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(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.

Actress Eloise Mumford her role in ABC's spooky new drama, 'The River' - from 'Paranormal Activity' director Oren Peli, about an expedition up the Amazon to find a missing famed wildlife explorer.

Online retail titan Amazon will open its first real-world shop in just a few months, according to a blog devoted to news about electronic readers such as the popular Kindle.

Amazon's growth of 35 percent in the fourth quarter ended up clocking in at more than twice the overall market's growth, according to comScore, which released new data yesterday.

Rückwirkend zum 1. Februar 2012 hat AWS die Preise fürs Speichern in der Storage-Cloud S3 nach unten korrigiert. Regionale Preisunterschiede bleiben aber trotzdem bestehen.

The NSPCC said shaking was 'no joking matter,' while The Child Brain Injury Trust said the £15 babygro that was available on Amazon, was 'endorsing child abuse.'

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is planning to open a retail store in America's Seattle city as a pilot test to see if a chain of stores would be profitable, a media report said.

Der japanische Kamerahersteller Olympus soll im Frühjahr 2012 mit einer neuen Systemkamera aufwarten. Bilder der spiegellosen Kamera mit dem Namen OM-D E-M5 sind nun bei Amazon Japan aufgetaucht und während die Echtheit der Fotos derzeit nicht garantiert werden kann, zeigen sie ein mögliches Indiz für eine spiegellose Zukunft bei Olympus. mehr...

Netflix has launched its first original series, Lillyhammer. The series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who finds himself…

Still have questions about "The River"? Well, it's a mysterious show -- that's kind of the point. I got a little bit of scoop when I interviewed the cast, but it's not an easy show to pitch (as you'll see with star Bruce Greenwood's Ouija board analogy). This teaser-filled new video from ABC, shot on the show's set in Hawaii, might help you decide if the show is worth watching or not. Check out...

“The River,” a new series on ABC, is about a rescue expedition in the Amazon basin.

Amazon may be venturing beyond the world of online retail to set up its first brick-and-mortar shop, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The store will be in Seattle and its focus will be pricier merchandise such as tablet computers, the report says. And its footprint won’t be nearly as large as that of big box retailers such as Barnes & Noble. Read full article >> Fe...

Rumors had previously suggested Verizon and Redbox were working on a streaming movie service to go against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Those rumors were true. The two companies will offer video content on demand, but to what extent still remains to be seen. More »

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should. Plumes of dust connect the atmosphere, the oceans and the forests, and affect the most fundamental processes of life on our planet. Scientists believe that dust has profound and somewhat mysterio...

Tesco giant has been revealed as the ultimate seller of a range of goods – including DVDs and computer games – marketed on Amazon under the trading name of Oakwood Distribution Ltd. Oakwood is a subsidiary of Tesco.

Lesen oder Linien ziehen? Sophia Stockton wollte eigentlich nur Geld sparen und kaufte sich ein gebrauchtes Buch. Zusätzlich zu ihrem Lehrband über Terrorismus bekam sie jedoch ein illegales Extra: Kokain im Wert von 400 Euro.

Ich habe mir das Buch soeben auf meinen Kindle gezogen. Erst einmal herzlichen Dank an den Autor für ein solches Buch, und sobald ich es gelesen habe, werde ich darüber auch bei amazon eine Rezension schreiben. Sollte das Buch von der Qualität mit dem Blog vergleichbar sein, so kann es eigentlich nur gut sein.....

Facebook's revenue per user compares unfavourably with other high profile technology companies, and has grown at a much slower rate compared to Google.

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- Amazon.com is coming to India, with the Thursday launch of Junglee.com, a watered-down version of its global shopping portal....

If Facebook's initial valuation pushes $100 billion, it would be far bigger than many established American companies, including Amazon, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods, Goldman Sachs and Ford Motor.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Marcio Mello often talks of eureka moments. The veteran geo-scientist’s biggest came when he decided that his petroleum research firm should become an oil explorer, taking advantage of the rich sedimentary basins that have lured oil companies to Brazil. Read full article >>

Chief complaints: lack of volume control or camera and that the battery life's too short Click to enlarge. Source: 451 Research They liked the price, the color screen and the selection of books on Amazon (AMZN). They wish it had a volume control button and a camera and that the battery lasted longer. Those are some of the results of a survey of 254 Kindle Fire owners conducted in January by Cha...

Größer als Kraft, Goldman Sachs, Amazon und Ford? Der Börsengang von Facebook steht bevor. Und die Analysten überschlagen sich. Denn sollte es gelingen, die Daten des sozialen Netzwerks in bares Geld umzuwandeln, wird Facebook eins der wertvollsten Unternehmen der Welt. Doch einige Experten warnen vor hochfliegenden Erwartungen - und erinnern an die schon einmal geplatze Dotcom-Blase.

AMAZON shares plunged ten per cent today, the first session since the online retailer reported a sharp decline in earnings.

Some publishers said growth in ebook sales slowed in October and November as consumers waited to buy or be given new Amazon devices

Sales worries for the fourth quarter rattle investors, writes media columnist Jon Friedman.

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New photos believed to show members of the "uncontacted" Mashco-Piro tribe in the Peruvian Amazon were released by a London-based advocacy group.

Analysts place blame for profit drop on increased spending on new products like the Kindle Fire

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Eine neue Studie liefert alarmierende Zahlen: Zwar sinkt die Zahl der unter Dreijährigen, die in Armut leben. Doch noch immer ist die Situation vielerorts erschreckend. In manchen Städten wächst fast jedes zweite kleine Kind in Armut auf.Mehr zum ThemaKompromisslose Expansion - Amazon pfeift auf die Meinung der BörseWeniger Einnahmen geplant - Facebook-Börsengang könnte eingedampft werdenBörse ...

Authorities ask outsiders to stay away from uncontacted tribes amid growing encroachment on their native lands.

Amazon mit drastischem Gewinneinbruch und starkem Umsatzsprung

Seattle (dpa) - Amazon baut seine Stellung als weltgrößter Onlinehändler aus. Mit Kampfpreisen und kostenlosem Versand hat der US-Konzern im vergangenen Jahr zahlreiche neue Kunden gewonnen. Das unge...

Kampfpreise, neue Inhalte und eigene elektronische Geräte: Mit allen Mitteln will Amazon seine Stellung als weltgrößter Onlinehändler festigen. Den Wachstumsdrang bezahlt Amazon nun mit einem kräftigen Gewinneinbruch. Die Aktionäre freut das gar nicht.

Amazon baut seine Stellung als weltgrößter Onlinehändler aus. Mit Kampfpreisen und kostenlosem Versand hat der US-Konzern im vergangenen Jahr zahlreiche neue Kunden gewonnen. Das ungestüme Wachstum ging allerdings auf Kosten des Gewinns, der um beinahe die Hälfte eingebrochen ist. Die Anleger waren vor den Kopf gestoßen. Der Aktienwert ging nachbörslich hinunter.

The Internet retailer took in almost $1 billion less than analysts expected in the fourth quarter, sending its shares down sharply after hours.

Die Strategie ist klar: Kundenwachstum steht bei Amazon ganz oben auf dem Plan. Die Erträge müssen dahinter zurückstehen. Aber wie lange? Mit einem heftigen Rückgang der Gewinne schockt der Onlinehändler seine Anleger.

The mighty Amazon just took a dangerous turn.

There will always be those who believe that Amazon is destined for vast profits simply by virtue of being the leader in a growing market

NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon's fourth-quarter net income dropped sharply, weighed down by higher operating expenses as the company continued to invest in its long-term growth plans at the expense of short-term earnings....

Online retail giant Amazon announces a sharp fall in profits and warns about worse than expected results this year.

AMAZON has reported a 58 per cent decline in quarterly profit, despite announcing a 35 per cent increase in fourth quarter sales.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc shares slumped after the largest Internet retailer said it may lose money in the first quarter, a sign the company is continuing to spend heavily on expansion and new ventures.

Amazon's fourth-quarter sales results weren't awful, but investors went ahead and punished the stock severely anyway.

Amazon.com (AMZN) this afternoon reported Q4 revenue below analysts’ estimates but reported profit well above expectations. However, the company also forecast this quarter’s revenue well below consensus. Revenue in the three months ended in December rose to $17.43 billion, yielding EPS of 38 cents. Analysts had been modeling $18.26 billion in revenue and 17 cents [...]

Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians.

A Spanish archaeologist has snapped the most-detailed pictures ever seen of an "uncontacted" tribe in the Amazon.

Five thousand metres above the most biodiverse corner of the Amazon, tropical ecologist Greg Asner and his team see a kaleidoscope of colours among a mass of green...from the Guardian (UK)

Old Ideas is Leonard Cohen's new album, officially released today. I bought it yesterday from the Amazon MP3 store, and I've been listening to nothing else, ever since. I'm a big Leonard Cohen fan, and it seems to me that this album represents a kind of distilled essence of Cohen, like a martial arts form [...]

Manulife Asset Management's Sandy Sanderson on why he prefers Amazon (Part 3 of 3)

Berlin (ots) - Amazon.de ist der umsatzstärkste Onlineshop der Welt und setzt ca. 2,5 Mrd. EUR pro Jahr alleine in Deutschland um. Der weltweite Umsatz von Amazon im Jahr 2010 betrug 35 Mrd. US$. An einem einzigen Tag gingen 2,8 Mio. Bestellungen nur auf der deutschen Website des ...

Hugh Pickens writes "Marissa Taylor says the retail chains' worst nightmare are consumers who come in to take a look at merchandise in-store, but use smartphone apps to shop for cheaper prices online. But now stores like low-end retail chain Target plan to fight 'showrooming' by scaling up their business models and asking vendors to create Target-exclusive products that can't be found online. '...

Barnes & Noble, the giant that put so many independent booksellers out of business, now finds itself locked in the fight of its life, with Amazon.com lurking in the background.

As Barnes & Noble fights for its future, the publishing industry is holding its breath.

McCoy’s Guide to the Working Ladies of London lists the contact details, specialisms, working hours, phone numbers and charging policies of almost 600 sex workers in the capital.

Il ne devait être présenté officiellement que le 29 janvier sur le site de France3 mais le morceau qu'Anggun compte chanter à l'Eurovision peut d'ores et déjà être écouté sur le site Amazon.

And now we're going to have to wait till the end of the year to get it! WHAT'S GOING ON??? Last year, we were super stoked to hear that Leona Lewis was putting out a new album, Glassheart. Then, some things happened, and the album got pushed back. We were told we would be getting the disc [...]

Seit fünf Jahren verkaufen Kreative auf DaWanda ihre Ware. Anders als bei Amazon und Co geht es hier um den persönlichen Touch. Mit Erfolg: DaWanda expandiert ins Ausland. mehr...

Bradshaw's Handbook was first published in 1863 but has now been catapulted into the top ten UK Amazon sales after being featured on Great British Railway Journeys, currently being screened on BBC2.

Rain forest could go from sink to source

File-sharing sites such as Amazon, Dropbox, MediaFire, YouSendIt, Rapidshare, Box.net and FileSonic could find themselves under the spotlight of the law.

Chevron filed an appeal with Ecuador's National Court to review a ruling that it must pay billions of dollars in damages for oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest.

Apples "iBooks Author" ist mehr als ein Werkzeug zum Erstellen von Lehrbüchern. Im Schatten seiner Bildungsinitiative startet Apple auch einen Angriff auf Amazon.

San Francisco (ots/PRNewswire) - Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com), ein globales Softwareunternehmen und Anbieter von Web-Services, gibt die Wahl des Maxthon Mobile zum bevorzugten unabhängigen Browser für den Kindle Fire von Amazon bekannt. Kundenrezensionen verliehen dem Maxthon eine ...

More than 24 million Zappos customers might have had their data stolen by hackers.

Scientists wanting to implement change must collaborate between disciplines. An ambitious Amazon study shows them how, says Paulo Artaxo.

The world’s largest online retailer may enter India with an eBay-like platform for buyers and sellers, called Amazon Marketplace, in a bid to overcome FDI restrictions on multi-brand retail in the country.

While Modern Warfare 3 was Amazon's best-selling boxed video game in 2011, it couldn't climb higher than 8th in the retailer's PC download chart, where Deus Ex reigned supreme.

Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, will set up a major distribution center in the southwestern city of Nanning, local authorities said Tuesday.

Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, will set up a major distribution center in the southern city of Nanning.

UltraViolet lets people watch purchased DVDs from participating move studios digitally.

Steve Jobs, descanse en paz (de hecho en el CES se le cita poco), fue el primero que creó un ecosistema: la máquina y la programación tenían el mismo dueño. Su éxito le duró poco (ya saben, Microsoft consiguió poner su software en los pecés de otros). Demasiado poder en una sola empresa, pero décadas después se intenta hacer lo mismo. No sólo Apple, que nunca cambió de táctica, sino much...

AN actress suing IMDb for revealing her real age has unveiled her identity in a court filing. Huong Hoang has accused the website and parent company Amazon of breach of contract, fraud, and violation of privacy and consumer protection laws. She is demanding over $1m in punitive damages as well as $75,000 in compensatory damages, claiming she suffered from age discrimination when IMDb used ...

Gambling everything, thousands of Haitians have made their way to small towns in the Brazilian Amazon over the past year in a desperate search for work.

(Reuters) - A federal court judge on Friday denied a Chevron Corp bid to prevent Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting on an $18 billion damages award against the U.S. oil giant over pollution in the Amazon jungle.

Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, say scientists.

An Ecuadorean appeals court has upheld a ruling that Chevron Corp should pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who accused the US oil giant of polluting the Amazon jungle and damaging their health.

Oil company vows to continue fight against ruling that subsidiary Texaco polluted Amazon rainforestAn appeals court in Ecuador has upheld an $18bn ruling against Chevron Corporation for oil pollution in the Amazon rainforest more than 20 years ago.The ruling confirmed a February judgment in the case. The Ecuadorean plaintiffs said in a statement that the decision was based on scientific evidenc...

Three-judge panel affirms an original decision ordering the oil group to pay $18bn in damages for pollution in the Amazon

OVH veut faire concurrence à Dropbox et autres Amazon. L'hébergeur de Roubaix se lance dans le cloud, le stockage de données « dans les nuages », c'est-à-dire un espace accessible de n'importe où, tant qu'on dispose d'une connexion à Internet.

AMAZON, THE largest internet retailer, said that it sold “well over” one million Kindles a week in December, with record demand led by its Kindle Fire tablet.

Le groupe de distribution en ligne Amazon a une nouvelle fois revendiqué...

Amazon recently announced they intended to hire multiple thousands of veterans in 2012 for both permanent and temporary positions ranging from IT to finance, retail, and into their fulfillment center network.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the Kindle DX at Pace University, in New York City.

Sales of digital books, music and videos up 30 per cent over 2010, according to comScore data; Amazon planning discounts for Christmas Day

Yodel, which is used by Amazon, Asda and Virgin, is failing to deliver around 15,000 out of 1.5million packages a day because of a huge surge in demand.

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Mit aller Macht will sich Amazon als Verlag positionieren – auch in Deutschland, und auch mit gedruckten Büchern. Die ersten Vorstöße gibt es schon. Von A. Herbold

La batalla contra la piratería en el mundo editorial debe librarse con coherencia y de modo coordinado. En el negocio del libro se comprende 'la rabieta' de Lucía Etxebarria, escritora 'planetizada' que se dice «víctima» de los piratas y 'se retira'. Pero se advierte de la necesidad de coordinar políticas y acciones para sancionar a quienes lesionen los derechos de autor y se lucran con obras a...

A United Nations book released today aims to provide people in the developing world with accessible knowledge of Amazon plants and foods they can use to improve their livelihoods.

Retirees in RVs—aka "workampers"—flock to Amazon.com warehouses in remote towns to help the online-retail giant fulfill its influx of holiday orders.

Plus de 18 millions de tablettes ont été vendues dans le monde au cours du troisième trimestre. Apple reste largement en tête. Amazon fait une entrée fracassante.

Le groupe de distribution en ligne Amazon a annoncé qu’il vendait « largement » plus d’un million d’exemplaires de sa gamme de liseuses et tablettes Kindle p...lire la suite

Le groupe de distribution en ligne Amazon a annoncé qu’il vendait « largement » plus d’un million d’exemplaires de sa gamme de liseuses et tablettes Kindle p...lire la suite

Angelina Jolie gesteht, dass vor kurzem ihr Versuch, Weihnachtsgeschenke auf 'Amazon' zu bestellen, kläglich fehlschlug.

Soap, marital vows, eating nutrients and 99% of the colors on the color wheel are just a few of the things that confuse Brad Pitt and St. Angie Jo, and now you can add Amazon.com to that list. On a recent night down in the bowels of their chateau, Brad and Angie hunched over their desktop Gateway computer and poked at the keyboard while trying to figure out how to drag shit...

Der Preis des Kindle Fire ist heiß, viele Käufer aber zornig: Sie machen ihrem Ärger über Schwächen des Geräts auf der Internetseite von Amazon Luft. Das Unternehmen verspricht Verbesserungen.

Apple, Google, Facebook und Amazon dringen in die Domänen der Nebenbuhler ein und suchen die Entscheidung um die Herrschaft im Netz. Die Börse wettet auf Amazon und Facebook.

WITHOUT MUCH stronger safeguards, the deal on the table here to protect forests – the world’s most important carbon sinks – will only “intensify and worsen” existing conflicts in regions such as the Amazon, according to critics.

Zeitweise bot der Online-Händler Amazon Rasierklingen für über vier Billionen Euro an. Der Spott der Netzgemeinde ließ nicht lange auf sich warten.Foto: Amazon

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region fell to its lowest in 23 years in the year through July, the government said Monday, attributing the drop to its tougher stance against illegal logging.

Revela el diario The Wall Street Journal que el buscador estaría negociando ya en EU con almacenes Macy"s, Gap y Office Max

Der Internetriese Google denkt offenbar über einen Online-Handel nach dem Vorbild von Amazon nach. Laut Medienberichten spricht der Konzern bereits mit großen US-Einzelhändlern über einen Shop, der die Lieferung binnen 24 Stunden garantieren soll.

A letter writer suggests offering Brazil an incentive.

It didn’t happen often and in many cases the outcome was not terribly satisfying but Steve Jobs did speak directly to Apple customers, either by phone or email, in response to complaints and inquiries. Now CNN tech writer Mark Milian has compiled many of these exchanges in a book called “Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs,” which he has published as a $2.99 Kind...

The market of slate computers is going to become smaller. Such companies as HP, Acer, Asustek and Dell may leave the market already in the near future. The companies are incapable of struggling with Apple, the market leader, and the producers of inexpensive devices, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

L'année 2012 sera riche, avec de nouvelle belles bagarres sur le marché des smartphones. Les rumeurs sur l'iPhone 5 sont reparties de plus belle sur le net, suivie par celles sur le téléphone d'Amazon. Seule réalité : le Nexus de...

C'est le pari d'un analyste : Amazon pourrait sortir un téléphone multifonctions fin 2012. L'analyste de Citi, Mark Mahaney, s'appuyant sur une analyse de la «...lire la suite

Avec son Android Market, le géant américain d'internet va tenter de rattraper son énorme retard sur ses concurrents iTunes et Amazon qui bénéficient…

Filed under: Tito Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Celebrity Justice Three of Michael Jackson's brothers -- Marlon, Jackie, and Tito (left to right) -- have filed a lawsuit against a guy who they say duped them into signing 1,000 replicas of the famous Michael Jackson "Thriller" and ...

With Amazon's release of their new Kindle Fire model on Monday, tablets are again the talk of the town. While the jockeying among hardware makers is always interesting to follow, what's more important to domain investor/developers is HOW people are using those tablets. We have some very interesting new data on that.

Table Mountain has been provisionally named one of the new seven wonders of nature by a global poll, alongside the Amazon and the Iguazu Falls.

Brazil is developing the last great untapped reserve of hydroelectricity, the Amazon basin.

Für das Weihnachtsgeschäft sucht der Internethändler Amazon Tausende Aushilfen zum Packen. Kommen sie vom Jobcenter, müssen sie oft zur Probe arbeiten – ohne Bezahlung.

Groupon's founder has surrounded himself with Amazon alumni, but Bezos's company is a different animal.

Amazon hopes its latest payment technology will steal its competitors' thunder.

My Newsweek op-ed of a few weeks ago urged Amazon to share their best product with the rest of the world and make Kindles available elsewhere, if only to help advance American interests abroad (free and unencumbered access to information is definitely one of them). Today Amazon unveiled an international version of their basic Kindle model, which would be able to wirelessly download books in mor...