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Once a modest online seller of books, Amazon is now one of the largest companies in the world, and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the world’s most wealthy person. We track developments, both of Bezos and Amazon, its growth as a video producer, the popular Prime service, as well as its own hardware, which includes the Amazon Kindle e-reader, Amazon Kindle Fire tablets, and Amazon Fire TV streaming boxes.

Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max review: the one to buy

Rivian’s IPO filing reveals Amazon’s prime influence

Apple’s new iPad Mini is already discounted at Adorama

Verge Tech Survey 2021

After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up

Alexa will now let you take longer to ask a question

Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge

Amazon Prime members can now send gifts with just a phone number or email address

Amazon is hijacking our emotions to put robots in our homes

Vergecast: Amazon’s fall hardware event, Google’s Search On event, and Code Conference 2021

Why does Blink still exist?

We bought gadgets from Amazon’s banned brands and it was a piece of cake

Amazon Basics ripped off accessories, now Amazon is coming for gadgets

Amazon settles with the activists it fired

Chinese companies are suing Amazon after getting banned for paid reviews

Ring’s security drone could be flying in your home soon

Amazon sent us a 13-page PDF to prove Elon Musk is as litigious as Jeff Bezos

Remember when beta testing was free?

Don’t be fooled — Amazon’s Astro isn’t a home robot, it’s a camera on wheels

Amazon’s automotive efforts appear to be taking a pit stop

Amazon Astro is ‘terrible’ and will ‘throw itself down’ stairs, developers reportedly claim

Amazon’s Astro cannot fetch your beer

Say hello to Astro, Alexa on wheels

Amazon marries Ring and Eero in a neat, white package

Package alerts come to Ring’s wired doorbells

How to preorder Amazon’s latest devices

How to sign up for an Amazon Astro invite

How to sign up for an invite for the Ring Always Home Cam, Amazon’s new security drone

Blink’s first doorbell is finally released, four years later

Amazon announces new wearable and services to try to make you fitter

Here’s the deluge of announcements from Amazon’s fall devices event

Including a robot

Amazon’s race to create the disappearing computer

Ambient computing is here; now what?

Amazon’s AZ2 CPU knows your face