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Amazon reported huge quarterly financial results yesterday, thanks in large part to sales of its Kindle e-reader: "Kindle has become the No.

Amazon.com Inc. shares soared Friday after the company reported a surge in third-quarter earnings, attributed to discounting and mushrooming sales of its Kindle electronic book reader.

When I named Amazon.com my pick as the best stock for 2009 -- a pick that's up more than 120% through yesterday's close -- I argued that investors buying at last December's prices were getting its cloud-computing business for next to nothing.

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Remember that scene in Meet the Parents where Ben Stiller discovers that his fiancee's ex-fiance lives in the American equivalent of Versailles and builds ornate altars out of rare wood in his spare time? I remember it because after showing off his Bolivian wormwood floors, Owen Wilson casually mentions the fact that he "got in early on some ...

To celebrate the launch of the Nook , its new e-book reader, Barnes & Noble is giving away a free copy of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point to the first 10,000 people who buy the $259 device when it is released late next month.

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company , today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service , a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud.

Wall Street's bulls took a breather last week, and e-commerce stocks would have joined the downward trend as well but for the lift provided by leading online retailer Amazon.com Inc.

Amazon.com might be partying like it's 1999, but is any other company even at the party? In other words, is this Internet retailer's good fortune something to generalize about? Or is it nothing more than the exception that proves the rule? Commentators have long found irresistible the drawing of profound investment lessons from what's happening to ...

That $20 price drop for the international Kindle goes a little deeper than the obvious competitive move; it was the company's way of signaling that Kindle 2 and global Kindle are the same device.

Stocks fell Friday as traders cashed in some of their recent gains. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 109.13 points to 9,972.18. The Nasdaq composite index dropped 10.82 points to 2,154.47 and the S&P 500 stock index was down 13.31 points to 1,079.60. All three indexes were down less than one percent for the week.

Shares in Amazon.com Inc and American Express rose in Frankfurt trading on Friday, after both companies released quarterly results that came in above expectations.

Most U.S. stocks fell as disappointing results at the nationa s largest railroad and concern equities have become too expensive offset better-than- estimated earnings at Microsoft Corp.

Amazon.com surged 19% after it reported sharply higher quarterly results. Microsoft gained 10% on higher than expected earnings as it accelerates cost cutting.

Shares of Amazon Inc. and Microsoft Corp. were poised to remain active through Friday's late-trading session after they emerged as high-flyers during the day in the wake of the technology bellwethers' latest financial figures.

Amazon.com, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call October 22, 2009 5:00 pm ET Executives Rob Eldridge - Investor Relations Thomas J. Szkutak - Chief Financial Officer Analysts Justin Post a ' Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Youssef Squali a ' Jefferies & Co.

Amazon.com Inc's shares soared 28 percent to touch a lifetime high on Friday after a major earnings beat and an upbeat holiday forecast prompted at least three brokerages to upgrade the world's largest online retailer's stock.

U.S. stocks fell on Friday as concerns that equities have become too expensive weighed on the big board and offset upbeat housing data and earnings from Microsoft Corp.

Amazon.com Inc. reports its earnings for the third quarter on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, an Amazon.com employee grabs boxes to be loaded onto a truck at the company's Fernley, Nev.

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. surged to a new all-time high Friday morning after the online retailer reported a 69% jump in third-quarter earnings and a better-than-expected forecast for the current quarter.

Filed under: Google , Amazon.com As expected, Barnes & Noble has announced its entry into the e-reader market .

The American Booksellers Association asked the Justice Departmenta s antitrust division to investigate a oepredatorya pricing of books sold by Amazon.com Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Amazon.com is trying to get more people to buy the electronic books that are compatible with its Kindle e-reader - even if they don't have the gadget.

Amazon.com Inc. is slated to give its third-quarter report after the market close on Thursday.

EBay Inc. , the most visited U.S. e-commerce site, forecast fourth-quarter profit that missed some analystsa estimates after shifting into faster-growing but less- lucrative businesses.

In conjunction with the report, a w... LONDON-- --FUND db x-trackers S&P JAPAN 500 SHARIAH ETF DEALING DATE 20-Oct-09 NAV PER SHARE USD10.6630 NUMBER OF SHARES IN ISSUE 500,000 CODE &#16... PITTSBURGH-- --Black Box Corporation , a leading provider of voice services, data services, and product solutions, has added new products to its vast line of ...

Amazon.com Inc. reports its earnings for the third quarter on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

Amazon Payments, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. , today announced that leading nonprofit organizations are accepting Amazon Payments just in time for holiday giving, making it just as easy to donate to your favorite charity as it is to shop on Amazon.

Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc.

Target Corp. has thrown itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers.

EBay Inc. , which plans to lay off several dozen people , will report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday with the Webcast earnings call scheduled for 2:00 p.m. PT.

Amazon.com's steady expansion of its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service in Seattle is raising the question of whether the e-commerce giant will ever go national with the business.

Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of top-selling books including Sarah Palina s a oeGoing Rogue: An American Lifea to $9, matching yesterdaya s online price reduction by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc.

In this screen capture the sale price for the top 10 books from Walmart .com, is shown Friday, Oct.

The Internet is awash with 'anonymous' information that really isn't all that anonymous.

In what some analysts see as an attempt to compete head on with bricks-and-mortar retailers, Amazon.com Inc.

Walmart Launches Price War Against Amazon! Henry Blodget Oct. 15, 2009, 8:09 PM 319 Walmart just launched a price war against Amazon! It cut the price of 10 hot books to $10 apiece.

Filed under: Google , Amazon.com Digital technologies have wreaked havoc on media like newspapers and music.

Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it was launching same-day delivery service in seven cities as the online retailer looks to win sales from last-minute shoppers this upcoming holiday season.

Amazon.com group of companies, today announced agreements with several international publishers who are using print-on-demand technology to distribute content in the U.S. market on www.amazon.com and other channels.

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Nearly two years after Amazon.com Inc. released its Kindle e-book reader, it appears that digital books will finally be embraced by consumers previously reluctant to buy a pricey e-reader device.

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Mira, Portugal a ' October 8th, 2009 a ' SADIF Investment Analytics today announced the release of a new equity research report covering Amazon.com Inc .

New products on the market are designed to let you charge multiple mobile devices wirelessly, sort of.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc., shows a Kindle in Cupertino, California, on October 6 2009.

Amazon.com is growing leaps and bounds these days. Rarely you see a retailer as innovative.

The chief executives of Amazon.com Inc, FPL Group, Eastman Kodak and Kraft Foods are among business leaders attending a lunch meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday, the White House said.

Barnes & Noble to sell own e-reader: WSJ A Barnes & Noble outlet AP Touch-screen device could be sold in U.S. as early as next month, would compete with Amazon.com's Kindle, Wall Street Journal says Alexandria Sage San Francisco - Reuters Published on Thursday, Oct.

Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader for the second time this year, as competition continues to grow in the fledgling e-book category.

Marie-France Han and Rhee So-eui SEOUL - Reuters Last updated on Wednesday, Oct.

Retail stocks were little changed Wednesday after Costco Wholesale Corp. and Family Dollar Stores Inc.

Amazon Lowers Price on #1 Bestseller Kindle to $259 and Introduces New Addition to the Kindle Family of Wireless Reading Devices - Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.

Forecasts for holiday retail sales my not exactly be glowing but there's a good chance that Amazon.com Inc.

Handmark Inc. is adding the new Amazon Mobile Payments Service to its mobile storefronts, giving customers the choice of paying for mobile games and applications through their Amazon.com accounts.

Amazon.com , Inc. today announced a 10-week celebration in honor of the Amazon.com Wish List's 10th anniversary with a series of sweepstakes at www.amazon.com/wishlist10th. For the past 10 years, Amazon customers have created more than 66 million Amazon Wish Lists, using the feature to save products they are "wishing for" to a list that they can ...

Wal-Mart got its start almost 50 years ago with its first store in Rogers, Arkansas .

Filed under: Apple Inc , General Electric , Time Warner , Amazon.com , News Corp'B' Printers of the world unite! Feeling the squeeze from the likes of Amazon and Apple , a group of magazine publishers is forming an industrywide joint venture ... for protection.

Senior Vice President and CFO of Amazon.com Inc. Thomas J Szkutak sells 26,000 shares of AMZN on 10/01/2009 at an average price of $91.52 a share.

Wall Street Media presents exclusive video of Todd Sullivan of ValuePlays.net introducing Adam Warner, the brilliant Options trader from Minyanville.com and DailyOptionsReport.com, whose new book, , currently ranks 3rd on the Amazon.com finance list.

Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the addition of new toys to its Frustration-Free Packaging lineup , giving customers a broader selection of easy-to-open toys in time for the winter holidays.

When Amazon.com Inc. in April announced it would stop paying commission fees for traffic sent directly to Amazon from paid search ads that affiliates purchased, a practice called direct-linking, it was the latest round in a long-standing industry debate over the role of so-called 'paid search affiliates' in merchants' affiliate programs.