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Amazon is taking a dig Apple’s iPad mini with a special front page ad on Amazon.com. Amazon’s front page ad uses a quote from Gizmodo’s take on iPad Mini You just made a 7.9-inch tablet, and you’re dissing 7-inch tablets as compromised? Not only that, as we showed earlier, your 7.9-inch tablet has far fewer [...]
Amazon announced that it has started shipping Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi+3G starting from 1st October. Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon’s new “non-tablet” 2-point multi touch 6-inch e-reader. Kindle Paperwhite features Amazon’s paperwhite technology that offers higher resolution reading in all conditions. Amazon’s patented “buit-in from light” technology allows lighting towards the display from above instead of projecting towards [...]
It is a Kindle rain from Amazon. Amazon launched three new Kindle Fire Tablets and two new Kindle e-readers at a special event in Santa Monica, Calif.. The three new Kindle Fire tablets comes in all price and size ranges and officially taking on the Apple’s high-end tablet market. Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 4G LTE, [...]
Amazon announced that it will offering print textbooks for rent to college students. Amazon’s textbook rentals offers thousands of books to college students and a great opportunity to save money. The flexible rental program allows one to keep the textbooks for a semester. The program even allows students to write/highlight to some degree (Although it [...]
Amazon.com announced that it is acquiring Massachusetts based Kiva Systems, a material handling technology company for $775 million. Kiva Systems was founded in 2003 by current CEO Mick Mountz with the goal to develop material handling equipments and technology. Kiva Systems website says that Mick sought the help of two engineering and robotics Professors Peter Wurman from [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire has landed. Amazon has started accepting Kindle Fire orders a day earlier than it said. And for those who pre-orderded immediately after it announced Kindle Fire, Amazon made sure that Kindle Fire reached in time as promised. Kindle Fire’s reviews has also started pouring in. Overall it is a mixed bag of [...]
Satisfying everyone’s expectation Barnes & Nobles launched all new Tablet named Nook Tablet for $249. Except for the prize of Nook Tablet, everything else went along the line of expectation. With the Nook Tablet, Barnes & Noble is all set to extend its fight against Amazon and its Kindle army. It looks like, Barnes & [...]
Amazon announced that Amazon Kindle owners with an Amazon Prime membership will have a new benefit of the ability to borrow eBooks for free. Announcing the Kindle owner’s Lenders Library, Amazon said it offers over 5,000 titles, including more than 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers, that can be borrowed one at a time for [...]
It is that time off the year again. Halloween is over and officially the holiday shopping season has begun. Amazon.com just kicked off the holiday shopping season by opening its popular online Black Friday Deals store (www.amazon.com/blackfriday) offering great deals. Amazon said that the Black Friday Deals store will have great discounts on popular gift [...]
Amazon.com announced the financial results for its third quarter. Amazon’s net sales increased 44% to $10.88 billion in the third quarter of 2011. In the year ago third quarter Amazon posted $7.56 billion in net sales. After adjusting for year-over-year changes in foreign exchange Amazon’s net sales this year has grown 39% compared with third [...]