GigaomKinvey nets $10.8M in new funding to boost sales to mobile-obsessed enterprises
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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.
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Ray Ozzie is back to his old tricks — this time parlaying smart phones and cloud as opposed to PCs and servers — to foster communication including high-quality calls (!) between… Read more »
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