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Starting today, you can now gift Kindle books to anyone with an email address, regardless if they own a Kindle or not, Amazon announced. And while it may seem cruel to gift your Kindle-less nephew an eBook, you can remind him that Kindle Books can be…
Starting today, you can now gift Kindle books to anyone with an email address, regardless if they own a Kindle or not, Amazon announced. And while it may seem cruel to gift your Kindle-less nephew an eBook, you can remind him that Kindle Books can be…
With more than a little help from Nvidia, Amazon hopes to bring supercomputing to the masses through a new Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) offering called “Cluster GPU Instances.”
By “masses,” we’re referring to enterprises and start-ups, not everyday Joe…
Amazon is forking over a larger slice of the Kindle pie to some publishers, the online e-tailer announced this week. Starting December 1, 2010, magazine and newspaper publishers will receive a 70 percent chunk of the retail price for each item sold.
“W…
As was rumored over the weekend, Amazon today confirmed it has reached an agreement to acquire Quidsi Inc., the parent company responsible for Diapers.com and Soap.com.
“I’m not sure which is more unpleasant — changing diapers, paying too much for the…
A New York appeals court today backpedaled an earlier decision and has reinstated Amazon.com’s (and Overstock’s) lawsuit claiming that a law forcing them to collect sales tax in New York is “invalid, illegal, and unconstitutional,” CNet reports.
Here’s…
Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar business is feeling the wrath of streaming video services, just as mom-and-pop video rental shops felt the wrath of Blockbuster roughly a decade ago. And it’s not just Netflix. Amazon this week announced the expansion of …
You could be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Amazon’s Disc+ program. Basically, when you buy select movies on DVD or Blu-ray, you can get a downloadable copy made immediately available to you. The problem was selection. The feature was only available…