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PayPal announced what it calls the first global payment platform open to outside developers today. The company said

Beloved online shoe retailer Zappos has announced it will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon in exchange for

Barnes & Noble, the beleaguered online bookstore, opened its eBook store yesterday. That, by itself would be a

In part 1 of this series, we looked at the three big waves crashing down on the traditional

"Bits of destruction" is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of "creative destruction" brought

Just when you thought the Obama lovefest was dwindling, Photographer Rick Smolan released his latest book, The Obama

According to a new report from Forrester, the eBook and eReader market has now hit a point where

According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Google is getting ready to enter the

Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon

Today, Amazon finally released an iPhone-specific version of its Kindle eBook store, which makes it a lot easier

During an event in New York City this morning, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, unveiled a larger version of

We speculated about this yesterday, and by now, it looks like a given that Amazon will release a

According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its

Amazon just announced AWS in Education, a new program that will give students and educators free access to

Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular eBook reader for the iPhone, just announced that it has been

A website (whether a URL, domain, brand, etc.) is a place where the owner, individual visitor, and broader

By making available databases of human genomic data, US census records and other data of public interest, the

Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on Amazon's

Over the last year, eBay has been trying to slowly move users away from its auctions and more