Amazon Takes Aim At iPad Market With Kindle Models
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday showed off the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-color, multipurpose devices.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday showed off the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-color, multipurpose devices.
CNET editor-at-Large Brian Cooley said Amazon is the latest company to jump into the tablet market and has a decent chance at competing with Apple's iPad.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday that postpones new sales taxes rules that would have affected online purchases in California.
Amazon is working on plans to start a library service for e-books.
The Grammy Award-winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member's move into digital music sales on Tuesday, when downloads of his albums are set to appear on iTunes...
The governor has yet to weigh in on whether he'll sign a compromise deal that allows the state to delay collection of Amazon sales tax until next fall, but leaders have said that it's still a guarantee that California will get much needed revenue eventually.
The state Board of Equalization is investigating whether the retail giant's website will face the same law that other online retailers are facing in terms of collecting a sales tax for items sold.
Small business owners in Silicon Valley are calling on Amazon and other online retailers to end their campaign against California's new sales tax law.
A coalition of nonprofit groups is calling on customers of Amazon.com to cancel their accounts unless the Internet retailer stops resisting a California law that requires more online retailers to charge a state sales tax.
KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid said the daily deal coupon market is growing by the day as Amazon and Google have both jumped in over the past week.
The location of one of the last Borders bookstores still open in the Bay Area, directly across from the Apple store on University Ave., seems an obvious answer to why the chain hopes to close all of its remaining stores by the end of the week.
Amazon.com Inc. said the California Attorney General's Office has approved its petition for a referendum that would let voters decide whether to overturn a new law that forces online retailers to collect sales taxes in the state.
More and more online shopping sites are dropping California merchants as a result of the state's new requirement that out of state retailers collect sales tax from California shoppers.
Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that it will stop working with online affiliates based in California since the state passed a new rule that forces online retailers to collect sales tax.
Apple is set to debut its iCloud service Monday at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Amazon says that for the first time, it's selling more e-books than printed books. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid said the online retailer is selling 105 Kindle books for every 100 print books they sell and that doesn't include the free Kindle books that people are reading.
Apple has reportedly signed a licensing deal with a second of the four major record labels over a cloud-music service. CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley explains the difference between Apple and its competitors' services.
Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit are down or have limited availability because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com.
Amazon's newest edition of the Kindle e-book reader is less expensive than the original. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid says the catch is, it has ads.
Amazon.com Inc. wants to be more than a destination for shopping online: It also dreams of being a place where you can store your music, photos and videos and access them any time, from any computer.
Apple is suing Amazon.com, accusing the online retailer of using Apple's "App Store" trademark to sell software for Android devices.
A threat from Amazon.com to cancel contracts with thousands of California companies in order to avoid collecting sales tax has drawn a sharp rebuke from California officials.
People who subscribe to Amazon.com's premium membership will now be able to watch movies over the Internet, just as they can through Netflix.
Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner wants to pass legislation to effectively force Amazon to start collecting sales tax in California and then transfer those funds to the state treasury.
Amazon.com is giving other merchants a chance to sell selections from its electronic book store and earn a commission.
