Alexa-enabled printer, Amazon’s first product from Kickstarter-like program Build It, hits preorder goal

Amazon smart sticky note printer

Amazon Smart Sticky Note Printer (Amazon Image) Amazon on Wednesday announced Build It, a Kickstarter-like program that lets you pre-order potential products that the company will only build if it receives enough support within 30 days. Three days later, the first product has already reached its destination: the Smart Sticky Note Printer will be delivered … Read more

Here’s the biggest challenge facing Amazon’s Andy Jassy — at least in the words of one partner

Here’s the biggest challenge facing Amazon’s Andy Jassy — at least in the words of one partner

Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks at re: Invent 2018. (GeekWire Photo) Andy Jassy will have big shoes to fill when he succeeds Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, later this year. The Chicken Wing’s 53-year-old tech manager will also face a number of challenges – from labor problems to a sprawling empire of … Read more

Amazon’s diversity and inclusion leader, Elizabeth Nieto, leaving for job at Spotify in New York

Amazon’s diversity and inclusion leader, Elizabeth Nieto, leaving for job at Spotify in New York

Elizabeth Nieto at Amazon’s Global Diversity Equity and Inclusion Summit in January 2020 (Amazon Photo) Elizabeth Nieto, head of Amazon’s global diversity, justice and inclusion team, is leaving the Seattle tech giant after less than two years to get a new job at Spotify, and points out a desire to be closer to her family … Read more