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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 | 268.86 | +1.23 | +0.46% | 1741466 | N/A | -0.192 | 122.4B |
Latest Amazon news
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Dell gets off of its public cloud
However, the move by Dell will upset the OpenStack community and give a reason for Amazon Web Services public cloud executives to open the champers. It is looking like it will take a lot of money to create a public cloud offering that competes and Dell just does not have the readies. -
Steve Jobs lied on ebook deals, says Apple
AsTimereported last year, US authorities believe that Apple acted as a go-between among several publishing houses who had long wanted to break Amazon'sgrip on the low-cost digital book market. -
Google ups its free storage offering
This makes Google services the most generous storage capacity of any player in the free online storage game. The nearest rival, Dropbox, currently starts free subscribers at 2GB, Microsoft SkyDrive users get 7GB, and Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud Storage, and SugarSync offer 5GB for free. -
France may impose 1 percent culture tax on smartphones
The cash, raised from the likes of Apple, Samsung, Google and Amazon, would then be used to help French outfits create cultural content, such as music, images and videos, reports | AP. -
Chromebooks could be Google's ultrabook
The Samsung model topped Amazon's list of best-selling laptops last winter, but hardly any Chromebooks have appeared at all on the list of operating systems monitored by Net Applications. -
Barnes & Noble sticks Google Play on Nook tablet
Amazon does not appear to be abandoning its walled garden approach. -
Amazon’s growth slows
Amazon's revenues slowed in the first quarter as the world's largest Internet retail struggled overseas. -
Amazon has a telly vision
Online book seller Amazon has joined Intel, Microsoft, Apple, in fact pretty much everyone in the tech industry and said it wants to set up an internet TV channel. -
Google defends UK tax antics
The UK Public Accounts Committee named and shamed Google, Starbucks and Amazon of "using the letter of tax laws both nationally and internationally to immorally minimise their tax obligations -
Secret to beating Amazon – Don't sell fridges
Kobo's CEO Michael Serbinis is telling the world+dog that the way to beat Amazon is to focus on books rather than trying to sell other gear like fridges. -
Tablets start to dominate Taiwanese ODM production
Compal began shipping tablets to Acer in the first quarter of this year and shipping Amazon seven inch tablets in Q3 2013. Acer has already committed to putting its weight behind the burgeoning tablet market. -
Amazon cloud bursts
The security on Amazon's cloud has come under question after it was revealed that customers have accidentally revealed confidential information including sales records and source code. -
Amazon hires Microsoft mobile expert
Rumours that online bookseller Amazon might be developing its own smartphone gathered momentum after it announced that it had hired a a 20-year Microsoft veteran who most recently worked in its Windows Phone unit. -
Windows RT prices plummet
Asus' VivoTab RT has been seen on Amazon.com for $382 with 32GB of storage, which is a heavy discount from the $599 launch price. Best Buy, Staples and Office Depot have also dropped the price of the tablet by $50. -
Hackers really are dweebs
One of them was Mafiaboy, whose attacks crippled the websites of Yahoo, eBay, CNN, Dell and Amazon. -
Apple's security improvements eaten by bug
However it did make a mess of all those who praised Apple's two-step security and claimed that it would force the likes of rivals, such as Amazon, to introduce similar technology. -
FAA under pressure to let flyers keep electronics on
The industry working group tasked with a solution includes Boeing, the Association of Flight Attendants, the Federal Communicatiosn Commission, and aircraft makers - tellingly it also has on its roster the Consumer Electronics Association and Amazon. -
Web flicks threaten to stuff BBFC film classification
Cinema and video were covered and definitions were broad enough to cover DVDs or even films loaded on USB sticks. However it did not cover digital downloads from iTunes, or streaming from Netflix or Amazon's LoveFilm.
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