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Once a modest online seller of books, Amazon is now one of the largest companies in the world, and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the world’s most wealthy person. We track developments, both of Bezos and Amazon, its growth as a video producer, the popular Prime service, as well as its own hardware, which includes the Amazon Kindle e-reader, Amazon Kindle Fire tablets, and Amazon Fire TV streaming boxes.

Amazon is opening its own grocery store in 2020

By Jay Peters
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Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019) review: you get what you pay for

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Disney reaches deal with Amazon to put Disney+ on Fire TV devices

By Chaim Gartenberg
18 comments / new

Amazon picks up Critical Role’s animated show as a Prime exclusive

By Aliya Chaudhry
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Pre-Black Friday deals on Amazon devices will start on November 22nd

By Cameron Faulkner
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After five years of Amazon’s Alexa, why isn’t it better?

By James Vincent
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Amazon Echo Studio review: finally, an Echo that sounds great

By Dan Seifert
26 comments / new

Amazon’s own Echo Buds may have revealed a future fitness tracking feature

By Sean Hollister
19 comments / new

Your Amazon Echo or Google Home could be fooled by a laser ‘speaking’ words

By Jay Peters
22 comments / new

Twitch’s top streamer exodus continues as CouRage announces YouTube Live deal

By Chaim Gartenberg
8 comments / new

Amazon blames ‘error’ for blocking Nintendo resellers from listing products

By Nick Statt
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How to make Google Assistant or Alexa find any missing item with a Tile tracker

By Jay Peters
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The untold origin story of an AmazonBasics AA battery

By Aliya Chaudhry
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Apple TV Plus is basically free because Apple’s end game is replicating Amazon Prime

It’s all about bundling

By Julia Alexander

Amazon adds new wake-up lighting and sleep timer features for Alexa-powered smart lights

By Nick Statt
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Amazon Echo (2019) review: middle child syndrome

Amazon’s latest Echo speaker splits the difference between a high-end smart speaker and an entry-level model

By Dan Seifert
9 comments / new

Amazon Echo Buds review: great sound at the right price

Amazon’s first truly wireless earbuds exceed expectations

By Chris Welch
127 comments / new

Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract

By Tom Warren
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Amazon is spending billions on shipping as it makes Prime one-day delivery a reality

By Nick Statt
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Amazon is offering an Echo Dot for 99 cents with an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription

By Jay Peters
8 comments / new

Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices

By Jacob Kastrenakes
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Amazon Echo Dot with clock review: time is on its side

A $59 clock that also comes with a pretty good speaker

By Cameron Faulkner
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Security researchers expose new Alexa and Google Home vulnerability

By Jon Porter
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Democrats just had a real debate about automation on stage

By Makena Kelly
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Walmart begins direct-to-fridge delivery service for 1 million US customers

By Jon Porter
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Eero’s latest router system is simple to use and less expensive than before

By Dan Seifert
11 comments / new

You can now speak to Alexa in Spanish

By Dami Lee
8 comments / new

Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows

By Zoe Schiffer
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Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile

By Nick Statt
32 comments / new

Donald Trump joins Twitch, an Amazon-owned company

By Julia Alexander

Sending Amazon workers a unionizing message is as easy as changing a book cover

By Sean Hollister
39 comments / new

Amazon Music starts rolling out its Apple TV app

By Dani Deahl
8 comments / new