Report: Veteran sports broadcaster Al Michaels to call Amazon’s NFL games on Thursdays
Al Michaels in Los Angeles in 2018. (BigStock Photo) Al Michaels, the longtime NFL play-by-play broadcaster, is Amazon’s pick to call “Thursday Night Football” games streaming on…
Seattle Pride drops Amazon sponsorship, cites company’s donations to politicians that support ‘anti-LGBTQIA+’ legislation
Seattle Pride is initiating a process to evaluate its corporate sponsors and will not partner with Amazon for its 2022 pride parade. (Seattle Pride Photo) Seattle Pride…
Amazon opens supply hub for Ukrainian refugees, its largest humanitarian aid facility ever
Amazon is helping to store and distribute supplies to aid Ukrainian refugees in European countries. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is converting warehouse space in Slovakia, previously used to…
Amazon names Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit as the voices of ‘Thursday Night Football’ on Prime
(Amazon Image) Amazon has officially announced that veteran sports play-by-play announcer Al Michaels and college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit will be the broadcast duo for “Thursday Night…
Amazon Games studio head Mike Frazzini is leaving the company
Mike Frazzini. (GeekWire FIle Photo) Mike Frazzini, the head of Amazon Games, is stepping down from his position. Bloomberg reported Frazzini has told staff at Amazon that…
Unlock Venture Partners puts its portfolio in the metaverse
A Los Angeles- and Seattle-based funding agency could also be the first to place its personal portfolio web page in the metaverse. “So far as we all…
Amazon appears to defeat union effort in Alabama again, but union leads in vote at N.Y. facility
An Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Amazon faced off against unionization efforts at company warehouse facilities in New York and Alabama on Thursday,…
Why this Amazon union vote is significant — for the company and the tech industry
A worker in an Amazon fulfillment center. (Amazon Photo) No matter the result of a potentially historic organized labor outcome at Amazon warehouses, this is a “significant”…
In historic milestone for Amazon and organized labor, workers at N.Y. warehouse vote to unionize
An Amazon fulfillment center. (GeekWire File Photo) For the first time in Amazon’s history, a group of the company’s U.S. warehouse workers voted to form a union,…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s $212M in annual compensation isn’t quite what it seems
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the 2021 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s total compensation for 2021, including his first six…