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Big software plans for Amazon's Kindle?
News Amazon.com's buying and hiring signal that many more Kindle apps may be on the way and software to put Amazon books on other mobile devices.
Tags: Business applications, Development/design, Applications and tools, Business Strategies & Functions, Mobile, Smart Phone, E-book Reader, E-book, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company
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Amazon goes global with new Kindle
News New edition of the e-book reader that can wirelessly download books in more than 100 countries. Also: a price cut for U.S. consumers.
Tags: Handhelds, Forrester Research Inc., e-reader, e-reader sale, eReader, Sony Reader, U.S., Amazon.com Inc., Sales, online retail company
Amazon's S3 faces outage
News Problems with online storage service causes many sites to present broken images.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Storage, Europe, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, software, online retail company, job, network
US online spending doubles for pre-Christmas weekend
News Web shoppers last weekend spent almost double what they spent on the corresponding weekend before Christmas last year, ComScore reports.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Sales strategy, Web sites, online retail, Sales, Consumer, online retail company, chairman, recession, retail company
Online retailers see drop in visitors
News Reflecting consumer pessimism toward the current economic climate, online retailers experienced a decline in visits for the eighth straight week, according to a report by analyst Hitwise.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Sales, music retailer, online music, online retail company, research director, retail company, News.com, Hitwise
Flat holiday sales for e-tailers?
News This holiday shopping season could mark the first time that online retailers fail to outperform the previous year's sales, say market watchers.
Tags: E-business, Forrester Research Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales, Computer, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company, retail company, ComScore Networks Inc., Web
eBay lays off 1,000 employees
News Online auctioneer, soon reporting third-quarter results, also announces plans to acquire Danish classifieds specialists Den Bla Avis and BilBasen for approximately US$390 million in cash.
Tags: Layoffs, Acquisitions, eBay Inc., Workforce, non-GAAP, GAAP, earnings per share, temporary worker, online retail company, retail company
Online security services reach 25 million cards
News More than 25 million credit and debit cards have been signed up to secure online payment services such as Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode.
Tags: Financial, Web sites, E-commerce, Security, Cardholder, Online Payment, MasterCard International, Fraud, Card, phone
Amazon unveils new online-payment services
News Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay put the e-tailer in competition with eBay's PayPal and Google Checkout.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Google Inc., Online Payment, Google Checkout, Sales, Amazon.com Inc., payment, online retail company, blog
Amazon invests in Engine Yard's cloud computing
News The US$15 million second round of financing will help the two-year-old Engine Yard develop a cloud computing platform for the programming framework Ruby on Rails.
Tags: Business applications, Venture capital, Utility computing, Open Source, Cloud Computing, software company, Environment, Amazon.com Inc., Ruby on Rails, software
AT&T joining cloud computing field
News AT&T is joining the burgeoning field of cloud computing service providers that offer networking and storage services.
Tags: Utility computing, Web services, Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Storage, Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage
MWg takes on HTC's Windows Mobile phones
News The Singapore-based, would-be HTC rival launches its latest smartphone and promises its devices will make Windows Mobile more usable.
Tags: Development/design, Smart phones, Mobile, Device, operating system, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, online retail company, keyboard, chairman
Lightning takes down Amazon cloud
News The latest disruption to a high-profile cloud-computing service follows outages from other providers, including Google and Salesforce.com.
Tags: Cloud computing, Virtualization, Google Inc., Xen, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, online retail company, software-as-a-service, data center
Amazon finds niche in iTunes-dominant market
News Research firm NPD says Amazon MP3 is gaining popularity among older music buyers. The online retailer is faring better than previous iTunes challengers.
Tags: Music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Amazon MP3, Sales, Los Angeles Times, digital music, Amazon.com Inc., online retail company, NPD Group Inc.
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