Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Amazon's third-party deals must change, German watchdog says: paper
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Asus, Acer kill off netbooks as Chromebook tops popularity chart on Amazon
Once the rising stars of the personal computing industry, netbooks have fallen out of grace in the last few years, replaced in consumer's hearts by tablets or more powerful ultra-slim laptops. Samsung, Dell and Toshiba already walked out of this market as far back as 2011 in favor of higher-margin products. Now, Acer and Asus, the last two major netbook manufacturers are giving the form factor a final blow.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Judge rejects part of Apple App Store suit vs Amazon
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected part of Apple Inc's lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc's use of the term App Store, ruling Apple cannot bring a false advertising claim against the online retailer.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Amazon tops customer satisfaction survey for eighth straight year
A new report from ForeSee reveals that Amazon is once again the most popular online destination with regards to customer satisfaction. The store that claims to have everything from A to Z is no stranger to being in first place in the online shopping survey as they have earned the honor for eight straight years.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Krikorian quits Amazon board
(Reuters) - Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Blake Krikorian has quit the board of Amazon.com Inc about a year and a half after joining to take up an unspecified role at the buyer of a company he owned.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Analysis: Amazon's Christmas faux pas shows risks in the cloud
(Reuters) - A Christmas Eve glitch traced to Amazon.com Inc that shuttered Netflix for users from Canada to South America highlights the risks that companies take when they move their datacenter operations to the cloud.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Netflix suffers Christmas Eve outage, points to Amazon
(Reuters) - An outage at one of Amazon's web service centers hit users of Netflix Inc.'s streaming video service on Christmas Eve and was not fully resolved until Christmas day, a spokesman for the movie rental company said on Tuesday.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Analysis: Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013
(Reuters) - When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google Inc to scan and digitize product catalogs a decade ago, the seeds of a burgeoning rivalry were planted.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
U.S. reaches e-books settlement with Penguin
(Reuters) - The Justice Department said on Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Pearson Plc's Penguin Group in the government's investigation of alleged price-setting in the e-book market.
Amazon's sub-$200 smartphone now rumored for mid-2013, Foxconn scores contract
Rumors about an Amazon-branded smartphone have been swirling for the better part of a year, and although the company hasn't confirmed anything, a new report suggests that the device is on track for release sometime next year, roughly two quarters behind the previously-speculated late 2012 launch. It's worth noting that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had already kind of squashed hopes of a holiday release in September when he revealed that new products were on the way, but that they wouldn't be ready until 2013.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Amazon CEO gets deployable airbag patent for portable devices
While many companies are working to develop sturdier materials and smarter designs to help protect devices from hard impacts, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and co-inventor Gregory Hart have been cooking up less elegant solutions. The duo received a patent this week that outlines various elaborate concepts to save gadgets from damage, such as airbags that deploy when a device's sensors detect that it's falling.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Amazon Prime users can earn video credit by waiving two-day shipping
Amazon appears to have expanded its no-rush shipping program for the holidays, allowing Prime users to earn more than just digital music credits. No-rush shipping allows Prime customers to waive their free two-day shipping for standard 5-7 day shipping in exchange for credit toward digital purchases.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Amazon quietly concludes $7.99/mo Prime trial
If you had any interest in a monthly Amazon Prime subscription, we hope you acted quickly, because the offering has already been scrapped without a detailed explanation. Two weeks ago, the company revealed that it would lower the entry barrier to its Prime service, which has traditionally required a lump sum payment of $79.99 for a year's worth of free two-day shipping (plus cheap overnight rates) and access to thousands of digital videos and books.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Apple "most innovative" company for third year, Booz & Co. finds
For the third year running, management consulting firm Booz & Co. has named Apple the world's most innovative company in its annual report, Global Innovation 1000 Study: Making Ideas Work. Booz & Co. bases its rankings on an analysis of the "fuzzy front-end" of innovation -- the ability of a company to turn ideas into commercial successes.
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