Online shopping powerhouse Amazon has invested $175 million into daily deal site LivingSocial.com, the company announced Thursday.
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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.
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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 …
Amazon will be rolling out lending features to its Kindle e-book reader “later this year,” according to a company blog post. A similar feature exists for Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-book reader, which competes with the Kindle.
Lending books to other Kindle owners is a welcome addition to the popular e-book reader’s feature set, but …
You know those times where a magazine article just doesn’t hold enough information, but you don’t exactly want to read a book on the subject? Amazon is attempting to solve that problem with Kindle Singles, lengthy selections (which to them means twice as long as a New Yorker article, yet shorter than a full book – think 30 to 90 pages) …
This information is all still in the early rumor phase, so take it with a grain of salt. There some loose talk that Amazon is working on its own version of an Android app store which has, in turn, led to speculation that Amazon may even be working its own Android tablet.
The app store rumor contains far more details: a 70/30 royalty …