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Amazon Go

TLDR: Will Scener reinvent TV?

Today’s featured stories Born inside RealNetworks, Scener is a new Twitch-like commentary platform for streaming media Fresh patents served up… Read More

Fresh patents served up for the smart shelf technologies seen in Amazon Go stores

Amazon has just opened a third Seattle location that makes use of its cashierless Amazon Go grocery shopping concept —… Read More

Third Amazon Go location opens a week after second store, accelerating Amazon’s quest to end grocery checkout lines

Amazon today debuted the third location of its checkout-less grocery concept Amazon Go, the second store opening in a week.… Read More

TLDR: New Amazon Go store in Seattle, mass shooting at Florida esports tournament, new Xbox subscription service

Today’s featured stories Amazon makes another Go of checkout-free retail: Here’s what’s different inside latest Seattle location Mass shooting at… Read More

Amazon makes another Go of checkout-free retail: Here’s what’s different inside latest Seattle location

The second location of the Amazon Go checkout-free concept is here, and while the store didn’t feature too many significant… Read More

Second Amazon Go store opens in Seattle with further expansion on the horizon

Amazon has opened the second location of its checkout-less grocery concept Amazon Go in Seattle. The store, first discovered by… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

How Amazon’s expanding U.S. brick-and-mortar footprint stacks up against other big retailers

Amazon’s rapidly growing brick-and-mortar footprint — including a second Amazon Go store opening in Seattle this fall — has already… Read More

TLDR Editor’s Picks: GeekWire’s top Amazon stories of the year (so far)

This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: the… Read More

Revealed: Amazon Go’s new Seattle location signals tech giant’s growing ambitions for checkout-free retail concept

Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company’s backyard, GeekWire has learned. The… Read More

We sent GeekWire’s summer intern on an Amazon HQ tour, and it was an eye-opening experience

In downtown Seattle, the land known as “Amazonia” is dense. And I didn’t know I was walking into it until… Read More

Amazon Go to open in Chicago and San Francisco, expanding cashier-less store footprint

Amazon is opening additional Amazon Go locations in Chicago and San Francisco as the company expands its cashier-less grocery store… Read More

Vote for Innovation of the Year: Cashier-less store, synthetic biology, ‘parallel reality,’ and more

A display technology that creates “parallel reality.” A machine learning platform that predicts when patients get sick. And a cashier-less… Read More

Amazon spent close to $23B on R&D in 2017, outpacing fellow tech giants

Amazon powered its prolific 2017, which saw the release of a cavalcade of new products and services, with $22.6 billion… Read More

Report: Amazon eyes additional Amazon Go stores in Seattle and Los Angeles

Amazon is going ahead with an expansion of its cashier-free convenience store concept Amazon Go, according to a report from… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: The tech behind Amazon Go, Xbox Game Pass ups the ante, and a chance to win an in-car Alexa device

Amazon Go sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons: A fully automated convenience store that tracks what you grab… Read More

How’s the food at Amazon Go? We tested out the tech giant’s foray into sandwich making

We’ve heard all about the technology that powers Amazon Go — and eliminates cashiers — but once you’ve swiped in,… Read More

As Amazon Go makes its public debut, job postings point to future expansion

The first Amazon Go store is finally open to the public today, and it looks like Amazon is just getting started… Read More

Amazon Go automated retail store handles a crowd on opening morning — and the only line was outside

UPDATE, noon: There’s now a line of people around the block. See pictures below. A crowd of people lined up… Read More

Hands-on with Amazon Go: We tested the tech giant’s experiment in checkout-free retail

Smartphone in hand, I stood inside the Amazon Go store and turned the screen over to scan a unique QR… Read More

Amazon Go is finally a go: Sensor-infused store opens to the public Monday, with no checkout lines

The first Amazon Go grocery and convenience store will open to the public Monday in Seattle — letting any person with… Read More

Amazon HQ

Amazon’s epic year: 5 biggest storylines from 2017, and what to watch in 2018

2017 has been the year of Amazon. On a Friday morning in June, the world woke up to the shocking… Read More

Walmart reportedly developing Amazon Go rival and text message shopping service

Walmart is reportedly working on several new high tech initiatives, as it continues to battle Amazon in both the physical… Read More

Report: Amazon building fashionable AI that can quickly spot and reproduce the latest trends

Amazon is building trendy artificial intelligence tools that can identify the latest fashion craze. MIT’s Technology Review reports that Amazon… Read More

This Bay Area startup is arming retailers with the technology to take on Amazon Go

Amazon is still tinkering with the checkout-free technology behind its Amazon Go retailer concept, but Palo Alto, Calif. startup Standard… Read More

Walmart cuts in front of Amazon Go with app that lets shoppers check out without lines or registers

Walmart is deploying technology that allows shoppers to purchase items in-store without waiting in line or paying at a register,… Read More

Moby Mart

Will convenience go further than Amazon? Moby Mart is a rolling store that comes to you

If Amazon Go ever really gets going with its ultra-convenient convenience store plan, it may be too late if Moby… Read More

Video: French grocer parodies Amazon Go, claiming checkout-free shopping is nothing new

Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Zillow exec Chloe Harford finds new home at OfferUp; Exec in charge of Amazon Go joins Opendoor; etc.

Longtime Zillow executive Chloe Harford is leaving the real estate tech company to join OfferUp as the company’s new vice president of… Read More

Amazon Go job posting points to potential expansion of checkout-free retail concept

Amazon is still refining its checkout-free grocery experience, Amazon Go, but there are new signs that the online retail giant… Read More

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