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| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMZN | Amazon | 21:00 GMT | 212.89 | -2.35 | -1.09% | 2171364 | 177.74 | 1.211 | 95.912B |
Latest Amazon news
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Flagship Google tablet tipped for June release
Amazon has impressed in the small tablet game, but with competition from Samsung and Acer on the way, Google could have a fight on its hands. -
Hollywood gets into a scrap over Steve Jobs' corpse
Isaacson's book titled "Steve Jobs" has sold more than two million copies since its release late last year and was the top-selling title at online retail powerhouse Amazon.com. -
MP3Tunes throws in the towel
MP3tunes was a cloud music service that let users store music in online "lockers." The idea is used by Amazon.com, Apple and Google which have similar cloud services but more cash for lawyers, as it turned out MP3Tunes made a few mistakes that the bigger companies did not. -
Pan Macmillan publisher, Tor UK, dumps DRM
If you buy a DRM-encoded book via Amazon, you can only read it on a Kindle but cannot transfer the title to a Sony Reader, Kobo eReader or use it with Apple's iBooks. -
NAND revenues to rocket with Ultrabook boom
NAND flash revenue is set to grow as ultrathin laptops push sales of solid state drives, with Intel expecting to ship up to 30 million units this year. -
Greenpeace hits out at dirty cloud technology
Environmental group Greenpeace has slammed Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter for operating dirty clouds. -
University aims to uncover value of personal data
What this research actually will be worth to volunteers is the chance to win between £10 and £100 in Amazon vouchers through a prize draw. -
Apple denies that it is an antitrust organisation
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris, who rarely says anything, said that the launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry. -
In the wake of Apple antitrust claims, Amazon cuts ebook prices
CommentThe US government's decision to take Apple to the cleaners for running a price fixing racket on its ebook customers means that Amazon can lower the price of its products. -
US sues Apple for alleged publishing cartel
UpdatedThe publishers shifted to a model that allowed them to set the price of e-books and give Apple a 30 percent cut of sales. The move was designed to give Amazon a good kicking but meant that iPad users had to pay more for their books than anyone else. -
Google pushes its tablet back to July at the earliest
Google's tablet, if it went to market as it is now, would retail for $249 - a little more steep than Amazon's Fire which has made the most of the market with its entry-level price. -
Apple tells the DoJ where to get off
Whatappears to have happened is that Apple secured contracts from five publishers about two years ago as it was launching its iPad. Jobs wanted to establish his iTunes bookstore and both he and the publishers needed to break up Amazon's dominance in the digital book market. -
Apple expected to modify its eBook cartel
The negotiations are still fluid, which means that they are being sorted out in the local wine bar, but the idea is to kill off Apple's so-called "most favoured nation" status, which had prevented the publishers from selling lower-priced e-books through rival retailers such as Amazon.com or Barnes -
Google plans to sell tablets online
The Journal said that Google has considered subsidising the cost of its tablets to compete on pricing with Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire. -
LG comes up with flexible e-ink display
LG has announced that it has begun mass production of the world's first commercial flexible, plastic e-ink display. -
Apple and Foxconn/Hon Hai improve worker conditions
The deal may also raise costs for other manufacturers who contract with the Taiwanese company, including Dell, HP, Amazon.com, Motorola Mobility and Nokia. -
Apple spends more on marketing than R&D
Apple is 18th on the list, spending $2.6 billion - well below Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Qualcomm, Hewlett-Packard and Amazon.com. In fact Apple's R&D spending as a percentage of its revenue of $127.8 billion was a pathetic 2.6 percent. -
Microsoft warns of critical hole
RDP enables remote access from the web, but preferably to an authenticated user. The flaw means that an attacker can potentially take complete control of the computer. If it succeeds, an attacker can bypass standard memory protection measures, however, they will have access at the kernel level.
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