The produce section inside the Amazon Fresh grocery store on Capitol Hill in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Amazon is closing its Fresh grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, the company confirmed Wednesday, saying that the company will focus on redesigned stores with an expanded selection.The last day of business for the store at 610 E. Pike St. will be Sunday.The Seattle Times first reported the news, citing an all-hands meeting for store employees that took place on Wednesd ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MOREThe message to LinkedIn users during an outage on the platform on Wednesday. (Screen shot via LinkedIn.com)So much for my after-lunch job search and profile lurking.A day after a Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, LinkedIn suffered a similar fate on Wednesday, as the social media platform for business professionals went down.“An error has occurred,” read a m ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaking at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. in 2018. (Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Photo / Gary Cameron)Jeff Bezos sold nearly 12 million Amazon shares, his first sale of the company’s stock since 2021, for a total of more than $2 billion, according to a regulatory filing.It’s part of a plan to sell up to 50 million shares during a period ending in January 2025, under a trading plan adopted by Bezos on Nov. 8, 2023, as disclosed in Amazon’s annual 10-K filing last week. ...

Xbox is bigger than Windows.Revenue from Microsoft’s video-game business surpassed its Windows division for the first time in the December quarter, with a big boost from the company’s $69 billion acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard. That’s one of the takeaways from numbers included in Microsoft’s 10-Q filing with the SEC in conjunction with its earnings report Tuesday afternoon for the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal year: Gaming revenue increased 50% to $7.1 billion, which included more t ...