Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
E-commerce leviathan Amazon today is taking a step into social gaming: Amazon Coins, its new virtual currency, is now live in the U.S. To kick it off, Amazon announced that it would put $5 worth of the currency — equivalent to 500 Coins — into all Kindle Fire users’ accounts to use on apps and in-app purchases on its platfor... Read More>>
Amazon offers a range of hardware, including its Kindle e-readers and tablets, but now it’s looking to expand the line with two new smartphones and an audio-only device that streams music, according to the Wall Street Journal. The phones include a high-end one with a glasses-free 3D screen, as well as another about which details we... Read More>>
According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, in the autumn of this year, Amazon will launch its own set-top box. Product name and price are still unknown (is it called Kindle TV?). Previously many other ‘living room devices’ can access Amazon’s video service, launching its own device is to improve the Amazon ecological. This... Read More>>
A source of Techcrunch said that Amazon acquired a Siri-like app Evi for $ 26 million, TC has confirmed to Amazon PR and the founder of Evi, but did not receive a response. A spokesperson of the Evi investors Octopus Ventures told TC: “On this occasion Octopus will decline to comment on this specific portfolio company.” Ev... Read More>>
Today, Amazon has announced the acquisition of social reading service, Goodreads. Specific terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2. Goodreads had raised $2.75 million in funding from the likes of True Ventures since launching in January 2007. Last August, the site had over 10 million members and had... Read More>>
It seems like everyone is trying to jump on the cloud computing bandwagon, but Amazon Chairman and CEO Jeff Bezos wants to take it to a whole new level. GeekWire reports that he and Gregory Hart have filed a patent for “remote displays” that would get data and power from a centrally located “primary station.̶... Read More>>
If you feel that Amazon did not do efforts on User Experience, then this article may change your mind. The hover effects on Amazon’s big ‘ole “Shop by Department” mega dropdown are super fast. Look’it how quick each submenu fills in as your mouse moves down the list: It’s instant. I got nerd sniped by this. Most dropdow... Read More>>
Amazon has taken another step at reducing Apple’s hold over on-device music sales, today announcing the launch of its HTML5 MP3 web store specifically for iPhone and iPod touch, offering 22 million tracks via a specially formatted mobile website. The online retailer says that it has developed its MP3 store to operate seamlessly on ... Read More>>
2012 was a good year for Amazon. Not only has the company announced that the Kindle Fire HD was the #1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product on Amazon, but for the eighth consecutive year, the company ranks #1 in customer satisfaction during the holiday shopping season according to ForeSee with a customer satisfacti... Read More>>
It has only been a few days since Apple announced its new iPad mini tablet device and Amazon has decided to put a damper on the iPad mini’s introduction to the world. The company today is advertising its Kindle Fire HD tablet and compares it against the new iPad mini. It doesn’t look like the company is going to simply let Apple ro... Read More>>
