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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon's PayPhrase: Can it juice Amazon Checkout, Payments?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26763]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:37:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[5 looming questions about the Amazon-Zappos deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:45:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon's Kindle price cut: Thank Prime View's acquisition of E-Ink]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20877]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:17:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Overstock dumps affiliates, rants about tax-happy states]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20554]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:47:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Analyst: Kindle to reach 10 percent of Amazon's customer base; Ending Target deal a risk]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20473]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:23:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle DX shipping date confirmed]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=4605]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:55:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle sales to reach $4 billion by 2012?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=4093]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:41:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX: Why is Amazon blind to Wi-Fi?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17630]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.Â     On the surface, the argument for the Kindle DX...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 02:24:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What a difference a decade makes: Barronâ€™s proclaims Amazon best retailer]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=15389]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.Â  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:27:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sony partners with Google to battle Amazon for eBook readers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14964]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:19:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=12558]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are todayâ€™s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .Â  For continuous updates see BNETâ€™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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:01:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Analyst: Amazon sold 500K Kindles in 2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=1197]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:32:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retail stinks, but Amazon doesn't; E-tailer delivers strong fourth quarter]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11928]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:00:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon: Experience The Excitement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10537]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:31:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where would YOU put YOUR money?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2722]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Which of the following tech stocks would you invest your money in? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:53:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10306]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:57:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Video: How will the Internet bellwethers fair this earnings season?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10239]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:14:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How will the Internet bellwethers fare this earnings season?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-237814.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:53:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon acquires book community Shelfari]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9794]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:00:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon aims to make Mechanical Turk more business friendly]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9481]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:42:56 -0700</pubDate>
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