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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Launches 69-Cent Music Store
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has started to sell digital song downloads for just 69-cents. They are hoping the move drives more traffic to their e-commerce website and increase the activity of their music storage services. The price cut is effective for song singles and is not a new promotion. However, Amazon did upgrade the site and [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Speaks Out About Server Meltdown
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had to publicly apologize for a major outage that occurred when the company’s web host service crashed, causing many major companies to go offline for a few hours and some for a few days. Other sites that experienced online disasters caused by the server crash included Foursquare, Quoro, and Reddit in addition [...]
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Tax-Free Sales May Come To An End
States that are desperate for money have a new target to blame and demand money from: Amazon and other online retail stores that do not collect sales tax. Texas sent a bill to Amazon for $269 million hoping to get money they claim is owed to them. Amazon hasn’t been collecting sales tax on products [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Enters Video Streaming Service Competition with Prime
In the world of video streaming services, Netflix has stood alone as the premier provider of this type of service. Netflix subscribers can choose from a variety of delivery methods, including at home delivery, movies via the Internet and live streaming movies delivered directly to your TV and certain mobile devices. In the past, Netflix [...]
Internet Company Values: Facebook Worth More Than Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Second Only to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)
As companies begin posting their fourth quarter revenues and valuations, the three top internet companies are revealed. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) tops the list of US internet companies with $192.28 billion valuation, followed by Facebook Inc.’s valuation of $82.9 billion on the secondary exchange SharesPost Inc., and Amazon at $75.2 billion (a 9.5% drop). Amazon.com is [...]
LivingSocial Members Get Half Off Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Gift Cards
LivingSocial, the $175 million startup Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently invested in has a big deal for its members until tomorrow at 8:00 am EST. LivingSocial is offering their members the opportunity to purchase a $20 gift card for Amazon merchandise for just $10. The offer on Amazon has already sold over 200,000 vouchers for the [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Deals App Released For iOS Users
Amazon wants to ensure their customers are always kept in the loop regarding great deals and savings on popular items. The most recent mobile app released by the retail giant allows iOS users to get up to the minute details on Amazon’s Gold Box and Lightning Deals. Anyone familiar with these deals understands the importance [...]
Can Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Sell 8 Million Kindles in 2010?
E-readers are having a fantastic year in terms of sales. It was on many people’s holiday wishlists and many purchased them for themselves and loved ones in 2010. Giving the gift of books has never been easier with purchasing the Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle, which now lets you also gift Kindle versions of books for those [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Releases a Kindle App for the BlackBerry PlayBook
Electronic books that are available for Kindle Apps are a great present for the holiday season. Users are able to give their favorite books, or books that they think the recipient would like. Giving these books are an easy and inexpensive way to get some holiday shopping done right from your home. As stated in [...]
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Now Has Support For Gifting Books
Released just in time for the holidays, Amazon.com introduced a highly requested feature of the Kindle that allows anyone to easily gift a book to another Amazon.com user to download to their Kindle. This feature was announced in an Amazon.com press release last week. All customers have to do is visit the Kindle Store on [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kicks Off Holiday Shopping With Black Friday Deals Week
Each year, the day after Thanksgiving is the official start of the holiday shopping season. Black Friday represents one of the busiest days for merchants who offer discounted prices on holiday gifts. In recent years Cyber Monday has been added to the shopping schedule as a day when online shopping deals can be found. For [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Now Lets Users Send Gift Cards Via Facebook
Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon.com, Inc. announced a brand new method of allowing users to send Amazon.com Gift Cards to their friends on Facebook. According to Amazon.com’s press release, Amazon.com customers are now able to connect to their Facebook account on Amazon.com and create a personalized electronic gift card that will be [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Announces Plans To Open Their Own App Store
Amazon has a reported plan to open up an applications store for the Android-operated smartphones, according to a recent post appearing on the Wall Street Journal website. This would be big competition for the existing Android Market that is run by Google. The mobile application marketplace is quickly becoming very competitive. The Apple iPhone app [...]
Walmart Sales of Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad Start Friday
After much speculation, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has finally revealed it will begin selling Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad at hundreds of stores through the United States starting on October 15, with more stores to be added in time for the holiday shopping season which starts late November. iPads can be purchased in-store at Walmart locations and [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announces launch of “Kindle for the Web”
Amazon’s e-book strategy seems to be based on two things. The first is that you buy once and can then read anywhere (thanks to the much pushed Kindle apps). The second consists of pushing the Kindle and the Kindle version of books as much as they possibly can. The newly announced “Kindle for the Web” [...]
Amazon (AMZN:NASDAQ) Offering Deals for Moms
The latest promotion from Amazon (AMZN:NASDAQ), called Amazon Mom, offers users three free months of Amazon Prime (usual cost $79 for 3 months). In addition to the benefits of the Amazon Prime luxuries (2 day turnaround on shipping) there are added features such as discounts on baby products. To keep moms buying they will extend [...]
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Ups Pricing for Xbox Subscriptions For First Time
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to raise its subscription prices for Xbox Live Gold online gaming in the United States as well as in three other countries starting November 1. Annual Gold memberships will increase from $49.99 to $59.99 and the three-month rates will rise from $19.99 to $24.99. One-month subscriptions will go up to [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Launching Wireless Kindle to Fend Off iPad
As Apple Inc’s (NYSE: AAPL) iPad gains ground in the electronic reader market Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) bets their new release of their $139 wireless-only Kindle Wi-Fi will pull in new readers. Rather than relying on cell phone 3G for connections, the new wireless model will depend on connections via internet wi-fi. The trend continues to show [...]
Gifting Kindle E-Books From Amazon Not An Option (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Amazon has a growing popularity of their Kindle e-reader and mobile apps. This is likely due to their recent price cut of the device from $259 to $189 (on their smaller model). The company even claims that they sell more Kindle e-books than printed hardcover books. However, the Kindle e-books still sell far less copies [...]
Amazon Announces New Kindle Updates (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Amazon has recently shipped out three major updates to their Kindle electronic-book system, expanding its capabilities. However, these updates also seem to be confusing Kindle’s identity as an e-reader. Last Sunday, they announced a multimedia upgrade to the free Kindle application for Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad which they debuted last year. On these [...]
Amazon Among Vendors Against Plan to End Saturday U.S. Mail Delivery (NASDAQ: AMZN)
The United States Postal Service has suggested a variety of ways to address their budget deficit. One of them includes ending Saturday mail delivery altogether. Amazon.com, one of the largest websites of Internet sales, is speaking out against the proposal for the U.S. Postal Service to end their Saturday mail service. With the increase in [...]
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad Out Performing Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had recently admitted that the “Kindle”, an ebook reader, just can’t compete with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. Amazon is not overly worried about this fact though, saying the Kindle will find a niche with the serious reader, where as the iPad is meant for a broad range of general uses, which happens [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Introduces New, Improved WebStore
There is a new version of the Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) WebStore available for sellers to expand their e-commerce businesses, according to InternetRetailer.com. The new version will allow online sellers to build up and operate multichannel e-commerce businesses. They can sell their wares through their own site and through Amazon. In March, Amazon made a sneak peak [...]
Borders (NYSE: BGP) to Overtake Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Borders (NYSE: BGP) Australia has recently announced the release of “Kobe” an ebook reader, and it’s intentions to steal Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) international crown for readers of both books and ebooks in Australia. Borders has made plans to distribute the “Kobe” to it’s Australian Borders chain of stores, and will also give the Kobe readers [...]
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Getting Social With Kindle
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping to remain competitive in the e-reader sector since the advent of the iPad. The company has just announced their upgrade plans for the ebook reader Kindle 2.5. Kindle user can now interact with friends online via Twitter and Facebook which until now was not possible unlike with the Apple iPad. [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Wins With Apple’s (NYSE: APPL) iPad Release
Apple (NYSE: APPL) released the iPad this weekend according to schedule, and is considered an alternative to Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Sony and Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ)tablet PCs. Amazon is likely to benefit greatly from the iPad, despite the fact that it is a direct competitor to the Kindle. The Kindle [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Takes on Apple’s (NYSE: APPL) iBooks with Kindle App
There is still about two weeks to go before the iPad becomes available for consumers to purchase on April 3rd, but Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is already prepared to compete with Apple’s (NYSE:APPL) iBooks with an application designed for Kindle. The Kindle app for iPad will use Amazon’s WhisperSync technology to enable synchronization of bookmarks in [...]
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