Tag: Amazon

Main Street Fairness Act Draws Amazon Support, eBay Opposition
On Friday, Senate Democrats introduced the "Main Street Fairness Act" again. It was also introduced in in the House by Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) during the last session of Congr...
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Amazon Earnings Released
Amazon announced its second quarter earnings today, and that includes an increase in sales of 51% (YoY) to $9.91 billion. Not bad. Better than what Wall Street had expected, in fac...
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Amy Winehouse’s Death Prompts Promotions, Controversy
Over the weekend, the music world was hit with the loss of Amy Winehouse. The troubled 27-year-old singer was found dead in...
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Amazon Tablet On The Way, According to Sources
Today, there are more rumors about Amazon's leap into the tablet market. The Wall Stre...
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Apple’s Injunction Against Amazon Is Denied
Amazon can keep using the phrase "App Store" in its Appstore for Android, which, according to Apple's recently-filed injunction, it would cause confusion for consumers. This means...
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Should the Internet be Taxed?
On Friday, a new California state law goes into effect that will tax Internet sales through affiliate advertising. Rather than pay such taxes, online retailers like Amazon will ins...
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10000 Year Clock Gets Funding From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is throwing some of his capital behind an ambitious project that has been decades in the making. $42 million to be exact. A team of scientists and engineers...
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Amazon Attempts Sales Tax Workaround in Texas
The debate regarding the way Amazon.com does its online business has been going on for some time now. The major point of contention has been the fact that for years, Amazon has be...
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Google’s Matt Cutts on Why Amazon Often Ranks Well
If you search for products a lot, using Google, there's a fairly good chance you've seen Amazon at or near the top of the results pages quite a few times. Someone sent a question a...
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Amazon Local Launches for Daily Deals
Clearly the daily deals space is on fire. That was true even before Groupon filed for its IPO...
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Cost Effectiveness of Amazon RDS Pay-Per-Usage Software Pricing
Established software vendors face a difficult balancing act between meeting customer demands for pay-per-usage cloud pricing models while guarding against revenue erosion on tradit...
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Amazon Mac Download Store Launched to Compete with Apple Mac Store
Amazon has launched the Mac Download Store, a direct competitor to Apple's own Mac App Stor...
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Amazon Tries Lady Gaga Release Again
When Lady Gaga's newest album Born This Way was released, Amazon offered the release in digital format for $0.99. Naturally, their web infrastructure almost collapsed. T...
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Amazon Kindle 3G with “Special Offers” Arrives
As the price battles heat up in the world of e-readers, Amazon has announced that it is offering its Kindle with 3G at a lower price - if you can tolerate the advertising. The n...
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Kindle Outsells Print Books, Says Amazon
The news is coming in today from Amazon that digital books on their popular Kindle e-reader are now outselling all print books on Amazon.com. Surely this signals the end of print...
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