Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 30, 2022.
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Amazon raises price of Prime membership by $20 to $139/year
Amazon is upping the price of Prime, increasing the annual fee of its membership from $119/year to $139/year. … Read More
Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise
Now that the dust has settled, we can ask how could the smart and savvy team at Zillow Group, armed with cutting-edge AI methods and mountains of data, lose half a billion dollars buying homes in the second half of 2021. … Read More
Inside Russell Wilson and Ciara’s new fashion store in Seattle, where tech and sustainability are key
Russell Wilson and Ciara have brought their fashion sense to one of Seattle’s most exclusive shopping destinations, opening the first store for their company, The House of LR&C, at University Village. … Read More
Amazon would have posted $1.8 billion operating loss in Q4 2021 if not for Amazon Web Services
Another blockbuster quarter for Amazon Web Services masked one of the worst operating losses in the recent history of the rest of the company. … Read More
Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’
“Your code will be attacked.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. … Read More
Amazon Q4 earnings preview: Analysts expect record revenue of $137B, lower profits
Amazon will report its fourth quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, revealing financials for the critical peak shopping season. … Read More
Amazon profits nearly double to $14.3B, boosted by Rivian stake, as company hikes Prime fees
Amazon posted profits of $14.3 billion, nearly doubling year-over year despite heavy spending in the December quarter, thanks to strong results in its cloud division and a gain of $11.8 billion in the value of its stake in Rivian Automotive following the electric vehicle maker’s initial public offering. … Read More
Blue Origin successfully tests huge nose cone for New Glenn rocket at NASA Glenn
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is still months away from the first launch of its orbital-class New Glenn rocket, but tests that were recently conducted at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are boosting confidence that the rocket’s cavernous nose cone, or fairing, will work as intended. … Read More
Amazon discloses 5% ownership of Aurora, confirms Rivian and Air Transport stakes
Amazon says it owns 5.2% of Aurora Innovations, the Pittsburgh-based self-driving vehicle technology company that went public in November through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. … Read More
Sony to buy Bungie, former Microsoft studio, for $3.6B in latest blockbuster video-game deal
Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer that originally developed the platform-defining Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, has agreed to be acquired by Sony, maker of the competing PlayStation consoles, for $3.6 billion. … Read More