Amazon vs. Shopify: What the tech giant’s latest deal says about its larger retail ambitions

GeekWire Illustration When Jeff Bezos named e-commerce software company Shopify as an example of Amazon’s growing competition in his testimony to a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee last…

A franchise in disguise? Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners program will face a key legal test

A new lawsuit challenges the legal status of a program that Amazon uses to deliver packages to doorsteps around the world. (GeekWire File Photo) Amazon “exercises near…

Amazon will extend Prime shipping benefits, and its own reach, to independent e-commerce sites

Amazon’s Buy with Prime program will extend Prime checkout and shipping benefits to independent e-commerce sites. (Amazon Photo) A new Amazon program will let Prime members buy…

Here’s how Amazon plans to rein in costs in quest to restore its consumer business to profitability

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at the 2021 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) After doubling its fulfillment capacity and hiring hundreds of thousands of workers…

Key trends in digital commerce, with the former Amazon exec leading Seattle’s newest unicorn

Fabric CEO Faisal Masud, a former Amazon exec, calls the size of the startup’s market opportunity “absurd.” This week brought news of a big fundraising by e-commerce…