Tag: amazon

Amazon takes lion's share of LoveFilm 
Feb 5, 2008 | Comment Now 
Amazon is to become the biggest shareholder in online video rental service LoveFilm.
 
Pepsi and Amazon give away DRM-free MP3s 
By Clement James | Jan 16, 2008 | Comment Now 
$1bn worth of tunes up for grabs.
 
Amazon adds DRM-free Sony tracks 
Jan 14, 2008 | Comment Now 
Sony BMG to offer DRM-free songs from Sony artists on Amazon's MP3 music download service.
 
Amazon wins customer privacy battle 
By Iain Thomson | Nov 29, 2007 | Comment Now 
The FBI has been slammed in a court ruling after attempting to get Amazon to hand over details on its customers and their reading habits.
 
Amazon offers S3 uptime guarantee 
By Tom Sanders | Oct 10, 2007 | Comment Now 
Amazon has introduced a service level agreement (SLA) for its S3 online storage service to provide an uptime guarantee for customers..
 
Amazon joins search for Steve Fossett 
By Tom Sanders | Sep 12, 2007 | Comment Now 
Amazon has opened up its Mechanical Turk service to help search for missing aviation pioneer Steve Fossett.
 
Amazon payment service targets micro-payments 
By Tom Sanders | Aug 7, 2007 | Comment Now 
Amazon has quietly rolled out a limited beta of its Amazon Flexible Payment(AFP) service. The service offers payment outsourcing to third party websites and applications. It ...
 
Harry Potter casts spell over Amazon 
By Robert Jaques | Jul 3, 2007 | Comment Now 
Online retailer reports unprecedented demand for latest book.
 
Amazon touts DRM-free music downloads 
By Clement James | May 18, 2007 | Comment Now 
Amazon.com has announced plans to launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels.
 
Amazon settles patent disputes with IBM 
By Matt Chapman | May 11, 2007 | Comment Now 
Retailer pays undisclosed sum to IBM and sets up licencing deal.
 
Amazon Askville has all the answers 
By Bobby Pickering | Jan 8, 2007 | Comment Now 
Community-based Q&A service offers virtual rewards to researchers.
 
Amazon boss heads for the final frontier 
By Iain Thomson | Jan 8, 2007 | Comment Now 
First video of Blue Origin spacecraft in action.
 
Amazon unveils grid offering 
By Tom Sanders | Aug 25, 2006 | Comment Now 
Ecommerce store builds out webservices initiative.
 
Amazon working on video downloads 
By Will Head | Jul 27, 2006 | Comment Now 
Leaving music to Apple and Microsoft.
 
Amazon takes grocery store live 
By Tom Sanders | Jul 18, 2006 | Comment Now 
Web giant ventures on the path where its predecessors stumbled.
 
Amazon Christmas sales up 
Dec 29, 2004 | Comment Now 
Amazon.com on 27 December reported its busiest holiday shopping season ever.
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