How’s this for a brazen move to steal business away from brick-and-mortar stores? Under normal circumstances, a shopper using Amazon’s Price Check app in a physical store can instantaneously check to see if Amazon sells the same merchandise for a better price. This Saturday, however, when a consumer uses the app, Amazon will undercut …
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Watch Out Amazon: Google Looking to Venture into Delivery Services
After watching Amazon corner the online retail market, Google is in talks with merchants to begin a delivery service that would allow users to order items online from local stores and receive them within a day. But does it make …
Source: Kindle Fire Shipments Reach 3-4M, Could Hit 5M by January
Amazon’s Kindle Fire has shipped between three and four million units, reports DigiTimes, for which the takeaway almost has to be: How’s your guesstimate margin of error a million units, one way or another?
Either way, OEM …
Black Friday Online Spending Up 26%, Apple and Amazon Increase Sales Fourfold
With being tasered and pepper-sprayed apparently on the menu for those brave and potentially misguided souls who braved the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sales in person this past weekend, perhaps it’s no surprise that online …
Two-Minute Video: Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire?
The 7-inch tablet market just got a whole lot more interesting, with the newly-released $199 Kindle Fire and the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. According to what you may have read, both of these tablets will surely kill the …
Let the Kindle Phone Rumors Begin!
Now that Amazon’s in the tablet business with the Kindle Fire, the rumor mill is starting to make noise about a Kindle Phone to follow.
In a research note, CitiGroup’s Mark Mahaney says “we believe an Amazon Smartphone will be …
What’s Inside Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A PlayBook
iFixit gazes into the heart of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and finds it packs a few surprises.
Amazon’s Free Lending Library Ignores Contracts with Publishers, Authors?
Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library–which allows Amazon Prime customers to “borrow” one free e-book at a time from a selection of more than 5,000–may have been warmly received by Kindle users when it was announced last week, but …
Amazon Releases New Kindles Early
To everyone who’s been waiting patiently for their new Amazon Kindles to arrive, here’s some good news: The company is shipping them out early, it announced today, with Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G orders being filled six …
Kindle Fire Reviews Run Hot and Cold
Amazon’s Kindle Fire arrives a day earlier than expected—here’s what everyone’s saying so far.
“What we really built is a fully integrated media service. Hardware is a crucial ingredient in the service, but it’s only a piece of it.”
Hey Amazon, How About a ‘Kindle Fire’ Smartphone?
After writing about Android fragmentation, I ran into a friend at a conference. He began ranting about a particular type of fragmentation: The way wireless carriers muck up Google’s operating system with junkware, promotional …
