114… Read More
Seeing news of Amazon’s Trekkie-themed corporate meeting is a reminder that CEO Jeff Bezos created an entity called Zefram LLC for his under-the-radar wealth management dealings, including the stealth acquisition… Read More
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos likes to preach the merits of customer service. And that near maniacal laser-focus has paid off. According to the Temkin Experience Ratings — which measures consumer… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul Allen’s autobiography, telling all about Bill Gates; Amazon.com’s effort to… Read More
The guys from Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell will be our guests on the next GeekWire Podcast. And it looks like they’ll have a lot to talk about, because they’ve been… Read More
First-day U.S. sales of the Nintendo 3DS set a new company record. Look next for aspirin shortages. The record labels weren’t happy with Amazon today. Cloud music guru Michael Robertson… Read More
Microsoft’s fight against Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store” took on new significance last week when Apple sued Amazon.com over its use of the phrase — and tried… Read More
Can Amazon.com knock Apple off its digital music perch? The Seattle online retailer sure is trying to make inroads against its larger rival, and the company’s latest effort is Cloud… Read More
Guest Commentary: The day of reckoning has arrived. Journalists and PR professionals have been holding their breath for 18 months, waiting for the New York Times to introduce its online… Read More
More and more people have been embracing daily deals, figuring out how to work within the rules and limitations to score sweet discounts from local merchants. The phenomenon has made… Read More
Cheap hydroelectric power continues to entice big technology companies to the Columbia River towns of the Pacific Northwest. Amazon.com — operating through its Vadata data center unit — is reportedly… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We look back on one of the biggest weeks we can remember in technology news, including AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Apple’s trademark… Read More
Who needs a novel when there are juicy court filings to read? When the news broke this week that Apple had filed a trademark suit against Amazon over the “App… Read More
Drugstore.com, the Bellevue online drugstore that survived the dot-com bust to become one of the leading online distributors of drugs, vitamins and beauty products, has agreed to be purchased by… Read More
The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood — sparked by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate — continues as Amazon.com and others move in to the former industrial zone on… Read More
Amazon.com this morning launched its new Appstore for Android, despite a last-minute lawsuit from Apple over the “App Store” trademark. The Seattle company is looking to entice customers with the… Read More
Electronic book lending service Lendle may be entering its last chapter. Amazon.com today revoked API access to the company, essentially killing a service once described as the “easiest, fastest, fairest,… Read More
Amazon.com has made a point of calling its upcoming mobile marketplace for Android an “Appstore,” as opposed to an “App Store.” So much for subtle distinctions. On the eve of… Read More
Amazon.com plans to unveil its much-anticipated Android app store on Tuesday, according to a report in Wired. There’s been plenty of speculation in recent weeks about the online retailer’s plans… Read More
Nice catch by the New York Times this morning: Amazon.com’s Lab 126, which develops the company’s Kindle e-reader, has posted a bunch of job openings for Android developers. Here’s the… Read More
Amazon.com last month announced that it was adding “real” page numbers to Kindle books — corresponding to the page numbers in print copies of the same titles. But how, exactly,… Read More
