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Article | 24/05/2013 Amazon now selling Kindle Fire HD tablets in Australia
Amazon will officially sell its Kindle Fire HD 8.9" and Kindle Fire HD tablets in Australia from next month, almost nine months since the devices offi...
Article | 26/04/2013 Wall Street Beat: Earnings highlight smartphones as key to growth
With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market res...
Article | 22/04/2013 Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform
Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as...
Article | 1/04/2013 Former Microsoft man building 'something secret' at Amazon
The former general manager of Microsoft's Windows Phone developer platform started a new job at Amazon on Monday, leading a team that's working in a n...
Article | 28/03/2013 Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site
Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.
Article | 28/03/2013 Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site
Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.
Article | 12/02/2013 American Express lets Twitter users shop via tweet
American Express is rolling out a new service on Twitter that lets card holders make purchases on the social network through specialized tweets.
Article | 9/01/2013 Amazon dominating Japan e-book rivals months after launch
Amazon.com's Kindle Store is dominating domestic rivals in Japan just months after its launch in October, according to a survey by a local research fi...
Article | 13/12/2012 Apple e-book settlement with EU will allow Amazon to set prices
Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union.
Article | 5/12/2012 Amazon connects node.js to AWS services
Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud comp...
Article | 28/11/2012 Amazon introduces data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of Cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a l...
Article | 7/12/2011 Kindle Fire gets knocked on usability
Amazon's Kindle Fire "offers a disappointingly poor user experience," according to an expert on usability.
Article | 15/11/2011 Kindle Fire: What the critics are saying
Gadget gurus have been testing out Amazon's Kindle Fire media tablet ahead of the device's Tuesday ship date and the consensus is that it's a solid al...
Article | 8/11/2011 Barnes & Noble launches Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble launched its widely expected tablet Monday, taking on the soon-to-be released tablet from book-selling rival Amazon with a machine ...
Article | 3/11/2011 Amazon sets up Kindle lending library
Amazon.com announced the launch of an e-book lending library for Kindle users, that allows Amazon Prime members to borrow books for free, as frequentl...