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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...
- Tags: Overstock.com Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Internet, Web Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Target.com, Jim Friedland, Business Structures, Web Site Development, Sales Strategy, Web Technology, Strategy, Finance, Internet, Sales, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Amazon Kindle DX shipping date confirmed
- 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...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Roi/Tco, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Wireless And Mobility, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Amazon Kindle sales to reach $4 billion by 2012?
- 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,...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- 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...
- Tags: Student, ROI, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, Roi/Tco, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan
- 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. ...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Barron, Retail, E-books, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Personal Technology, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-28
- Sony partners with Google to battle Amazon for eBook readers
- 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...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Business Structures, Hd Dvd, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Finance, DVD, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- 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...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon Kindle, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Mortgages, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Marketing, Finance, Capital Structures, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Analyst: Amazon sold 500K Kindles in 2008
- 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. ...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sprint Communications, Kindle, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Regulations, Finance, Sales, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- 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...
- Tags: Revenue, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- 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
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