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Amazon is an electronic commerce company. It is the largest Internet based company in the United States. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics — notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico.
MoreIn yet another sign that the big cloud players of Google, Amazon and Microsoft have moved on from just storage price cuts are in the midst of a feature war, Amazon… Read more »
Coming to a theater near you: Amazon plans to start producing “close to twelve” movies a year. The films will “premiere on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. just 4 to 8… Read more »
Despite the success of Amazon Web Services, and the resources Microsoft and Google have poured into Azure and Google Cloud Platform respectively to compete with AWS, public cloud still has a bit of… Read more »
It’s nothing not new to say that there’s a battle raging amongst the cloud providers for the price of compute, storage and networking. Amazon started everything off with regular price cuts… Read more »
Last year the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Amazon’s Luxembourg tax arrangements, which may be illegal. Amazon funnels its European revenues through a complex transfer pricing set-up in the… Read more »
On this cold night in January we finally figured out whether Amazon is a good thing or not! I can’t believe you weren’t there, at the Kaufman Center on West 67th… Read more »
Apple’s iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, which launched to the public this fall, come with iBooks pre-installed. That decision has paid off: iBooks has averaged one million new customers every… Read more »
In a bid to be more transparent about last weekend’s 40-hour closure of the Verizon Cloud, the company just posted more about that massive upgrade. But, to be honest, it was more a history… Read more »
Paris-based online video platform Dailymotion wants a piece of the video game streaming pie: the company launched a new live streaming service called Dailymotion Games Wednesday. The service basically tries to… Read more »
Starting next year, students at UMass Amherst will get their text books not from a campus bookstore but from Amazon.com. The news was reported Tuesday in The Boston Globe. Under a 5-year… Read more »