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j allard

Illustration: Amazon Leo network connections creating a web around Earth

Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds

When news emerged this week that Amazon is working on a new smartphone, the reflexive reaction was obvious: Didn’t they already try this? But dismissing the effort as a sequel to the Fire Phone disaster misses the point. Read More

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Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after… Read More

Report: Amazon is making another phone, this time for the AI era

Amazon is developing a new smartphone codenamed “Transformer,” led by the same devices unit behind Alexa, with a focus on AI integration and mobile personalization, Reuters reports. Read More

Amazon has a secretive new hardware group led by former Xbox leader J Allard

New job postings shed more light on what J Allard is up to at Amazon. GeekWire reported in October that… Read More

Former Microsoft Xbox leader J Allard joins Amazon in latest surprise career twist

J Allard, Amazon VP? Yes, it’s true, according to the former Microsoft Xbox leader’s LinkedIn profile, which was updated Tuesday… Read More

Xbox co-founder J Allard left Intellivision after short stint, hints at project with gaming vet brother

J Allard, the onetime Microsoft executive who was a co-founder of Xbox, left Intellivision Entertainment last year, shortly after joining… Read More

Microsoft Xbox legend J Allard gets back in the game, joining Intellivision for new console launch

J Allard is back in the game. The onetime Microsoft executive, who was a co-founder of Xbox and a force… Read More

529 garage app

Bicycle security startup Project 529, led by former Xbox exec J Allard, acquires National Bike Registry

Project 529, the Seattle-based startup that aims to curb what it calls an epidemic of bicycle theft in North America, announced Tuesday… Read More

Meet Project 529: A bike security software startup led by Xbox co-founder J Allard

J Allard knows first-hand how miserable it can be to try and recover a stolen bicycle. Now the Xbox co-founder… Read More

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