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Analyst Says Amazon Is Entering Smartphone Business

Amazon is broadening its business to include not just electronic reading devices and tablet computers like the just-released Kindle Fire, but also handheld smartphones, according to Mark Mahaney, an analyst at Citi. READ MORE »

Amazon Rumored to Make Its Own Siri

First Amazon announced the Kindle Fire, which many seem to think is going to dent Apple’s iPad sales this holiday season. Now some say the digital retail giant plans to build a speech recognition interface to rival Apple’s Siri personal assistant technology. The speculation stems from the recent revelation that Amazon.com has quietly acquired speech-to-text software developer Yap, which was founded in 2006 by Igor Jablakov, who previously worked on speech recognition technologies at IBM. READ MORE »

More Consumers Move to Tablets

Tablets are becoming a bigger part of our tech lives—and in a very short period of time. According to a new study by Pew Research Center, 11 percent of U.S. consumers own tablets. Considering that it has been just 18 months since Apple “redefined” the category in March 2010, that number is significant. READ MORE »

Analyst: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is the iPod of Video

Not only is Dan Rayburn from StreamingMediaBlog predicting that the Kindle Fire is going to sell like crazy, he thinks Amazon is going to do something even Apple couldn’t do—jump-start the streaming media industry, resulting in the growth of video-related content consumption. That growth, he says, is going to help not only content owners but also all of the vendors who help those content owners create, ingest, transcode, store, manage, protect, monetize, distribute and track their content. READ MORE »

Deals Site BuyWithMe Lays off Most of Staff

BuyWithMe has discovered that acquisition as a growth strategy does not always work. The No. 3 daily deals site behind Groupon and Living Social has laid off the bulk of its staff in what is described as a “last ditch effort” to sell the company, according to the firm’s former marketing director Ian Boschen. READ MORE »

Could Affiliate Taxes Hit Cloud Resellers?

Call it a sign of the economic times: According to a TurboTax infographic, states are now instituting affiliate taxes. Although it’s been a long time coming for online retailers like Amazon, cloud services resellers have typically been immune. But that could change. READ MORE »

Amazon Redesigns Web Site to Be Tablet-Friendly

Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, is giving its Web site a new “airy” look, with fewer product photos and a larger search box. The new homepage also pushes more digital goods–books, music, video and software, according to The Wall Street Journal, which says the redesign correlates with Amazon’s new 7-inch tablet, expected next month. READ MORE »

Walmart, Amazon Cut out Apple While Delivering iPad Versions of Vudu, Kindle Cloud Reader

Walmart and Amazon have figured out how to bypass Apple’s mandatory 30 percent cut for apps distributed through the iTunes store, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. Walmart has launched an iPad version of its Vudu online video streaming service using a desktop shortcut that lets customers click an “Add to Home Screen” button on Vudu.com to install an app-style icon on the iPad desktop. Likewise, Amazon unveiled the Kindle Cloud Reader which lets customers read Kindle e-books on the iPad even without an Internet connection. Both services use the HTML5 Web browser protocol and follow on the heels of The Financial Times of London which in June launched a Web-based version for smart phones and tablets to avoid Apple’s fee. “The flexibility of HTML5 allows us to build one application that automatically adapts to the platform you’re using – from Chrome to iOS,” said Dorothy Nicholls, director of Amazon’s Kindle division, in a statement. Amazon made its Kindle Cloud Reader compatible with Safari on the iPad as well as Google’s Chrome browser, and plans to add Internet Explorer, Firefox and the BlackBerry PlayBook browsers in coming months. Read more at The San Francisco Chronicle.

Amazon Plans iPad Rival

Amazon plans to release a tablet computer by October, reports the Wall Street Journal. The nine-inch tablet will run on Google’s Android platform, and won’t have a camera. A few questions loom, such as how Amazon will keep its tablet from cannibalizing sales of its best-selling Kindle and about marketing. Apple has brick-and-mortar stores to sell its devices and Amazon does not. READ MORE »

Zynga to Build Its Own Data Centers

With more than 281 million monthly active users, Zynga depends heavily on cloud computing infrastructure to operate its online games like FarmVille and Empires & Allies. Throughout its four-year history, the social gaming company relied heavily on Amazon Web Services to provide the infrastructure for its server-based games, but with Zynga ready to go public, the company has announced it will build its own data centers, according to VentureBeat. READ MORE »

Tag Archives: Amazon

Analyst Says Amazon Is Entering Smartphone Business

Amazon Rumored to Make Its Own Siri

Analyst: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is the iPod of Video

Amazon Redesigns Web Site to Be Tablet-Friendly

Walmart, Amazon Cut out Apple While Delivering iPad Versions of Vudu, Kindle Cloud Reader

Amazon Plans iPad Rival

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