The fur is flying in the broadband internet satellite race. It all started when we found out that Amazon was planning its own 3,236-satellite constellation to provide global internet access.… Read More
In a non-descript, four-story building, around the corner from Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once sat in a tiny office with stained carpets. His view from… Read More
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have finalized their divorce. The Amazon CEO will receive 75 percent of the couple’s Amazon shares and retain voting authority for remaining shares owned by MacKenzie… Read More
The richest people in the world are putting some of their fortunes toward finding a better way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Bill Gates and Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are backing… Read More
The Saudi government hacked into Jeff Bezos’ phone and accessed private information, according to new details shared by the Amazon CEO’s security consultant. Gavin de Becker, who works as an… Read More
Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of “The Expanse,” the science-fiction jewel in Amazon’s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin’s… Read More
Every year, Amazon and Jeff Bezos hold an elite, invitation-only conference called MARS, for Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space, which doubles as an excuse for the Amazon founder to test out the latest… Read More
Find someone who looks at you the way Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looks at the robotic dragonfly that’s buzzing around his head at this week’s MARS conference. MARS is Amazon’s… Read More
Which is more viral, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos getting buzzed by a robotic dragonfly, or Bezos buzzing in Lift Aircraft’s Hexa passenger drone? Those are just a couple of today’s… Read More
More details have emerged about the public spat between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer. The Wall Street Journal published a new report Monday evening revealing that Michael… Read More
We’re preparing for the GeekWire Awards, our annual event recognizing the best in Pacific Northwest tech and innovation, coming up May 2 at MoPOP in Seattle. On this episode of… Read More
This story has been updated with comments from Brad Stone. One of the first authors to pull back the veil on notoriously mysterious Amazon is back at it, working on… Read More
Amazon didn’t have to look very far for one of the biggest headliners due to appear at re:MARS, the Seattle-based company’s open-to-the-public event focusing on artificial intelligence and other tech… Read More
When he gathers Amazon employees for an all-hands meeting, Jeff Bezos is probably used to trying to convey what’s on his mind and where the company is headed. Last week… Read More
“Momazonians” at Amazon want their company to step up when it comes to providing backup daycare services for their children. Bloomberg reported Monday that a group of more than 1,800… Read More
Amazon spent more than a year looking for its “HQ2,” planning to establish a second headquarters equal to its Seattle home, before surprising everybody by instead splitting the giant project… Read More
Silicon Valley might have the HP Garage, but Seattle has the Amazon Mailbox. Amazon’s first home, a residential property at 10704 N.E. 28th St. in Bellevue, Wash., was listed for… Read More
If Jeff Bezos was looking to wind down after his interesting news week with the distraction of a little late-night comedy television, well, “Saturday Night Live” probably wasn’t the place… Read More
One of the most fascinating things about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is that building one of the world’s most successful companies was merely a first step. He founded a space… Read More
Updated below with American Media Inc. statement. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has published a remarkable new response in his ongoing feud with the National Enquirer, accusing the publication and its… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ security chief has a theory that would explain how a supermarket tabloid obtained intimate text messages between the Amazon CEO and the woman he’s been seeing. It’s a… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t show up in his company’s latest Super Bowl ad for Alexa. But his message was heard through a powerful ad for one of his other… Read More
Amazon appears to have found its next area for e-commerce expansion: the Middle East. CNBC reports that Amazon has been reaching out to large third-party sellers in North America, telling… Read More
Jeff Bezos is the richest person on earth. He amassed the world’s largest individual fortune largely thanks to his shares in Amazon, the e-commerce giant he started more than two… Read More
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent eight NASA-sponsored scientific payloads to the edge of space and back on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, marking another step toward… Read More
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person and the founder of Amazon as well as the Blue Origin space venture, defended his billion-dollar-a-year expense on space travel here… Read More
She was an aspiring fiction writer with an audacious start along that path. She pursued creative writing at Princeton, and studied and worked as a research assistant for Nobel prize-winning… Read More
We’re back! John Cook, Monica Nickelsburg and Todd Bishop get the GeekWire Podcast rolling for 2019 with our weekly news discussion, exploring the potential implications of Jeff Bezos’ divorce for… Read More
If creating and running a successful business isn’t challenging enough for many entrepreneurs, it can be mind-boggling to think about what it takes to do that and maintain a healthy… Read More
Although the passing of a loved one and the dissolution of a marriage are deeply personal experiences, they inevitably raise questions for the broader community when they occur in the… Read More