ARTICLES RELATING TO AMAZON

Anger over Amazon's UK tax bill

2013-05-16 08:38

Internet giant Amazon came under fresh fire over its British tax status after official figures revealed it only paid £2.4m on UK sales of £4.2bn last year.

3D screen for smartphone

2013-05-09 22:22

Amazon, long rumoured to be developing its own smartphone, is working on a screen that allows people to see 3D images without glasses.

Google tests same-day deliveries

2013-03-29 14:09

Google has begun testing a service for same-day delivery of toys, clothing, groceries or other items ordered online in what could be a challenge to online retail titan Amazon.

Germany demands Amazon worker probe

2013-02-17 18:34

A German minister has called for a probe into allegations that foreign workers hired in Germany by online retail giant Amazon were harassed and intimidated.

Amazon speaks for Kindle Fire with Ivona buy

2013-01-25 11:38

Amazon.com announced the purchase of a text-to-speech technology company in a move aimed at ramping up the capabilities of its Kindle Fire tablet computers.

Amazon.com ramps up challenge to iTunes

2013-01-10 22:13

Amazon.com has launched a service that gives compact disk buyers instant copies of music in the internet "cloud" in a major challenge to Apple's iTunes shop.

Web access battles brew before UN conference

2012-11-26 09:18

An upcoming UN gathering about internet oversight is raising alarms from a broad coalition of critics, including the US.

Amazon cuts Japan Kindle price

2012-11-08 16:49

Internet shopping giant Amazon has cut the cost of the Japanese version of its Kindle e-reader even before the first customers get their hands on the device.

Amazon pulls Nazi death camp puzzle

2012-10-20 14:13

Online retail giant Amazon has withdrawn from its website a controversial jigsaw puzzle that depicts ovens at the crematorium of the Nazi death camp of Dachau.

Nazi death camp puzzle row at Amazon

2012-09-30 18:36

Online retail giant Amazon has come under fire over the sale of a jigsaw puzzle that recreates the crematorium at the Nazi death camp of Dachau.

Amazon offers Kindle users ad opt out

2012-09-10 12:02

Amazon.com has said that it will allow purchasers of its new Kindle Fire tablets to pay $15 extra to turn off advertisements that are built into the devices.

Lots of new technology coming

2012-08-26 13:33

It's beginning to look a lot like a big season in the United States for mobile gadgets.

Google, Facebook launch US web lobby

2012-07-26 11:43

Big technology firms including Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon have joined to create a new internet lobby group aimed, source has said.

Facebook signs apps privacy deal

2012-06-22 22:27

Facebook has become the seventh company to agree to give people advance warning if its mobile applications pull personal information from mobile phones and tablet computers.

Browser wars are heating up

2012-05-27 18:29

The browser wars are heating up again, but this time the fight is for dominance of the mobile internet.

Amazon conjures up Harry Potter e-books

2012-05-11 08:21

Amazon has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library.

Greenpeace fights for clean web 'cloud'

2012-04-20 08:32

Greenpeace activists have rappelled down a Seattle office building to get Microsoft and Amazon.com to use clean energy to power data centres.

Amazon boss to retrieve Apollo 11 engines

2012-03-29 13:25

Searchers funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos have located the rocket engines that powered the first moon trip in 1969, and now plans to recover them.

Amazon pulls iPads from China site

2012-02-16 22:32

Internet retail titan Amazon has pulled iPads from its website in China at Apple's request, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Amazon weighed buying RIM but interest cooled

2011-12-21 09:33

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion turned down overtures from Amazon and other potential buyers.

Amazon's Kindle flying off the shelves

2011-12-16 11:44

Amazon says that it is selling more than one million Kindles a week and the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is its top-selling item.

EU probing Apple's e-book deals

2011-12-06 18:38

European antitrust officials have launched a probe to determine whether iPad maker Apple and five international publishers struck illegal deals to fix the price of e-books in Europe.

Amazon sells Kindle Fire below cost

2011-11-18 22:37

Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire slightly below the cost it takes to manufacture the tablet computer, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.

 

Amazon UK pays $3.7m tax on $6.5bn sales

2013-05-15 13:55

Amazon.com's main UK unit paid taxes of $3.7m on its 2012 income, despite group UK sales of $6.5bn, its accounts data shows.

Amazon app store coming to SA

2013-04-18 16:04

Amazon has announced that it will expand its Android-based app store to cover nearly 200 countries and territories – including South Africa.

iPads to fall behind Android tablets

2013-03-12 21:46

Shipments of Apple's iPads will fall behind the growing variety of tablets running Google's Android platform for the first time this year.

Tablets gain more ground on PCs

2013-02-06 22:34

One-third of computers sold worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012 was a tablet, according to a survey.

Amazon music open to Apple users

2013-01-17 20:41

Amazon says its 22-million song music catalogue is now "optimized" for users of Apple devices, making it easier for iPhone owners to circumvent the iTunes store.

Amazon wins claim to 'Appstore' name

2013-01-03 08:40

A federal judge has rejected Apple's claim of false advertising for Amazon.com to refer to its online shop for mobile gadget applications as an "app store."

Amazon wins price battle with Apple

2012-12-13 15:07

Amazon has been handed a victory in its attempt to sell e-books cheaper than rivals after a probe by the European Union into pricing restrictions.

Kindle cashes in on Cyber Monday

2012-11-27 18:21

Amazon says sales of its Kindle tablets and e-readers have more than doubled over the key weekend launching the holiday season.

Larger Kindle Fire tablet unleashed

2012-11-16 07:29

Amazon is shipping a large screen, high-definition version of its popular Kindle Fire tablet computers ahead of schedule in a holiday season challenge to Apple iPads.

Tablet wars: Apple, Microsoft winning

2012-11-06 08:38

Microsoft and Apple are garnering the highest profit margins for their tablets, followed by Google and then Amazon, according to research firm IHS.

Amazon - Kindle users entitled to refunds

2012-10-14 22:14

Owners of Amazon.com's Kindle e-readers will receive refunds on past e-book purchases and see e-book prices drop if a judge approves legal settlements with publishers accused of fixing prices.

Amazon to offer loans to sellers

2012-09-28 10:05

E-commerce firm Amazon.com is launching a new business offering loans to some of its online sellers, CEO Scot Wingo of advisory firm ChannelAdvisor says.

Amazon quenches Kindle(s) Fire

2012-08-30 17:18

Amazon.com has quenched the Kindle Fire, saying its first tablet computer is now sold out.

Amazon tops iTunes Match with more space

2012-08-01 16:27

Amazon.com has updated its cloud music player to mimic Apple's iTunes Match, but is offering 10 times more storage space for the same price.

Japan e-book battle heats up

2012-07-03 16:33

In highly-literate Japan, e-books are curiously rare - but battle for the largely-untapped and potentially hugely lucrative market is about to commence.

Amazon to launch front-lit Kindle - source

2012-05-15 07:28

Amazon.com will launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting, a source has said.

eBay, Walmart building new search engines

2012-05-07 08:33

eBay and Walmart Stores are developing new search engines to better compete against Amazon.com in the fast-growing e-commerce market.

Amazon, Apple, Twitter 'score low'

2012-04-18 09:58

Amazon, Apple and Twitter have been graded poorly in a Greenpeace study of technology titans’ use of clean energy to power the mushrooming internet cloud.

Apple to tighten grip on tablet market

2012-03-15 16:47

Apple will be looking to tighten its grip on the tablet market with the release of its newest iPad, increasing pressure on Google to make rival Android devices more enticing.

Kindle sales on fire - Amazon

2011-12-30 18:07

Amazon says it has sold more than one million Kindles a week in December, with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer its top-selling item.

Amazon weighed buying RIM

2011-12-21 09:33

Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, turned down overtures from Amazon and other potential buyers.

Amazon hitting the jackpot with Kindle

2011-12-15 22:30

Amazon has said that it is selling more than one million Kindles a week and the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is its best-selling item.

Google mulling online retail move

2011-12-02 08:43

Google is in talks with major retailers about an online shopping service that would deliver purchases to buyers within 24 hours, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Amazon: Lawsuit over age is bogus

2011-11-15 09:59

Amazon and its Internet Movie Database have said a million-dollar lawsuit filed by an actress who wants to conceal her age is selfish and frivolous.

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