Amazon.com News

Amazon.com , the nation's largest online retailer has stepped up its marketing efforts in response to the demand from post-Thanksgiving shoppers.

You always figured that a rodent who drives his own car would be able to withstand the recession, right? As retailers ramp up for the all-important holiday shopping season, at least the toy stores know that have a hit on their hands.

Ali had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox. Now Wal-Mart, the mightiest retail giant in history, might have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com. In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the two heavyweight retailers are waging an online price war that is spreading through ...

Amazon have announced a new firmware update for their Kindle ebook reader that can apparently boost battery life by up to 85-percent. With wireless connectivity turned on, the Kindle now runs for up to seven days rather than the previous four-day battery life; however the non-wireless runtimes are unchanged, suggesting the firmware applies to the ...

Having already unleashed a flurry of deals, discounts and other incentives, web retailers are looking for strong sales the day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.

Roku is cracking open access to its Internet set-top device to third-party content providers - adding 10 partners to its "Channel Store" this week - as the company takes a page from Apple's iPhone App Store.

The parents of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos are donating $10 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for research into using the immune system to cure cancer.

Amazon.com Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. continue to be the most-talked about retailers in the online social realm, according to the monthly Zeta Buzz Top 25 Retail Standings Index, but Macy's Inc.

A federal judge gave preliminary approval Thursday to the revised online book settlement between Google Inc.

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its first allotment of newly launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand and new shipments will not arrive in time for the holidays.

Prices on the Palm Pixi have been cut sharply only days after the went on sale. View Larger Wal-Mart Stores Co.

As Sony Corp. a s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products.

Zacks Equity Research highlights NeurogesX as the Bull of the Day and Sears Holdings the Bear of the Day.

Amazon.com, Inc. , today announced that Susan Boyle's upcoming album, "I Dreamed a Dream," has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon.

Walmart.com will pull no punches in its quest to win market share this holiday season, introducing 97-cent shipping on electronics and offering daily discounts the week after Thanksgiving, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday that it was introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, in Canada.

A year after launching its Frustration-Free Packaging program, Amazon.com Inc. announced today that it will begin certifying items from manufacturers as easy to open, giving suppliers that pass the test the right to mark their packages 'Certified Frustration-Free.' "Wrap rage is real," says Nadia Shouraboura, vice president of global fulfillment ...

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc., shows a Kindle in Cupertino, California, Oct.

We have been front-running many very positive catalysts since I first recommended buying Amazon.com Inc.