Teamsters leaders including Sean O’Brien, general president of the union, brought their campaign to organize Amazon warehouse and logistics workers to the company’s doorstep in Seattle this afternoon. A large… Read More
There’s a common theme running through some of Amazon’s announcements at its annual conference for sellers in Seattle this week: a growing focus on e-commerce sites and distribution channels beyond… Read More
Amazon is continuing to leave return-to-work decisions in the hands of group and team leaders and not, at this point, planning a widespread requirement for engineers and corporate employees to… Read More
Jay Carney, a former White House press secretary under President Obama, will leave his role as Amazon’s senior vice president of global corporate affairs to become Airbnb’s global head of… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy addressed the news that the company is losing two of its most senior Black executives, including the only Black executive among its senior leadership group, commonly… Read More
Doug Herrington, a veteran of Amazon’s consumer business, will be promoted to the new role of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores following the departure of top consumer exec Dave Clark.… Read More
Dave Clark, an Amazon veteran of more than 23 years, and the CEO of the company’s worldwide consumer business for the past 18 months, could have been referring to more… Read More
One of Amazon’s longtime leaders, Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark, is leaving the company to pursue unspecified “other opportunities” in an abrupt exit from the tech giant’s executive ranks. Amazon… Read More
Addressing the issue of warehouse worker safety in response to a shareholder question this week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy described the company’s safety initiatives — most of them related to… Read More
New numbers reveal an undercurrent of Amazon shareholder opposition to the company’s board and management on issues including executive pay, the environment, and working conditions. In a regulatory filing Friday… Read More
After doubling its fulfillment capacity and hiring hundreds of thousands of workers to meet demand during the pandemic, Amazon is determined to get costs under control and return its consumer… Read More
One year ago, the last question put to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during his final shareholder meeting as the company’s CEO was an important one. It was, in essence: Has… Read More
Calling him a “great leader” with “incredible intellectual capacity and curiosity,” former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer heaps praise on Andy Jassy in a new issue of Time, in which the… Read More
Amazon added warehouse space faster than it ultimately needed in response to the challenges of the pandemic, outpacing consumer sales and resulting in an extra $2 billion in costs in… Read More
Andy Jassy published his first-ever annual shareholders letter as Amazon’s chief Thursday morning, taking over a tradition long-held by founder Jeff Bezos. As part of the letter, Jassy addressed employee… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s total compensation for 2021, including his first six months as the tech giant’s chief executive, was more than $212 million, Amazon reported in its annual proxy… Read More
Billionaire Jeff Bezos missed out on his usual chauffeuring duties at the West Texas launch orchestrated today by his Blue Origin space venture, but he had a good excuse: He… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has landed on the cover of Time as the magazine released its second annual list of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the world on Wednesday.… Read More
An Amazon stock split has long been on shareholders’ wish list, promising to make the company’s shares more affordable for individual investors. But it took Amazon more than two decades… Read More
Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week, Ashley Stewart, is a Seattle-based senior tech correspondent for Insider who reports on Microsoft and Amazon. She and her colleagues reported on… Read More
Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from $160,000 previously, as part of an overall increase in total compensation intended to help recruit… Read More
Looking at GeekWire’s most-read stories for 2021, this series of headlines stands out as a symbol of the past year, not just for Amazon but for the world at large.… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Amazon is poised to transform a major swath of this city, much as the company reshaped Seattle during the past 15 years. But the tech giant’s approach… Read More
Amazon has spent billions of dollars to expand its fulfillment capacity and develop its own package delivery network in recent years — seeking to avoid a repeat of the holiday… Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis and other hallmarks of… Read More
Amazon’s profits plunged to $3.2 billion in the third quarter, dropping by nearly half year-over-year, and CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders to brace for more of the same in the… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says online sellers should consider the implications of U.S. antitrust legislation that could force the company to divest its third-party marketplace — warning that there could… Read More
Citing news reports indicating that Amazon gamed its marketplace to favor its own products, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Seattle and four of her colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start his new job leading a newly formed cybersecurity engineering organization… Read More
[Updated below with additional details from internal FAQ.] Amazon no longer plans to bring corporate employees back to the office en masse in early January but will instead leave the… Read More