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E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) intends to manufacture a television set-top box (STB) to stream video content, according to Bloomberg. Amazon’s set-top box will feature Amazon’s online video offerings, including Prime Instant Video, and on-demand video service, which includes newfilms and TV shows. The company expects to launch its own STB by the end of 2013. The [...]

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) recently announced its decision to slash prices for its Windows Azure cloud services as part of an effort to better compete with Amazon's (AMZN) cloud computing platform. The decision to slash prices by 21% to 33% for some of its online data services will help Microsoft to match the prices offered by Amazon [...]

After the bell Thursday, Amazon (AMZN) reported mixed results for its Q1: an earnings beat on slightly lower revenues and downwardly revised guidance... and the stock is still up following the announcement. Amazon, the world's biggest Internet retailer, posted earnings of 18 cents per share on quarterly revenues of $16.07 billion. This was a beat on [...]

Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock. During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 25- to 40-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each [...]

Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock. During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 25- to 40-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each [...]

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has announced that it will acquire Goodreads, a book recommendation site that helps its readers to find and share books of their choice, for an undisclosed sum. Launched in Jan 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, Goodreads allows users to freely search for books and other reading materials. It allows users to [...]

Over the last few weeks, there have been rumors relating to Google's Amazon Prime competitor. However, the issue received a lot of clarity yesterday after an employee email was intercepted. The email was reportedly sent to Google employees and was picked up by TechCrunch. Google reportedly said that its new service Shopping Express works at several [...]

Beaten down by the technology wave of advances e-readers and tablets, Barnes and Noble (NYSE: BKS) may be opting for a different strategy...

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) recently announced that its Cloud Player can now stream music wirelessly through Ford Motors Co.’s (F) SYNC Applink-equipped vehicles. Owners of Ford automobiles can enjoy music wirelessly by downloading the Amazon MP3 app on their Android smartphone devices, powered by Google Inc.’s (GOOG) OS. The owners of the 2013 Ford Fiesta, Mustang, Focus, [...]

After new 52 week and all time highs last week, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is pulling back sharply. The stock is trading at $275.72, -8.27 (-2.91%). This drop is occurring as investors are taking profits ahead of earnings on Tuesday, January 29th, 2013, after the markets close. Wall Street is expecting earnings of $0.29 per share. The key to [...]

The world's largest online retailer, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), recently launched a new music service, Amazon AutoRip, in a bid to expand its Cloud music offerings to better compete with rivals like Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG). This new service allows anyone who has ever purchased an album on Amazon to download a free digital [...]

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer has announced that it will build a fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey. The online giant will invest more than $200 million for the construction. Amazon said that the 1 million-square-foot center will create hundreds of full-time jobs and more than $22 million in tax revenue for the [...]

One thing is certain. Online retailer Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has changed the retail landscape in the United States forever. But that change is an ongoing process. The way Amazon does business continues to prod other retailers to change the way the companies relate to their customers. For instance, take deliveries of items ordered by customers of retailers' websites. Amazon offers same-day delivery in 10 U.S. cities for an $8.99 fee in most cases. The company is able to do this...

Here's a quick review of some colo and cloud news out already this week from Cologix, Amazon, Digital Realty, Terremark, and Interoute: [company id="cologix"] continued the process of unifying all the data center and interconnection assets they have acquired under a single product umbrella. Today they launched the Standard Connections product line that they've been selling [...]

Today, we saw a Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) analyst upgrade Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) to overweight with a price target of $325.00. This came as the stock was hovering just underneath its 52 week and all time highs with a P/E north of 100. This upgrade reminds many traders of upgrades similar, which occurred in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) [...]

• Shares of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) gained 3.6% after Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) issued an apology letter for the failure of its streaming service on December 24 • Duff & Phelps Corp. (NYSE:DUF) surged 19.7% after it concluded an agreement as per which it will be purchased by a consortium of investors at around $665.5 million • Shares [...]

• Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) surged 4.3% after it announced that 5% of its stake in NOOK Media, LLC has been acquired by Pearson PLC (NYSE:PSO). The purchase is valued at around $89.5 million • Shares of Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) lost 4.7% following a Wall Street Journal report according to which its newly launched Lumia [...]

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) announced that its film production division, Amazon Studios plans to produce pilots for six original comedy series, including shows from the Onion Doonesbury and Daily Show written by David Javerbaum. These include Alpha House, a series featuring four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington DC; Browsers, a musical comedy [...]

Last Friday, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has decided to take Kindle Singles to the U.K. Singles are basically articles that are longer in length than those found typically in magazines, but not long enough to be a book. Kindle Singles have seen relative success in the U.S. since their launch in January 2011 and the 250 titles [...]

Netflix got some coal in its stocking from the same place lots of people had presents delivered from this Christmas. On Christmas eve, the Amazon cloud's elastic load balancer services ran into trouble at its US-East node, and Netflix's streaming went down across much of North America alongside various other web properties that depend on [...]

Courtesy of Benzinga. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is working [...]

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) are expected to escalate their rivalry in 2013 through the development of a number of products that pit the two companies against each other head to head. Amazon and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) have slowly begun encroaching on each other’s territory in recent years, but next year is likely going [...]

The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) recently announced the launch of its Kindle ebook store in China, enabling Chinese customers to read ebooks using Android and iOS apps. While the company is not selling Kindle e-readers in China yet, Chinese customers can buy Kindles from other countries. Thus, this launch will not only provide [...]

The largest online retailer Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), along with MasterCard (MA), introduced a new feature called Friends & Family Gifting. The feature will help customers track the special days of their loved ones and will send shopping reminders. It will also suggest gift ideas for the persons added on the customers’ lists. The holiday season has [...]

Daily AMZN Quick thought here on AMZN....  Now that u see the SPX and NDX carving out the right shoulder of a inverse H&S AMZN is also on the right shoulder. 260.73 is the high today so far with 264.11 being the all time high for the shares back on 9/14/2012. -{MORE}-

Shares of Amazon (AMZN) are up nicely this morning, breaking out of a sharp cup with handle base on news that the company has secured an exclusive content licensing deal with TBS and Warner Bros.  Specifically, the TNT drama Falling Skies and the Warner Bros. produced "The Closer".  These shows will be added to the [...]

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) rules the online retail segment. It has diversified product line and sells a little of everything. The company acts as a big virtual mall owner. Any retailer who wants the virtual space can get from Amazon on rent. Amazon even after adding all these outside vendors dominates the online retailing with its [...]

One of the fulcrums of the value investing as espoused by Warren Buffet is to buy business with a moat around it. Many businesses once thought a golden goose failed to produce gold when no one expected so.  Recent example can be Best Buy. It can be accused of losing on its own turf- an [...]

CNBC had a fun segment yesterday on the RV people recruited every year by Amazon to work in their distribution centers around the holidays. This particular segment was focused on Fernley, NV and one worker in particular named Jim Melvin who has a blog. According to his blog he had been working four ten hour days but that was just ramped up to five 11 1/2 hour days. The hourly wage is $12 and the CNBC segment said there was "plenty of overtime." It looks like this is a ten week gig. It...

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has recently announced the shipping of its 8.9 inch Kindle Fire high-definition (HD), a little earlier than the scheduled date. This is a strategically conceived time for shipping, just ahead of the peak holiday shopping season. Priced at $299, the 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HD comes with dual band Wi-Fi connectivity and MIMO [...]

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world’s largest online retailer has recently announced a public offering of bonds aggregating $3 billion. These bonds have been issued in three tranches of different amounts, with varying coupon rates and maturities. The first tranch of $750 million carries a coupon rate of 0.65% and will mature in 2015. The second tranch [...]

Renowned provider of application delivery controllers (ADCs), F5 Networks Inc. (FFIV) recently unveiled a virtual edition of its flagship Big-IP product suite for Amazon.com’s (AMZN) web services aka AWS. The web-based version of Big-IP will have similar features as its physical version. The BIG-IP product suite helps in application delivery services through equal load balancing and [...]

Courtesy of Benzinga. In an interview with Charlie [...]

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has recently announced the launch of its new virtual wine marketplace, offering customers an opportunity to shop from a selection of more than 1000 domestic brands of wines. Amazon Wine will feature selections from some of the big wineries in the United States, including Francis Ford Coppola, Hall, Mark Ryan, Eden Canyon, Pepper [...]

Now that the iPad mini is officially available in several countries around the world, this tablet is put to the test by several reviewers. DisplayMate has tried to evaluate the iPad Mini's display against the two big rivals - the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD. DisplayMate ran comprehensive tests to evaluate the display of [...]

Amazon.com’s (AMZN) third quarter loss of 60 cents came in 52 cents higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Around 37 cents related to its share of losses in LivingSocial. Similar to the technology companies Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Yahoo (YHOO), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Corning (GLW), Amazon shares started sliding prior to [...]

Despite introducing new Kindles this quarter, Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) posted its first quarterly loss in four years. The online retailer reported a net loss of $274 million for the third quarter, with earnings of $13.81 billion. Analysts had expected a loss of $0.07 per share and revenue of $13.92 billion, according to a poll by FactSet. LivingSocial, the [...]

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is embracing a less is more stance, and has condensed its Kindle product line. Starting on Monday, the company will end sales of its $99 Kindle Touch. In place of the Kindle Touch, the company is directing consumers to its new Paperwhite device. While not exactly an upgrade to the Touch, its retail price [...]

Trading Wisdom 48: "It's perfectly healthy -- encouraged, even -- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today."

The world's largest Internet retailer Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) announced that it is planning to sell wines online. The company started its wine business way back in 1999 with a 45% stake in Wineshopper.com, but closed down 10 years later as the business did not perform to expectations. It is now re-starting in a much smaller way, [...]

The world's largest Internet retailer Amazon.com, Inc.’s (AMZN) Kindle tablets and e-readers will no more be sold at Wal-Mart (WMT) stores after the current stock is cleared. However, Wal-Mart will continue to sell other tablets from Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Samsung. This puts Amazon on the back foot, giving the [...]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) has decided to hire 1,000 seasonal workers in Swansea.

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Tip of the hat to the great new Amazon money and investing blog. A post there(via motley fool) noted the importance of looking at total returns including dividends while almost all charts and news reports show price only. The article presents this graph comparing price only with total return(dividends+ price change) The article notes that in the "lost decade" for stocks from 2000 -2010 an actual investor in the S+P would have had a total return of 20%. I ran charts for the period since...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is launching a new business offering loans to some of its online sellers, a move that could boost the growth of its Internet marketplace while exposing it to potential credit risks. The new program is called Amazon Lending and sellers on the company's marketplace have been [...]

Amazon.com is going after the environmental crowd with a new site called Vine.com for buying green products. Vine is part of Quidsi, the company that Amazon bought in 2010 that also runs sites like Diapers.com (baby stuff), Wag.com (pets) and YoYo.com (toys). Vine will sell everything from cleaning supplies to baby accessories, beauty [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has stopped selling Amazon Kindles.

A report from Reuters said the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has decided to stop selling Kindle products from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). The move indicates the growing competition between the two companies. The world’s largest retailer issued a memo to its store managers yesterday, regarding the new policy of the company, pointing out that consumers are more [...]

Courtesy of Benzinga. In addition to an upgraded iPhone, [...]

Courtesy of Benzinga. Nintendo (NTDOY) announced this morning that [...]