Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader celebrated its first birthday yesterday. How was its first year? Amazon doesn't share sales figures, so we don't...
Elizabeth Rogers | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green
The Consumer Product Safety Commission states that packaging-related injuries send roughly 6,000 Americans to the ER every year.
Wired | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business
Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney downgraded Amazon's stock to "Hold" from "Buy" in his latest report, despite a surge in shares since Q3 earnings report...
EcoGeek | Megan Treacy | Posted 11.28.2008 | Green
But can Oprah do for the Kindle what she's done for her book club selections? Even with the promotional discount, the gadget costs more than $300 and...
Epicenter | Chris Snyder | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business
Stanza, iPhone's free e-book reader application, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and is installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business
New biographies of potential first ladies Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama will be released exclusively on Amazon's Kindle (AMZN) e-reader, months befo...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 10.05.2008 | Business
How does Amazon's streaming service compare with iTunes, Hulu, and Netflix streaming? Like Apple's iTunes, Amazon's service will offer rentals for $3 ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business
Initial skepticism about Amazon's Kindle is being replaced by euphoria: Citi's Mark Mahaney, who was already bullish on the e-book reader, declares th...
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business
I've always loved Amazon.com and wondered what the company was like. All I knew is what most people know, until the company invited me to speak as part of their Authors@Amazon series.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business
Newest data point on Amazon's Kindle sales, which Amazon says are great but won't ever quantify: TechCrunch cites "a source close to Amazon with direc...
Fortune.com | Devin Leonard | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- It was easy to scoff two years ago when word leaked out that Amazon was launching its own digital music service. The Seattle-bas...
Dave Burdick | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
I could hand this to my friends or my parents and feel confident that they could read with it -- it might be easier to use than an iPod (but, importantly, it's not easier to use than a book).
Ron Galloway | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
The design of the Kindle has all the grace and originality of a Glenn Frey guitar solo. So I decided to wait for Kindle Version 2.0. Well, it's here -- and it's the iPhone 2.0.
Fortune | Michal Lev-Ram | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
A flurry of new state laws making it illegal for people to drive while holding a cell phone is expected to be a bonanza for Bluetooth, a wireless tech...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
SEATTLE — Amazon.com's Web site experienced problems in North America for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday because of system ...
New York Times | Brad Stone | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business
Over the last 14 years, Amazon.com has mastered the art of getting physical copies of books, music and movies to customers through the mail. Now it is...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Even for an Oprah Winfrey book pick, "A New Earth" has been a sensation. About 3.5 million copies of Eckhart Tolle's spiritual self-h...
Huffington Post | YouTube | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
It's probably going to be one of the biggest ads this Superbowl, but you don't really come away with much. Sure, he kind of makes fun of his loverboy ...
Publisher's Weekly | Jim Milliot | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Amazon has increased its presence in the spokenword audio market, announcing this morning that it has agreed to acquire Audible, Inc. the country's la...
New York Times | LAURIE J. FLYNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Amazon.com, the leading online retailer, had a lot of good news in its financial report Wednesday, but it was overshadowed by just a small bit of bad ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday its 2007 holiday season was its strongest to date, with Nintendo Wii game systems and the "Harry Potter and the Order o...
New York Times | Saul Hansell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay's market value was three or four times that of Amazon. And there was goo...
Editor & Publisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jonah Goldberg, the conservative Los Angeles Times and syndicated columnist, has been working on a book called "Liberal Fascism" for quite some time, ...
Bloomberg | Heather Burke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Amazon.com Inc., the world's biggest Internet retailer, said quarterly profit quadrupled as customers bought the final Harry Potter novel and purchase...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Amazon.com Inc launched an early version of its highly anticipated digital music download store, which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc's dom...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business