Topic - jeff bezos

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Magazine, Media, Internet

Amazon Delivers Bleak Retail Forecast

Amazon, the world leading online retailer, sees its stock plunge after it announces full-year 2008 sales forecast reduced by $1 billion.
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Archives, General news, Media, Internet, Finance

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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General news, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

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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Archives, Computers, General news, Media, Internet, Finance

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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Computers, General news, Internet, Finance

Amazon Margins Squeezed; Shares Skid

Online retail giant posts decline in profit margins as the cost of discounting overshadowed a robust rise in earnings and a bullish 2008 sales view above the Street's expectations. Shares plummet 11 percent.
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Computers, General news, Communications, Internet

Amazon Launches Kindle E-Book Reader

Online retail giant Amazon.com begins sales of its electronic book reader, priced at $399, that features wireless access to books, newspapers, and blogs.
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Archives, Computers, General news, Communications, Internet, Finance

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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Finance

Amazon.com’s Bezos Has Liftoff

Jeff Bezos lifts the curtain on his Blue Origin space tourism project
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Computers, Internet

Amazon, Microsoft Bet on Books

Google’s library inspires similar efforts at Amazon and Microsoft.
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Media, Internet

Amazon Turns 10

It’s had a rocky ride, and the online retailer plans to celebrate like never before.
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Internet, Finance

Amazon’s Sales Up, Profit Down

E-commerce giant grows revenue, but suffers a decline in net income as tax expenses eat into its bottom line.
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Internet

Kids Today

Seven years after they invented instant messaging, and landed their country one of high-tech’s hottest-ever deals, the young Israeli ICQ hotshots are making their next move.
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General news, Internet, Finance

The shipping news

Amazon wants to get its free shipping habit under control.
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Internet, Finance

Top 100 Innovative Companies: Amazon.com, Open-door policy

It’s counterintuitive, but through its web services program, Amazon hopes to thrive by opening its systems to outsiders.