Amazon

Incorporated as “Cadabra” in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company went online the following year as amazon.com. It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified into DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewellery. Apart from online retailing, Amazon also produces consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer, and provides cloud computing services.

Amazon gets help to lure big business to the cloud

15 May 2013

As Amazon.com seeks to transform itself into a leading provider of technology to the world’s largest corporations, it’s discovering that it needs help.

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Amazon launches Android app store in China

6 May 2013

Amazon.com launched an Android application store that offers paid apps in China, beating Google, as the online retailer seeks to increase the amount of digital content it offers in the world’s...

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Barnes & Noble adds Google Play app store to boost Nook

3 May 2013

Barnes & Noble Inc aims to make its “Nook” tablets more appealing to consumers by offering buyers access to Google’s apps store, hoping to generate interest in a device that has made little...

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Tablets with Windows RT see slow sales, IDC says

2 May 2013

Microsoft is seeing slow sales of a version of Windows designed for thin and light tablets, even as the tablet market as a whole is growing, a research firm reported.

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Amazon to sell set-top box to challenge Apple TV-report

25 Apr 2013

Amazon.com will release a set-top TV box later this year that will stream video over the Internet, challenging Apple’s Apple TV device and a similar gadget sold by start-up Roku,...

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Sleeping ad giant Amazon finally stirs

24 Apr 2013

Amazon.com is known in the advertising industry as the “sleeping giant” because the world’s largest Internet retailer harbours a trove of consumer-spending data that many marketers have called an...

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Amazon's expensive reign atop S&P 500 nears end

Amazon.com's days as the most expensive stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index are numbered as chief executive Jeff Bezos reaps profit from an US$18.5 billion spending spree designed to spur...

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Amazon adds virtual cash to boost app sales

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, plans to introduce virtual currency that can be used for purchases on the Kindle Fire tablet to entice more developers to create programs for the...

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As growth wanes, Amazon begins to show Wall Street the money

After a spending spree in recent years pushed Amazon.com’s net results into the loss column, investors are betting that the company is tightening the purse strings and focusing on delivering a...

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Penguin joins settlement in US e-books lawsuit

Penguin Group has agreed to join three other publishers in a settlement of a US government lawsuit alleging an e-book price-fixing conspiracy with Apple, officials said.

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Amazon turns up China press with Kindle

Amazon's opening of a Kindle store is likely to presage the launch of its Kindle tablet PCs in China early next year, putting new pressure on Dangdang, Jingdong Mall and Alibaba.

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Starbucks roasted by British lawmakers over tax stance

British lawmakers grilled global coffee giant Starbucks over its tax policies on Monday, arguing that claims that its British division was unprofitable “just doesn’t ring true”.

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