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The following is an excerpt from Peter Kafka | October 27, 2012 | allthingsd.com |
Michael Paull, who oversaw Sony Music’s digital business, is headed to Amazon.
Sources say Paull, who had been at Sony for the last four years, has already left the music label. No word from Amazon about the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Farhad Manjoo | August 21, 2012 | Slate.com |
Every morning I wake up too early, reach for my iPad, and scan the morning’s tech headlines. This is a pathetic enough existence, but the Web sites I frequent aren’t helping. Take the tech-news behemoth TechCrunch, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JOHN LETZING | June 30, 2012 | WSJ.com |
Large electrical storms on the east coast disrupted power for Amazon.com Inc. cloud-computing operations Friday night, causing outages for customers such as Netflix Inc. and photo-sharing service Instagram.
The Seattle-based online retailer operates data centers with servers ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Eric Savitz | April 26, 2012 | Forbes.com |
Amazon.com is, well, on fire.
The online retailer and Web infrastructure provider reported Q1 revenues of $13.18 billion, up 34%, and ahead of the Street consensus at $12.9 billion. Net income was 28 cents a share, quadruple ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Barbara Thau | February 8, 2012 | DailyFinance.com |
The Internet is abuzz with the word that you might soon be able to buy a new Kindle at an actual Amazon (AMZN) Store.
The e-commerce giant is reportedly opening its first pilot store in Seattle, something ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Dan Gallagher | February 1, 2012 | MarketWatch.com |
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Investors took down shares of Amazon.com Wednesday after the e-commerce giant reported a surprising sales miss for the fourth quarter — leading some to wonder whether the company’s breakneck growth over the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Jonnelle Marte | January 31, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet helped account for a 35% spike in sales during an otherwise disappointing fourth quarter, the company reported today. Though buyers may have been attracted to its $199 price – less than ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool | January 26, 2012 | DailyFinance.com |
Amazon.com (AMZN) may be gearing up to start charging for its unlimited video streaming service.
If what industry sources are telling the New York Post holds up, the leading online retailer would go ... Read More
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Is Amazon.com Inc. going to be known as the Netflix Inc. of 2012?
Last year, Netflix NFLX +0.04% was the poster child for the public companies that couldn’t get out of their own way. It callously raised prices for its content at a time when consumers ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Steven Levy | First published: November 13, 2011 | Wired.com |
“What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”
The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford shirt and jeans, is ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Eric Savitz | December 5, 2011 | Forbes.com
Amazon Web Services general manager Tom Phillips was killed Saturday when a small plane crashed into Lake Huron, the Seattle Times and others reported.
Philips was flying to a home he owned on Mackinac Island at the time ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: "The Opinion Pages" at nytimes.com | Updated October 25, 2011 02:24 PM
Amazon is getting a lot of heat these days over its attempts to push its way into the hearts and minds of readers, writers and the larger book culture -- even comic books. Indeed, ... Read More
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