Amazon is turning to the public for help, asking for public data sets in an attempt to create a cloud data service that provides what they describe as a "convenient Continue reading »

With the current economic conditions, finding funding can be a challenge for many young companies - or even established ones. Sometimes it helps to get creative. For Yieldex - a Continue reading »

For all the optimism surrounding the potential of computing in the cloud - lower costs, better performance, easier scaling - it isn't a perfect system. No matter how distributed and Continue reading »

Two months ago, Amazon - which has taken to sharing some of its massive computing power with mere mortals as a means of developing additional revenue streams - announced that Continue reading »

According to a post this morning on the Amazon Web Services Blog, the Amazon S3 service has grown so much over the last year, that the company has decided to Continue reading »

Since Amazon's Kindle introduction to the world last year, the company has increased the number of available book titles for the portable reader from 90,000 to over 170,000. Most Continue reading »

Amazon today announced that it will acquire AbeBooks, the online marketplace for used and rare books. Given the breadth of Amazon's product line, it is sometimes easy to forget that, Continue reading »

Jeff Bezos clearly thinks there is a future in casual gaming. Just this May, he invested $3 million in Kongregate. Today, Bezos invested an undisclosed amount in the Social Gaming Continue reading »

Sisense, a company that specializes in intelligence software, has launched in private beta an analytic dashboard for the Amazon S3 platform. Normally, developers would have to go through a Continue reading »

Amazon today announced premium for-pay support packages for some of its core infrastructure services. The Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Simple Queue Service (SQS) each received Continue reading »