Amazon’s Great Reshuffle: Consumer CEO’s exit continues exec shakeup

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, left, and departing Consumer CEO Dave Clark, right. (GeekWire File Photos) Dave Clark, an Amazon veteran of more than 23 years, and the…

Top Stories of ’21: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, COVID, and what’s next for tech in Seattle and beyond

Looking at GeekWire’s most-read stories for 2021, this series of headlines stands out as a symbol of the past year, not just for Amazon but for the…

Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k for corporate and tech workers, citing labor market

An Amazon lobby in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from…

Amazon names new CEO of Worldwide Stores, 17-year company veteran Doug Herrington

Doug Herrington launched AmazonFresh in 2007 and has led Amazon’s North American Consumer business since 2015. (Amazon Photo) Doug Herrington, a veteran of Amazon’s consumer business, will…

GeekWire Podcast: The realities of Amazon’s pay increase; inside Microsoft’s HoloLens business

Amazon’s increase in base pay and Microsoft’s HoloLens were in the news this week. (GeekWire Photo / Microsoft Image) Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week,…

Internal memo: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on senior exec departures, ‘s-team’ diversity

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. (File Photo by Dan DeLong) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy addressed the news that the company is losing two of its most senior Black…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy makes Time’s ‘100 Most Influential Companies’ cover; Rec Room, Wyze also on list

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on the cover of the 2022 Time 100 Most Influential Companies issue. (Time Photo) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has landed on the cover…

Where’s my jetpack? It was at MARS conference, along with Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

A robotics presentation plays out at Amazon’s MARS 2022 conference. (Andy Jassy via Twitter) Billionaire Jeff Bezos missed out on his usual chauffeuring duties at the West…

What Amazon’s plan to improve worker safety reveals about the company’s true nature

An Amazon sign above the entrance to a sortation center. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Addressing the issue of warehouse worker safety in response to a…

Jay Carney checks out of Amazon, lands at Airbnb: Inside ex-White House press secretary’s tech career

Amazon global corporate affairs leader Jay Carney, center, observes and records an impromptu media scrum with Amazon devices chief Dave Limp, left, and founder Jeff Bezos at…