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Amazon Officially Unveils Amazon Fire TV, A Tiny $99 Media Streaming Box Available Today
The ecommerce giant Amazon has delved even further into the hardware space with the launch of a long-rumored streaming media device called the Amazon Fire TV...
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Amazon TV Streaming Device - What Can We Expect?
An Amazon TV streaming device, its own interpretation of the Roku and Apple TV set-top boxes, will be launched tomorrow in New York. What can we expect?
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Next up for disruption: the grocery business
The logistics of "last mile" food delivery and the thin margins in the grocery business delayed the inevitable, but capital is finally pouring into online grocery shopping.
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What Investors Are Saying About Amazon's Fire TV - And Amazon
The shares fell slightly on Wednesday after the $99 device was introduced in New York to pretty much positive reviews, at least in terms of the product’s features. The box lets you watch videos and play games. On Thursday, the shares stumbled an additional $8.29, or 2.4% to $333.67. On Friday, the slump turned into more of a rout: The shares fell to as low as $315.61 before rallying back $321.74, down were down 3.7%.
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Amazon launches Amazon Dash for delivery of groceries, household items
Amazon.com Inc launched a new product named Amazon Dash on Friday that allows the user to add groceries and household goods to their shopping lists using the company's AmazonFresh service. A black-and-white hand-held wand-shaped remote-control features a microphone, speaker as well as a bar-code reader and links directly to the user's AmazonFresh account.
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Amazon Dash: Shopping of the Future or Just Another Way to Waste Money?
Amazon has announced a new device and service called Dash. It is designed to go with their AmazonFresh service and allows you to add items to your Amazon shopping list by speaking their names or scanning bar codes. In Amazon's optimistic marketing-speak, Dash let's "Every member of the family [...] conveniently refill and restock your home's everyday essentials, and have fun doing it." Bar code scanner hooked up to your credit card? No problem!
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How do you fix two-thirds of the web in secret?
When word of the Heartbleed bug first came out, news spread like a fire alarm — but it didn’t spread evenly. The vulnerability was spread across as many as two out of every three servers, which made a standard disclosure impossible. Some companies like Facebook got the news early, either from Google or OpenSSL itself, and were already patched when Monday’s news broke.
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Amazon buys digital comic book platform comiXology
Online sales giant Amazon on Thursday announced the purchase of digital comics platform comiXology, which is responsible for the popular iPad app 'Comics' that consistently ranks near the top of the iOS App Store's top grossing charts.
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Amazon's airborne delivery system is already designing an 8th-gen drone
If you thought Amazon's recently announced plans to soon begin delivering packages by drone were the pipe dream of a company with more money than sense, the latest news might give you pause for thought. In a long letter to shareholders published with the SEC, Bezos said that the Prime Air team is "already flight testing our fifth and sixth generation aerial vehicles, and we are in the design phase on generations seven and eight."
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Amazon offers employees $5,000 to quit if they're unhappy
Amazon.com is expanding an internal policy of paying employees cash to leave their jobs if they're unhappy and not engaged in the company long term. In an annual letter to shareholders Thursday, Amazon CEO Jess Bezos outlined details of the longstanding offer, under the header "Please Don't Take This Offer."
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Amazon Smartphone With 3D Display Coming This Fall, Report Says
Amazon's hardware efforts will soon extend into the smartphone space, with the ecommerce giant debuting a new handset this fall, according to a report. Following years of rumors, supposed leaks and analyst speculation, The Wall Street Journal on Friday claimed that Amazon is planning to announce its own handset in June.
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Discounted Today: USB3 Sticks, SD/microSD Cards, $2000 Flash Drives
Today's Amazon Gold Box features flash storage ranging from 16GB to 2TB, and we're not talking external hard drives. Pick up a new flash drive or memory card, or get your hands on the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 1TB USB3 Flash Drive, which is sitting at a new low by $100.
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Amazon Rainforest in Brazil the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists
According to Global Witness, the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil remains the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists. Of 908 environmental activists killed in 35 countries since 2002, 448 were murdered in one country alone: Brazil. And the murder rate is increasing; from 51 in 2002 to 147 in 2012. In most cases the killers are out free, with only 10 convictions out of 908 dead.
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Porn Service Sues Amazon Over 'FireTV' Name
A pornography service is suing Amazon over FireTV, the set top box the company unveiled earlier this month. Florida-based WREAL is a video streaming company that owns and operates FyreTV.com, a service that enables users to download and watch porn videos. (Naturally, the site is extremely NSFW.) The company also sells a set-top box of its own, also branded FyreTV.
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Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries
The future of Amazon.com Inc. is hiding in plain sight in a San Francisco parking lot. Adjacent to recently closed Candlestick Park, Amazon is testing its own delivery network for the "last mile," the final leg of a package's journey to consumers' doorsteps. Trucks loaded with Amazon packages and driven by Amazon-supervised contractors leave for addresses around San Francisco. Similar efforts are under way in Los Angeles and New York.
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Jeff Bezos Loses $2.8 Billion In A Day
Amazon.com was chipper late Thursday about its first-quarter earnings report. On Friday, Wall Street offered its view about the results and the outlook. It wasn’t pretty. Especially for founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The shares fell 9.9% to $303.83, their lowest close since Oct. 9, when they finished at $298.23. The percentage loss was its largest since Jan. 31, when the shares fell 11% after revenue and profits missed forecasts.
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The world's first clear look at Amazon's smartphone
Amazon is still more than a month away from unveiling its first own-brand smartphone, but there isn’t much mystery that remains. BGR gave the world its first look at the unannounced handset in mid-April, and we followed up with exclusive details surrounding the phone’s unique 3D interface and gesture-based controls. Then, we revealed that “Prime Data” will be one of the device’s key weapons in the crowded U.S. smartphone market.
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Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture
Yesterday, we brought you one Amazon warehouse worker's account of what it's like working for the blue collar side of the operation. Today, we bring you an account of what it's like working on the corporate side. (Hint: "weird.")
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Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee
Amazon is the future of retail, so it's always useful to hear from real live Amazon warehouse workers about what their jobs are really like. Today: one worker details just how much Amazon values its own time over that of its employees.
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Lawyers threaten redditor over negative router review on Amazon
Customer accused of "illegal campaign to damage, discredit, defame, and libel."
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