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Business Bestsellers:Read 'Em and Leap
Warren Buffett's biography and Dan Roam's book on visual problem solving are the only books to make Amazon.com business bestsellers and its editors 'best of' picks for 2008. Many of these books are not yet nominated for BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. There is still time for you to...
Amazon's CloudFront Takes On Akamai
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
Tech Roundup: Psystar Countersuit Dies, Amazon Enters Content Delivery, More
Microsoft to give away security software; judge says no to Mac clone-maker Psystar's counterclaims against Apple; Microsoft and Novell says their two-year-old deal is good, but not all agree; Amazon enters digital content delivery business; and Nvidia has desktop super computer for under $10,000. by Erik Sherman
Amazon's New Content Delivery Network
Dan Rayburn submits: Last night, Amazon AMZN launched their new HTTP based content delivery service (CDN), dubbed "CloudFront", as an unlimited public beta. While I'm sure many in the market are going to compare Amazon's new CDN offering to other CDNs like Akamai and Limelight, it's important to get...
Solve 'Wrap Rage' Problem for Untold Riches and Fame
Every day entrepreneurs wake and wonder what their next hit product will be. Go back to bed for another 30 minutes -- I have the answer for you. Solve the wrap rage problem. Wrap rage, as you well know on Christmas morning, is...
Amazon sells laptops for charity
Amazon is partnering with One Laptop Per Child OLPC, a non-profit organisation, to sell child-friendly laptops and promote education in developing countries. Every shopper who pays USD400 for an OLPC notebook on Amazon will automatically donate a second laptop to a child in the Third World. ...
Amazon.com Promotes Low-Priced Products By SMS; Users Can Reply To Buy
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is making use of this economic downturn by launching a new service that will alert consumers by text message about low-priced items of the day. The mobile promotion, available at www.amazon.com/gp/anywhere/sms/goldbox, is an extension of the company's online Deal of the Day called Gold Box. But...
Flipswap Raises $14 Million In Second Funding Round
Mobile phone recycling start-up Flipswap has raised $14 million in its second round of funding from clean tech VC NGEN partners, and early stage tech fund RRE Ventures, the company said today. The company's software allows retailers to offer consumers an instant credit when they trade in their old...
Google Shares Below $300 For First Time Since 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Google Inc GOOG on Wednesday fell below $300 for the first time since late 2005 after analysts lowered their estimates on the Internet search giant, citing a weak advertising market.The shares were down 6.5 percent at $291.19 in afternoon Nasdaq trade. The stock is...
Sony to offer DRM-free iTunes tracks - Rumour
Sony BMG may begin offering its music catalogue in a DRM-free format as part of Apple's iTunes Plus service, according to the 9to5Mac blog. Although the blog does not give many details on the rumoured deal, it says Sony could...
Amazon's High Valuation Could Spell Trouble if Earnings Miss
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: So here’s the thing about Amazon.com AMZN: the stock trades at a significant premium to its peers, no matter how you define them. Retailers. Online retailers. Internet stocks. Amazon shares trade at a higher multiple than all of them. The valuation issue troubles Susquehanna Financial...
Salesforce.com Moves into Website Services with New Amazon and Facebook Alliances
Despite the economy, election and lingering questions about whether Software-as-a-Service SaaS is enterprise-ready, this week's Salesforce.com CRM Dreamforce conference drew nearly ten thousand energetic attendees and exhibitors to celebrate the power of the 'cloud.' The event not only dispelled any questions about whether the SaaS movement can withstand today's...
Deal Radar 2008: Wigix
Sramana Mitra submits: eBay’s EBAY vulnerability, it seems, is drawing attention. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we look at a company that is trying to hit eBay where it hurts! Wigix is a new online marketplace for consumer goods modeled on a NASDAQ-style trading...
Amazon: Don't Fall for Fool's Gold
Mark Krieger submits: It's tempting to bottom fish, especially after seeing a 60% implosion in Amazon's AMZN share price, but don't get sucked in by the seduction, it is still is too expensive. The shares have already rallied more than 35% from their lows, so they are fast approaching overbought...
New Yorker Lauches Digital Edition; Free To Print Subscribers
At first I thought the ad in last week's New Yorker was a mirage, a promise of a digital edition that would arrive when the magazine was published—not a week later like the print edition. And when the post-registration response was a promise to let me know when the...
Salesforce partners with Amazon and Facebook
Salesforce.com, a customer relationship management CRM firm, has struck deals to link its Force.com hosted application with services from Facebook and Amazon Web Services. Under the terms of the Facebook deal, developers using Force.com - Salesforce's business app platform -...
Salesforce.com Partners with Amazon and Facebook to Spur Application Development
Sam Diaz submits: Salesforce.com CRM CEO Marc Benioff doesn’t think companies should be worrying about things like servers and security, software updates and web hosting. In a keynote speech at the company’s Dreamforce conference today, he explained that those sort of things are what he and his company...
Invalidation of Business-Methods Patents Has Broad Implications
Erick Schonfeld submits: If you are one of the recipients of the 1,330 business method patents issued in the U.S. last year, or the thousands more that have been issued rampantly and indiscriminately over the past decade, you are probably out of luck. The U.S. Court of Appeals in...
Legal Music Downloads Catching Up to P2P
Compete submits: The online channel, originally considered a threat to the music and movie industries, has become an increasingly important distribution channel. Over the last several years, we’ve seen more and more industry-sanctioned content download sites. Services like eMusic, Napster the legal version, Rhapsody, and iTunes have grown their...
Can Microsoft Catch Up with Cloud Computing?
Dennis Byron submits: The Microsoft MSFT Windows Azure cloud computing press release talks about: “…leading the way in services infrastructure with innovative use of shipping containers as flexible and portable housing for servers, providing 10 times the density and dramatic savings in power usage.” by...
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- Incorporated: 1994
- CEO: Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos
Amazon.com is engaged in operating retail websites. Co. sources and sells a range of products worldwide across various product categories, including digital media. Co. serves its consumer customers through www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.co.uk, www.shopbop.com, www.endless.com and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn. Co. also serves seller customers through programs and services designed to enable them to sell products on its websites; and serves developer customers by offering a suite of web services that provide access to Co.'s technology platform for them to build their own applications.
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Amazon.com Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos
Chairman
Mr. Alain Monié
Mr. Tom A. Alberg
Mr. John Seely Brown
Mr. L. John Doerr
Mr. William B. Gordon
Ms. Myrtle S. Potter
Mr. Thomas O. Ryder
Ms. Patricia Q. Stonesifer
Contact Information
1200 12th Avenue South
Suite 1200
Seattle, WA
206 266-1000
NAICS Code
Electronic Shopping: 454111Brought to you by IBM
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