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Amazon to sell Kindle e-reader in the UK
News Amazon.com on Wednesday introduced an international version of its Kindle e-book reader that will be available in more than 100 countries and territories, including the UK. The reader, priced at $279 (£175), is available to British customers for...
[October 7, 2009, 13:51]
Amazon Cover Downloader
Downloads ACD, short for Amazon Cover Downloader, is a free application licensed under the BSD license for downloading CD and DVD covers from the Amazon product catalog. The program supports two operation modes a silent mode which does not display windows...
[April 10, 2006, 14:48]
Amazon, Yahoo! take Red Cross donations
News Web sites including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com are allowing people to make donations to the American Red Cross through their Web sites. Amazon's Web site counter said 12,979 payments had been made so far, totaling $323,801.69.
[September 12, 2001, 17:07]
Amazon to compensate for deleted Kindle e-books
News Amazon has offered to redeliver copies of George Orwell novels that were mistakenly deleted from Kindle owners' libraries, or provide a gift certificate or cheque for $30. In July, Amazon received a torrent of criticism, as well as a lawsuit, over...
[September 7, 2009, 11:19]
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]
Amazon reports surge in sales
News Amazon.com has reported a strong surge in second-quarter revenue, buoyed by the success of cost-cutting and strong sales internationally of the latest Harry Potter book. The results exceed market forecasts and those of Amazon itself, according to...
[July 23, 2003, 11:43]
Amazon VP calls it a day
News Amazon.com's vice president for logistics, Jimmy Wright, has decided to retire at 45 years old, amid signs that the Internet merchant is running into snags carrying out its ambitious warehouse-expansion strategy.
[September 3, 1999, 12:29]
Amazon lays off 150
News Amazon.com will lay off around 150 people as part of a restructuring, the company said Friday. Amazon spokesman Bill Curry said the layoffs represent around 2 percent of the retailer's total workforce.
[January 28, 2000, 16:55]
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 casts its net wider
News Amazon.com has detailed plans to release a test version of an online payment system that would allow people to use their Amazon accounts to pay for products bought from other Web-based businesses. The system will "allow visitors to your site to use...
[July 21, 2003, 14:33]
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 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: No Kindle for the UK yet
News Amazon.com has unveiled its much anticipated e-book reader - the Kindle. While some of the details had been widely leaked beforehand, Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos filled in the remaining blanks at a launch event in New York on Tuesday.
[November 20, 2007, 10:14]
Amazon to launch Kindle e-book reader
News Amazon is betting that e-books aren't a total bust. In preparation for the launch, the source said, Amazon stopped selling e-book formats other than the Mobipocket about a year ago. Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos is expected to be present...
[November 16, 2007, 8:26]
News Roundup: Amazon makes headlines again
News Amazon's e-commerce site keeps crashing, and the timing isn't great -- it's only the busiest shopping period of the year. Amazon: Third crash in two weeks US privacy groups call Amazon policy 'deceptive'
[December 7, 2000, 11:28]
Amazon US search
Downloads Searches the Amazon.com products database based on product name. Its biggest advantage is the small size which fits any desktop.
[April 26, 2007, 7:27]
Amazon spends $40m to make patent case go away
News Amazon.com paid $40m to Soverain Software to settle a patent-related lawsuit, just days before the trial was set to begin. Amazon will also receive a nonexclusive licence to Soverain's patent portfolio.
[August 12, 2005, 9:45]
Amazon countersues IBM over patents
News A patent feud between IBM and Amazon.com took a new twist last week as the e-commerce giant countersued Big Blue for infringement and blasted its earlier accusations as "meritless and misleading". IBM has chosen to infringe Amazon.com's patents...
[December 18, 2006, 8:39]
Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing for the enterprise
News Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web Services — especially when they have tight budgets.
[March 13, 2009, 13:39]
Amazon hosted storage suffers glitches
News Amazon's hosted storage services suffered technical glitches last week, mishaps that caused some early users to think twice about using the company's nascent web services. Last Thursday, customers of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) started a...
[January 9, 2007, 7:54]
