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- Bezos banks on Amazon's utility services
- Chief Amazon Jeff Bezos was first on stage on the second day the Web 2.0 Summit. Bezos pitched Amazons compute and storage services, EC2 and S3, in the cloud, which grew out of what it took to run Amazons shopping business."People are exciting because they see a future where able...
- Tags: General, Jeff Bezos, Bezos
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Amazon's Bezos: We make muck so you don't have to
- Here at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos kicked things off with a discussion of something he calls muck. It's a dicussion that very much resonates with how I've been talking about why small and medium businesses are better off outsourcing as much of their...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos, Bezos
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Underhyping the Web
- Famed venture capitalist John Doerr, who was once elevated tothe "Reckless Optimist's Hall of Fame" by the Silicon Valley based Churchill Club, has some new predictions to make. He believes that the potential of the Internet has been "underhyped." As a panelist at the Club's annual prognostication fest, Doerr argued...
- Tags: Web, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Bezos
- Blog posts 2004-11-15
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- 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
- A Twitter About Twitter
- The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's aptly named co-founder Biz Stone. Which was followed last week by Gene...
- Tags: Twitter, Manufacturing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Twitter closes another funding round, backed by Bezos and Sabet
- Twitter closes another funding round, backed by Bezos and SabetGasp! No more floundering whale?Fantastic!I'll take it.RE: Twitter closes another funding round, backed by Bezos and SabetI don't know, part of me has become fond of that little whale. But then again I used to think the birds were cute and...
- Tags: Sabet, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in Twitter
- Everybody's favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter, has confirmed its much rumored third round of funding, which includes two new investors: Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Twitter, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Twitter closes another funding round, backed by Bezos and Sabet
- Jeff Bezos and Bijan Sabet invest in Twitter's newest funding round. Does this mean that users can expect better reliability? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Twitter, Team Management, Blogging, Financial Accounting, Management, Internet, Finance, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...
- Tags: patent
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon
- Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with SimonThe Kindle - and new writersThe news from Amazon, Mr. Bezos and the outlook for the Kindle is particularly interesting for new writers: for now it seems, electronic readers are providing traditional content but with the lowering of overhead costs (and for the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Simon
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon & Shuster
- Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Simon & Shuster, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Amazon preps pay-per-view movie service
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6--Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insider--Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considering the distribution...
- Tags: Movie, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Steve Jobs named
- Steve Jobs namedI agree, The only thing he is shaping the futureof is "corporate acquisitions".Agreed...Don't hardly ever hear his name these days.Totally AgreeLarry's name probably shouldn't even be on the list and if it must be, then it should be the last one. All Oracle has done is acquire...
- Tags: Linux, Strategy, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Steve Jobs, Microsoft Corp., Larry Ellison, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Amazon's Bezos: Our Kindle supply issues almost fixed
- Amazon's Bezos: Our Kindle supply issues almost fixedKindleI bought my kindle in November 2007, and received it the first week of January.Simply going to the message boards and so forth shows that there are tons of people waiting for Kindle's, so the demand is definitely not hype, it actually exists.I...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- News to know: Windows 7; FCC; Census IT; HDMI; MacBook mystery; Fave Windows programs
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Your turn: Readers choose their 10 favorite Windows programs Gallery right Mary Jo Foley: Why Windows 7 might go to pieces Michael Krigsman: Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau George Ou: HDMI survival guide...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., HDMI, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Rootkits, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Amazon's Bezos: Our Kindle supply issues almost fixed
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized for the company's inability to make enough Kindles to meet demand, but noted that the e-tailer should have a sufficient inventory "within the next few weeks." While some have surmised that Amazon's pent up demand was a PR stunt it's pretty clear...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Public Relations, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?Legal requirements[i]Why on earth Amazon couldn’t have invested in a similar system to keep customers informed is beyond me.[/i]Amazon can't legally deploy that until the Jeff gets the patent paperwork filed.Cash flow, of course"What I can't understand is, why do providers only understand this...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Amazon.com Inc., outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Time for a Bezos trustworthy cloud initiative?
- Sooner or later, it was inevitable that a server outage would expose Amazon's lack of preparedness for failure. It's ironic that this should have happened within hours of my posting an item here arguing that SaaS vendors should all rely on cloud providers for their infrastructure. Those that do rely...
- Tags: Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Manufacturing, Channel Management, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Stop the Kindle hype!
- Stop the Kindle hype!Scared much?!?I know you "Cupertino Crack" addicts sometimes have trouble separating reality from the RDF, but seriously, this post smacks of defend the queen!Anyone would think that Amazon had just declared war on Apple!Chill out David, your "cult" of products will not be affected by anything that...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital music, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
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