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The following is an excerpt from Danielle Kucera | April 12, 2013 | Bloomberg.com |
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has built automated systems that detect when a customer hasn’t paid the lowest available price for a product, or when the playback of a streaming movie is shoddy, and doles out refunds.
Focusing on ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from RYAN OWENS and JAKE WHITMAN | December 11, 2012 | abcnews.go.com |
'Tis the season for packing the mall and racking up the credit card bill.
There's a reason Christmas as become so crassly commercial. Retailers ring up as much as 40 percent of the entire ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Farhad Manjoo | November 28, 2012 | Slate.com |
Last Friday morning, I woke up with a single abiding need: I had to have a new Xbox 360. My old one died a few weeks ago—well out of warranty, it came down with the dreaded ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Reuters STAFF | November 27, 2012 | TheFiscalTimes.com |
Internet sales jumped 30.3 percent on Cyber Monday, making it the biggest online shopping day ever, according to IBM.
Monday was also a record day for sales of Amazon.com Inc's Kindle electronic devices, the online retailer said, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from IAN SALISBURY | September 21, 2012 | Smartmoney.com |
As the soaring popularity of e-books reshapes the book business, publishers and authors seem to be sitting on a big potential resource: the millions of out-of-print books still unavailable on e-readers.
Just how big is the opportunity? ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from David Zielenziger | September 9, 2012 | ibtimes.com |
Chances are there are few personalities as creative, disruptive and rich in the technology sector as Jeff Bezos, the founding CEO of Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer.
Not only has the 48-year-old native New ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Jeremy Greenfield | September 6, 2012 | Forbes.com |
What’s the future of digital reading?
If you were going to say the the new Kindle Paperwhite, nice try, but no cigar. (I would have accepted any of the new Kindle devices announced today, everything from the ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Nathan Olivarez-Giles | August 7, 2012 | Wired.com |
Amazon changed its customer privacy policies on Monday, closing security gaps that were exploited in the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan on Friday.
Previously, Amazon allowed people to call in and change the email address ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Julianne Pepitone | May 2, 2012 | CNN.com |
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Target will soon stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, the retailer confirmed Wednesday.
Target representative Molly Snyder said the company, which began carrying the Kindle in its physical stores ... 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 The Associated Press | March 28, 2012 | FoxNews.com |
The huge engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have been in the Atlantic for more than four decades.
Now an Internet billionaire and space enthusiast says he used sonar to spot ... 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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