GeekWire Radio: Zulily, Amazon, GeekGirlCon, Nest Protect, and those gigantic Fox News ‘tablets’

There’s tons to speak about this week on the GeekWire radio present and podcast, from rising tech giants to high-tech smoke detectors, with some new revelations about Amazon and Jeff Bezos thrown into the combination.

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We begin with the story of Zulily, the day by day offers website for mothers and children that took the primary public steps towards a deliberate $100 million IPO this week. With greater than $331 million in income final 12 months, the Seattle firm is larger than Twitter, and it’s additionally extra worthwhile than Groupon or LivingSocial, two of the giants of on-line offers.

Then we flip to Amazon, and the brand new e book by Brad Stone that goes behind the scenes on the e-commerce and expertise large. An excerpt from the e book made headlines this week, and we’ll have Stone on our present subsequent week to speak about what he discovered about Bezos and Amazon within the technique of reporting the e book.

Our visitor within the studio is Susie Rantz, one of many organizers of GeekGirlCon, arising subsequent weekend, Oct. 19 and 20, in downtown Seattle. We discuss in regards to the development of the occasion, now in its third 12 months, and its objectives of empowering and celebrating ladies and ladies in geek tradition and expertise. Tickets for the occasion can be found right here.

Extra tales and hyperlinks from the present:

• Subsequent up from Nest: A greater smoke alarm

• Fox Information debuts huge Home windows 8 contact screens in revamped newsroom

• App of the Week: Launch Heart Professional

• Title that Tech Tune: Have you learnt this basic sport?

• GeekWire Startup Day: Tickets and particulars obtainable right here.