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SEATTLE -- In late 2016, Amazon introduced a new online service that could help identify faces and other objects in images, offering it to anyone at a low cost through [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD SEATTLE -- In late 2016, Amazon introduced a new online service that could help identify faces and other objects in images, offering it to anyone at a [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon Prime is the kitchen sink of membership programs. The internet retailer keeps cramming new benefits into it -- music and video streaming, fast shipping and online photo [...]

SEATTLE -- After intense lobbying by local businesses and a bold threat by Amazon to curtail development in its hometown, the Seattle City Council on Monday approved a smaller and [...]

SEATTLE -- Facebook and Google are under the microscope for the ways their technologies can spread misinformation, while Amazon's growing market power is a regular target of President Trump. And [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD SEATTLE -- Facebook and Google are under the microscope for the ways their technologies can spread misinformation, while Amazon's growing market power is a regular target of [...]

For more than a decade, some of the best known technology companies, including Google, Facebook and Snap, have sold shares to the public while maintaining a corporate structure that allowed [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon abruptly escalated a fight with its hometown on Wednesday, halting major expansion plans in Seattle because of a tax being considered by the City Council. The new [...]

SEATTLE -- When 10 representatives from Amazon visited the Denver area in late January, they did what you'd expect from a company scouting for a place to put its second [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD SEATTLE -- When 10 representatives from Amazon visited the Denver area in late January, they did what you'd expect from a company scouting for a place to [...]

SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, long ago figured out how to keep Amazon's sales figures shooting skyward. Now he is doing the same with profit. The [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon packages get delivered to all sorts of places. Front porches? Naturally. Cubicles? Of course. Inside locked homes? Yes, that, too. Now add a new one: the [...]

One of Amazon's antagonists seized the moment last month with an unusual newspaper advertisement addressed to President Trump. The ad, from a nonprofit that advocates less government, attacked a Defense [...]

The Mark Zuckerberg show in Washington this past week stirred memories for Senator Orrin G. Hatch. The global interest, the overflow crowds and the gavel-to-gavel media coverage, the 84-year-old Utah [...]

SEATTLE -- Five times in the last week, President Trump has pointed his Twitter arrows at Amazon over what he insists is a bad deal for the United States Postal [...]

The recent tribulations of Facebook, which has lurched from crisis to crisis over the last year, most recently over the handling of users' personal data, has pushed a few of [...]

SEATTLE -- To see what it's like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer's experimental convenience shop [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD The recent tribulations of Facebook, which has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past year, most recently over the handling of user's personal data, has pushed [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD, PAUL MOZUR and MICHAEL CORKERY SEATTLE -- To see what it's like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump escalated his attack on Amazon on Thursday, saying in an early-morning tweet that the online retail behemoth does not pay enough taxes -- and strongly suggesting [...]

The path to fast and affordable online grocery service is littered with obstacles: refrigeration challenges, storage woes and high transportation costs, among others. But the country's largest retailers are convinced [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon has had no problem getting affluent households to buy from its online store. But people with low incomes have been less loyal to the retailer. Now, Amazon [...]

Some signs are subtle, like the ''Whole Foods + Amazon'' one near the bananas. Others are more obvious, like the kiosk with Amazon devices for sale. It has been six [...]

Amazon said Tuesday that it had acquired Ring, a maker of internet-connected doorbells and cameras, pushing more deeply into the home security market. The deal is worth around $1.1 billion, [...]

In Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, it has long been a guessing game about which of the most richly valued technology start-ups would be next to test the public [...]

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- For the past year, Bill and Melinda Gates have received the same question repeatedly while jetting around the world: How is President Trump affecting their work as [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD KIRKLAND, Wash. -- For the past year, Bill and Melinda Gates have received the same question repeatedly while jetting around the world: How is President Trump affecting [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon is planning to test a program this year that would replace some delivery services now done by United Parcel Service and FedEx. Under the new service, known [...]

Allen Gillespie is one lonely stock analyst. Of the dozens of Wall Street analysts covering Amazon, he is the only one tracked by Bloomberg who recommends that investors sell the [...]

Byline: MICHAEL CORKERY and NICK WINGFIELD Allen Gillespie is one lonely stock analyst. Of the dozens of Wall Street analysts covering Amazon, he is the only one tracked by Bloomberg [...]

SEATTLE -- For Apple and Amazon, the holidays are the time to shine, the period when shoppers have the greatest appetite to buy their devices and, in Amazon's case, anything [...]

SEATTLE -- Microsoft has spent years adjusting its business to reflect a shift from traditional software sales to cloud computing services delivered over the internet. It is a bet that [...]

SEATTLE -- Three corporate behemoths -- Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase -- announced on Tuesday that they would form an independent health care company for their employees in the [...]

SEATTLE -- The other week, 218 cities and states lost in the sweepstakes to be the home of Amazon's second headquarters, failing to make the list of 20 finalists. But [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD SEATTLE -- The other week, 218 cities and states lost in the sweepstakes to be the home of Amazon's second headquarters, failing to make the list of [...]

SEATTLE -- The first clue that there's something unusual about Amazon's store of the future hits you right at the front door. It feels as if you are entering a [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD SEATTLE -- The first clue that there's something unusual about Amazon's store of the future hits you right at the front door. It feels as if you [...]

SEATTLE -- Like a college applicant waiting for that special message in the mail, officials in Boston got what they wanted on Thursday: a cryptic four-sentence note informing them that [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- These days, you can find virtual assistants like Amazon's Alexa or Google's Assistant in all sorts of things, from smart speakers and smartphones to washing machines and [...]

Byline: DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and NICK WINGFIELD SAN FRANCISCO -- These days, you can find virtual assistants like Amazon's Alexa or Google's Assistant in all sorts of things, from smart speakers [...]

SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos rubbed elbows last weekend with Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth and other Hollywood celebrities at an after-party for the Golden Globes. In December, he walked the red [...]

SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, on Friday injected himself into one of the most contentious political debates in the United States, announcing that he and his wife [...]

Byline: NICK WINGFIELD and NELLIE BOWLES Correction Appended SEATTLE -- Jeff Bezos rubbed elbows last weekend with Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth and other Hollywood celebrities at an after-party for the [...]

Amazon's ambitions have few limits, and when the company appears interested in expanding its business into a new area, it can spook investors in potential competitors. The mere specter of [...]

SEATTLE -- It is a season for giving and, according to law enforcement officials in Washington County, Ore., taking as well. Two weeks ago, its Sheriff's Office ran a sting [...]

SEATTLE -- The wave of sexual harassment claims has toppled powerful men in entertainment, media and politics. Now, it is also creating permanent changes in workplace policy at one giant [...]

Protests to preserve net neutrality, or rules that ensure equal access to the internet, migrated online on Tuesday, with numerous online companies posting calls on their sites for action to [...]

SEATTLE -- The holidays are a time when there are constant reminders of how much Amazon dominates online shopping -- the boxes stacking up on front porches, for example. It's [...]

SEATTLE -- While Amazon is hunting for a second headquarters away from its hometown, its neighbor in the Seattle area -- Microsoft -- is doubling down on the region, with [...]