Ángel González
The Seattle Times
Seattle, WA, United States
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Amazon’s Whole Foods deal wins FTC antitrust approval
The Federal Trade Commission approved the deal within a 30-day period, meaning it didn’t find the tie-up would hurt competition in the grocery market. Earlier Wednesday, Whole Foods shareholders also approved the acquisition by Amazon. → Read More
Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is now America’s biggest company town
Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city’s next 40 biggest employers combined. And the growth continues: Amazon’s Seattle footprint of 8.1 million square feet is expected to soar to more than 12 million square feet within five years. → Read More
Amazon’s booming South Lake Union still awaiting its dinner crowd
Some hopeful restaurateurs may have jumped the gun in South Lake Union, where recent closures show a healthy lunchtime and happy-hour bustle from Amazon’s workforce has yet to carry over into evenings and weekends. → Read More
Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is now America’s biggest company town
Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city’s next 40 biggest employers combined. And that’s only the beginning: Amazon’s Seattle footprint of 8.1 million square feet is expected to soar to more than 12 million square feet within five years. → Read More
Amazon’s new Bellevue bookstore shows brick-and-mortar ramp-up
Amazon is opening its ninth and 10th bookstores this week — in Bellevue and San Jose. The brick-and-mortar stores provide a glimpse into what Amazon’s ultimate goal might be as it undertakes a massive effort to understand how to deal face to face with customers. → Read More
No two-tier benefits: Amazon warehouse workers get same parental leave as corporate staff
Amazon’s relatively low-paid warehouse workers get the same parental- leave benefits as the company’s highly paid software developers and executives — a rarity for U.S. hourly workers. → Read More
Amazon launches Instant Pickup service at five college campuses
The service, dubbed Instant Pickup, offers a limited stock of basic items that range from snacks to phone chargers and Amazon devices. → Read More
Amazon’s robots: job destroyers or dance partners?
The 100,000 orange robots that glide through Amazon warehouses and the thousands of Amazonians who build, program and use them are part of the evolving relationship between humans and their tools that awakens new possibilities but also new fears. → Read More
How big is too big? Amazon sparks antitrust concerns
Amazon’s bid to acquire Whole Foods has sparked political concerns and prompted policymakers and legal experts to ask: How big is too big? → Read More
Hundreds flock to Amazon Jobs Day in Kent
On Wednesday job applicants lined up by the hundreds at the company’s gargantuan, robot-packed Kent building with the hopes of landing a position there or in other Amazon facilities in the Puget Sound area. → Read More
Amazon’s sales grow 25 percent, but earnings miss expectations
Amazon.com’s second-quarter revenue surpassed Wall Street expectations, but its earnings fell short of analysts’ hopes. → Read More
Amazon worth more than $500 billion as stock continues its climb
Amazon’s market capitalization topped a half-trillion dollars Wednesday. That’s an exclusive circle that includes only three other publicly traded U.S. companies, including crosstown rival Microsoft. → Read More
Amazon seeks to fill 50,000 warehouse jobs, including hundreds in Kent
The e-commerce giant says next Wednesday it will welcome applicants at 10 of its warehouses, including the one in Kent, where it plans to hire hundreds. Amazon says it will make “thousands” of job offers on the spot. → Read More
Amazon says its office-supply business attracts big clients, defying skepticism
The Amazon Business office-supply unit has attracted large-business customers, despite a contention by the Federal Trade Commission and a U.S. district-court judge that Amazon would have trouble competing with Office Depot and Staples for these customers. → Read More
Trump’s SBA Administrator: Amazon helps prop up small businesses
At a news conference at Amazon’s headquarters, Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon praised the company — which has made a big business out of letting independent merchants sell on its website — as an enabler of entrepreneurship. → Read More
Amazon to deploy Treasure Truck beyond Seattle
It’s yet another case of Amazon doing what Amazon does so well: coming up with new ways of selling things, even if they sound a little zany. → Read More
Amazon to match up to $1 million in donations, revenue earned by FareStart as new restaurants open
Four of five planned eateries officially opened their doors Tuesday in retail space donated by Amazon on its South Lake Union campus. → Read More
Amazon heading into real estate? Fake news, source says
Various websites spotted an Amazon web page, later taken down, that they described as a placeholder page for a future offering of “hire a realtor” services. → Read More
Amazon says shoppers buying ‘at record levels’ on Prime Day
Amazon.com says shoppers are buying items “at record levels” a few hours into Prime Day, the annual summer discount extravaganza the e-commerce giant first concocted three years ago. → Read More
Amazon to expand Boston-area presence with new office
The move comes as the e-commerce giant builds its global presence to help it recruit top talent for fast-growing tech operations. → Read More