The eagle-eyed folks at Domain Name Wire noticed a domain transfer of note today. Amazon, which purchased a company called Quidsi in 2010 for $540 million, seems to be creeping...

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Last week, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney published a report identifying that Chinese suppliers of Kindle hardware are also in preparations to build an Amazon Kindle Phone.  This comes soon after Amazon's launch of their $200 Kindle Fire device and signals that Amazon is serious about extending their reach to customers to include not just the content they consume, but the hardware upon which they consume it.  This is a transformation for the company and signals the potential for a transformation [...]

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Much has been written about how the Kindle Fire is essentially a portable door to the Amazon store. I think today's free app on the Amazon Appstore clearly shows the strength of the ecosystem behind the Kindle Fire. Today you can get a free copy of a license key for the full version of Documents To Go, which normally costs $14.99.


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Amazon is a household word these days. It's recent release of the Amazon Kindle may signal it's transition into a new stage, and it could become as essential a word as "Apple".  What's not as well known, is the story of its growth in the last 17 years.


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Today during the company's Q3 earnings call, Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak predicted record sales of Kindle and Kindle Fire products. He also said that since much of the profit from...

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200 Amazon fulfillment centers are supported by Amazon's own services. Its engineers are focused on supporting big issues and problems, and the Amazon S3 services expansion over the past five...

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Amazon has announced that the Kindle Store is now available in France, as well as the availability of the first French-language Kindle device. The French store offers  825,000 titles, including 35,000 French-language Kindle books. All 28 L’Express best sellers are included – Amazon says this is the the most in a digital store in France. It's available [...]

Read More: Amazon launches Kindle Store in France and first French language Kindle device

Amazon has announced that the Kindle Store is now available in France, as well as the availability of the first French-language Kindle device. The French store offers  825,000 titles, including 35,000 French-language...

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The world is still coming to terms with the tragic loss of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, many are making their way to their local Apple Store to pay their respects, tweeting messages of condolence and remembering the man that helped shape today's technology industry. With news of Jobs' passing still fresh, with many waking up [...]

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As expected, today Amazon announced their new tablet called the Kindle Fire. As we reported earlier today, the Kindle Fire will cost $199, and will be available in November. The price of the Fire is $50 less than earlier reports, so that was a pleasant surprise. Other surprises from Amazon include three new additional products to the Kindle family that have e-Ink displays, one with an e-Ink touchscreen and the other with 3G connectivity. However, the biggest surprise to me is that Amazon has dev [...]

Read More: Surprise! Amazon Also Has A New Browser For Their Tablet

Despite the widely accepted public knowledge before the big reveal today (including pre-announcement photos on TechCrunch), Amazon managed to pull of a Steve Jobs type "one more thing" this morning by announcing not just one but four new Kindle models and a new web browser that uses its own considerable cloud services.


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Amazon’s stock climbed 2.3% this morning after the company made the announcement it has signed a deal to stream Fox movies and TV shows like "24″ and "Arrested Development" as a service for Amazon Prime members.


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All eyes in retail (not to mention social media) darted to Walmart, dubbed the world’s largest retailer, in April 2011, when it surpassed competitors and forged into the social-commerce sphere by purchasing social commerce start-up Kosmix (now called @WalmartLabs) for a reported $300 million.The new addition shifted the retailer’s focus to e-commerce, which seemed dramatic, considering Walmart had allowed Amazon.com and competitors to shuttle to the throne of online retail space unchallenged yea [...]

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Amazon.com has had its fun with the Internet retail business, and now it's ready to take on social media and gaming.

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Today, third-party mobile application store GetJar is publicly launching its GetJar Gold service, which has been in beta testing for the past month. The new service presents a viable challenge to Amazon's Appstore and its time-limited "free app of the day" by offering an entire catalog of premium Android applications for free. The apps are high quality, ad-free and are available for download at any time.

Read More: Watch Out Amazon: GetJar Launches A Full Catalog Of Premium Android Apps For Free

It's called simply the "Amazon Kindle". But it's not like any Kindle you've seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And it runs Android.

Rumors of Amazon making a full-fledged tablet device have persisted for a while. I believe we were one of the first to report on the possibility from a credible source — the same person who accurately called Amazon's Android Appstore. That source was dead-on again, it just took Amazon longer than anticipated to [...]

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With the exception of Apple's iPad, it is hard to point to a tablet computer that can be considered successful. The only two slate form factor devices (other than the iPad) that have captured any mindshare at all are Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook Color. The Nook Color became a general purpose Android tablet earlier this year although it does not have a camera, GPS and other hardware features now commonly associated with tablets. Speculation is high that Amazon will enter the tab [...]

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Walmart has worked its way up to become one of the largest online movie businesses in the U.S. The retailer surpassed time-honored companies like Amazon and Sony, and even fired a direct hit at the top seller of movies, Apple’s iTunes store.


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Amazon has launched a free iPhone and iPad mobile shopping app for students before the back-to-school rush. The App allows the students to check and compare prices of textbooks and other stuff by simply scanning the barcode. Students will also have an option to sell their old stuff. The App also comes with a free Two-Day shipping for the first six months.

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Layar was the app (first available for Android) that brought the concept of its version of Augmented Reality (AR) to the general public. It present textual and graphical information related to the world around you laid over a camera view of the world. Layar provides numerous layers of overlay information for their app produced by the company itself as well as third party developers. These layers of content include information about places to eat, who is tweeting around you and informaton from Wi [...]

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