Amazon.com has quietly applied for trademarks on the name and logo of Lab126 — the internal group behind the Amazon Kindle e-reader and, by all accounts, an upcoming Android tablet from the Seattle ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by John Cook on Sep 24, 2014 at 7:01 am September 24, 2014 at ...

Amazon have been busy lately, what with their recent launching of the latest generation of Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets along with the seemingly ill-fated Amazon Fire Phone. It would seem ...

In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon’s Lab126, the company’s Silicon Valley-based R&D group that has developed its most high-profile consumer products, ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. “Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., ...

The flop of Amazon’s Fire Phone has prompted CEO Jeff Bezos to instigate changes at its hardware R&D group Lab126 to make it more nimble, focused and capable of creating hardware consumers will buy.

Amazon has started offering on-site COVID-19 tests to some members of its hardware division Lab126. The change came after workers, who have worked in the office since July, filed safety complaints.

FactorDaily reports that Amazon is preparing to set up an outpost of Lab126, its R&D company that conceptualized gadgets like the Kindle ebook reader, Echo smart speaker, Dash buttons, and Fire ...

Amazon’s Lab126, the secretive R&D group behind the Kindle, is apparently on a hiring spree, as noted by the EETimes, which speculates that the organization may be planning to spin out the lab as a ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. It's hardly ...

Amazon is expected to unveil its first smartphone on Wednesday, but that may be just one of several projects the company is building in its secretive Lab126. Lab126 is the division of Amazon that ...

Telling Jeff Bezos he’s wrong is always a frightening proposition. In the fall of 2014, though, a small group of the men and women building Amazon’s new voice-controlled speaker felt they needed to ...