SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is planning a press conference on September 6 near Los Angeles, according to an invitation the world’s largest Internet retailer sent out to the media on Thursday. The event is being held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, the invitation said. Amazon did not say what the [...]
NEW YORK — Seeking to blunt reports of poor working conditions in its warehouses, Amazon said on Monday that it would offer full-time employees up to $2,000 a year in college and vocational training tuition assistance — even if they plan to leave the company for industries as far afield as dentistry and nursing. A letter [...]
Own a Kindle Fire? Can’t find an audio dock made specifically for your gizmo, and not an iThing or Android device? Say hello to Grace Digital’s FireDock, the $130 solution to your quandary. While we’ve seen Kindle-compatible docks before, this stereo system is actually made to seamlessly connect with the Fire’s bottom ports and power button, allowing it to [...]
Amazon Wireless has launched another of its “smartphones for a penny” deals, and this time around its sale is all about Sprint. All of Sprint’s 4G smartphones (sorry, iPhone shoppers) will cost one cent at Amazon Wireless through March 26 with a new two-year subscription and an $80/month unlimited data plan. The sale does not apply to [...]
An Amazon.com customer has created a petition calling for the world’s largest online retailer to permanently ban the sale of whale and dolphin meat on its site. An open letter to Amazon, posted to Change.org reads in part: I know that not everyone can come to Japan to join me to speak out for dolphins and [...]
In a rather, ahem, incendiary finding, a recent survey by TechBargains found that more than half of Kindle Fire owners will buy an iPad 3 when the hotly anticipated third-generation Apple tablet is released. In fact, Kindle Fire owners were even more likely than non-tablet owners to report that they would buy an iPad 3, showing that people [...]
Amazon.com is expanding its selection of streaming video offerings for premium subscribers. On Wednesday, the online retail giant announced a new content partnership with Viacom that will add around 2,000 titles to the catalogue currently offered under the Amazon Prime Instant Video streaming service. Amazon will give its streaming subscribers access to TV shows from MTV, [...]
Amazon Inc. has announced its earnings from the last quarter of 2011. According to a press release, net sales increased to $17.43 billion, a 35 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2010. Net income for Q4 2011 decreased 58 percent to $177 million, or $0.38 per diluted share. Net income for the fourth quarter [...]
SEATTLE — Online retailer Amazon says 2011 was the best holiday ever for its Kindle-brand e-readers and tablet computers. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that people bought more than 1 million Kindles each week in December. The company has never released specific sales figures for the Kindle. Since the launch of the first Kindle in 2007, [...]
Netflix’s biggest new release this week isn’t Captain America. It has little to do with America at all, in fact. Netflix has announced they they will launch their streaming service in the United Kingdom and Ireland in “early 2012.” It appears that they are only bringing streaming movies and TV shows across the pond, as there is [...]
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