Recent numbers show that iTunes accounts for about 66% of the downloadable music market, with Amazon trailing a distant second at around 13%. There are two big reasons Amazon should be kicking the bits out of iTunes, but Apple’s stubbornly immovable music service only seems to keep getting bigger and stronger.
Amazon beats iTunes in …
If you try to sell you wares on Amazon, watch out: A new scam out there is sending fake Amazon receipts to merchants that look convincingly like the real ones and then claiming they never received their products. GFI Software discovered the software, which is free to download on the internet.
“The free program available online …
Is Amazon planning on taking on Netflix? The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the online giant is developing its own version of Netflix’s streaming video-on-demand service, with a plan to augment the existing Amazon Prime program by adding the ability for subscribers to stream movie and television.
If true, Amazon would …
Online shopping powerhouse Amazon has invested $175 million into daily deal site LivingSocial.com, the company announced Thursday.
(More On TIME: Groupon Becomes Social Shopping Network)
While we wait to hear about the possible purchase of competitor Groupon by Google via a rumored $6 billion deal, it appears Amazon and …
It may only be five years old, but Cyber Monday is quickly becoming one of the biggest shopping days of the year – on and offline.
(More on TIME.com: Ultimate Cyber Monday Deals)
The term was coined for the Monday after Black Friday where online retailers and websites provided their biggest sales of the year. Last year, it was the …
In an effort to compete with the awkwardness of gift cards and donations to charity made in your name, Amazon has just announced that it’s “the first major bookstore to offer eBook gifting.”
Kindle books will now feature “Give as a Gift” links and will be e-mailed to recipients, who can then read the books on any device that …
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has passed controversial new legislation to fight internet piracy that will allow the Justice Department to shut down domain names of sites that, in their view, enable piracy. The legislation was opposed by many, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amazon.com and Google, all of whom felt that …
If you’ve ever dreamed of movie screenwriting stardom but never quite known where to start, Amazon.com may be the place to go. The internet giant is branching out into movie production by launching Amazon Studios, a new user-controlled content generator and developer that aims to reward new filmmakers and screenwriters in addition to …
While many Amazon customers have been angered by a downloadable e-book claiming to be a pro-pedophilia guide, the online webstore is saying it is their right to sell the product, adding it would be censorship not to allow the product in their Kindle downloadable database.
In a statement to AOL’s TechCrunch, the company wrote, “Amazon …
Slacker Radio, a free streaming personalized Internet service, announced that you’ll be able to stream musiPreviewc via the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it comes out next month. The app will come pre-installed on the Galaxy Tab or you can download it for the Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPod touch, WebOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile …
Hope you started saving your paychecks early, Black Friday is just around the corner.
The slow trickle of ad releases began today, with some major retailers even advertising pre-Black Friday deals as a countdown to the biggest shopping season of year. We’ve got our eyes peeled for the best tech savings for your …
Amazon has announced that its Kindle software will be available for Windows Phone 7 handsets “later this year.” No exact availability date is mentioned in the company’s press release, though Amazon contends that the free app “will be the first major eBook application available for Windows Phone 7.”
Kindle for Windows Phone 7 will …
