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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

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GeekWire Podcast: iPhone tracking, Kindle lending, and a tech news extravaganza

This week’s GeekWire Podcast is a little different — a technology reporters’ roundtable featuring special guests Tricia Duryee of AllThingsD… Read More

Day 2: Amazon Web Services cites progress on cloud glitches, not everyone seeing it

As some sites continue to show signs of Amazon.com’s cloud computing glitches, the company updated its public Amazon Web Services… 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

Massive failure at Amazon Web Services causes havoc for Quora, Foursquare and others

Amazon.com is experiencing a serious outage this morning with its Elastic Compute Cloud and other Web services, causing downtime at… 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

Apple plans huge storage buy from Isilon: Could this be the backbone of its ‘media locker?’

Holy, Toledo. That was my reaction after reading a report in The Register that Apple has agreed to buy as… Read More

Mozy executive Russ Stockdale on VMware deal: ‘I’d classify it as a transfer of talent’

Mozy has built a big business around online backups. But most people don’t realize that the company’s headquarters is located… Read More

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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

Q&A: Rhapsody rebounding after RealNetworks spinoff

Rhapsody International, on its own now for a full year, has added more than 100,000 new subscribers over the past… Read More

Amazon Cloud Drive: What the critics, naysayers and fanboys say

Since its debut Monday night, Amazon.com’s new Cloud Drive music storage service has attracted plenty of attention. (Team GeekWire, in… 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

How Amazon added real page numbers to Kindle books

Amazon.com last month announced that it was adding “real” page numbers to Kindle books — corresponding to the page numbers… Read More

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