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| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
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| AMZN | Amazon | 21:00 GMT | 185.54 | +0.56 | +0.30% | 5798484 | 135.02 | 1.37 | 84.433B |
Latest Amazon news
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Amazon continues to erode book publishers' businesses
CommentI ordered five books at Waterstone Online – those books were reasonably priced too – and went to the online checkout where suddenly the volumes I’d selected just disappeared into the aether. -
Patent trolling hits new heights
But this case pits him against the finest legal minds in the world from Yahoo, Google, Amazon and YouTube. It also has shoved him against the web's father. Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself (pictured) has flown in for the case because if Doyle wins it will be the end of the web. -
Cisco man promoted to security trade body, ICASI, president
What ICASI basically does is share technology to cope with security threats and decides on best practices. Members include Cisco (surprise!), Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Juniper Networks and Amazon. -
Microsoft readies its Azure push
Redmond.mag claims that Microsoft has been quietly working behind the scenes to come up with a Cloud platform that can knock the socks off IBM, Amazon and Google. -
Facebook IPO tipped for next week
When it does finally happen, 3News claims it will push Facebook into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America. -
Kodak files for Chapter 11
Kodak has $5.1 billion in assets and $6.75 billion in debts and owes money to Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon.com; Sony Studios, Warner Brothers, Disney Studios and Paramount Studios and Nokia. -
Wintel tablets will demand sky-high prices
Windows 8, Intel-powered tablets could force vendors to sell for as high as $899, hampering attempts to meet ARM based devices on price point. -
Schick as a parrot, stuck at CES - foam for all at MGM Grand
CES 2012We popped by to meet those nice people from Kingston, here for the show and of course brought back fab memories of Laguna Beach. The guys are showing off the 16GB Wi-Drive, this nice little number describes itself as portable wireless storage for iPads and iPhones. -
O2 turns scrooge on Xmas promo mess-up
O2 ran a promotional offer around Christmas time on some of its phones. "£20 to spend as you like," it said, as a special treat for new customers signing up to its packages. The problem was the voucher customers got didn't work in-store - they had to go online to apply for it. -
Nvidia, Asus focus on cheap, powerful tablets
CES 2012Asus CEO Jerry Shen came onto the stage and showed off the new 7-inch tablet with Tegra 3 and Ice Cream Sandwich, which he said will be priced at $249. This could give the Amazon Fire a run for its money. Those products do not offer the same performance or features. -
Employers to hire more Android developers over iOS in 2012
Other mobile platforms were predictably left way behind. Blackberry app jobs barely moved, with only a two percent increase, while Amazon's Kindle rose 27 percent though with “insignificant volumes”. Windows Phone jobs barely shifted. -
Man creates webservers from stuff in his drawer
After a few years of development, Anderson and his students are starting to sell "Wimpy Nodes" to the likes of Amazon and Facebook. It has also been given cash by Intel. -
Intel culls 25 desktop CPUs
By the middle of next year there will be no more Core i7-960/950/930/870/880S/870S, Core i5-2300/680/670, Core Duo E7500/E7600, Pentium G960, E6600/E550 and Celeron E3300 seen in the wild. -
Sony drops the price of its tablet
The only problem is that they did not sell well, while cheap and cheerful tablets, such as the Amazon Fire did much better. -
If Intel's Ultrabook does not work, the industry is jonesed
CommentBut what no one appears to be saying is that it is a huge roll of the dice by the OEMS by banking on Intel's vision of the future. They already spent most of 2011 wasting time trying to copy Steve Jobs' vision of the tablet and produced overpriced gadgets that no-one wanted. -
Microsoft and Nokia considered buying RIM
The Two-Headed Monster was getting lots of lunches this year - Amazon took it out a couple of times before being rejected by either the Balsillie or Lazaridis head. -
Amazon nearly bought RIM
Investors in the troubled outfit RIM will be furious to discover that Amazon considered buying the company but was turned down by the two-headed monster which runs it. -
Christmas creates Amazon shanty-towns
The Wall Street Journalreports on Amazon hiring shedloads of the nation's elderly and using them like Santa's elves to pack up parcels in its many warehouses.
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