In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.(Amazon Photo)Amazon Prime members in more than 3,500 U.S. cities can now get free grocery delivery for orders over $35 — if they pay $9.99 per month. The service initially rolled out to select cities in December, and is now widely available. Prime members — who already pay $139 per year — can order online from Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh and select a one-hour delivery window ...

Amazon says its next-generation MK30 drone will start making deliveries later this year. (Amazon Photo)Amazon says it’s gearing up to add a community in Arizona to its list of Prime Air drone delivery zones.Later this year, customers in the West Valley region of the Phoenix metro area will be able to get their purchases via drones dispatched from Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery site in Tolleson, Ariz., the company said today.The West Valley region joins College Station in Texas as an Amazon drone delivery site. ...

Dilip Kumar, VP of AWS applications, at an Amazon event in 2022. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)Amazon’s grocery technology has been in the news a lot over the past couple of weeks, following layoffs in the Amazon Web Services group responsible for the company’s physical store checkout and identity services.The company is shifting away from “Just Walk Out” in its large grocery stores, which uses cameras and sensors to detect what people put in their carts, letting them avoid the checkout line. Instead, it’s ...

Tech workers from Google and Amazon alongside activists protested the tech giants’ cloud contract with Israel at a demonstration outside of Google offices in Seattle on April 16, 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)Google and Amazon workers held protests on Tuesday in Seattle and other tech hubs, demonstrating in opposition to the tech giants’ role in a cloud services contract with the Israeli government. About 50 workers and pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside Google’s Seattle offices in South Lake ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.Business and technology leader Andrew Ng was named to Amazon’s board Thursday. (Photo via Amazon)Amazon’s newest board member is Andrew Ng, a business and technology leader, serial startup founder, investor, and educator who specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and online education. Ng, who co-founded online education company Coursera, is managing general ...

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 ...