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‘Unfinished business’: Ring CEO Liz Hamren leads Amazon’s home monitoring products into the AI era

by Todd Bishop on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024 at 9:09 am

Liz Hamren has been CEO of Amazon’s Ring business for almost a year, as the successor in the role to Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, but it’s not the first time… Read More

Seattle UX company Blink acquired by India-based IT services giant Mphasis

by Taylor Soper on September 21, 2021September 22, 2021 at 8:00 am

Seattle-based UX and design firm Blink has been acquired by Mphasis, a publicly-traded IT services giant based in Bangalore, India. The all-cash deal is valued at $94 million. Founded 21… Read More

Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

by Lisa Stiffler on June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 at 10:20 am

If it wasn’t enough to be a co-founder of what could be the longest running UX shop in the U.S., Karen Clark Cole would also like to be a professional… Read More

Amazon’s Blink unveils new security camera with ‘exclusive’ chip and two-year battery life

by Todd Bishop on May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 at 12:26 pm

Amazon’s acquisition of video doorbell and security camera company Ring last year got lots of attention, thanks in part to the reported $1 billion price tag. But the tech giant… Read More

Amazon completes Ring acquisition, drops price of original video doorbell under $100

by Todd Bishop on April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 at 10:33 am

Amazon completed its acquisition of smart-home security company Ring this morning and dropped the price of the Santa Monica, Calif.-company’s original video doorbell to $99.99 — a gesture that has… Read More

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts, aiming at Echo, cameras, and AI

by Tom Krazit on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 at 9:09 am

Amazon has been designing its own chips for a few years, ever since acquiring Annapurna Labs in 2016, but it is readying a new push thanks to a new acquisition… Read More

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Two Seattle UX design companies join forces as Blink acquires Tectonic

by Kurt Schlosser on January 31, 2018February 1, 2018 at 9:11 am

The Seattle-based user-experience research and design company Blink has acquired a little help in the design department by purchasing Tectonic, an experience design studio with offices in Seattle and Boston.… Read More

Amazon scoops up wire-free connected camera maker Blink to bolster smart home offerings

by Nat Levy on December 22, 2017December 22, 2017 at 10:18 am

Amazon has acquired Blink, a startup based in Andover, Mass. that makes wire-free smart security cameras and video doorbells. Blink announced the acquisition on its website, telling customers that nothing… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa gets Washington State Ferry smarts, thanks to new third-party skill

by Monica Nickelsburg on May 27, 2016May 31, 2016 at 7:43 am

“Ahoy there,” says a playfully nautical Alexa when you ask her for information about the Washington State Ferries. It’s a skill that Blink UX, the Seattle-based user experience firm, developed for… Read More

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