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Amazon Begins Black Friday Sales Tomorrow
Seattle – The Friday before Black Friday has become the new Black Friday. Two days after Walmart announced plans to begin its holiday sales...
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Amazon’s Wearables Biz Triples From April
Seattle — Wearables is becoming big business at Amazon.com. The world’s largest e-tailer said the category is quickly becoming one of its most popular,...
E-Readers
Amazon Updates Kindle E-Readers
Seattle — Amazon said it is preparing to deliver a software update for Kindle e-readers adding exclusive features and improvements, including Word Wise and...
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Amazon Won’t Charge Extra For 4K Prime
Seattle — Amazon made a statement of support for the 4K Ultra HD format Wednesday by saying it will not charge Prime members extra...
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Amazon Posts CE Holiday Gift Guide
Seattle — Amazon.com has released its annual Electronics Holiday Gift Guide, which features a curated list of over 500 “top electronics gifts” and three...
Blogs
Amazon’s Buy Box: The $80 Billion Button
E-commerce analysts are predicting that Amazon.com will make over $120 billion in revenue this year. Of that, between $40 billion and $50 billion will...
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Survey: Amazon Rises To Top In Tablet Satisfaction
Westlake Village, Calif. – Amazon ranked highest in overall satisfaction for the first time in J.D. Power U.S. tablet satisfaction study, edging out Apple...
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Staples Helps Amazon Launch Fire TV Stick
Framingham, Mass. — Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick is getting additional sales support from a seemingly unlikely ally: Staples. The office-supply giant said Monday...
IP Set-Top Boxes
Amazon Unveils Fire TV Stick
Seattle — Enjoying strong interest in its Fire TV platform, Amazon wasted little time in rolling out the second iteration of the device Monday...
Financial
Amazon’s Q3 Losses Widen
Seattle – Amazon.com reported a third-quarter net loss of $437 million, compared to a $41 million loss for the year-ago period, as it continued...
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AT&T Bundling Amazon Tablet, Fire Phone
Dallas – AT&T is bringing an LTE-equipped Amazon Fire HDX 7 tablet to its company-owned stores and online store. The carrier is pricing the...
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Amazon Cloud Drive Comes To PlayStation
Seattle — Amazon Cloud Drive on the Amazon Instant Video app is now available through the PlayStation 3 and 4, as well as select...
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Amazon Planning Mini Manhattan Warehouse: Report
New York – Amazon.com may be opening a mini-warehouse in Midtown Manhattan in time for the holidays. The site, near Macy’s Herald Square on W. 34th...
Home Automation
Piper In The Pipeline At Amazon
Redwood City, Calif. – Icontrol Networks is expanding retail availability of its Piper home-automation hub/security camera. In its latest move, the company is extending...
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Amazon Unveils New Tablets, Readers
Seattle — Amazon dropped the opening price and Kindle name from its Fire tablets, launched its most advanced e-reader ever, and unveiled kid-friendly tablets...
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Amazon Extends Prime Video To Android Phones
Seattle — Members of Amazon.com’s step-up Prime service tier can now access the e-tailer’s vast library of free streaming videos via their Android phones....
Blogs
If You Thought Amazon Gave You Agita …
For the uninitiated, Alibaba and DHGate are online, China-based marketplaces that give smaller retailers, and yes, even consumers, access to cut-rate CE and other inventory direct...
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Amazon Cuts Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents
Seattle — Amazon has lowered the price of its fledgling Fire smartphone to 99 cents with a two-year contract, with a year of Prime...
Industry
Amazon Sets CFO Succession; Doubles Home-Automation SKUs
Seattle — Amazon.com’s chief financial officer Tom Szkutak has set a retirement date of June 2015, when he will be succeeded by the e-tailer’s...
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Samsung To Offer Amazon 4K Streaming Soon
Seoul, South Korea – Samsung is gearing up for the IFA show in Berlin by revealing plans to deliver streaming Ultra HD content from...
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Amazon Gets Aggressive With M-Commerce
SEATTLE —Amazon.com has launched a controversial mobile payment program that will allow brick-andmortar retailers to accept credit and debit cards from a smartphone or...
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Amazon Launches Mobile Payment Program For Retailers
Seattle — Amazon.com has launched a controversial mobile payment program that will allow brick-and-mortar retailers to accept credit and debit cards from a smartphone...
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Amazon Extends Same-Day Delivery
Seattle – Amazon.com has expanded its same-day delivery capabilities to six more markets, for a total of ten major metro areas. More than a...
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Amazon Ramps Up Fire TV App Selection
Seattle — “It’s the content, stupid.” Amazon answered the ages-old axiom on the success of any new entertainment technology Monday by pointing out that...
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Amazon, Apple Tops In Online CE Sales
NEW YORK –Amazon.com is the top online retailer in TWICE’s inaugural Top 20 CE E-tailers Report, which, truth be told, is not a great...
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Amazon’s Hartman: Winning CE With Service, Streams And Transparency
Seattle – It’s already been a busy year for Amazon.com and there’s still another six months to go. Since January the nation’s No. 1...
Financial
Amazon Reports $126M Q2 Loss
Seattle – Amazon.com remained in the red in the second quarter. The nation’s No. 1 e-tailer reported a net loss of $126 million for...
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Amazon Enters Retail Top 10
Washington — Amazon.com has become the ninth-largest U.S. retailer in total domestic sales, the National Retail Federation (NRF) reported. The trade association’s annual retailer...
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High-End Amazon Phone Offers 3D Viewing, Gesture Control
Seattle — Amazon’s long-awaited Fire smartphone will be a high-end model available July 25 through Amazon and AT&T stores at $199 with contract for...
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BlackBerry Opening Up To Amazon Appstore
Waterloo, Ontario – BlackBerry smartphones running on the BlackBerry 10.3 OS due in the fall will be able to access Amazon’s Appstore to download...
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Report: AT&T To Offer Amazon Smartphone Service
New York — Amazon’s first smartphone will work exclusively on the AT&T network, reprising AT&T’s role in the launch of the first iPhone, The...
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Amazon Sees Appstore Gains
Seattle — Amazon reported that its Appstore selection almost tripled over the past year to more than 240,000 apps and games in almost 200...
Audio
Amazon Adds Ad-Free Music Streaming To Prime Subscriptions
Seattle — Amazon unveiled its Amazon Prime music-streaming service, a million-song-strong service that is both free and ad-free to subscribers of the e-tailer’s $99/year...
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Amazon Extends Sunday Delivery To 15 More Cities
Seattle – Amazon.com, which began testing Sunday deliveries in New York and Los Angeles in November, has extended the service to Prime members in...
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Amazon Launches Wearable CE Section
SEATTLE –Amazon.com has curated a wide range of wearable devices into a separate area within its electronics department. The new Wearable Technology section features...
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Amazon Reports Higher Q1 Sales, Profits
Seattle – Amazon.com reported double-digit sales and earnings gains for the first three months of the year, but forecast a steep loss for the...
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Amazon Reaches HBO Content Deal
Seattle – Amazon said Wednesday it has reached a content licensing agreement with HBO that will make Prime Instant Video the exclusive online-only subscription...
Blogs
Has Amazon Met Its Match?
Only two things in life are certain, Benjamin Franklin assured us, and Amazon is quickly coming to terms with one of them. A new...
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Survey: Prime, Kindle Drive Amazon Sales
Chicago – Amazon Prime subscribers and Kindle owners buy more from Amazon than other Amazon customers, says a survey by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners...
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Amazon Could Bring New Business Model To Cellphones
NEW YORK – Amazon will likely bring a new business model to the cellphone industry if it enters the smartphone market later this year,...
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Report: Amazon Readies Smartphone
New York – Amazon will extend its CE hardware lineup beyond e-readers, tablets and its recently launched TV set-top box with a smartphone that...
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Report: Amazon Prime Instant Video Passes Apple, Hulu
Seattle – Amazon said Tuesday that video streams on its Prime Instant Video service nearly tripled year over year, passing rivals Apple and Hulu....