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Amazon CFO fields Kindle questions, mum on digital video, music expansion

Amazon fielded a number of questions this morning during a presentation at the Credit Suisse First Boston conference. But what attendees really wanted to know more about, gauging by the questions they were asking, was the Kindle e-book reader, the company's plans to expand digital music and video offerings and...

Tags: Digital Video, Amazon.com Inc., Video, Camera, Kindle, Szkutak, Camera Phones, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-10

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Is Amazon's Kindle iPhone app crippled or companion? CFO says companion

Ed Burnette raises an interesting question about Amazon's Kindle application for the iPhone and iPod touch: Did the e-commerce giant cripple the iPhone to keep selling Kindles? Ed writes Techmeme: The wireless downloads are nice, and the way it synchronizes your current page with the page...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Ed, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Tech's economy careens into the great unknown

Trying to figure out where the information technology economy is going? Your guess is as good as mine. Or Steve Ballmer's. Or Steve Job's. Or Paul Otellini's. Or EMC's Joe Tucci's. Or Jeff Bezos'. The one trend that's emerging from a bevy of financial reports is that companies have no...

Tags: Financial, Recession, Information Technology, Economy, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-24

E-commerce's looming question: Will consumers show up?

The fourth quarter for e-commerce will be very telling. Will online sales continue to grow even if the consumer is strapped? Or will e-commerce increasingly look like the rest of the retail sector? To wit: Amazon's fourth quarter outlook, which had a range so...

Tags: Consumer, GSI Commerce Inc., Analyst, Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Amazon Web Services: Reading the financial tea leaves

One of the more interesting lines of Amazon's earnings report was the "other" line, which largely includes Amazon Web Services such as S3 and EC2. Reading the tea leaves it appears that Amazon's side ventures are gaining momentum. Unfortunately, tea leaves are all we have. Amazon Web...

Tags: Financial, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Amazon.com: Will you recognize it in 10 years?

Amazon's fourth quarter results had a little bit of everything for its various observers: Sales were impressive and the outlook wasn't bad, but worries about profit margins are worrisome. But amid all the talk about consumer demand, growth abroad and adding third party sellers to Amazon's platform the "other" line...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Service, Web Services, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Amazon makes IT spending cool

Wall Street is a funny place. Amazon spends heavily on technology and content for the last two years and all analysts do is whine. Now Amazon has reported two straight quarters of stellar earnings and analysts appear to be big backers of the e-commerce giant's capital spending. That's what blowout...

Tags: Amazon, E-commerce, General, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-25