Amazon News

Entrepreneurs who are interested in creating social apps and services may be in luck. This afternoon at Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters, venture capital firm Kleiner Per...

Verizon Adds Kindle App To Android

Verizon Wireless said today it will begin pre-loading Amazon's Kindle app on some of its Android phones. Verizon will pre-load the Kindle app on the new Samsung...

Amazon Readies Single-Serving Kindle Books

Amazon announced today that it will launch Kindle Singles, a new kind of Kindle book format that are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or the length of a few chapters of...

Amazon Purchases Spanish Online Retailer

Amazon.com said today it has reached an agreement to purchase Spanish Internet retailer BuyVip.com for $96.5 million....

Amazon Introduces New Royalty Option For UK Kindle Authors

Amazon said today its 70 percent royalty option for its Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK. Amazon began offering the same 70 percent r...

New Tablet from RIM, Amazon Making a Tablet Too?

Amazon may have launched a new web version of its Kindle software, but rumor has i...

Amazon Brings Kindle To The Web

Amazon.com today launched a beta version of “Kindle for the Web,” allowing users to sample books directly through browsers without having to download anything....

Amazon Launches New Version of Kindle for Android

Amazon announced a new version of Kindle for Android that comes with several...

Amazon Reportedly Makes Offer to Buy “Netflix of Europe”

If a report from Reuters is accurate, Amazon has made an offer to buy European video rental service...

Google Talks White Spaces, Google TV Coming This Month?

Google has a post on its Public Policy blog talking about moving forward on whit...

Amazon Acquires Amie Street Music Startup

Amazon has acquired music startup Amie Street, which the company actually helped fund. Unfortunately for Amie Street users, the service will...

Court Rules Government Must Get Warrant to Access Cell Phone Location Data

According to the EFF, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia rul...

Amazon to Take On Netflix With Subscription Service?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is working on a subscription servic...

Amazon Kindle Coming To Staples

Office supply retailer Staples said today it will begin selling Amazon’s Kindle in all of its stores this fall. Staples said it will sell the $139 version...

Inside the Google Phonebooth, Apple Refuses to Show “Green” Rank

Today seems to be redesign day. Digg began rolling out its new redesign...

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