Tagged: Amazon.com & News
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First-quarter sales at Amazon rise 34pc to US$13.18bn News
27.04.2012 Sales at e-commerce giant Amazon.com hit US$13.18bn during its first quarter ended 31 March 2012, marking a 34pc increase from year-ago revenue of US$9.86bn. -
Amazon.com's sales in Q4 rise 35pc to US$17.4bn News
01.02.2012 E-commerce giant Amazon.com saw sales of its Kindle e-reader nearly triple during the holidays, bringing in a 35pc increase in sales to US$17.4bn during the fourth quarter, the... -
Amazon.com picks best music of the year News
12.12.2011 Adele and Lady Gaga have produced the best music of 2011, e-commerce giant Amazon.com's lists of the top tunes of the year reveal. -
Amazon Android tablet to get October release? News
14.07.2011 Online retailer Amazon may release its own tablet computer in October to rival Apple’s iPad, reports suggest.Categories: Computers, Digital Media, eCommerce, Hardware, Mobile, Mobility, Phones, Wireless Communications -
Amazon Web Services builds easy cloud templates for firms News
25.02.2011 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new CloudFormation product that makes it easier for developers and businesses to create collections of AWS resources and provision them... -
Tech CEOs named as top wealth creators in US News
21.12.2010 Priceline.com’s Jeffrey Boyd, Apple’s Steve Jobs and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos have been named No 1, No 4 and No 5 top wealth creators respectively in the US. -
Hardware fault in Dublin blamed for Amazon.com outage News
13.12.2010 A hardware fault on Amazon.com’s servers in Dublin was to blame for a brief outage last night, and not a hactivist attack from hacker group Anonymous. -
Social commerce revolution: Amazon invests US$175m in LivingSocial News
03.12.2010 As talks between Google and Groupon continue, interest in the social buying business is growing as illustrated by the news that Amazon.com has invested US$175m in LivingSocial,... -
Music stars embrace iTunes rival and pirate killer F4M News
23.11.2010 Music stars including Kanye West, Cheryl Cole, Nelly Furtado, Duran Duran and Bryan Adams have all shown their support for a new technology that its creators claim is 1,000... -
Amazon creates online studio for aspiring filmmakers News
17.11.2010 Amazon has launched Amazon Studios, inviting filmmakers and screenwriters worldwide to submit full-length movies and scripts in order to make money and get discovered. -
Facebook overtakes eBay in valuation News
15.11.2010 Social networking giant Facebook – which will later today launch a new email service – has overtaken eBay to become the third-largest US internet company by valuation, it... -
Amazon offers newspapers and magazines 70pc royalties News
09.11.2010 Amazon.com has revealed that magazines and newspaper publishers will soon be able to earn a larger share of revenue from each title they sell in the Kindle Store. For each... -
Amazon.com buys Quidsi for US$545m News
08.11.2010 Web retail and cloud giant Amazon.com has signed an agreement to acquire e-commerce firm Quidsi, operator of sites like Diapers.com, Soap.com and BeautyBar.com.Tags: E-commerce, Amazon.com, -
Amazon releases iPad app to showcase entire store News
26.10.2010 Amazon.com has launched a complete rewrite of Amazon.com specifically for the iPad called Amazon Windowshop, which takes complete advantage of the iPad’s responsive, multitouch... -
New Kindle: faster, cheaper, lighter, sleeker News
29.07.2010 Amazon has introduced a new version of its Kindle e-book reader. This latest generation is not only less expensive than the previous models, but also faster at refreshing pages... -
Financial results this week News
19.07.2010 Companies scheduled to release their financial results the week of 19-23 July. -
Deals done this past week News
01.03.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector, including Yahoo! and Twitter’s content-sharing partnership.Categories: Business, Mergers & Acquisitions -
Microsoft and Amazon.com in patent deal that covers Kindle, Linux News
23.02.2010 Software giant Microsoft and the world’s largest online retailer Amazon.com have signed a patent cross-licence agreement that will give each company access to the other’s patent... -
Amazon backs down over battle of the e-books News
01.02.2010 Online retailer Amazon.com has conceded to demands from publisher Macmillan that it charge more for electronic versions than the US$9.99 it currently charges.Categories: New Media -
Kindle e-reader sales drive bumper Q4 revenues for Amazon News
29.01.2010 Amazon.com now sells six Kindle e-books for every 10 physical books and it is estimated that the company has sold more than 2.5 million units of the devices.