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Amazon slides on management shift
News Shares of Amazon.com continued their downward slide Wednesday morning in the wake of a harsh Lehman Brothers analyst report and upheavals in management. Amazon's stock was off 2 1/8 to 35 1/2. Amazon has yet to come anywhere near reporting a net...
[July 26, 2000, 17:00]
Amazon's Galli jumps ship for VerticalNet
News Amazon.com shares tumbled 4 1/8, or 11 percent, to 34 5/8 Tuesday after it confirmed that president and chief operating officer Joe Galli has resigned from the online retailer to join VerticalNet as its new chief executive officer
[July 26, 2000, 9:19]
Amazon launches Virtual Private Cloud service
News Amazon Web Services has launched a secure bridging service designed to connect enterprise datacentres with its cloud, filling in a missing part of its cloud lineup for enterprises. With Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), announced in a blog post on...
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
Amazon appoints new finance executive
News Amazon.com has appointed a new chief financial officer, hiring Tom Szkutak away from General Electric. He will start at Amazon in a few weeks, the company said on Friday. Amazon's former chief financial officer, Warren Jenson, announced his...
[August 30, 2002, 14:59]
Sun: 'The world needs only five computers'
News Amazon, I think, sees a bit of this direction. When I think of Amazon, I think of e-commerce. So you envision the big guys like Amazon becoming generic infrastructure, and then you have a whole bunch of middlemen packaging that up, and tailoring it...
[December 8, 2006, 11:01]
Amazon settles case with former executive
News Web retailer Amazon.com, which sued to prevent a former executive from jumping to eBay, has settled the case, the company said on Tuesday. Attorneys for Amazon and Christopher Zyda, the e-tailer's former international chief financial officer...
[November 14, 2001, 9:33]
Google's desktop liberation tool
Leader The people at Google, Amazon, eBay, Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Netflix have one thing in common. As news of Google's new tool spread around the ZDNet UK office, people gathered around computers, excitedly finding new features and trying out new...
[October 15, 2004, 12:00]
Amazon reads its customers like a book
Leader Amazon is the latest outfit to reveal its thinking in this way with its 'Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items' US patent. The depth of the patent might also surprise Amazon's customers, who may not have suspected that every...
[March 15, 2005, 13:20]
Amazon's gender stereotyping patent slammed
News Post a review of a book or other product on Amazon.com, and the information may find its way into the company's file on you. That's one key feature, anyway, of a system Amazon has invented to gather clues about customers' gift-giving habits in...
[March 15, 2005, 8:30]
Amazon refuses to hand over book search 'secrets'
News Amazon.com has declined to hand over information on its book search tools to Google for use in a copyright lawsuit. The internet retailer on Friday filed the response and objection to a subpoena Google had filed concerning Amazon's searching and...
[October 26, 2006, 11:20]
Software patents: 'A really bad idea'
News Amazon's One-Click feature is something that is pretty obvious and intuitive to a lot of people. ZDNet UK caught up with her to talk about the Software Patents Directive currently passing through the European Union.
[May 19, 2004, 16:50]
E-tailers creak under Christmas rush
News Amazon, HMV, Play and Borders all showed much faster response times. Some of the UK's leading e-tailers are failing to cope with the seasonal rush, with the Web sites of CD-Wow, Currys, Debenhams and Dixons all straining under the pressure.
[December 9, 2002, 12:51]
Amazon slips into search waters
News Amazon.com has quietly launched a test version of its long-awaited search engine, aiming to challenge industry stalwarts Google and Yahoo with new tools to navigate the Web. Amazon, based in Seattle, is forging into search at a time when...
[April 15, 2004, 8:20]
Panorama puts teenage hackers under the microscope
News Using a number of compromised computers and specially designed software, sites including CNN, Amazon and eBay were rendered inoperable for hours. It is economic drain and the threat to national security that is causing growing concern in the US and...
[July 4, 2000, 11:04]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
News Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark...
[March 9, 2005, 14:40]
Amazon sellers fume over auction glitch
News Several Amazon.com auction sellers say the e-commerce giant is not delivering a service they say they have bid on and paid for. Sellers pay Amazon to promote their listings in prominent places on its auction site.
[May 31, 2001, 9:52]
Amazon details Linux usage
News It's not the first time Amazon.com has proclaimed its support for Linux, but it's the most detailed. At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York, Amazon vice president of infrastructure Tom Killalea described in detail on Wednesday how the...
[January 23, 2004, 12:20]
Dow makes largest one-day gain in history
News Amazon.com moved up 2 1/2 to 66 1/4 and Excite@Home added 13/16 to 29 1/8. Freeserve (quote: FRE), the UK's largest Internet service provider (ISP) and portal, unveiled steady growth in its e-commerce and advertising revenue.
[March 17, 2000, 10:01]
Mashups are top of the menu
News Among the companies that are supporting MashupCamp - a nonprofit event in which anyone who signed up had the opportunity to organise a talk - are Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun, Adobe, Amazon.com and Salesforce.com.
[February 20, 2006, 8:55]
London voted e-business capital of Europe
News In terms of specific brands, Amazon received 80 percent of the vote for the most successful European brand, despite the company's failure to move into profitability. And despite the announcement of 42,000 high-tech job cuts so far in Britain this...
[April 26, 2001, 7:08]
