Tagged: Amazon.com & News
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Amazon.com reports 22pc hike in first-quarter sales to US$16.07bn News
26.04.2013 E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com has revealed its first-quarter sales have gone up 22pc to US$16.07bn, compared with US$13.18bn in the first quarter of 2012. -
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book reaches No 1 on best-seller lists News
26.03.2013 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, has reached the No 1 spot on two influential best-seller lists, after having only been released... -
Amazon’s fourth-quarter sales rise 22pc but profit drops 45pc News
30.01.2013 Robust sales during the holiday period pumped e-commerce giant Amazon’s fourth-quarter revenue up 22pc to US$21.17bn from US$17.43bn a year earlier. However, profit for the... -
Amazon.com acquires IVONA Software News
24.01.2013 E-commerce giant Amazon.com has snapped up voice technology specialist IVONA Software for an undisclosed sum. -
Amazon.com uncorks Amazon Wine marketplace News
08.11.2012 Wine lovers in the US can now shop for merlots, sauvignons, zinfadels and more in Amazon Wine, a new online marketplace from e-commerce giant Amazon.com that features more than... -
Internet is the motor engine of global growth in the 21st century - OECD News
04.10.2012 The top 250 ICT firms by revenue boosted employment by 4pc in 2010 and 6pc in 2011, with hiring growing the fastest among internet firms which grew employment by 29pc, according... -
Amazon.com unveils Textbook Rental News
07.08.2012 College students across the US can now save money on buying textbooks by renting them from Amazon.com instead, as the e-commerce giant has just opened a new chapter in its... -
The week in gadgets: an auto-tracking camera mount, an Android USB adapter, and in-flight iPads News
23.07.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as two surfers create a camera mount that can track a subject all by itself, a USB adapter costing less than US$2 lets Android users connect various...Categories: Week in Gadgets, Phones, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech, ComputersTags: Video, iPad, Entertainment, Samsung, Smartphones, Galaxy S III, Android, USB, Peripherals, Amazon, Amazon.com -
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...