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Amazon.com is an American multinational e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world’s largest online retailer. The company also produces its own consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and is a major provider of cloud computing services with its Amazon AWS service.
Amazon Studios Starts Free Streaming Of 14 Original Series Pilots
04/21/2013, Last month we heard that Amazon Studios was moving in to the production of original content, which would bring it at par with its rivals such as Netflix and Hulu. They have now started streaming all new 14 original series [...]
Amazon Reportedly Acquires Siri Competitor, Evi, Could Debut On Amazon’s Own Smartphone
04/18/2013, While voice assistant features like Siri have potential, it might not necessarily be the most efficient way to retrieve information, especially if you spend half the time repeating yourself so that it understands you. In any case that feature has [...]
Amazon Patent Details Anonymous Mobile Payment System
04/17/2013, Amazon’s latest patent filing reveals a rather unique anonymous mobile payment solution. The system detailed in the patent would allow transactions without having to submit personal details such as email addresses or names. It would use temporary identifiers, much like [...]
Amazon Android Appstore Expanding To Nearly 200 Countries
04/17/2013, Today Amazon has announced that it is expanding its Android Appstore to some 200 new countries. The company suggests that developers should start submitting their apps soon so that their can reach millions of new active Amazon customers in these [...]
Microsoft Cuts Price On Cloud Services
04/16/2013, In the highly competitive arena of cloud services, software giant Microsoft has slashed prices for both hosting and processing customers’ online data, and this move can be seen to be an aggressive challenge to Amazon.com Inc’s current lead in the [...]
Amazon Discounts Blackberry Z10 To $99 For AT&T And Verizon
04/11/2013, Are you planning on getting a new phone but can’t decide what to get? If you’re thinking of maybe going with Blackberry’s Z10 smartphone, you could be in luck because it seems that Amazon has decided to drop the price [...]
Windows Phone Exec Hired By Amazon For Secret Project
04/01/2013, Charlie Kindel took the big step of skipping out on Microsoft after 21 years of working for the software giant, and decided to pit his fortunes with Amazon. Kindel did helm a fair number of divisions at Microsoft in the [...]
Amazon Cloud Drive Now Features File Sync
04/01/2013, The Amazon Cloud Drive app for Windows and Mac was released in May last year. It was said that Cloud Drive was Amazon’s answer to popular services such as SkyDrive and Dropbox. However it had a few shortcomings. One major [...]
Amazon’s Cloud Accounts Carry Unsecured Data
03/27/2013, Security can be said to be of paramount importance when it comes to your personal data and private information, and when you decide to upload stuff to the cloud, you would surely be taking a risk that there is a [...]
Rumor: Amazon Phone To Feature 4.7-inch Display
03/27/2013, Rumors abound each and every single day where the smartphone industry is concerned, which is why we are pretty stoked to hear a name that one would more often than not associate with the world of online retail, Amazon, where [...]
Amazon Expands X-Ray Feature To TV Shows On Kindle Fire, Wii U
03/27/2013, Amazon may not be building a $99 Kindle Fire, but it is rolling out its X-Ray for Movies feature it introduced six months ago on its Kindle Fire HD to now be able to offer the same service to its [...]
Zombieland TV Series May Come To Life On Amazon Prime
03/25/2013, Zombieland the movie was released back in 2009. It is safe to say that the movie was a hit. Its fans will no doubt be happy to hear that a Zombieland TV series may come to life on Amazon Prime, [...]
Amazon Refutes Rumors Of $99 Kindle Fire Tablet
03/25/2013, The other day we reported that according to the rumor mill, Amazon could be priming themselves for a release of a $99 Android tablet. Considering that the Kindle Fire was Amazon’s first Android tablet and one of the cheapest at [...]