Amazon launched an effort called PayPhrase in what the company calls an e-commerce shortcut that allows shoppers to buy around the Web with a phrase and a PIN. by Larry Dignan
Amazon's acquisition of Zappos is notable on a few fronts. The combination is largely complementary, but there are a few questions hanging. With any luck there will be a few answers on Amazon's second quarter earnings conference call. Among the questions about Amazon's $847 million purchase of...
Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle 2 to $299, a $60 drop that may stoke demand. But Amazon's move has more to do with scale than any competitive threat. Let's face it: A $299 Kindle 2 still isn't cheap, but it is quite notable that...
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...
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...
Amazon's large-format e-book reader, the Kindle DX, will begin shipping to customers on June 10, 2009, according to the company. The Kindle DX, which was announced May 6, is currently available for pre-order and all orders are prioritized on a first come, first served basis. It carries...
With all the talk yesterday about the new Kindle DX, it's no surprise to hear that Kindle sales are skyrocketing, and are expected to stay that way. Amazon is said to generate $840 million in gross profit on $3.7 billion of revenue in 2012. Of course, that's just an estimate,...
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...
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. ...
Google and Sony are expected to announce a non-exclusive digital books partnership today, a move that goes directly at Amazon and its new Kindle reader. The deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, is the first in what's bound to a number of digital book partnerships that will likely...
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Amazon has said that its popular Kindle e-reader is out of stock, but it hasn't said how many devices were sold. On Tuesday, Citi Investment Research analyst Mark Mahaney offered an educated guess: Amazon sold 500,000 Kindles last year, higher than his previous expectation of 380,000. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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