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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

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

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

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

Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?

Amazon on Monday officially rolled out its Kindle e-book, which downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers via a wireless connection. The Kindle view our Kindle unboxing gallery, which looks a lot less clunky in person than via pictures, features 90,000 books via the Kindle Store. New releases...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Technology, Kindle, Kindle Store, Cellular Phones, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Amazon mum on EC2, S3 spending

While Amazon delivered a blow-out quarter it remains quiet about detailing how much it is spending on the fast-growing EC2 and S3 Web services. On the first quarter earnings conference call, Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck tried to pin down Amazon AMZN executives on...

Tags: Utility computing, Amazon, Web Technology, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Xactly closes new round, Bezos buys Expensewatch

Some interesting funding news just in from a pair of successful SaaS vendors. Fast-growing sales incentive management vendor Xactly closed a $15 million series C round. As C rounds go, thats quite a substantial figure. Even more out-of-the-ordinary is the news that expense and spend management vendor Expensewatch.com has been...

Tags: Business applications, Venture capital

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. AlexaholicWeb 2.0 Principles and Best Practices is not a book ?Tim O’Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0?they released a book for business leaders in Nov 2006 –...

Tags: vision, connotation, O'Reilly, Web 2.0, Tim, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic

Tim O’Reilly graciously bestowed a “Blogger’s Code of Conduct” upon the blogosphere earlier this month. In 2004, he christened “Web 2.0” for the world. Tim O’Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0? O’Reilly Media touts...

Tags: ecommerce, Business Models, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Amazon sues Alexaholic...everyone loses!

Imagine this scenario...Youre CEO of a $16 billion company and youve just given a warm and fuzzy sales pitch to thousands of up and coming Web 2.0 developers, trying to convince them to use your new web services. The presentation goes swimmingly well and you sit down for a congenial...

Tags: News, Amazon, Alexa, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos kicks off Web 2.0 Expo

Company's S3 surpasses 5 billion objects stored, he saysAt the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos talks toconference attendees about the company's on-demand storage service.Bezos announced that today the S3 service stores more than 5 billionobjects, compared with 800,000 objects stored in July 2006.

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Web 2.0, Amazon.com Inc., Web

Videos 2007-04-17

Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting business

Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting businesstoo goodWhy do the phrases "if it looks too good to be true it usually is" and "the first one is always free" come to mind?And, for those departmental servers, you can get an encrypted connection toa server...

Tags: Servers, storage, server, Amazon.com Inc., Xen, Jeff Bezos

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

Random thoughts from the Web 2.0 Summit

There are so many people blogging this event that doing reportorial coverage seems like a complete waste of my time and yours so Ill spare you another attempt to explain "what it all means" and instead will share some observations Ive been jotting down over the two days of the...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Software, Utilities and Add-Ins, Web Apps, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-09

Amazon.com CEO talks Web services

CEO Jeff Bezos says Web services will be a 'meaningful business'CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica speaks with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos about his company's Web services business during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Web, Web service

Videos 2006-11-09

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

Amazon's secret sauce

CEO Jeff Bezos talks about innovating at AmazonAmazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and author Tim O'Reilly speak at the Web 2.0 conference about the unique ingredients that have made Amazon a successful e-commerce company. Bezos also reveals why Amazon needs to continue innovating.

Tags: Web 2.0, Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos

Videos 2004-10-06

Additional Resources

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...

Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?

Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest

Discussion threads 2008-07-24