Tag: Amazon

Amazon Grabs Exclusive Streaming Rights to CBS’ ‘Under the Dome’
Amazon has just landed another exclusive content deal for its Prime Instant Video service. This time it's the upcoming CBS drama Under the Dome. Here are the specifics...
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Amazon Coins Bring Virtual Currency To Kindle Fire Apps And Games
For the past year, Amazon has been making development for its Kindle Fire tablets easier and more lucrative. Now the...
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Amazon To Open Three New Texas Fulfillment Centers
Amazon announced today that it intends to open three new fulfillment centers in Texas, which the company says will create over 1,000 new jobs in the state. They'll be located in Co...
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Amazon Launches Elastic Transcoder In Beta
Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Elastic Transcoder for Amazon Web Services for transcoding video files between different digital media formats. You can use the service, which...
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Amazon Net Income Down 45% Year-Over-Year
Amazon announced its Q4 earnings today, which included a 22% increase in net sales, but a 45% decrease in net income, year-over-year for the quarter. The company's numbers disappo...
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Guy Builds Web Resume That Looks Like Amazon Product Page
Well, this guy sure has an interesting resume - or CV or whatever you want to call it. Upon first glance, you probably wouldn't even notice that this Amazon product page is actuall...
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Stephen King Publishes “Guns” Essay As Kindle Single
Best-selling author Stephen King has written a personal essay called "Guns," and has published it exclusively as a Kindle Single in Amazon's Kindle Store. Amazon made the announcem...
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Amazon Acquires IVONA, Makers Of Key Kindle Fire Features
Amazon announced Thursday morning that it has acquired IVONA Software, makers of text-to-speech technologies that power the Text-to-Speech, Voice Guide and Explore By Touch feature...
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Canadians Can Finally Purchase (Some) Kindles From Amazon.ca
Amazon.ca has almost everything the enterprising Canadian online shopper needs. Unfortunately, the Kindle is still not available despite it...
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‘Terms And Conditions May Apply’ Documentary Explores Google, Facebook Privacy
Often, when major Internet companies make product changes or announce new offerings, people wonder what that means for their privacy. One example in which we're currently seeing th...
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Amazon Mobile App SDK Makes Nice With Adobe AIR
We recently reported on how Adobe AIR and Flash are being used...
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Amazon Now Offers In-App Purchasing Services To PC Game Developers
Amazon has always been a huge player in games retail, but the company is quickly becoming a major player in game development as well. It's already heavily involved in mobile game d...
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Amazon Will Soon Open A New California Fulfillment Center
Amazon has announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Tacy, California, which the company says will create hundreds of full-time jobs at the million-square-foot site. This...
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Amazon Launches High Memory Cluster Instances For EC2
Amazon announced new High Memory Cluster instances for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These are designed for memory-intensive applications, like in-memory analyt...
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‘Zombieland’ Original Series Coming to Amazon Prime
Someone find Tallahassee some Twinkies (although it may be even harder now). Fans of Zombies, the film Zombieland, and streaming video services should be happy with ne...
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