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Broadband Content Bits: Roku/Amazon VOD; Video Stats; DECA/Bush League; RipCode; Metacafe/NBA
By Tameka Kee
– Roku player gets *Amazon* VOD: Owners of the Roku “Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Player” will soon also be able to download content from Amazon’s… Read more »
A Wii Christmas: Console Finally Gets VOD; Pumps Up Amazon’s Holiday Sales
By Tameka Kee
Two news bits about the Nintendo Wii snuck out during yesterday’s Christmas Day lull: Nintendo announced that the Wii would finally be getti… Read more »
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USA Today Will Be Sold On Amazon’s Kindle
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship USA Today is the latest paper to be sold through Amazon’s Kindle. The top-selling U.S. paper has yet to show up… Read more »
Amazon’s IMDB Acquires Box Office Mojo; Will Add Box Office Data To Service
By Rafat Ali
IMDB, the online movie information and community site owned by Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), has done another acquisition: it has bought popular movi… Read more »
Sony, Kindle E-Reader Sales Grow Before Christmas; But Still No ‘iPod Moment’
The twist in this plot? “Turns out Sony (NYSE: SNE) E-Book Readers sell after all,” WSJ.com notes. Indeed, it’s sold about 300,000 of them a… Read more »
UK Round-Up: Google Ads; Amazon MP3; News Corp’s Sun Online; EMI Execs
Some snippets from our sister site paidContentUK:
– Google turns to hard alcohol, relaxing ad rules in January: Here’s one for the New Yea… Read more »
Amazon Brings MP3 To UK, Baits Rivals With £3 Albums
By Patrick Smith
The best way to take on the UK MP3 download market? If you’re Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), by stealth. Today the e-tail giant quietly brought its MP… Read more »
Haven’t Ordered Your Holiday Kindle Yet? Never Mind
*Amazon* is promoting the heck out of its Kindle digital reader on its front page and across the e-commerce site but won’t be shipping any u… Read more »
Amazon.com Promotes Low-Priced Products By SMS; Users Can Reply To Buy
By Tricia Duryee
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is making use of this economic downturn by launching a new service that will alert consumers by text message about l… Read more »
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Earnings Call: Amazon Sees Kindle As Additive, Not Cannibalistic
By David Kaplan
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CFO Thomas Szkutak wrapped up his summary of the e-tailer’s Q3 earnings telling listeners that the company began seeing… Read more »
Earnings: Amazon Q3 Profits, Revs Up, But Poor Outlook Sends Shares Down
By David Kaplan
Although Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) was able to beat an analysts’ consensus forecast of $0.25 per share earnings, shares were still down as much as… Read more »
Amazon Gets Reflexive, Picks Up Casual Games Provider
By Tameka Kee
Kindle owners, you may be able to get some gaming time in between reading the WSJ and Proust very soon, as Amazon.com has acquired Reflexive… Read more »
YouTube Adds Affiliate Links To Its Videos; Amazon and iTunes Downloads
By Rafat Ali
And what took so long? YouTube has added a no-brainer: affiliate download links from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and iTunes for music and other kind… Read more »
@ Digital Music Forum West: Pandora Founder Says Honeymoon Is Over
By Matt Kapko
Correction: The iPhone has helped Pandora double its growth rate from 20,000 new users a day to almost 40,000 and it accounts for half of P… Read more »
Adobe Denies Security Problem With Amazon Video Service
By Joseph Weisenthal
Last Friday, Reuters filed a story with the title: “Hole in Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) software allows free movie downloads”. The allegation, backed… Read more »
New Dylan Album Will Be Streamed On NPR Pre-Release
By now, we should be close to jaded, if not completely there, by albums appearing online pre-release. I thought I was — until this little n… Read more »
MySpace Music Launching Tonight: 9 PM PT/12:00 AM ET
By Joseph Weisenthal
Update: As of about midnight on the west coast, the site is live. We’ll have reactions and a full review later this morning, after we’ve ta… Read more »
Amazon Confirms Music Store For The Google Android G1
By Tricia Duryee
As rumors indicated yesterday, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) confirmed today that it will provide an Amazon MP3 music store for the T-Mobile G1, w… Read more »
Amazon Launches CDN As It Enters A Highly Competitive Field
By Rafat Ali
This was to be expected after Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing service already leading the way in cloud… Read more »
Amazon Still Not Talking On UK MP3 Store Arrival; Maybe Next Month?
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is keeping tight-lipped on reports it will launch its MP3 music store in the UK in October. NMA also said MySpace (NSDQ:… Read more »
Amazon Does the Obvious, Finally: Adds Video on IMDb
By Rafat Ali
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has finally done what many have been asking it since the time the company bought IMDB: it has enabled video on the film… Read more »
Amazon, WSJ Try New Alcoholic Revenue Streams: Selling Wine
The Wall Street Journal has a wine franchise in columnists Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher that’s hard to match on the content side. Now… Read more »
Industry Moves: MSFT Ad Vet Utzschneider Joins Amazon To Head National Ad Sales: Report
By David Kaplan
After a decade at *Microsoft*, Lisa Utzschneider is leaving her post as GM, sales, for the *Microsoft* Digital Advertising Solutions group,… Read more »
Digital Music Roundup: 120GB Zune; Interactive iTunes Albums; Amazon-SoundUnwound
By Rafat Ali
Some digital music related stories, as we draw closer to our EconMusic conference in London on Sept 23rd:
– A bigger Zune: Microsoft (NSDQ… Read more »
Amazon: No New Kindle This Year; ‘Sometime Next Year Earliest’
What a buzz kill … Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) spokesman Craig Berman tells the NYT: “Don Read more »
Amazon Buys Another Books-Focused Social Site Shelfari
By Rafat Ali
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying up another books-focused social network Shelfari, three weeks after it acquired AbeBooks, which holds a 40 per… Read more »
Times, FT Join Indie On Amazon’s Kindle Reader
News International and FT Group have launched The Times and Financial Times on to Amazon’s clunky Kindle e-reader, even though the gadget is… Read more »
Citigroup Analyst Switches Gears, Hypes Amazon’s Kindle As ‘iPod Of The Book World’
Citigroup’s Mark Mahaney has upped his original estimate of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle sales, forecasting 380,000 units sold in 2008. That’s… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Whedon’s Sing-Along; Hulu HD; Bebo Series; ‘Scary City’; ‘Tropic Thunder’
– Joss Whedon’s ‘Sing-Along’ resurfaces on Hulu: Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again. Sci-fi director and writer Joss Whedo… Read more »
Amazon.com to Acquire Canadian Used Books Site AbeBooks
By Rafat Ali
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has bought Canada-based online used books site AbeBooks. No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement. Inte… Read more »
Amazon Launches Online Payment Services
In a move to rival eBay’s (NSDQ: EBAY) PayPal and Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Google Checkout, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched on Tuesday two online… Read more »
Sony Opens Up E-Book Reader To Other Online Stores; Still Limited
By Rafat Ali
Finally, a competitive move from Sony (NYSE: SNE) worth writing about, though it has its own caveats: it is opening up Sony Reader, its e-bo… Read more »
Earnings: Amazon Q2 Revs Up 41 Percent; Stock Down After Hours
By Joseph Weisenthal
Online at least, the consumer is still strong, as retailing giant Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) reported Q2 revenue of $4.06 billion, up 41 percent fr… Read more »
TiVo Teams With Amazon On ‘Watch It, Buy It Now’ Option
By David Kaplan
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is expanding its relationship with Amazon on a promise to deliver what marketers have long hoped for: allowing TV viewers… Read more »
Interview: Bill Carr, EVP of Digital, Amazon: On Amazon’s New VOD Service
By Rafat Ali
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched its Amazon VOD streaming service in limited beta earlier today, and we wrote about some of the details last nig… Read more »
Amazon.com’s Streaming Service To Launch in Limited Beta Tomorrow; Links With Sony Bravia
By Rafat Ali
Updated: The service has launched now..the page is here.
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching its new streaming online movie and video serv… Read more »
Amazon Acquires Fabric.com For, Well, Fabric
By Joseph Weisenthal
A reminder of the many items on Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) plate… The retailer is acquiring Fabric.com, expanding into an area where its curren… Read more »
Amazon MP3: Heading Towards British Soil?
By Rafat Ali
Is Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) readying a launch of its MP3-based store in the United Kingdom? Amazon executives have been visiting British label h… Read more »
Amazon E-Book Sales To Hit $2.5 Billion In 2012; Will Add $330 Million To Op Income: Analyst
By Joseph Weisenthal
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has been famously tight lipped on anything to do with data on the Kindle. Just about the only hard stat e… Read more »
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