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Amazon’s gigantic operating loss sends shares sliding 10% after hours
Amazon saw big losses again in its Q3 2014 earnings, missing analyst estimates and reporting a whopping operating loss of $544 million.
Amazon to open holiday pop-up store in terrible, tourist-filled Manhattan neighborhood
Amazon is reportedly opening a pop-up store in Manhattan this holiday season.
Amazon’s Q2 loss sends stock falling; company expects huge operating loss next quarter
Amazon saw a steeper-than-expected net loss in its Q2 earnings report, sending stock down in after-hours trading.
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Profits up, Amazon claims it’s “working hard to keep Fire TV in stock”
Amazon’s revenues and profit were up for the first quarter of 2014. In its earnings report, the company didn’t mention the fact that it raised the price of Prime, but instead focused on everything that Prime members get.
Sony ends 20p price promotion in its UK Reader Store
Sony is ending a price promotion that it had been running in its U.K. store since last July. The promotion sold select ebooks for just 20 pence, and Amazon matched the discounts on Kindle books in the U.K.
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Amazon is down; yes, you read that right (Update: it’s back)
Folks looking to browse or buy on Amazon.com’s site are getting a blank page.
Court says Amazon use of “Appstore” isn’t false advertising
The claims of trademark infringement and unfair competition are still pending. But Amazon’s small win could prove to be very important as the company continues to turn its mobile content and hardware business into a more direct competitor of Apple’s.
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MobileTechRoundup podcast 276: Kindle Fire goes HD
On this week’s audio podcast, Matt and Kevin discuss what was — and wasn’t — shown off at the Nokia Lumia event. Both hosts are e-book readers, so did either buy a new Kindle? What about the new Kindle Fire HD tablets — worth buying or wait and see?
Greenpeace slams Apple despite its clean power data center plans
Despite that Apple is building a large solar and fuel cell farm at its data center in North Carolina, Greenpeace say in a new report that Apple is one of a couple of Internet companies that are falling short on sourcing clean power for data centers.
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RIM finally comes clean, but time not on its side
The year of denial is over at Research in Motion. In a frank and overdue conversation with investors Thursday, new CEO Thorsten Heins finally admitted that the situation was dire and that “substantial change” is needed. Does he have enough time to effect that change?
Five Companies Steer All News
Prior to the digital age, there were three companies that, acting like undersea currents, steered all news. Namely, I am referring to the bi…
Amazon Adds Clinton Alum Gorelick To Board
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding a power presence in the other Washington and a corporate governance advisor to its board: Jamie Gorelick, who…
Oh Baby, Lovefilm’s CEO is Bouncing To Mothercare
After building up Lovefilm and selling it to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), CEO Simon Calver is leaving for an unusual new challenge in retail, as CEO…
Updated: Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon All Mulled Bids On RIM
What the hell would Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) have done with Research in Motion? (NSDQ: RIMM) A report Tuesday indicated that Amazon considered ma…
Amazon Includes Circular In Weekend Newspapers
Among the Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack ads bundled with my Saturday New York Times this morning is a surprise: an 8-page circular from A…
LoveFilm Hits Back At Netflix With Warner Bros UK Deal
Amazon’s LoveFilm has struck back against deal-happy video streaming rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing its first UK rights agreement with…
Amazon Goes It Alone In China, With A New Name And URL
The American e-commerce site Amazon has made some big changes to its China site today – there’s now a new name and a new short URL, in a s…
Lovefilm Mulls Streaming-Only Service In Some Countries
Lovefilm appears ready to expand in to new countries – minus the DVDs.
The movie subscription service currently operates in the UK, Germany…
Amazon Caves To Apple’s ‘Appstore’ Pressure In Germany
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may not yet be making much headway with its U.S. effort to stop Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) using ‘Appstore’ for its parallel And…
Amazon Resists Pressure To Disclose Data On Carbon Footprint
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) revolutionized the retail industry in the United States, and for several years has had a strong presence in Europe and A…
Top Sites Go Down After Amazon Outage
Amazon’s Web Services, which powers online services for a number of top sites, suffered an outage overnight and some well-known sites are do…
(Less Than) A Month In The Life of Tech
They say, when it comes to technology, a lot can happen in a month. Indeed! Being offline for three weeks, I have come back to a different tech landscape which means Eric Schmidt is no longer running Google and even the Facebook movie is a smash-hit.
Who Will Create iTunes for the Cloud?
Let’s face facts: Digital media management is a complete mess. Apple knows this and is looking to transition iTunes to the cloud, but companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon no doubt have ambitions that will lay serious competition at the gate of Cupertino’s walled garden.
Leaderboard: Europe’s Biggest Tech Exits
Europe’s digital media economy is doing just fine, if investor returns are anything to go by – Lovefilm is only one of 13 online software co…
Amazon Aims for Quality in Its Android App Store
Amazon is officially taking the wraps off its long awaited Amazon App Store for Android with the formal launch of a developer program. The Amazon App Store, which won’t arrive until sometime later this year, is aimed at creating a high-quality destination for Android app buyers.
Rovi Sues IMDb Over Online TV Guide Patents
Rovi Corp. appears to be making a play to get some leverage in the electronic TV guide market. The company has filed its second patent lawsu…
Amazon MP3 Hits the BlackBerry
The Amazon content juggernaut rambles on with the release of the Amazon MP3 app to the BlackBerry platform. The music store is available in the BlackBerry App World and brings the popular features “Free Song of the Day” and “Amazon’s Daily Deal” to the BlackBerry faithful.
Amazon Denies Dropping WikiLeaks Because Of ‘Government Inquiry’
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) says that a “government inquiry” did not drive its controversial decision to stop hosting WikiLeaks’ site Monday. In…
Mobile Bits: Nokia’s N8 Fault; iOS 4.2; PlayStation Phone?
— Nokia’s N8: It was supposed to be the flagship device that changed the game for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), but the N8 has run into a glitch. “A v…
Penny Smartphone Sale at Amazon Wireless
Those looking for a new smartphone should check out the penny sale at Amazon Wireless. BGR reports that all Verizon Droid smartphones are only one red cent through Nov. 22, and investigation shows there are also BlackBerry devices, including the brand new Torch on AT&T.
Read That Amazon Studios Contract Carefully, Kids
Amazon Studios offers aspiring filmmakers more exposure by giving them a chance at prize money and the opportunity to see their projects made into “major feature films.” But with no name talent involved, what they really get is a chance to surrender their IP.
Amazon Opens Windowshop on iPad Screen
Amazon isn’t just about Kindles; it sells millions of items, and those are now easier than ever to find on the iPad with the release of Windowshop. The app puts a touch-friendly face on the Amazon online store, designed to help customers find what they want.
Google’s Android Market Neglect Opens Door for Amazon and Others
Amazon’s rumored Android Store could add confusion and more work to the lives of developers. But in talking to some developers, they see a lot of potential in the store and improved prospects for apps, which says a lot about the state of Android Market.
Where Is Android’s Go-To Place for Paid Videos?
Android doesn’t offer a complete solution especially when it comes to video content. Sony is trying to correct the problem with the release of a new Crackle video app, but it only points up the need for a more comprehensive solution, something hopefully Google is working on.
Updated: BlackBerry PlayBook Gets Two E-Reader Apps
RIM unveiled the BlackBerry tablet yesterday, and indicated it is aimed at the enterprise professional. Tablets make good e-readers, so RIM was showing off the Kobo e-book reader app on the new PlayBook. Amazon also announced its intention to put the Kindle app on the PlayBook.
Books: The Reports of My Death are Greatly Exaggerated
E-books are growing in popularity, as Amazon is fond of pointing out. Despite that growth, pundits are boldly predicting the end of physical books, but looking at the numbers makes it clear that e-books aren’t replacing the paper variety any time soon.
Juicy Tidbits Leak Out About BlackBerry Tablet To Be Announced Next Week
Research In Motion may be ready to unveil its response to Apple’s iPad as early as next week, according to a WSJ, which reported a scattersh…
Amazon: Death by Cloud for Traditional Software
Though few seem to notice, Amazon is not-so-quietly building out its Amazon Web Services (AWS) to take on traditional enterprise computing…and win. While today AWS mostly undermines only the software businesses of open-source vendors like Red Hat, tomorrow it will likely challenge the giants of enterprise applications.
The 5 Most-Used Android Apps on My Phone
The Android Market is a hustling bodega of app goodness that is growing by leaps and bounds. To borrow a famous line, no matter what you need to do with an Android phone, there’s an app for that. Here are the most-used apps on my EVO.
About Those 99-Cent TV Episodes Being Sold On Amazon …
If you want to own Glee episodes at a cut-rate price, better get your Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) downloads fast. The e-tailer is countering Apple’s…
Amazon Launches Startup Challenge
Amazon Web Services today launched its fourth annual startup-challenge, a contest that is open to startups that are using the Amazon platform in innovative ways. The big winner gets $100,000 prize — half in cash and half in AWS services. Previous winners include Ooyala.
Amazon Mobile Sales Topped $1 Billion In Past 12 Months
Jeff Bezos is bullish on mobile, whether it’s Kindles, smartphones or what he calls the “new category” of wireless tablet computers. Why? Am…
Amazon Pulls The Free Speech Card To Fight The Tax Collector
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is making a very bold argument in its latest standoff with state tax collectors: The company charges that North Carolina…
paidContent Quick Hits: Last Weekend In 2009 Edition
» Wonder how Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) gets away without charging most customers sales tax? Randall Stross explains — and argues that…
Dynamic Pricing Comes to Amazon's Cloud
Amazon, with its Spot Instances service announced today, is bringing dynamic pricing to the cloud by allowing customers to bid for compute cycles. The move helps Amazon boost margins by ensuring unused capacity doesn’t sit idle, and may even help it charge more for urgent jobs.
Will Google or Cisco Determine Our Future Broadband Networks?
At the FCC broadband workshop held this morning, researchers argued for a new Internet architecture built upon infrastructure currently used in large…
Apple's iTunes Increases Its Lead In The Music Market
Eighteen months after surpassing Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) as the biggest music retailer in the United States, Apple’s iTunes now accounts for a…
Amazon Cuts More Affiliates To Avoid Sales Tax
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) understandably doesn’t want to charge state sales taxes — and to avoid doing so, it’s cutting loose thousands of market…
Slideshow Creator Animoto Raises $4.4 Million From Amazon, Other Investors
Animoto, a startup that takes a user’s images and music and then automatically creates a video slide show compilation from them, has raised…
Amazon Buys Mobile Product Search Startup SnapTell
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) search subsidiary A9.com has purchased SnapTell, a startup that offers users a way to search for product information…
Amazon Countersues Discovery Over E-Commerce Patents
Now it’s Amazon’s turn: the online retailer is suing Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) over four patents related to e-com…
Report: Amazon Will Introduce A Big-Screen Kindle This Week
Updated: A big-screen Kindle may be coming to the market sooner than anybody expected. The New York Times reports that a larger version of A…
Amazon Acquires Popular iPhone E-Reader App Stanza
A small but potentially mighty acquisition by Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), which has picked up e-reader start-up Lexcycle and its popular iPhone app…
10-Q Watch: Value Of Amazon’s Private Investments Plummeted 64 Percent The Past Six Months
Just how much value have startups lost since the economy took a nosedive in September 2008? Ask Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), which often takes stake…
Earnings: Amazon Revenue Beats Street; Media Sales Up 7 Percent
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) generated Q4 revenue of $4.89 billion and operating income of $244 million — revenue growth that exceeded analyst conse…
Price Hikes Dampened iTunes Sales
Last week was the first week of iTunes’s new, steeper pricing on some tracks, and consumers voted with their wallets, according to Billboard…
Amazon May Be Gaining Traction In The MP3 Market
It’s not like iTunes is exactly looking over its shoulder — the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) music store has a dominant position in the MP3 market. B…
Amazon Brings MapReduce to AWS
Amazon (s AMZN) today said it would bring web-scale computing power for use in workloads such as web indexing and data mining…
Cashing In On The Used Video-Game Market: Now It's Amazon's Turn
The challengers to GameStop’s reign as the leader of the used video games market keep lining up. Now Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has launched its ow…
Amazon Launches Game Download Service
*Amazon* hasn’t provided any meaningful sales info on its digital music and book downloads — but today’s launch of a downloadable games sto…
Earnings: Happy Holidays For Amazon, As Profits Rise 9 Percent; Kindle Demand Unusually Strong
The holiday was depressing for most retailers, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) did pretty well comparatively. The online retailer said Q4 net income…
Gaming Roundup: Amazon’s Xbox Live Sale; GameTap Reduces Freebies
— *Amazon* discounts Xbox Live Gold membership: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has knocked 40 percent off the price of a 13-month Xbox Live Gold membe…
Broadband Content Bits: Roku/Amazon VOD; Video Stats; DECA/Bush League; RipCode; Metacafe/NBA
— Roku player gets *Amazon* VOD: Owners of the Roku “Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Player” will soon also be able to download content from Amazon’s…
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…
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…
Amazon.com Promotes Low-Priced Products By SMS; Users Can Reply To Buy
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…
Earnings Call: Amazon Sees Kindle As Additive, Not Cannibalistic
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CFO Thomas Szkutak wrapped up his summary of the e-tailer’s Q3 earnings telling listeners that the company began seeing…
Earnings: Amazon Q3 Profits, Revs Up, But Poor Outlook Sends Shares Down
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…
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…
Amazon Launches CDN As It Enters A Highly Competitive Field
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…
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…
Amazon Adds Streaming for Both PCs and Macs
Amazon has extended its paid video service to streaming, Macs, and compatible Sony BRAVIA devices and televisions. It previously only made movies…
Digital Music Roundup: 120GB Zune; Interactive iTunes Albums; Amazon-SoundUnwound
Some digital music related stories, as we draw closer to our EconMusic conference in London on Sept 23rd:
— A bigger Zune: Microsoft (NSDQ…
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…
Earnings: Amazon Q2 Revs Up 41 Percent; Stock Down After Hours
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…
TiVo Teams With Amazon On ‘Watch It, Buy It Now’ Option
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is expanding its relationship with Amazon on a promise to deliver what marketers have long hoped for: allowing TV viewers…
Five Nines on the Net is a Pipe Dream
The New York Times today finally got around to noticing that when web sites go down, people are increasingly likely to get…
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…
Apple and Amazon Keep Mum on Movies
If you want any indication as to how the movie download business is going, you’ll have to look elsewhere than yesterday’s earnings…
Earnings: Amazon Q1 Revs Up 37 Percent; Net Income Up 30 Percent; Stock Slips
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…
Amazon’s Digital Business: Spending Today For An Uncertain Future
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) isn’t yet at the point where investors are demanding returns — or even hard data — on its digital initiatives. The com…
Amazon Does Damage Control On Its Print-On-Demand Demands
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is now doing some damage control over its plans to control its print-on-demand value chain, and has issued an open l…
Amazon’s First Film Production Deal Going Ahead, Finally
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is doing what its Seattle mate Starbucks hasn’t yet been able to pull off successfully: producing and promoting a mo…
Yahoo Doesn't Get It
Yahoo, you have a $40.56 billion market cap and have been serving up web pages, ads and services for over a decade.…
Earnings: Amazon Q4 Revs Up 42 Percent; Net Income More Than Doubles
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…
Amazon Patent Engine Rumbles On
Say what you will about the state of the patent industry (and I know you will), Amazon.com has made some bold moves…
Amazon.com To Go International With Its MP3 Music Store; Sometime and Somewhere
A slightly vaporware announcement from Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), no doubt trying to piggyback the Midem music conference starting this weeken…
Earnings: Amazon Q3 Sales Jump 41 Percent; Income Soars
The market was expecting big things from Amazon, and the company has delivered. Revenues in Q3 surged 41 percent to $3.26 billion from $2.31…
Broadband Content Bits: Sony BMG/imeem; Fox; Joost/Ripe; Starz
— Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG Joins imeem: Following the lead of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), Sony BMG is providing access to its artists’ musi…
First Look: Testing Out Amazon MP3
A quick test of Amazon’s (NSDQ: AMZN) new DRM-free “Amazon MP3” offerings suggests that the service works as advertised, perhaps even exceed…
Amazon.com Launches MP3 Store; UMG and EMI As Majors
As expected, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has launched its online music store, called “Amazon MP3”. It is a DRM-free, MP3 format store with over…
Amazon's Music Service Could Launch Tuesday; Bezos' Approval Required
So says a story on Billboard.biz: Amazon.com
Self-Publisher iUniverse Bought By Rival AuthorHouse
In the book online self-publishing world, some M&A: AuthorHouse, one of the largest in the sector, has bought rival iUniverse, a self-publis…
Amazon.com's Music Service Coming Next Month?
Is the world ready for it? Amazon.com’s (NSDQ: AMZN) ready to launch its world-changing music service next month, the 500th such service cla…
Amazon Invests In Popularity-Priced Indie Music Retailer Amie Street
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has led a first-round investment in Amie Street, an unusual digital music retailer for independent artists. Prices for…
Earnings: Amazon Profits Soar; Revs Grow 35 Percent; Acquisitions
Thanks to lower prices that spurred greater sales, Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Q2 profits ballooned 254.5 percent to $78 million from $22 mill…
Amazon Acquires Audiobook Indie Brilliance Audio
Amazon continues to expand its on-demand publishing strategy, this time acquiring Brilliance Audio for an as-yet-undisclosed sum. Brilliance…
Amazon To Launch DRM-Less Digital Music Store; EMI First Major Tenant
It’s official … Amazon has put together enough pieces to announce plans to launch a digital music store later this year. In its release th…
Amazon.com Buys Digital Photography Review Site Dpreview
An interesting acquisition by Amazon.com: it acquired London-based digital camera review site Dpreview.com. Financial terms of the deal were…
Earnings: Amazon 1Q Profit More Than Doubles
Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) reported that its 1Q net income leaped 115 percent to $111 million, while sales rose 32 percent to $3.02 billion ve…
Amazon Now ‘Talking To Majors’ On DRM-Free Music Store
Sources in the London Times say Amazon has approached all the major labels “in the past fortnight” and stated its desire to launch an online…
Amazon MP3 Store En Route; Universal To Expand Tests Of DRM-Free Music Files: Report
Amazon is aiming for launch of an MP3 download store in May, according to Billboard sources. Also, Universal Music Group is expected to expa…
Xbox's Surprising News on Movie Downloads; Amazon.com's Unsurprising One
Someone’s finally realizing it makes more business sense for that broadband pipe to get the downloaded movies onto TV…it is that simple, i…
Earnings: Amazon Wins New Friends
Amazon.com may have won new friends on Wall Street after posting a better-than-expected third quarter. The company expects to have…
Amazon Unboxes Showtime Deal; Instant Media Gets 20th Century Fox Movies, TV
Amazon has expanded the TV shows available via its Unbox service thanks to a distribution deal time with Showtime. Episodes of Weeds, The L…
Amazon’s A9 Drops Most of Its Ambitions; Obits Continue to Roll In
Those trying to get that A9 Instant Reward link on Amazon working don’t have to worry about it anymore. That feature of the search engine is…
ETC @ MIT: Jeff Bezos On Clouds, Web Services, Anything But Unbox
On the day that his company is releasing a patch to its Unbox movie-download service, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is in Cambridge talk…
Amazon To Upgrade Unbox and Toss Two Bucks at Early Customers
We’ve covered at length the varying experiences our writers and readers have had with the Amazon Unbox video download store. Apparently some…
MIXX: Harvey Weinstein On Downloads: “Business Of Convenience”
A fascinating interview about movie making and Harvey Weinstein’s career with precious little having anything to do with interactive media.…
Amazon & Tivo In Talks About Movie Downloads
Amazon and Tivo are in discussions about creating a new feature that would automatically copy films downloaded online through Amazon’s Unbox…
HMV Struggles On With Digital, Apple Is The Roadblock
Music and books retail group HMV is abandoning its sleeping-with-the-enemy tactic of selling books via Amazon, relaunching its own retail si…
FCC Filings: Amazon Kindles E-Book Reader?
A few days after the debut of flawed Amazon Unbox Video comes word of what looks like e-book reader pland. The 4.9″x7.5″X0.7″ device describ…
Amazon Unbox: Analyst React
Jason Asaeda, Standard & Poor’s (via BW): “We see the breadth of available content and Amazon’s large customer base as positives. But we thi…
Amazon Unbox Update: Download Times, Etc.
During my first look at new Amazon Unbox Video, I experienced slow downloads — 90 minutes-plus for 1G at low transfer speeds well below 400…
Amazon Unbox: Some Oddities and Idiocies
Staci has listed her first experience and some oddities of Amazon.com’s movie and TV download service below. I’ll list some oddities and idi…
Amazon Unbox Video: First Look
It took seconds to make my first Amazon Unbox Video purchase with Amazon One-Click and 90 minutes to download the 45-minute, 1.03G season fi…
Amazon.com Launches Its Video Download Service In U.S.
As expected this week, Amazon.com has launched its much-anticipated download service, called Unbox Video. This is only for U.S.
Some topline…
Amazon.com Movie Service May Launch This Week
It was supposed to launch last month, but didn’t. Now Variety reports it could come this week, which means within the next day or two. Apple…
Amazon.com’s Movie Service: Now Called “Unbox Video” Or “Lumiere”?
Updated: Business2blog has the provisional terms of service of the video service, here. Some good info in it, and doesn’t sound very differe…
Amazon.com To Produce A Movie Based on “The Stolen Child.”
Amazon.com is making its ambitions clear, and in its first feature-film venture, it has optioned screen rights to Keith Donohue’s bestsellin…
Earnings: Amazon Profit Drops 58 Percent In 2Q06; Sales Reven Up 22 Percent
Work in progress. Ah, the art of writing earnings releases. It takes Amazon (AMZN) five paragraphs to get to the 55 percent drop in operatin…
Amazon.com’s Movie Service To Launched Mid-August; Subs + A La Carte
Amazon.com’s movie service, which has been in the works for some time now, will launch mid-August, report AdAge. The service, called Amazon…
Search Wars II: Amazon’s A9, Alexa Dump Google For Windows Live
Microsoft’s Windows Live has displaced Google on Amazon’s A9 and Alexa services. Blog Google Operating System, which first reported the chan…
More Details on Amazon.com Downloading Plans
NYT has some more details on Amazon.com’s movie and video download plans (Variety had most of these details in a January story, though): it…
HarperCollins Chief Calls Amazon More Of A Threat Than Google
Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK, told attendees at a London Book Fair session that Amazon could make more trouble for publishers…
More Details On Amazon.com’s Music Service; Plans Pre-Loaded Branded Music Players
Amazon.com, which has been developing its online music service for a long time now (and we reported on it here first), has been thinking of…
