Amazon MP3: Heading Towards British Soil?
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 »
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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 »
Aided By Amazon, Tribeca Film Festival Launches Reframe; Access To Films With Limited Release
Roughly 500 independent films with limited distribution are now available through Reframe, a new service from the Tribeca Film Festival that… Read more »
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Amazon Takes Equity Stake In DIY Shopping Site The Talk Market
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Update: Amazon Down, Takes Kindle Store Down With It
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@ D6: Bezos: Amazon To Launch PPV Video Streaming
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@ D6: Sony’s Stringer: PS3 Not On Life Support Anymore
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Amazon Drops Kindle Price By $40
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Borders Opens Online Store; Won’t ‘Out-Amazon’ Former Partner
By David Kaplan
As Borders finally takes control of its online store from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the books retailer has a lot of uncertainties ahead of it. AP… Read more »
Online Slideshow Editor Animoto Takes Funding From Amazon
By Joseph Weisenthal
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Gadget Round-Up: Kindle’s 2010 Estimates; BlackBerry Gets Touchy; Palm Downgraded To Sell
By Tricia Duryee
– Amazon’s Kindle: There’s some big expectations for Amazon’s Kindle, which allows people to buy books and access other content over Sprint… Read more »
Filings Watch: Pearson Bought Money-Media For $64M; Amazon.com’s Withoutabox Purchase: $19M?
By Rafat Ali
Some filings deep-dive this weekend:
– Pearson: According to its annual report, filed with SEC on Friday, Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the parent… Read more »
Earnings: Amazon Q1 Revs Up 37 Percent; Net Income Up 30 Percent; Stock Slips
By Joseph Weisenthal
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has reported Q1 revenue of $4.13 billion, a 37 percent increase from $3.02 billion. Net income was up 30 percent to $143… Read more »
Amazon’s Digital Business: Spending Today For An Uncertain Future
By Joseph Weisenthal
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OFT Clears Lovefilm’s Amazon DVD Acquisition
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Lovefilm’s acquisition of Amazon’s DVD rental business despite significant earlier competition… Read more »
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By Joseph Weisenthal
Publisher HarperCollins plans to launch an internet-focused unit that will eschew author advances, according to a somewhat odd WSJ report. B… Read more »
Amazon Launches Text Comparison And Shopping Application
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Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands
By Rafat Ali
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Amazon Tightens Noose on Print-On-Demand Publishers; Insists They Use Company’s Own Service
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Amazon-Pepsi Music Giveaway Deal Raises Retailers Concerns; Amazon Logo Taken Off
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Audible Shareholder Opposes Amazon.com Sale Deal; “Unfair Price”
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Amazon’s First Film Production Deal Going Ahead, Finally
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How Audible Sold Itself To Amazon; No Competing Bids; Price Came Down From Earlier Hopes
By Rafat Ali
Audible (NSDQ: ADBL), the spoken word company which is in the process of being bought by Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), has filed with SEC on a ti… Read more »
Lovefilm Buying Two Of Amazon’s European DVD Rental Businesses
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Thus Ends Audible’s Tyranny Of Low Profile
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Amazon Buying Audible In Deal Worth $300 Million; Should Boost Kindle Content
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Earnings: Amazon Q4 Revs Up 42 Percent; Net Income More Than Doubles
By Joseph Weisenthal
In a good test of the health of the US consumer, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) reported Q407 revenue of $5.67 billion, up 42 percent year-on-year… Read more »
Earnings This Week: Yahoo, Amazon, Google, NYT, Getty Images, Gannett
By Joseph Weisenthal
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Amazon.com To Go International With Its MP3 Music Store; Sometime and Somewhere
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Amazon's IMDB Buys Indie Film Site Withoutabox
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Amazon Vs Apple: The DRM's Still On For iTunes Service
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Amazon Confirms Sony BMG To Sell MP3s; Amazon First To Get The Big Four
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Sony BMG Joining Amazon Music Store; Final Major To Try DRM-Free: Report
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Media Storage Provider Nirvanix Gets Backing From Intel
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Amazon Takes Stake in Payments Service Bill Me Later
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