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Barnes & Noble's eBook Store Launch Successful, But Hurt by Absence of eReader Hardware
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 29, 2009 9:52 AM / 2 Comments

When Barnes & Noble launched its eBook store, it immediately attracted a lot of potential customers. According to Compete's Dillon McGovern, more than four times as many people visited the

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Top Ten Web 2.0 Problems Amazon Mechanical Turk Can Solve For Me
Written by Richard MacManus / November 5, 2005 3:45 AM / 8 Comments

What is Amazon Mechanical Turk? It's a web service that enables you to "complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it." Amazon describes it

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Amazon Says Holiday Season Was Its 'Best Ever' - But Doesn't Talk About Revenue
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 26, 2008 9:30 AM / 1 Comments

Just before the holidays, we reported that, based on the raw traffic to its site, Amazon looked to be well on its way to having a great Christmas season. According

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Amazon's Kindle Gets an Update, But Doesn't Wow
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 9, 2009 9:30 AM / 6 Comments

Amazon today announced a new version of its highly successful Kindle eBook reader. The new Kindle now features 2GB of memory, and a new 5-way controller for easier navigation. Amazon

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Amazon to Give Away 1 Billion Free MP3s in Superbowl Promotion
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 30, 2007 11:52 AM / 5 Comments

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Amazon_to_Give_Away_1_Billion_Free_MP3s_in_Superbowl_Promotion'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Billboard magazine has done some fine sleuthing and turned up a number of developments in the works that may push

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3 Comment of the Day Winners
Written by Richard MacManus / March 9, 2008 8:59 PM

Due to the Ed traveling end of last week, we didn't announce any Comment of the Day winners. To catch up, we've selected 3 random commenters to win: Frandall, YItna

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Zlio Partners With eBay's Shopping.com in US
Written by Richard MacManus / August 8, 2007 3:36 PM / 1 Comments

Since French startup Zlio opened in the US in February, it has been busy making alliances with US companies (and annoying Amazon.com too). Zlio is a service that enables any

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Study: EBay Needs to Return to Its Roots
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 17, 2009 2:03 PM / 17 Comments

Over the last year, eBay has been trying to slowly move users away from its auctions and more towards purchases of fixed-priced items. Last week, however, eBay announced that it

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Web News: Microsoft Supports OpenID, Gmail Opens Up, Amazon/TiVo, Google and Cable Operators
Written by Richard MacManus / February 7, 2007 3:09 PM / 3 Comments

- Microsoft to Support OpenID; details are sketchy at this point, but Microsoft looks likely to utilize OpenID (the open, decentralized identity system) in some of its products. Brady Forrest

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Getting the Goods: The New Amazon/Zappos Supply Chain Story
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 22, 2009 5:20 PM / 14 Comments

Beloved online shoe retailer Zappos has announced it will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon in exchange for almost a billion dollars worth of Amazon stock. Both of these companies

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