Tag: Amazon

10000 Year Clock Gets Funding From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is throwing some of his capital behind an ambitious project that has been decades in the making. $42 million to be exact. A team of scientists and engineers...
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Amazon Attempts Sales Tax Workaround in Texas
The debate regarding the way Amazon.com does its online business has been going on for some time now. The major point of contention has been the fact that for years, Amazon has be...
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Google’s Matt Cutts on Why Amazon Often Ranks Well
If you search for products a lot, using Google, there's a fairly good chance you've seen Amazon at or near the top of the results pages quite a few times. Someone sent a question a...
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Amazon Local Launches for Daily Deals
Clearly the daily deals space is on fire. That was true even before Groupon filed for its IPO...
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Cost Effectiveness of Amazon RDS Pay-Per-Usage Software Pricing
Established software vendors face a difficult balancing act between meeting customer demands for pay-per-usage cloud pricing models while guarding against revenue erosion on tradit...
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Amazon Mac Download Store Launched to Compete with Apple Mac Store
Amazon has launched the Mac Download Store, a direct competitor to Apple's own Mac App Stor...
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Amazon Tries Lady Gaga Release Again
When Lady Gaga's newest album Born This Way was released, Amazon offered the release in digital format for $0.99. Naturally, their web infrastructure almost collapsed. T...
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Amazon Kindle 3G with “Special Offers” Arrives
As the price battles heat up in the world of e-readers, Amazon has announced that it is offering its Kindle with 3G at a lower price - if you can tolerate the advertising. The n...
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Kindle Outsells Print Books, Says Amazon
The news is coming in today from Amazon that digital books on their popular Kindle e-reader are now outselling all print books on Amazon.com. Surely this signals the end of print...
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Amazon Talks Preventing Future Outages, Says It’s Sorry
Amazon has finally released a big statement regarding the...
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Amazon Outage Casts Shadow Over Cloud Perception
Amazon recently suffered some problems with some of its servers, which left some sites...
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Why Hootsuite Understands Loyalty
Last week, several web services like Hootsuite, Livefyre, Quora, Foursquare and more crashed as Amazon Web Hosting’s EC2 servers took a nosedive off the diving board and into an...
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Kindle For Android Upgraded for Honeycomb Tablets
Amazon announced a new update to its Kindle for Android app to bring new features specifically designed for Honeycomb and the tablet experience...
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Amazon EC2 Server Issues Cause Web Havoc
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service has caused a bit of disarray around the web as servers have failed. Among the sites/servic...
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Kindle Library Book Lending Coming Soon from Amazon
Amazon announced today that it will be launching a Kindle initiative later this year that will let users borrow Kindle books from libraries - 11...
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