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Twitter can't figure out how to make money from its service, or just doesn't want to rush into things, but others have started making some revenue on the microblogging service. Now, Amazon has come up with an interesting proposal. In an email, the company notified members of Amazon Associates that it had in... |
4 November 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Amazon and Zappos have finally closed the acquisition deal first announced in July, both companies have confirmed. The biggest online retailer in the world made a bid last summer to acquire the shoe and apparel shopping site in a mostly stock deal. When the deal was announced, Zappos was valuated at about $880 millio... |
2 November 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Online shopping isn't exactly a novelty anymore but it's still a lot more complicated than it should be. Amazon, the largest online retailer, is launching a new system that aims to simplify that though its success is far from guaranteed yet. Dubbed Amazon PayPhrase, it will allow customers to check out a pr... |
29 October 2009
07:26 GMT |
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Those of you who watched the New York City launch of Windows 7, via live streaming or on-demand, have undoubtedly caught a glimpse of a new application that is heading to Windows PCs from Amazon. Kindle for the PC will be offered as a free download once it becomes available, Microsoft informed. Just like the Kindle d... |
28 October 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Amazon may be known for its online retail business but it is also one of the biggest players in cloud computing. The company is offering a range of cloud services to cater to the needs of developers or companies that don't want the hassle of managing their own infrastructure. Up till now Amazon offered cloud sto... |
27 October 2009
11:12 GMT |
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Amazon posted its Q3 financial results yesterday and easily beat Wall Street expectations with a solid bump in revenue and net income. Growth was fueled by strong sales of the company's e-book reader, the Kindle, but other segments performed well also. The international branching out also played a part in the co... |
23 October 2009
09:18 GMT |
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A report claims Amazon.com is featuring a new book as available for pre-order with a rather interesting description containing the term "Aperture X." The description does seem to imply that a forthcoming 3.0 version of Aperture, dubbed Aperture X, could be hitting the market by May 2010. Apple is known to be fond of ... |
23 October 2009
09:17 GMT |
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Online retail is already big business in the US and Amazon is by far the largest player in the market. Its recent foray into e-books has also proven quite profitable, creating a new market for e-books and e-book readers that is becoming hotly disputed. Now Wal-Mart, one of the largest brick-and-mortar retailers in th... |
17 October 2009
07:22 GMT |
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Nokia N900, the Maemo 5-based handset the Finnish mobile phone maker unveiled to the world about two months ago, seems set to make an appearance on the market before the end of the ongoing month, yet still quite close to it. The device is already available for pre-order on the company's website, and the availabi... |
17 October 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Online retail giant Amazon is pushing even harder at replacing brick-and-mortar stores with a new same-day delivery option in several large cities in the US. Customers will now have the option to receive their purchases on the same day they made them with a few caveats. There is an added tax to the new delivery optio... |
16 October 2009
10:23 GMT |
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One of the first mobile phones to have been launched on the market running under Microsoft's newly launched Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system is the HTC Pure, which is available for purchase from wireless carrier AT&T and its retail partners. When purchased free of contract, the handset costs $499.99, yet it g... |
15 October 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Amazon Payments has announced today the introduction of a new service, the Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS), aimed at offering developers, merchants and distributors of software solutions for mobile phones the possibility to easily process payments made from mobile phones. At the same time, the company als... |
5 October 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Cloud computing may not be a particularly well defined concept but for some, its end results are as clear as they get: cold hard cash. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be a relatively new concept but for Amazon, it is already paying off quite well, raking in an estimated $220 million annually. The size of its o... |
2 October 2009
11:13 GMT |
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The Amazon deleted books saga finally came to a close this week as the Internet giant has settled a lawsuit filed against it after the incident. Earlier this summer Amazon quietly and remotely deleted bought copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm after it found that the books had been sold without securi... |
1 October 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has finally made available its 8-megapixel camera phone Nokia N86 8MP on the American shores. Expected to become available for quite some time, the device was put on pre-order a while ago, and now users can enjoy purchasing it either from Amazon or from the company's Chicago or N... |
18 September 2009
08:34 GMT |
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Amazon set the media, bloggers and many vocal users ablaze in July, when it remotely deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984, along with other e-books, which were illegally put on the company's store, from its Kindle devices. After the incident and the public outcry, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos himself apologized ... |
4 September 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Amazon will introduce handheld token generators as an upgrade to its authentication procedures for the Web Services section. This type of authentication provides a huge leap in security for AWS members, being inspired by the token generators used in home banking secure customer login.Amazon Web Services is a product ... |
2 September 2009
04:32 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready to come to the market with yet another high-end appealing mobile phone, the Samsung Omnia II. Running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system (only the 6.1 version at the moment, though expected to feature 6.5 when it becomes available), the hand... |
2 September 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Online retail is big business and the market still has a lot of potential growth in it. Brick-and-mortar retail giant Walmart knows this, of course, but so far its online foray hasn't been as successful as it hoped. In a move that is meant to allow Walmart.com to better tackle the likes of Amazon and increasingl... |
1 September 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Just as Google is making another claim for openness by releasing over a million public domain books in the open ePub e-book format, the company is bracing for some heavy battles defending the settlement it signed with publishers and authors to sell out-of-print books through Google Books. The unlikely alliance reveal... |
27 August 2009
06:41 GMT |
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At GameCon last week, Sony at last unveiled what was a long known secret for much of the public, the PlayStation 3 Slim, the new revision of its home console set to challenge both the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Nintendo Wii for sales numbers during this holiday season.Now, Amazon is announcing that the device, w... |
24 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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One of Google's most controversial projects, Google Books, is facing increased opposition and some major players and competitors like Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are banding together to stop the approval of a settlement deal that allows the search giant to provide and sell copyrighted books that are out of print... |
21 August 2009
05:21 GMT |
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In Irvine, at the University of California, three scientists have been working on a technique called “Predictive Blacklisting” to prevent security attacks before they happen using complex prediction algorithms. As the scientists admitted in their study, the main inspiration for the research was the e-comm... |
20 August 2009
09:26 GMT |
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A while ago, a couple of big retailers, Best Buy among them, and even Internet-based Amazon announced that they planned to enter the used game business dominated by the videogame-oriented GameStop.Now, Best Buy seems to be ready to make a big move, with some stores running a promotion that promises players new games ... |
11 August 2009
03:56 GMT |
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When Amazon acquired online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos for close to $1 billion it got a little treat in the deal as well, the clothes.com domain name. The domain was bought by Zappos last year for a cool $4.9 million, one of the biggest domain name transactions of the year. While currently used to house a custo... |
8 August 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Target, the second biggest retailer in the U.S., announced in a press release that, starting 2011, it would manage and run its own e-commerce platform independently from Amazon's services. The service should be built and launched before the holiday season of 2011. After a very lucrative deal with Amazon, the co... |
8 August 2009
03:13 GMT |
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The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the latest handset Research In Motion pushed to the market. The device comes with leveraged messaging capabilities, including SMS and IM, offering fast connectivity to email and social networking sites, and was released on the US market on the airwaves of T-Mobile only yesterday, yet the ... |
6 August 2009
04:13 GMT |
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Reports say that Microsoft’s highly anticipated Windows 7 is being outranked by Apple’s (also) much-awaited OS, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, on Amazon.com, the popular US online retailer. According to at least one source, pre-orders for Apple's upcoming operating system topped Amazon.com's bestseller ... |
5 August 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Amazon is now taking pre-orders for Snow Leopard, the next-generation operating system from Apple. Mac OS X 10.6 is scheduled to ship in September and starts at $29 for a single user license, and only as an upgrade from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Via 9to5Mac, other Amazon pricing options are listed below. - 10.6 Snow L... |
3 August 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Google is sticking behind the Books project even though it's one of its most controversial products. Criticized by its competitors and under scrutiny by the US Department of Justice, the search giant is plowing ahead announcing a new partnership with Sony, which will allow users of the company's Reader to a... |
30 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Amazon announced it would buy online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos for upwards of $900 million in a stock swap deal last week and new details have now surfaced after the regulatory SEC filing yesterday. The papers show how the negotiations went as well as more financial details about the deal and the companies. On... |
28 July 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Earlier this week Amazon removed several titles from the accounts of some users of the company's e-book reader, the Kindle. The users had bought and paid for the e-books but, apparently, the company that sold them through Amazon's online store didn't have the right to do it. This prompted Amazon to del... |
24 July 2009
10:16 GMT |
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Amazon.com's financial results for the second quarter have come in and the earnings are lower than expected. Revenue was up 14 percent from the second quarter last year, to $4.65 billion, slightly below analysts’ expectations, which estimated Q2 revenue at $4.67 billion. Profits, on the other hand, were do... |
24 July 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Amazon has announced it is buying shoe and apparel online retailer Zappos for 10 million Amazon shares. The company valued the shares at $807 million but the closing price for Amazon share was at $88.79 today putting the deal at more than $880 million. Zappos employees will also get $40 million in cash and restricted... |
23 July 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Amazon may finally get challenged in the online book selling business, with the largest brick-and-mortar book retailer in the US, Barnes & Noble, launching a digital book store called eBookstore. The e-books will be mostly platform agnostic and available for Windows, Mac OS, iPhone, iTouch and Blackberry smartphones.... |
21 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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In what is turning out to be a very bad move by Amazon, the book seller informed some of its customers on Thursday that some e-books they bought and thought they owned had been deleted from their Kindle reader and they'd be getting a refund instead. Not surprisingly, they weren't happy and turned very vocal... |
18 July 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Rumors that Amazon.com may buy the mail-order movie rental service Netflix have pushed its stock value to an 11-week high. Though the sources are pretty light the activity can't be denied; however, it remains to be seen if it's just hype or someone actually knows something. The acquisition would solidify th... |
14 July 2009
02:37 GMT |
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In a new survey of the sediment crust located at the mouth of the Amazon, geologists from Brazil's national oil company Petrobras have determined that the age of the transcontinental river is of about 11 million years old. While, at the beginning, the river looked somewhat different from today, its present shape... |
8 July 2009
06:10 GMT |
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While trotting happily through a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, naturalists stumbled upon a new species of monkeys, with an abnormally large tail, and a peculiar gray and dark brown coloring. Aside from its anthropological value, the find demonstrates again that new discoveries in this field of research are a... |
8 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Nokia N97 is the latest flagship model the Finnish mobile phone maker released into the wild, and it is only a month old. Although the high-end mobile phone has been eagerly expected by some enthusiasts out there, the price of the device was a little too high for some, but now good news seems to come in this directio... |
7 July 2009
06:45 GMT |
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PayPal, the payment system owned by eBay, has confirmed plans to launch a new API to give developers a simpler set of tools for including payment features in their applications. Called Adaptive Payments, some believe this is a response to the pressure from Amazon's own payment tool, Flexible Payments Service (FP... |
7 July 2009
06:42 GMT |
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An Amazon affiliate company has apparently been ordered to pay $119 million in taxes by Japanese authorities for failing to report income between 2003 and 2005. The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau concluded that Amazon.com International Sales, the affiliate US company located in Seattle should pay taxes in Japan as we... |
6 July 2009
11:15 GMT |
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made some comments recently at Wired's Disruptive by Design conference about Google's settlement with book authors and publishing companies, which gave the company exclusive rights to sell digital copies of out-of-print books even without the copyright holder's expressed approval.... |
17 June 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Amazon.com has settled a 5-year-old lawsuit with Toys “R” Us for $51 million last week. In 2004 the latter sued the former for breach of contract in a deal dating back to 2000. In the settlement the toy company will dismiss all claims and counterclaims. “On June 11, 2009, Amazon.com entered into a... |
15 June 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Google has been scanning, indexing books and making them available either fully or partially for a while now, a move not without its share of controversy, but now it has announced that it will begin to sell e-books as well. This will place it in direct competition with Amazon.com, which currently offers e-books for i... |
1 June 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Amazon has updated its Kindle iPhone app, adding the ability to pinch to zoom in on images in Kindle books, a landscape mode with auto-rotation, the capability to lock the Kindle app’s screen orientation either in portrait or landscape, two new choices of text color, and the ability to tap on either side of th... |
21 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Wal-Mart has announced that it has begun lending space in its stores to a third-party company, called E-Play, which runs automated kiosks for the purpose of implementing 77 “Video Game Buyback” stations. Only 2% of the stores that Wal-Mart operates in the United States will get a kiosk as part of a pilot ... |
20 May 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., announced recently that it had released Amazon CloudWatch publicly, with new beta functions for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This service is meant to monitor AWS cloud resources, and it features Auto Scaling to ensure growing and shrin... |
19 May 2009
01:40 GMT |
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A hacker claims to have tricked Steve Jobs into entering his credit card information on a fake Amazon.com, a practice commonly known as phishing, or whaling, in the case of celebs like Apple's iconic CEO. “I got myself a hold of this information,” the hacker wrote in an email sent from a secure Hush... |
15 May 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Amazon.com, Inc. has announced the availably of the “Kindle Store,” a platform optimized for iPhone's Safari web browser. The new Kindle Store has been designed with the size and shape of the iPhone in mind, offering iPhone and iPod touch users quick and easy access to Kindle Store’s 280,000 bo... |
11 May 2009
09:01 GMT |
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