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Amazon.com and Qualcomm shareholders were about the only ones celebrating on Thursday.

Amazon Web Services LLC , a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. , today launched a new set of web-based tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk that make it easy for businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work to an ...

Amazon.com unveiled on Tuesday a new online-payment service it will offer to other online merchants - a move that puts it in direct competition with eBay's PayPal and Google's Google checkout.

Whatever ails the rest of the economy, it doesn't seem to be affecting online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc.

Albom is partnering with Amazon Kindle to publish and distribute a speech he gave at his nephew's graduation in Nice, France.

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. fell Wednesday evening, losing grip of earlier gains after the online retailer's quarterly profit and sales surpassed Wall Street's expectations, while shares of Qualcomm Inc.

Pacific Northwest retailers are among the largest on the globe. I was just doing some research on a story that is not related to online retail, and considering that Amazon.com as well as some other retailers ...

Stock futures were mixed Thursday morning, indicating a similar start to U.S. stocks.

Amazon.com Inc. shares leaped 13 percent Thursday after the Internet retailer showed that it doesn't seem to be bothered by the sputtering U.S. economy.

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Amazon.com, Inc. today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008.

Couch potatoes love television, but some simply have no interest in watching sports or kids shows.

The Associated Press 1 comment With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp.

Amazon.com, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call July 23, 2008 5:00 pm ET Executives Rob Eldridge - " VP IR Thomas Szkutak - " Sr.

A text message showing book prices received via Amazon.com Inc.'s TextBuyIt shop-by-cell phone service is shown in New York, Wednesday, July 23, 2008.

Amazon.com Inc. says its second-quarter profit more than doubled and surpassed Wall Street's expectations.

It's probably happened to you: You buy a stock, and it goes up. You hold on, hoping that it will become the next home run for your portfolio.

Thanks to a reader for pointing this chart out - it will an interesting report in Seattle tomorrow for sure.

SAN FRANCISCO : TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream.

Spiritual teachers and food lovers , Julie Dittmar and Matt Kahn are now offering " The Chocolate Meditation - Being One with the Sweetness of Life, " a revolutionary new CD that for the first time, uses ...

Can eBay fix itself with fixed-price listings? Will a competitor make a bid for eBay? What does the future hold for shareholders? In this installment of "Fool Video," Motley Fool contributor Tim Beyers gives ...

Amazon.com is launching a Web store with 40,000 movies and TV shows, a service that may distinguish itself from similar vendors such as Apple's iTunes because customers will be able to stream the videos ...

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Back during the dot-com gold rush, I knew several people who were really into trading stocks.

In a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store and keeping couch potatoes planted firmly in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com will roll out a new online store of TV shows and ...

From The Seattle Post Intelligencer By JOSEPH TARTAKOFF Europe's top consumer protection official swung through Seattle on Monday, meeting with executives at Microsoft and Amazon.com to raise concerns about ...

Europe's top consumer protection official swung through Seattle on Monday, meeting with executives at Microsoft and Amazon.com to raise concerns about consumer rights potentially threatened online.

Posted Jul 14th 2008 2:22PM by Paul Foster Filed under: Amazon.com , Options Amazon.com is recently down $1.58 to $66.96. AMZN is scheduled to announce Q2 EPS on July 23.

Posted Jul 14th 2008 7:00AM by Quibian Salazar-Moreno Filed under: Casually Obsessed According to the New York Post, Stephon Marbury was in Seattle last week putting together a deal with Amazon.com to sell his ...

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Donald Graham, chief executive officer of Washington Post Co., travels almost every week and says he hardly ever leaves home without his Kindle digital book reader from Amazon.com Inc.

Having experienced multiple delays and the indignity of a downgraded battery, MSI's budget ultraportable offering, the Wind, is finally available in the US.

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The Naked Loon, which bills itself as Puget Sound's most spectacular newspaper, has published a fake-news article to poke fun at Kindle.

Amazon.com Inc. will host open house job events to hire several hundred full-time people for hourly positions for fulfillment centers in Phoenix and Goodyear on July 11 and 12.

Chinese equities may have cooled in recent months, but it's a fair bet that one of the next IPOs to spring from the world's most populous nation -- when the market's appetite returns, at least -- will be ...

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Lloyd Lofthouse's My Splendid Concubine, new historical fiction on the life of Sir Robert Hart of China.

People who like to read also like books - the feel of them in their hands, the look of the printed word on a paper page.

The U.S. stock market encompasses thousands of companies, but those in the S&P 500 make up more than 75 percent of the market's value.

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Friday, July 04, 2008 The constitutionality of online taxes Earlier on this July 4th, the issue of taxation and representation was broached in connection with levies on fireworks purchases.

Billboard reported Thursday that MasterCard Inc. has launched a new campaign titled "Roots of Rock" that offers free downloads for cardholders from Universal Music Group.

For those of you who spent countless afternoons at a grandparent's knee, listening to stories of deprivation during the Great Depression and worried that you would never have anything similarly bleak to someday ...

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Posted Jun 24th 2008 4:44PM by Sarah Gilbert Filed under: Deals , Amazon.com Talk to anyone about what little technology company has a chance at being the Next Big Thing in social media, and chances are you'll ...

Seattle, Wash., is a city on the grow. Nicknamed the Emerald City for its majestic evergreen trees, it is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, and home to many legendary Fortune 500 companies like ...