This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: the biggest Amazon stories of the year. Today’s featured stories Welcome… Read More
Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company’s backyard, GeekWire has learned. The store, the second in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, will be… Read More
In downtown Seattle, the land known as “Amazonia” is dense. And I didn’t know I was walking into it until I was already there. I’m not from the Seattle area,… Read More
Amazon is opening additional Amazon Go locations in Chicago and San Francisco as the company expands its cashier-less grocery store concept across the nation. The Seattle Times spotted job postings… Read More
A display technology that creates “parallel reality.” A machine learning platform that predicts when patients get sick. And a cashier-less convenience store. The Innovation of the Year category at the… Read More
Amazon powered its prolific 2017, which saw the release of a cavalcade of new products and services, with $22.6 billion in spending on research and development, tops among U.S. companies.… Read More
Amazon is going ahead with an expansion of its cashier-free convenience store concept Amazon Go, according to a report from Recode. Amazon plans to open as many as six additional… Read More
Amazon Go sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons: A fully automated convenience store that tracks what you grab off the shelves. No cashiers, no checkout lines. Plus, Microsoft… Read More
We’ve heard all about the technology that powers Amazon Go — and eliminates cashiers — but once you’ve swiped in, grabbed your items and walked out, is the food actually… Read More
The first Amazon Go store is finally open to the public today, and it looks like Amazon is just getting started with the cashier-free convenience store concept. Amazon has listed on… Read More
UPDATE, noon: There’s now a line of people around the block. See pictures below. A crowd of people lined up this morning in Seattle to be the first members of… Read More
Smartphone in hand, I stood inside the Amazon Go store and turned the screen over to scan a unique QR code into the top of the waist-high interior gateway. With… Read More
The first Amazon Go grocery and convenience store will open to the public Monday in Seattle — letting any person with an Amazon account, the Amazon Go app and a willingness… Read More
2017 has been the year of Amazon. On a Friday morning in June, the world woke up to the shocking news that Amazon had agreed to acquire Whole Foods Market… Read More
Walmart is reportedly working on several new high tech initiatives, as it continues to battle Amazon in both the physical and digital retail arenas. As first reported by Recode, Walmart… Read More
Amazon is building trendy artificial intelligence tools that can identify the latest fashion craze. MIT’s Technology Review reports that Amazon teams across the world are working on several tools to… Read More
Amazon is still tinkering with the checkout-free technology behind its Amazon Go retailer concept, but Palo Alto, Calif. startup Standard Cognition is moving to the front of the line, releasing… Read More
Walmart is deploying technology that allows shoppers to purchase items in-store without waiting in line or paying at a register, in a reminder to Amazon that competing with the giant… Read More
If Amazon Go ever really gets going with its ultra-convenient convenience store plan, it may be too late if Moby Mart becomes a rolling reality. NPR reported this week on… Read More
Amazon is creating a lot of unrest in the grocery world. The company has its fingers in many pots in a play for dominance in food retail. Amazon Go, a cashier-free… Read More
Longtime Zillow executive Chloe Harford is leaving the real estate tech company to join OfferUp as the company’s new vice president of product, GeekWire has learned. Harford was among Zillow’s first employees and… Read More
Amazon is still refining its checkout-free grocery experience, Amazon Go, but there are new signs that the online retail giant is eyeing expansion of the concept. In May, Amazon posted… Read More
Amazon last week trademarked several phrases that point to a possible international expansion of its checkout-free Amazon Go grocery concept. First spotted by Bloomberg, the filings show that the United… Read More
Boundless, a Seattle startup that aims to help people navigate the U.S. immigration process, has come out of stealth mode and announced $3.5 million in seed financing. The round was led… Read More
Aaron Holm was an important player in Amazon’s physical retail push. As a product manager, he worked on the company’s bookstores, of which there are now 10 planned or built,… Read More
Amazon offered a rare glimpse inside its culture on Tuesday at an entrepreneurship conference in Seattle — but also asked more than 600 attendees to keep the information shared by… Read More
Amazon is exploring the possibility of new retail outlets in categories including furniture, home appliances and electronics, according to a New York Times report, which cites unnamed people familiar with the company’s… Read More
Amazon Go, the online retailer’s “Just Walk Out” convenience store in downtown Seattle, is still in private beta mode three and a half months after its unveiling – and some… Read More
Tim Leiweke knows that Seattle is one of the nation’s most tech-savvy cities and his ideas for renovating Key Arena certainly reflect that. GeekWire on Thursday sat down with Leiweke,… Read More
UPDATE, March 16: The signs are up at the Ballard location, but covered. See pictures below. New permit documents reveal “AmazonFresh Pickup” as the planned concept for the next phase… Read More