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AWS Seattle Meetup: re:Invent Recap

by Todd Bishop on November 21, 2018November 21, 2018 at 1:25 pmComment

AWS re:Invent 2018 takes place the last week in November. If you’re unable to attend, don’t worry! At this Meetup, AWS Technical Evangelists AM Grobelny and Nicki Klein will provide… Read More

Amazon unveils new service to mine and decode medical records using artificial intelligence

by Clare McGrane on November 27, 2018November 30, 2018 at 8:18 amComment

Sorting through and analyzing medical records is incredibly time-consuming, limiting the ability of patients, doctors and administrators to make connections and fully grasp data. But technology giant Amazon is hoping to… Read More

Amazon launches ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ program to support computer science education

by Frank Catalano on November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 at 1:10 pm1 Comment

Amazon is officially launching a new program it calls “Amazon Future Engineer,” a broad, community-based push into schools and education that represents a renewed emphasis on education, an area in… Read More

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How to Build a Modern Web Application Workshop

by Todd Bishop on September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 at 3:55 pmComment

Learn how to build a modern application in this guided workshop. Join Nicki and AM for a brief introduction to the concepts of modern app development, step-by-step instructions to build… Read More

Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise

by Taylor Soper on September 5, 2018September 6, 2018 at 10:45 amComment

Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations… Read More

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TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle

by Starla Sampaco on July 26, 2018July 26, 2018 at 5:16 pmComment

Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on sale Trump targets Twitter, his favorite communication platform, following reports… Read More

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TLDR: MLB commentary with robots, flying cars, facial recognition in schools

by Starla Sampaco on July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 at 3:58 pmComment

Today’s featured stories MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots Agent 007 James Bond’s next ride? Flying cars grab Farnborough Airshow’s spotlight… Read More

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MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots

by Taylor Soper on July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 at 3:58 pmComment

Deeper stats, predicted pitches, and live commentary produced by robots in the voice of iconic announcers — it could all be coming to Major League Baseball broadcasts soon. MLB re-upped… Read More

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Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

by Kaitlyn Wang on July 5, 2018July 5, 2018 at 4:45 pmComment

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes based on the talks, panels and fireside chats as they’re… Read More

Hear how Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile and PitchBook build hybrid cloud infrastructures at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

by Tom Krazit on June 22, 2018June 27, 2018 at 6:16 amComment

More and more companies have realized that the cloud is a journey, not necessarily a destination. Once it becomes clear that approach makes the most sense for your company and… Read More

Which president or first lady do you look like? Amazon helps provide answer in White House app

by Kurt Schlosser on June 5, 2018June 5, 2018 at 10:09 pmComment

Amazon is helping to power a new app which offers virtual tours of the White House as well as a unique experience that will match a user’s selfie with the… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit early-bird pricing ends Friday — register today

by Tom Krazit on May 17, 2018May 17, 2018 at 10:37 amComment

There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which will showcase some of the top leaders in cloud computing… Read More

Tech Moves: Concur co-founder Mike Hilton joins Apptentive board; Samsung cloud leader lands at AWS; and more

by Clare McGrane on January 16, 2018January 15, 2018 at 9:40 pmComment

Mike Hilton, the longtime Seattle tech executive best known as the co-founder of expense management company Concur, has signed onto the board of directors of mobile tech startup Apptentive, the… Read More

Tech Moves: Uber taps former Orbitz CEO as COO; Longtime AWS leader goes to Zendesk

by Clare McGrane on December 21, 2017December 22, 2017 at 11:45 am 2 Comments

Former Orbitz CEO and longtime Seattle technology leader Barney Harford has been named the COO of Uber, marking yet another Seattle leader who has joined the embattled ride-hailing company. Former… Read More

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

by Taylor Soper on December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 at 8:12 am1 Comment

Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans who watched Thursday Night Football this season on Amazon. But… Read More

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Amazon partners with NFL; Brooks uses biomechanics for new shoes; and more from this week in sports tech

by Taylor Soper on December 1, 2017December 1, 2017 at 1:35 pm1 Comment

[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every week.] TAYLOR’S TAKE ON THE WEEK IN SPORTS TECH: Amazon Web… Read More

Report: Amazon to unveil ‘Alexa for Business,’ expanding voice assistant into workplace

by Todd Bishop on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 5:17 pm 2 Comments

Amazon is preparing to bring its Alexa voice-based assistant into the workplace, according to a report by CNBC this afternoon. The news could be announced as early as Thursday at… Read More

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Amazon continues sports push, partners with NFL to power ‘Next Gen Stats’ with AWS

by Taylor Soper on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 12:33 pm1 Comment

The National Football League is tapping Amazon Web Services to help power its “Next Gen Stats” platform. The NFL announced Wednesday that it will use machine learning and data analytics… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers

by Taylor Soper on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 11:18 am 2 Comments

Amazon’s newest hardware product is meant to help developers run deep learning and image recognition models directly from a video camera. At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands cloud business with NFL, Expedia, and Disney deals

by Todd Bishop on November 29, 2017November 29, 2017 at 8:55 amComment

Amazon Web Services, aiming to boost its reach among big corporate customers, announced major expansions of its relationships with the National Football League, Walt Disney Company and Expedia this morning.… Read More

Amazon moves into AR and VR with ‘Sumerian’ service to create 3D scenes for Oculus, Vive, iOS, Android

by Todd Bishop on November 27, 2017November 27, 2017 at 6:45 amComment

Amazon Web Services made the first major announcement of its re:Invent cloud conference in Las Vegas overnight: a new service called Sumerian that the company touts as the “fastest and… Read More

‘Alexa, tell me about my blood glucose:’ Health tech startup Wellpepper wins Alexa Diabetes Challenge

by Clare McGrane on October 16, 2017October 15, 2017 at 6:21 pmComment

Type 2 Diabetes has become a health crisis in the U.S. The rate of type 2 diabetes has nearly doubled in the last twenty years and the disease is now… Read More

Amazon Web Services shakes up cloud pricing with per-second billing

by Todd Bishop on September 18, 2017September 18, 2017 at 4:43 pmComment

Pay by the hour for cloud computing? That’s so last decade. Amazon Web Services today announced a new pricing structure that lets users pay by the second for Linux instances… Read More

Zillow shifts Zestimate home valuation tool to the cloud, claims better accuracy than ever

by Nat Levy on August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 at 1:32 pmComment

As thousands of scientists work to improve Zillow’s Zestimate, the company said today its home valuation tool is more accurate than it has ever been. Zillow said it released a… Read More

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

by Nat Levy on August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 at 10:45 amComment

Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to postings on its jobs website. “This effort is in direct… Read More

Amazon brings the boom to Bellevue: Here are the teams expanding into the tech giant’s big new office

by Nat Levy on August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 at 5:24 pmComment

Amazon is staffing up its big new Bellevue, Wash. office building, which looks ready for the coming deluge of badge-wearing, coffee-toting techies. Amazon’s jobs site shows 85 open positions in… Read More

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Week in Geek: Everything we know about Microsoft’s layoffs and Redfin’s IPO announcement

by Clare McGrane on July 8, 2017July 7, 2017 at 3:34 pmComment

It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First up: Microsoft finally confirmed a big sales reorganization that will cut… Read More

Tech Moves: Syntonic appoints AT&T, Sprint exec as chairman; former AWS engineering director leading new Russian cloud service

by Clare McGrane on July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 at 1:23 pm 4 Comments

Syntonic, a Seattle-based mobile services startup, announced a new chairman of the board Thursday: former AT&T and Sprint executive Steve Elfman. Elfman has a storied career in the mobile world, including… Read More

Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building?

by Nat Levy on June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 at 11:03 am1 Comment

Amazon is building a new “two pizza team” within Amazon Web Services focused on mixed-reality technology, another sign that the cloud powerhouse is expanding its reach and branching out into… Read More

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Week in Geek: Why Amazon is suing a former AWS exec, former Swype CEO’s new venture, and more

by Clare McGrane on June 17, 2017June 17, 2017 at 3:56 amComment

It was a busy week for Amazon: on Friday, the company announced plans to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, it’s the biggest acquisition yet. But before that news broke,… Read More

Amazon unveils new service to mine and decode medical records using artificial intelligence

Amazon launches ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ program to support computer science education

How to Build a Modern Web Application Workshop

Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise

TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle

TLDR: MLB commentary with robots, flying cars, facial recognition in schools

MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots

Which president or first lady do you look like? Amazon helps provide answer in White House app

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit early-bird pricing ends Friday — register today

Tech Moves: Concur co-founder Mike Hilton joins Apptentive board; Samsung cloud leader lands at AWS; and more

Tech Moves: Uber taps former Orbitz CEO as COO; Longtime AWS leader goes to Zendesk

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

Amazon partners with NFL; Brooks uses biomechanics for new shoes; and more from this week in sports tech

Report: Amazon to unveil ‘Alexa for Business,’ expanding voice assistant into workplace

Amazon continues sports push, partners with NFL to power ‘Next Gen Stats’ with AWS

Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers

Amazon Web Services expands cloud business with NFL, Expedia, and Disney deals

Amazon moves into AR and VR with ‘Sumerian’ service to create 3D scenes for Oculus, Vive, iOS, Android

‘Alexa, tell me about my blood glucose:’ Health tech startup Wellpepper wins Alexa Diabetes Challenge

Amazon Web Services shakes up cloud pricing with per-second billing

Zillow shifts Zestimate home valuation tool to the cloud, claims better accuracy than ever

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon brings the boom to Bellevue: Here are the teams expanding into the tech giant’s big new office

Tech Moves: Syntonic appoints AT&T, Sprint exec as chairman; former AWS engineering director leading new Russian cloud service

Amazon Web Services quietly forms a mixed reality team, but what is it building?

Week in Geek: Why Amazon is suing a former AWS exec, former Swype CEO’s new venture, and more

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