“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” Bill Gates wrote those words in a landmark open letter in February 1976, calling on personal computer hobbyists to stop stealing… Read More
Amazon’s direct workforce rose by 500,000 people in 2020 — that’s half a million people — to nearly 1.3 million employees. The extraordinary hiring, supporting the rapid expansion of Amazon’s… Read More
— Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as its first-ever chief technology officer. The Seattle startup operates an app that connects individuals and business to movers… Read More
What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of the economy and culture of a community? And what does the outcome say about the tech giant’s larger impact on the… Read More
The New York Times of 2019 is a different animal than the daily print newspaper that defined the publication for most of its life. Today, The Times is a multimedia… Read More
Amazon wants to pay some of the biggest names in American publishing to expand internationally. That’s according to Vox’s Peter Kafka. Sources tell him that Amazon has pitched the New… Read More
It may feel like animosity toward the media is at an all-time high, but the head of The New York Times newsroom says it’s nothing new. What has changed, according… Read More
When it comes to company culture, it’s a tale of two Amazons. There is the innovative, passionate Amazon where employees love coming to work to build awesome new products on… Read More
AUSTIN, TX. — Dean Baquet is gearing up for what he believes will be a historic few years for the journalism industry — in large part thanks to President Donald Trump.… Read More
Uber’s reputation is getting totaled in a full-scale pileup. In the latest damning report, the New York Times claims Uber has been using a tool called Greyball to systematically evade… Read More
The New York Times is partnering with music streaming giant Spotify to attract more readers. The two companies today announced a deal that will give NYT readers who pay for its $25 per… Read More
We’ll be kicking off the 2016 GeekWire Summit next Tuesday morning, Oct. 4, with something new: a panel of veteran technology journalists discussing the biggest trends and hottest news in the… Read More
What defines the millennial generation? Some say technology, as the first wave of digital natives. Others say numbers — babies of the baby boomers comprise the nation’s most populous generation. But… Read More
It goes without saying that Paul Allen and Bill Gates had an enormous impact on Seattle. But their influence on the region goes beyond Microsoft and the startup and venture… Read More
The Washington Post has hired Margaret Sullivan, the former public editor for The New York Times and the person who criticized the paper’s controversial exposé last year of Amazon. Sullivan, who… Read More
We all know that virtual reality will revolutionize entertainment and gaming, but the Associated Press launched a video series today that shows that the technology is also a powerful storytelling tool… Read More
Paul Allen is following in the footsteps of legendary philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, but is doing so in a way that’s unique to the passions and interests… Read More
Updated below with response from The New York Times, which stands by its story and says former employee Bo Olson disputes Amazon’s portrayal of his departure. A former Amazon employee who… Read More
Almost anyone who has worked for Amazon seems to agree it has high standards, but there’s still one big question lingering around the company’s Seattle headquarters: What does that mean… Read More
The mysterious group that authored the “Amazonian Manifesto” to urge changes in Amazon’s workplace culture has hired a marketing company to get the message out to employees on the Amazon campus. The group, led by an anonymous… Read More
Amazon’s official 14 leadership principles start off with a call to obsess about the customer. But what about obsessing about the employee? That’s #2 on an alternative list of seven… Read More
More than a week after the New York Times published its behind-the-scenes look at Amazon’s “bruising” workplace, the debate continues over the story and the company’s corporate culture. Although it’s clear… Read More
Last month, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak and hundreds of others wrote a letter that detailed their concerns for autonomous weapons controlled by robots. That begged the question: Should everyday… Read More
The New York Times’ investigation into Amazon’s allegedly “bruising” culture is quickly becoming one of the newspaper’s most talked about stories in recent history, with a record-breaking 5,775 comments on the article as of… Read More
Two very different pictures of Amazon emerged this weekend: One from the New York Times’ story depicting Amazon’s company culture, and another from CEO Jeff Bezos’ response to that article.… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This post by Amazon employee Nick Ciubotariu, Head of Infrastructure Development, Amazon.com Search Experience, is reprinted here with the author’s permission. It’s a response to the the New York… Read More
Starbucks is expanding its partnership with The New York Times to offer its loyalty rewards members access to news articles. The coffee giant announced today that its 10 million My… Read More
If you work for the New York Times and try to view the site on a desktop this week, you’ll be out of luck. The Gray Lady announced via assistant… Read More
Apologies if you get nothing else done today. The New York Times Bits “Robotica” series might just suck you in. The video series, which is five episodes in, focuses on… Read More
Facebook is offering publishers a new way to get in front of its billion-plus users through a new feature launching today called “Instant Articles.” For consumers, the goal is to… Read More