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Jan 31, 2012, 1:23 PM

Amazon.com holiday sales miss mark, stock takes a hit

Amazon.com’s net sales climbed 35 percent during the fourth quarter, reaching $17.43 billion, according to financial results just released by… Read More

Jan 30, 2012, 10:54 AM

Is Amazon.com about to get all outdoorsy on REI? Job posts indicate new sports site

Should REI start sweating about Amazon.com, its new neighbor in the South Lake Union neighborhood? Job postings from Amazon’s Quidsi… Read More

Jan 30, 2012, 9:01 AM

TechStars perk: Free cloud services from Microsoft’s Windows Azure

Hook ’em while they’re young. That could very well be the code-name of a partnership announced today between Microsoft and… Read More

Jan 30, 2012, 8:22 AM

Estimates: Amazon sells six million Kindle Fires, drives 36% of Android tablet market

One of the key things we’ll be closely tracking on Tuesday during Amazon.com’s earnings call will be the overall performance… Read More

Jan 29, 2012, 10:58 AM

Amazon.com: What to watch in this week’s pivotal earnings report

Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter financial report on Tuesday afternoon will show how the company performed in the critical holiday shopping season and… Read More

Jan 27, 2012, 7:12 AM

Amazon: Burning the book business or making it better?

Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story this week drills into Amazon’s effort to upend the book industry by moving into the publishing… Read More

Jan 27, 2012, 6:58 AM

Can you actually trust those 5-star reviews on Amazon.com?

Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet — especially when it comes to reviews. The New York Times reports… Read More

Jan 25, 2012, 4:37 PM

Netflix CEO says Amazon will launch a rival video service (And this is why he isn’t worried)

Earlier today, The New York Post reported that Amazon.com was weighing the possibility of creating a standalone video subscription service,… Read More

Jan 25, 2012, 9:42 AM

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Tablets will be bigger than PCs and why Kindle Fire isn’t hurting the iPad

Remember the report last month in which a financial analyst from Stern Agee cut his projections for iPad sales from… Read More

Jan 25, 2012, 9:41 AM

From e-book to bookstore: Amazon and Houghton Mifflin strike new distribution deal

Amazon.com is increasingly expanding into the business of book publishing, and it has some formidable distribution mechanisms in the form… Read More

Jan 25, 2012, 1:35 AM

Amazon.com launches new storage gateway service to securely backup data

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a yet another new offering today called AWS Gateway Storage, a service that the… Read More

Jan 24, 2012, 4:09 PM

Microsoft Hotmail soars on iPhone and Android, now available on Kindle Fire

Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail has surpassed 12 million active users on Apple iOS devices — a dramatic climb resulting from… Read More

Jan 24, 2012, 11:47 AM

Microsoft back in hiring mode: Where it’s adding new jobs

Microsoft returned to modest employment growth in 2011, adding more employees around the world than at any point since making… Read More

Jan 23, 2012, 11:03 AM

Chart: iPad, iPhone in spotlight as Apple preps earnings report

Apple’s earnings report on Tuesday afternoon will be closely watched as a gauge of the company’s momentum in the smartphone… Read More

Jan 23, 2012, 7:57 AM

Amazon fulfillment centers planned for India, S. Carolina

Amazon.com is expanding aggressively overseas, and the latest example comes via Reuters which reports that the giant Seattle online retailer… Read More

Jan 22, 2012, 10:48 PM

Gadgets galore: More than a quarter of Americans now own an e-reader or tablet computer

Nooks. iPads. Kindles. PlayBooks. Kobos. Americans are getting more familiar with tablet computers and e-readers, with a new study out… Read More

Jan 20, 2012, 10:13 AM

Unemployment rate drops slightly to 8.5% in Washington

There’s more good news on the job front in Washington state, as the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent during… Read More

Jan 19, 2012, 9:36 AM

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM Kindel to advise FreePriceAlerts; Amazon gets a Yahoo; etc.

Charlie Kindel, who left his general manager job on the Windows Phone team last August, is finding plenty of stuff… Read More

Jan 19, 2012, 7:55 AM

Textbooks as software: Apple debuts iBooks 2, iBooks Author in new digital education push

At an event in New York City this morning, Apple unveiled a new version of its iBooks platform for reading… Read More

Jan 18, 2012, 2:03 PM

Amazon’s DynamoDB: What it is, and why it matters

Guest Commentary: Amazon Web Services this morning announced a new service called DynamoDB — rolling out, in public form, a… Read More

Jan 18, 2012, 10:58 AM

Angry shopper sues Amazon over data theft at Zappos.com

Just three days after online shoe retailer Zappos.com suffered a serious data breach, a Texas woman has sued Amazon.com over… Read More

Jan 18, 2012, 6:49 AM

Amazon launches ‘DynamoDB’ cloud database service

Amazon Web Services has been dropping hints about a big announcement planned for this morning, and this is it. The… Read More

Jan 17, 2012, 4:02 PM

Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA

Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More

Jan 16, 2012, 7:32 PM

Microsoft is the third most valuable brand in the world, but it loses some fizz to Apple

Apple is already much bigger than Microsoft in terms of market value. But Microsoft still has a leg up on… Read More

Jan 16, 2012, 6:15 PM

Tech Moves: Here’s the guy Walmart just hired to take on Amazon.com overseas

Amazon.com grew its international sales by 44 percent during the third quarter to $4.94 billion, driven in part by the… Read More

Jan 16, 2012, 9:05 AM

Amazon starts offering free Windows Server in the cloud

Amazon Web Services plans to start letting businesses run Windows Server applications for free for up to 750 hours of… Read More

Jan 15, 2012, 10:32 PM

Hacker infiltrates Zappos network, gets customer info but not full credit cards

Amazon.com’s Zappos and its sister shopping site 6pm are informing users this weekend that portions of their internal network and… Read More

Jan 15, 2012, 3:47 PM

Impressions of Seattle: Thoughts on Microsoft, Amazon and Adobe

Although I’m a tech geek, I haven’t actually worked for a tech company yet. My background is in finance, so… Read More

Jan 14, 2012, 4:45 PM

Zuckerberg’s most admired companies: Amazon, Apple, Google (but no Microsoft?)

Microsoft may start feeling like the Rodney Dangerfield of tech. It just gets no respect. The latest example comes via an… Read More

Jan 13, 2012, 1:11 PM

Who could buy RIM? A laundry list of potential suitors

RIM has been discussed as potential acquisition bait now for years, yet no one has stepped up to take the… Read More