Amazon HQ Archives

News Mar. 19, 2019, 3:00 AM

9 things you probably didn’t know about Amazon

Amazon was almost named “Cadabra,” which is short for the magic term, “abracadabra.” CEO Jeff Bezos started the company in 1995 by selling books. There are about 6,000 dogs that “work” at Amazon HQ in Seattle – they even have a dog park on site. Watch the video above for […]

Tech Oct. 24, 2018, 8:16 AM

Amazon is growing a massive, foul-smelling ‘corpse flower’ at its indoor rainforest — and it just bloomed for the first time ever

Amazon welcomed visitors into its headquarters over the weekend to see a rare corpse flower named Morticia in bloom. The 6-foot-tall plant, which is technically called a “titan arum,” sits in the rainforest inside of the Spheres on Amazon’s Seattle campus. The Spheres opened earlier this year, and they’re intended […]

Tech Sep. 29, 2018, 10:45 PM

I visited the Amazon Spheres, an indoor rainforest in the heart of Seattle — here’s what it’s like inside

A rainforest is thriving in one of the most unlikely places: Amazon’s campus in downtown Seattle. It’s called the Spheres, and it’s a trio of massive glass domes that sit amid Amazon’s business center. The Spheres are intended to serve as a space for Amazon employees to work and collaborate […]

News Jan. 31, 2018, 1:33 AM

Amazon just revealed its new Spheres building, which features a mini tropical forest — here’s what it looks like inside

Amazon created a green paradise in its new building in downtown Seattle, called the Spheres. It’s part of a $US4 billion investment that the company has made in its Seattle headquarters Amazon is showing off its green thumb. The company just took the wraps off the Spheres, called that because […]

News Jan. 19, 2018, 2:13 AM

Amazon just dropped a major hint about where it wants its new headquarters to be

On Thursday, Amazon announced its short list of the 20 cities in the running for its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2. Three locations near Washington, DC, appeared on the list. That indicates Amazon may have selected DC as its ideal HQ2 location – but that doesn’t mean incentives couldn’t swing it […]