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- Overstock dumps affiliates, rants about tax-happy states
- Overstock is joining Amazon and Blue Nile in the parade of e-commerce companies dumping affiliates in states that aim to slap a tax on Internet referrals. On Wednesday, Overstock said that it will drop its affiliate advertisers in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island---four states looking...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Analyst: Kindle to reach 10 percent of Amazon's customer base; Ending Target deal a risk
- The great Kindle sales guessing game continues. Cowen and Co. analyst Jim Friedland upgraded Amazon to outperform from neutral on Tuesday and his case depends heavily on future Kindle sales---along with the power of Amazon Prime subscriptions and new businesses like Amazon Web Services. However, Friedland also...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX: Why is Amazon blind to Wi-Fi?
- Amazon unveiled its much hyped Kindle DX, an e-book with a 9.7-inch screen designed to raise a ruckus in the textbook market, but delivered a $489 curve ball that seriously alters the return on investment calculation for academia. On the surface, the argument for the Kindle DX...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- What a difference a decade makes: Barron’s proclaims Amazon best retailer
- Reading Barron's cover story on Amazon where the publication loves damn near everything about the e-tailer---the cash flow, the business model, the cloud services, the marketplace for third party sellers and even the Kindle---and you can't help but flash back to a decade ago where it was dubbed Amazon.bomb. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-28
- News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Retail stinks, but Amazon doesn't; E-tailer delivers strong fourth quarter
- Amazon managed to get stronger even as retailers across the U.S. struggled amid weak holiday sales. The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $225 million, or 52 cents a share, on revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18 percent from a year ago. Those results handily topped Wall...
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Video: How will the Internet bellwethers fair this earnings season?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of Internet heavyweights, Google, Yahoo and Amazon. Dignan and Diaz share their views on Google's search business, Yahoo's prospects after Microsoft, and whether the current energy crisis is helping Amazon's...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How will the Internet bellwethers fare this earnings season?
- ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the financial health of Internet heavyweights, Google, Yahoo and Amazon. Dignan and Diaz share their views on Google's search business, Yahoo's prospects after Microsoft, and whether the current energy crisis is helping Amazon's...
- Videos 2008-09-29
- Amazon acquires book community Shelfari
- Amazon has added another tuck-in acquisition: Shelfari, an online community for book worms. Shelfari is likely to be integrated into Amazon's services and continue to exist as a separate destination. Amazon, which helped fund the social networking startup, now owns Shelfari and a stake in its primary...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Amazon aims to make Mechanical Turk more business friendly
- Amazon on Wednesday rolled out new features to its Mechanical Turk web service designed to expand its appeal to a broader set of businesses. Mechanical Turk is a work marketplace that can be used to outsource software development. The company said its latest Web interface guides business...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Amazon invests in user-generated shopping channel Talk Market
- Amazon said Monday that it has invested in The Talk Market, a user generated TV shopping channel. Terms of the investment, which closed in May, weren't disclosed, but the move does make you go hmm. In the case of Talk...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Does the Kindle have iPod-ish potential?
- Amazon's Kindle may meaningfully contribute to the e-tailer's revenue in a couple of years, according to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. Mahaney's take--delivered in a research note outlining the bullish case for Amazon--takes a few leaps Techmeme. Mahaney has little data on the Kindle (just like the rest...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best Buy
- The reaction to Blockbuster's attempt to buy Circuit City has ranged from the comical to the downright negative. I don't get this deal, but at least I'm not alone. On the bright side, Blockbuster has provided us with a few charts of the day. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Microsoft-Yahoo: The end game nears; Was there an Amazon-Yahoo deal in the works?
- Yahoo will reportedly have a special board of directors meeting to discuss Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited bid. Meanwhile, the game theories abound. According to TechCrunch Yahoo's fate could be decided today. My guess is that Yahoo's fate won't be completely decided, but the end game is definitely...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Amazon enters alternative payment game; invests in Bill Me Later
- Amazon said Tuesday that it will invest in Bill Me Later, an alternative payment technology, and make it available as an option on Amazon.com. Bill Me Later is the largest payment system you have never heard of. The move is notable on a few fronts. For starters, Amazon's investment...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
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