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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon One Enterprise brings the company’s palm recognition tech to corporate settings. Under the new Amazon One Enterprise service, companies will be able to install Amazon One scanners at their locations, and use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to manage users, devices and software updates.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Seahawks fans “Just Walk Out” of the new Pro Shop Outlet store at Lumen Field, where Amazon is testing a new version of its cashierless shopping technology. GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) In a small corner of Lumen Field, Amazon is putting a new spin on its cashierless “Just Walk Out” shopping system.

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APRIL 15, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. Seattle-area tech giant Microsoft separately announced last week that it is investing $2.9 Tadao Nagasaki.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Jennifer Prenner (LinkedIn Image) Jennifer Prenner , a former marketing leader at Amazon and Meta, joined EV giant Rivian as its new vice president of marketing and CMO. She was previously head of marketing for Fire TV at Amazon, and spent more than eight years at Verizon. Founded in 2009 and based in Irvine, Calif.,

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JULY 18, 2023

Amazon Photo) — Amazon appointed Ryan Redington as GM of Amazon Music , leading the tech giant’s streaming audio business. Redington, a 15-year veteran of Amazon who was previously VP of Music Industry, will report to Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch and Games. Ryan Redington.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Can Amazon help provide healthcare advice and treatment as efficiently as it delivers items to your door? Launched earlier this month, Amazon Clinic offers message-based care for 18 conditions such as pink eye and male hair loss, as well as certain types of birth control. Amazon Clinic is a slimmer service than Amazon Care.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. Layoffs began Tuesday at Amazon as the Seattle tech giant moved to slash potentially thousands of corporate and tech personnel from its ranks. The Post reported that Amazon began communicating the layoffs to affected employees Tuesday afternoon.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) — Marie Donoghue , a vice president at Amazon who helped lead its sports streaming and video production arm, is leaving the company. The former longtime ESPN executive joined Amazon in 2018. Amazon streamed the first Black Friday game in NFL history in November.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Sarah Rhoads.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — Babak Parviz , a former director at Google and vice president at Amazon, joined Seattle-based firm Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner. Parviz departed Amazon in December, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was recruited to Amazon by Jeff Bezos and joined the company in 2014.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

John Schoettler, vice president of Amazon’s global real estate and facilities, right, speaks at the Bellevue Downtown Association 50th Anniversary with BDA CEO and President Patrick Bannon at Meydenbauer Center on Feb. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) BELLEVUE, Wash. — See related story.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo) — Longtime Seattle-based tech leader Joseph Sirosh has left Amazon. Sirosh was VP of Amazon Search and Alexa Shopping. He joined Amazon in 2022 after a stint at Compass, where he was chief technology officer. The Puget Sound Business Journal first reported Sirosh’s departure. Tami Erwin. (F5

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GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2023

The dog park between Amazon’s Spheres and Day 1 tower. Big Tech’s big boom is over. That’s the assessment from business and community leaders in the home of Microsoft and Amazon on one of the gloomiest days in Seattle tech history. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). RELATED STORY. restructuring charge.

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GeekWire

MARCH 22, 2023

Amazon One palm-scanning technology will allow Panera associates to greet MyPanera loyalty program members by name and provide a more personalized experience to those cafe customers. Panera will be the first national restaurant chain to offer a new “loyalty linking” capability through Amazon One.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Amazon offices in downtown Seattle. as the winner of its high-profile HQ2 search, Amazon is speeding forward to build facilities to accommodate 25,000 workers in the Washington, D.C. In a series of announcements on Tuesday, Amazon pledged continued expansion in three prominent tech hubs: Austin, Chicago and Phoenix.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

Inside Amazon Style, the tech giant’s first-ever physical fashion store. Amazon Photo). Move over books and groceries, Amazon’s latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion. Amazon last year surpassed Walmart as the No. Amazon last year surpassed Walmart as the No. Amazon Photo).

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Amazon more than doubled its pay cap for tech and corporate workers to $360K a year. Here's what it means and how smaller companies can compete for skilled talent against the high compensation offered by tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2023

— Longtime Amazon executive Nader Kabbani joined San Francisco-based logistics giant Flexport as senior vice president for customs, regulatory compliance, trade and financial services. Kabbani worked at Amazon for more than 18 years, most recent as vice president of network design and planning. It has an office in Bellevue, Wash.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

(Amazon Photo). Amazon is reportedly bringing its cashier-less technology to the company’s full-size grocery store format. It’s the first sign that Amazon is bringing the “Just Walk Out” tech to its U.S. Amazon Fresh grocery stores, which debuted in August in California.

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Melissa Nick , a vice president of North America fulfillment at Amazon, is leaving the company after more than nine years. Amazon said the average tenure of its VPs is about 10 years and that the company has hundreds of VPs and thousands of directors. Melissa Nick. Nick was based out of Nashville, Tenn.,

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2023

A group of seven tech companies made a series of voluntary commitments with the White House to develop AI responsibly and manage the risks posed by the burgeoning technology. Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI are part of the group, and will meet at the White House on Friday.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

— Todd Weatherby , the former head of Amazon’s ProServe cloud unit, is leaving the tech giant at the end of January, according a report by Insider. Amazon moved Weatherby into an “advisory role” last year, said Insider. BECU is the largest not-for-profit credit union in Washington state.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Amazon is resetting its business. “I honestly think that Jeff’s biggest concern about Amazon was always that it would become a bureaucracy,” says Rossman, referring to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. ” Rossman joins us on the GeekWire Podcast to discuss Amazon’s path forward. . John Rossman.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Wayfair , the home products company that competes with Amazon for e-commerce customers, is opening a corporate office in Seattle with plans to hire more than 200 tech employees. Of its 16,000 employees, 3,000 work in tech roles for Wayfair, which was founded in 2002. (Wayfair Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

Amazon’s new Amazon Fresh store in the Seattle region features the company’s “Just Walk Out” technology that removes the need for cashiers. Amazon Photo). Amazon on Thursday will open a 25,000 square-foot Amazon Fresh location in the Factoria neighborhood of Bellevue, Wash.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2021

Amazon’s move into healthcare is multifaceted, including COVID-19 testing, its Halo health band and service, cloud services for healthcare and life sciences, and even primary care for its employees. The company launched its Amazon Pharmacy in November 2020 , building on its 2018 acquisition of PillPack.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Its CEO is a former Amazon senior project manager. The company, led by a former Amazon project manager and a nuclear science expert, just landed $2.5 After college, he became a senior project manager at Amazon, in part to help finance Dué Cucina in its early days. The company is led by two best friends who grew up in Italy.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Amazon will become the latest technology company to make massive job cuts, laying off approximately 10,000 people in its corporate and technology workforce, according to a New York Times report this morning. Amazon has not yet commented publicly on the report. The cuts follow a period of rapid growth during the pandemic.

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GeekWire

MARCH 20, 2023

Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon. Devon McGill joins as director of partnerships, moving from Amazon Care, where she was manager of client implementations. He also spent ten years at Intel in engineering and management roles.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Spheres are reflected in one of Amazon’s corporate office towers at the company’s headquarters in Seattle. ” The desire to hire a total of 55,000 more corporate and tech employees globally represents a 20% increase in that segment, which numbers around 275,000 globally right now. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in 2018.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

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.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2021

Darcie Henry , a 23-year Amazon veteran, will join Snap Inc. She is currently Amazon’s vice president of HR for global consumer and operations. Henry joined Amazon in 1998 when the 4-year-old company had about 2,100 employees. The Seattle tech giant now employs almost 1.3 Darcie Henry. LinkedIn Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2023

Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team, will be the first location to offer Amazon One’s age verification capability. Amazon One enables users to enter and pay at some establishments with their palm as a biometric identifier. Amazon says it does not store that information.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2021

Wei Gao , an Amazon executive who helped lead the company’s grocery efforts, is leaving the Seattle tech giant after more than 16 years. Gao held multiple positions at Amazon, including as Jeff Bezos’ technical advisor from July 2018 to January 2020. Gao was only the second woman to be appointed to the role.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Amazon may be looking to bring the cashierless tech found at its Go convenience stores to Whole Foods supermarkets as early as next year, the New York Post reports. Amazon may start implementing the tech in Whole Foods sometime during the second quarter of 2021, according to the New York Post ’s source.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Thingy Photo via Amazon). That’s one reason Waller is interested in Amazon’s expansion of its Sidewalk network. ” Amazon’s larger goal is to use Sidewalk Bridge Pro to extend the neighborhood network that the company created with the launch of Sidewalk last year. .” Amazon Photo).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A recent city filing for this former grocery store, at 951 NW Ballard Way in Seattle, uses the name “Amazon Market,” hinting at the possibility of a new retail format. Permit filings have connected Amazon to the project for more than two years , although the company has never confirmed its plans.

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