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Amazon Delivers 10 Percent Profit Decline

Online retail giant's second-quarter profit falls 10 percent amid currency issues and legal expenses. Shares trade more than 6 percent lower in after-hours trading.
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Amazon Snaps Up Zappos.com

Online retail giant agrees to acquire the Internet shoe store for $807 million in a cash-and-stock transaction.
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Finance

GameStop Earnings Beat Street

Retail games giant reports increased profit for the quarter and the fiscal year. Amazon’s new trade-in program, though, could lead to trouble in the future.
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Amazon Gobbles Casual Games Site Reflexive

Amazon jumps into the gaming market with agreement to acquire casual game portal Reflexive.
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Retail Report Slams Stocks

Amazon, Google lead tech stocks lower; Dow falls 733 points amid recession fears.
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Media, Communications, Internet

IBM Sails for Cloud Computing

IT veteran challenges "born on the web" rivals such as Google and Amazon.com with a cloud computing manifesto along with an array of products.
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Media, Communications, Internet

TiVo, Amazon Target Impulse Buyers

TV viewers can use their remote controls to purchase products seen on programs such as Oprah, but TiVo has a lot of company as cable operators and Microsoft are also targeting couch potatoes.
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Amazon Readies Pay Per View

Unwilling to cede the digital video market to Apple or Netflix, Bezos will roll out a pay-per-view streaming movie service.
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T-Mobile Takes a Whrrl on Pelago

Telecom's VC unit joins Kleiner Perkins and Amazon's Bezos in backing Twitter-like mapping service.
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Bezos’ Bucks Back Kongregate

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' $3 million ‘super angel’ round bolsters upstart indie games site.
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Amazon Delivers

Internet retail beast beats Street estimates on strong electronics and media sales.
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Security, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Amazon Texts Impulse Buyers

Online retailer invites consumers to pay for products using their mobile phones, but is America still skittish about payment via mobile phones?
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Barnes & Noble Taps How-to Market

Book retailer invades the digital publishing market with a site focused on professional rather than consumer-generated instruction.
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Amazon Adds Facebook to Wish List

Online retailer reaches out to social community with applications that circulate private gift-giving information among friends.
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Audible Shareholder Sounds Off on Sale to Amazon

Allen & Co.'s $11.50 per share valuation math is faulty, hedge fund manager tells the provider of online spoken-word content.
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Amazon to Buy Audible for $300M

Web retailer adds format flexibility as both content and distribution of books, music, and movies becomes more digitized.
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Amazon: MP3s Internationally Sans DRM

Online retail giant says it will begin an international debut this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
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Amazon, Warner Rock MP3s

Warner Music Group becomes one of the last of the major labels to give in amid an industry slowly caving on digital restrictions.
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ChaCha Dances With $10 Million

Former Perot Systems CEO Morton Meyerson puts $8 million into the human-aided Internet search startup.
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Microsoft: Musiwave, New Zune Tune

Challenging Apple’s iPod franchise, software giant unveils new Zune models and holds talks to acquire builder of music stores for mobile carriers.
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