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- Amazon: Experience The Excitement
- Amazon follows Apple with solid financial results. Sales are up 31%. Net income 48%. Take that, investors who drove the stock down 24 cents to $49.99 today, in the wake of another big stock selloff. But before you spend $49.95 on the Marpac SleepMate 980A Electro-Mechanical Sound...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Where would YOU put YOUR money?
- Which of the following tech stocks would you invest your money in? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Stock, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Investment, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- 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...
- Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Amazon.com Inc., Video, Earnings, Internet, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Search, Financial Accounting, Sales, Marketing, Finance
- 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...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, Internet, Sales Strategy, Search, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Yahoo, Google, Amazon
- 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...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Shelfari, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Networking, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Productivity, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 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,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., QVC, Talk Market, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Amazon Kindle back on the market
- Despite its most unattractive appearance, Amazon's popular Kindle reader is now back in stock, this time with a 10 percent price drop. While the $359 price tag still may be steep, it's welcome, since the official ZDNet review of the Kindle noted expense and content options as...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- 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...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Amazon.com sues NY over sales tax law
- New York's new online sales tax law applies a novel way to get revenue out of online retailers. It's ready-made to tax Amazon.com and the Seattle-based company doesn't like it one bit. Amazon sued New York this over the law. Here's the theory, as the Times explains:...
- Tags: New York, Amazon.com Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- 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. ...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Trip Chowdhry, Games, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Game, Payment, Payment Service, Amazon.com Inc., Bill, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Buy an Amazon Kindle, support the Orchant family
- Over the last couple of weeks, Marc Orchant and I have been having a friendly discussion about the Amazon Kindle vs. the Sony Reader and his arguments were so convincing that I was all set to order a Kindle for my business trips when I found out they were sold...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-mail, Operational Accounting, Benefits, Online Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- How smart can a link be?
- After my trial implementation of AdaptiveBlue's Smartlink technology on my blog, I was contacted by Director of Business Development, Fraser Kelton, who agreed to a Questions and Answers session about Adaptive Blue's new technology. For a quick introduction, I have been trying out AdaptiveBlue's Blue Organiser for a few weeks...
- Tags: Web, Page, Stock, Link, Blog, Amazon.com Inc., Information, Semantics, Semantic Web, Smartlink, SmartLink Widgets, Blogging, Channel Management, Investment, Internet, Marketing, Finance, zbeauvais
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluck
- You know the real word I wanted to type but my Mom raised a gentleman. I'm in my hotel lobby, forced to this noisy public place kisses between three generations of anonymous families because the WiFi is down and the hotel is clueless about what the problem...
- Tags: Newsweek, Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Wireless LANs, Taxes, Blogging, Personal Technology, Wireless, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- When the Web grows up, measure it against bricks and mortar
- The Wall Street Journal today explains that analysts are no longer able to use "established Web standards" to assess the value of eBay and Amazon.com. Instead, the companies are being compared to brick-and-mortar competitors on old-fashioned metrics, like revenue per customer. The problem with this transition, which is pushing the...
- Tags: Revenue, Web, Retail Company, Business, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Lesson, Retail, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
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