Tag: Amazon

Jeff Bezos Is Buying The Washington Post
The Washington Post Company just announced that Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is buying its publishing business, including The Washington Post newspaper for $250 million. I...
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Amazon Gets Emmy Nod For Instant Video Technology
Netflix got a lot of attention when three of its original shows earned a total of fourteen Emm...
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Amazon Kicks Off a Round of Pilots with 5 New Kids Shows
Back in April, Amazon debuted 14 new pilots - a mix of kids shows and adult shows. T...
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Amazon and Overstock.com Start New Battle in Book Price War
Amazon has slashed the prices on a bunch of hardcover books in what appears to be a response to a recent promotion from Overstock.com to undersell the online retail giant on hundre...
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Amazon Goes On Hiring Spree For U.S. Fulfillment Centers, Creates 5,000 Jobs
Amazon announced on Monday that it is creating over 5,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. across its fulfillment network, and it is starting the hiring process now. According to the...
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Amazon Q2 Sales Up 22 Percent, Made $15.7 Billion
Amazon usually posts generally favorable earnings results. Its latest quarterly earnings report continues that trend. Amazon announced today that it made $15.7 billion in net s...
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Amazon Options Movie About Comet The Non-Red-Nosed Reindeer
Amazon Studios, Amazon's original content production arm, announced today that it has optioned a film project calle...
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Amazon Shares Elevator Pitches For Original Movie Projects ‘Orange Curtain’ And ‘Her F’ing Sisters’
Amazon Studios, Amazon's original video content creation arm, has released a couple of "elevator pitch" videos for projects it has on its movie development slate. The first one...
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ICANN Says Amazon Can’t Own .Amazon Domain Name
ICANN finally wrapped up the application process for new generic top level domain names la...
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Most-Pirated Show Game of Thrones Is Also Amazon’s Best-Selling Show of the Year
In another blow to the "piracy kills sales" talking point, it appears that people are buying a lot of Game of Thrones DVDs. Why is this significant? Well, it's because...
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Amazon Is Sold Out Of PS4, Xbox One Launch Units
Just yesterday, GameStop announced that it had completely sold out of its initial allotme...
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Amazon Inks Deal with Miramax, Adds New Titles to Prime Instant Video
Amazon has reportedly inked a deal with Miramax pictures that will bring...
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‘App Store’ Drama Is Finally Over as Apple, Amazon Stop Fighting Over It
In mommy and daddy have stopped fighting news, Apple and Amazon have both requested that a lawsuit over the use of the term "app store" be dismissed. More specifically, Apple h...
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Amazon To Launch Three New Kindle Fires This Year [Rumor]
It's another year and that means another Kindle Fire. It doesn't look like Amazon will be introducing any new models this year, but it will be substantially upgrading all three of...
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Amazon Launches Jet City Comics, Will Reprint George R. R. Martin’s Comics
You're never spoiled for choice when it comes to comic publishers, but it is pretty hard to compete on the level of DC and Marvel. Amazon thinks it has what it takes, however, with...
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