Articles about Amazon.com – Page 4 of 6

Amazon cuts ties with affiliates in Connecticut, and how Jeff Bezos thinks about the sales tax issue

Amazon.com is shutting down its affiliate program in Connecticut, a move that comes after the state legislature passed a bill… Read More

Amazon still trying to figure out grocery delivery business

Ordering groceries online and having them delivered to your door is one of those concepts that always sounds so promising.… Read More

Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon.com is so big on tablets

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t spill the beans on any of the company’s reported plans to develop its own Android-based tablets… Read More

Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’

One question at Amazon.com’s shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary… Read More

WSJ report: A wave of Silicon Valley giants arrive on Seattle’s shores

Silicon Valley tech giants have been flocking to Seattle in recent for months, with companies such as Facebook, Salesforce.com and… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Microsoft ‘not driving the consumer revolution’

There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many… Read More

College bookstores question Amazon’s legal tactics

The National Association of College Stores, battling with Amazon.com over the online retailer’s textbook advertising, is questioning Amazon’s decision to… Read More

Don’t call it an app store: Amazon launches new ‘Mac Software Downloads’ section

Amazon.com today quietly launched a new section of its site dedicated to digital downloads of software for Apple Macs, providing… Read More

Amazon sells Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way’ for 99 cents

Lady Gaga released her new album today, and Amazon.com is using the much-anticipated second-full length release from the singer to… Read More

Latest on ‘App Store’ battle: Will the reality distortion field extend to the courts?

The nuances of trademark law, or any law for that matter, can sometimes lead to statements that seem strange to… Read More

Porn app store MiKandi follows Amazon Appstore onto AT&T Android devices

As we noted yesterday, AT&T is opening the door to third-party app stores on new Android devices, expanding beyond the… Read More

Amazon.com sells more Kindle books than paperbacks and hardcovers

Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than printed hardcovers and paperbacks, a milestone that comes four years after the… Read More

AT&T allowing Amazon Appstore on new (and some old) Android devices

One of the challenges for Amazon.com when it launched its Android Appstore in March was the inability for AT&T customers… Read More

Q&A: ‘Final Jeopardy’ author Stephen Baker on Watson, IBM, the future of e-books and the fate of humanity

Stephen Baker is the journalist and author who traced IBM’s Watson project from its inception and development all the way… Read More

Latest on Amazon tablets: Code names, processors and bigger offices near Apple?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has all but acknowledged that the company is coming out with its own multipurpose tablet computer… Read More

Amazon’s new Appstore gets first crack at PopCap’s new Android games

PopCap Games this morning announced an agreement that gives Amazon.com a limited-time exclusive deal for the new Android versions of… Read More

A $1M prize for the best product recommendation algorithm

How do you get people to buy more stuff on e-commerce Web sites? That’s the $1 million question, literally. RichRelevance… Read More

Another black eye for Amazon? Hackers may have used AWS in crippling Sony attack

Amazon Web Services has been taking some PR knocks in recent weeks. First, came the massive outage which sparked anger… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ mom: ‘I knew early on that he was wired a little bit differently’

What was Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos really like as a young boy? As part of a Mother’s Day program called… Read More

Amazon.com is threatening to pull out of Tennessee over sales tax issues

First Texas. Then South Carolina. Now, Amazon.com is reportedly considering canceling plans for two distribution centers in Tennessee. Once again,… Read More

Shares of Blue Nile fall after earnings report

Seattle online jewelry retailer Blue Nile today announced first quarter results, posting net income of $2.4 million on revenue of… Read More

Jeff Bezos goes nuclear, backs B.C. startup’s plan to create safe nuclear power

What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the… Read More

Amazon gets further into publishing with its own ‘Montlake Romance’ line

Apparently there’s more bodice-ripping going on in Montlake than we ever knew. Amazon.com is expanding its publishing business with a… Read More

Amazon.com spars with college bookstores over pricing and buyback claims

Is 60% back truly 60% back when it’s in the form of an Amazon.com gift card, not cash? That’s one… Read More

Amazon.com’s new tablet would be the anti-iPad

There have been tons of reports lately about Amazon.com planning to take on Apple’s iPad with its own color-screen, Android-based… Read More

Amazon launches ‘MyHabit’ upscale fashion deals site

Amazon.com this morning announced a new standalone site called MyHabit, a membership site offering daily sales on high-end fashion. It’s… Read More

UW study of Kindle usage shows why students aren’t shelving real books

Chalk one up for ink and paper — the real kind. A University of Washington study, released today, finds that… Read More

Chart: Google, Amazon hiring fast; Microsoft takes it slow

Microsoft added a net total of 684 employees worldwide last quarter — the largest increase in its employment since the… Read More

Amazon apologizes for outage, promises big improvements in communication

Amazon.com has issued a formal apology to customers who suffered through last week’s Elastic Block Store outage, offering a 10-day… Read More

Amazon.com: SEC launches inquiry into Texas tax dustup

The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting an inquiry into Amazon.com’s dispute with the state of Texas over a $269… Read More