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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...
Article | 27/09/2011 Amazon inks deal with Fox for 2,000+ streaming movies
Amazon announced Monday that it would add more than 2,000 TV shows and movies to its streaming video services this fall in a new partnership with Fox....