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Amazon picks up a recommendation service patent
Description: Amazon picks up a recommendation service patent As if Amazon.com does not already have enough of an advantage in the online marketplace, the giant online retailer has now snagged
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Amazon picks up another computer retailer
Description: Amazon picks up another computer retailer Edgewood, NY-based TechSmart, a provider of asset-recovery solutions for office technology equipment, has signed a deal to sell
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Amazon plans to nearly triple magazine offering
Description: Amazon plans to nearly triple magazine offering In its bid to be the store for everything, Amazon.com also wants to be the great American newsstand. Amazon just beefed up its
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Amazon posts first full-year net profit of $35 million; sales up 36%
Description: Amazon posts first full-year net profit of $35 million; sales up 36% As it continued to break out last year with new products and services, Amazon.com Inc. posted its first
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Amazon programs will allow customers to buy online access to books
Description: Amazon programs will allow customers to buy online access to books Amazon.com is developing two programs that will enable customers to purchase online access to any page,
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Amazon quietly signs deals with more retailers to run their web sites
Description: Amazon quietly signs deals with more retailers to run their web sites Amazon.com Inc. has never made a secret of the fact that it plans to develop more partnership deals like its
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Amazon reduces its minimum order for free shipping in the U.K.
Description: Amazon reduces its minimum order for free shipping in the U.K. Amazon.com Inc. has lowered its threshold for free shipping in the U.K. Starting last Wednesday, U.K. shoppers can
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Amazon relying more on web services to build merchant connections
Description: Amazon relying more on web services to build merchant connections True to the vision started by founder Jeff Bezos to leverage the unique properties of the Internet, Amazon is
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Amazon reports second quarter sales growth of 26%, though profit slips
Description: Amazon reports second quarter sales growth of 26%, though profit slips From a sales standpoint, the second quarter was another good one for Amazon.com, the largest web retailer,
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Amazon rolls out a package-insert marketing program for other retailers
Description: Amazon rolls out a package-insert marketing program for other retailers Retailers who want to market directly to Amazons customer base now have a means: sending pre-printed ad
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Amazon rolls out auto parts store
Description: Amazon rolls out auto parts store Visitors to Amazon.coms new Automotive Parts and Accessories Store can access more than 1 million products for about 10,000 different U.S. car
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Amazon rolls out online DVD rentals in the U.K.
Description: Amazon rolls out online DVD rentals in the U.K. Following industry speculation earlier this fall that it was preparing to enter the online DVD rental market, Amazon is finally
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Amazon rolls out still another way to attract customers
Description: Amazon rolls out still another way to attract customers Amazon continues to be a tough act to follow, even for Amazon itself. Amazon this week began offering an exclusive online
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Amazon rolls out web services for payments processing
Description: Amazon rolls out web services for payments processing Amazon.com is introducing a new payments systems service that will enable web developers to more easily create and manage
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Amazon says apparel is its fastest growing category
Description: Amazon says apparel is its fastest growing category Four months after introducing apparel sales, Amazon.com says apparel is now its fastest-growing category in terms of number of
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Amazon says free shipping, low prices grew Q2 sales 37% over Q2 02
Description: Amazon says free shipping, low prices grew Q2 sales 37% over Q2 02 Second quarter sales at Amazon.com Inc. reached $1.1 billion, 37% above last years Q2 sales of $806 million,
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Amazon selects Speedera Networks to stream digital content
Description: Amazon selects Speedera Networks to stream digital content Amazon.com has selected Speedera Networks to provide streaming media services for its customers worldwide, allowing
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Amazon sells a record 2.8 million items in a single day
Description: Amazon sells a record 2.8 million items in a single day Amazon.com Inc. reports its busiest holiday season ever, including a single-day sales record of more than 2.8 million
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Amazon sets up an individual store for each customer
Description: Amazon sets up an individual store for each customer Since the rise of Internet shopping, the ultimate quest has been personalization. Amazon is now taking everything it knows
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Amazon settles technology patent suit for $40 million
Description: Amazon settles technology patent suit for $40 million Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit by Soverain Software LLC, a provider
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Amazon ships out more than 100 million holiday orders
Description: Amazon ships out more than 100 million holiday orders Amazon.com isnt breaking out final sales yet, but its already clear that the biggest online retailer wrapped up another
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Amazon signs up with Loudeye for music samples
Description: Amazon signs up with Loudeye for music samples Amazon.com is expanding its music-sampling service under a deal with Loudeye Corp, which offers a catalog of more than 3 million
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Amazon starts a celeb-a-day holiday promotion
Description: Amazon starts a celeb-a-day holiday promotion Amazon.com Inc. has hired a raft of celebrities to pitch products created exclusively for sale at Amazon this Christmas shopping
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Amazon starts test of its apparel store featuring 400 brands
Description: Amazon starts test of its apparel store featuring 400 brands Amazon.com began testing its new apparel store this morning, offering customers a $30 Amazon gift certificate if they
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Amazon sues 11 online marketers for e-mail forgery
Description: Amazon sues 11 online marketers for e-mail forgery If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Amazon.com Inc. knows the drill all too well but isnt acting flattered. Amazon
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Amazon surpasses 2 million orders in single day
Description: Amazon surpasses 2 million orders in single day With boosts from sporting goods, digital cameras and gourmet food, Amazon.com says this year marked its busiest holiday shopping
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Amazon sweetens its offer for food shoppers
Description: Amazon sweetens its offer for food shoppers Taking advantage of one of the prime differentiators between online selling and offline selling, Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out a
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Amazon takes a shot at hockey with its Unbox TV-download service
Description: Amazon takes a shot at hockey with its Unbox TV-download service Amazon.com announced today it will offer hockey fans downloads of National Hockey League game telecasts for
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Amazon tests sales of sporting goods
Description: Amazon tests sales of sporting goods Adding to its shopping mall atmosphere, Amazon.com is testing a sporting goods category with more than 2,000 brands representing more than 50
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Amazon throws its weight behind online payment option Bill Me Later
Description: E-retailers already know that when it comes to alternative online payments, eBays PayPal is not the only game in town. Thats something that should become clearer to more consumers with Amazons announcement that it will offer Bill Me Later as a payment option and also will take an undisclosed equity stake in the company.
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Amazon to acquire largest e-retailer in China of books, music and videos
Description: Amazon to acquire largest e-retailer in China of books, music and videos Showing no limits to its growth plans, geographically or otherwise, Amazon.com Inc. said today it plans
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Amazon to build new HQ in deal with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
Description: Amazon to build new HQ in deal with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen Amazon.com has decided to locate its new corporate headquarters in a Seattle neighborhood that Microsoft
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Amazon to discuss best practices in e-retailing at Internet Retailer show
Description: Amazon to discuss best practices in e-retailing at Internet Retailer show In his keynote address at the Internet Retailer 2005 Conference & Exhibition, Thomas G. Beckwith, vice
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Amazon to offer Bill Me Later and take a minority stake in payment service
Description: Amazon to offer Bill Me Later and take a minority stake in payment service Amazon.com announced today it will offer Bill Me Later as a payment option and take an equity stake in
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Amazon to offer U2 concert footageand the chance to pre-order the CD
Description: Amazon to offer U2 concert footageand the chance to pre-order the CD One of the effects of the spread of broadband Internet access into homes is the richer content that retail
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Amazon to offer its Clickriver contextual ads program to other sites
Description: Amazon to offer its Clickriver contextual ads program to other sites Amazon.com Inc.s Clickriver Ads, its new program for running pay-per-click contextual ads on its e-commerce
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Amazon to run online stores for NBA, WNBA
Description: Amazon to run online stores for NBA, WNBA Building on its move into apparel sales, Amazon.com Inc. will operate the retail shops on NBA.com and WNBA.com under a multi-year
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Amazon to stream weekly video show on books, movies, music
Description: Amazon to stream weekly video show on books, movies, music Amazon is seeking to drive up interest in books, movies and music sales with a streaming video program hosted by
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Amazon tops Forresters list of mobile web sites
Description: Amazon tops Forresters list of mobile web sites Few consumers find navigating the Internet on mobile phones a satisfying experience today, and much of that stems from poor
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Amazon tops Wal-Mart in natural web search results
Description: Amazon tops Wal-Mart in natural web search results Amazon.com Inc. led Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. in a WebTrends study of the appearance of
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Amazon turns search engine into marketing tool
Description: Amazon turns search engine into marketing tool Amazon has extended to its full online product catalog a search mechanism designed to reach all of its web pages with content
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Amazon will make its site more accessible to the visually impaired
Description: Amazon will make its site more accessible to the visually impaired Though it hasnt dropped its lawsuit against Target.com, the National Federation of the Blind has signed a new
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Amazon wirelessly delivers books at the speed of thought almost
Description: Amazon wirelessly delivers books at the speed of thought almost Amazon.com has unveiled Amazon Kindle, an on-demand book reader three years in development. In a process that
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Amazon's Appetite Grows-Again
Description: Amazon's Appetite Grows-Again In a major expansion drive, (www.amazon.com) Amazon.com will open four new stores on Nov. 10: home improvement, software, video games and gift
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Amazon's Plans E-mmediate Delivery
Description: Amazon's Plans E-mmediate Delivery Amazon.com has invested $60 million in Internet-to-door delivery service (www.kozmo.com) Kozmo.com and plans to offer a one-hour delivery to
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Amazon, Drugstore.com In Pact
Description: Amazon, Drugstore.com In Pact Amazon.com and drugstore.com have announced a multi-million dollar agreement to integrate shopping features and create a drugstore.com shopping
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Amazon, FedEx On "Fire"
Description: Amazon, FedEx On "Fire" In what it is claiming to be one of the largest sales and distribution events in e-commerce history, Amazon.com teamed up with FedEx to deliver 250,000
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Amazon, Microsoft push new era in web-services-based commerce
Description: Amazon, Microsoft push new era in web-services-based commerce In what some experts are saying is a major development in the way consumers will access the web, Amazon.com Inc. and
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Amazon, Toys R Us Team Up On Toys, Video Games & Baby Products
Description: Amazon, Toys R Us Team Up On Toys, Video Games & Baby Products Amazon.com and Toysrus.com have forged an alliance to create a cobranded toy and video games store, expected to
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Amazon, e-Bay offer examples for effective m-commerce, consultant says
Description: Amazon, e-Bay offer examples for effective m-commerce, consultant says Few web sites in the U.S. have been effectively adapted as yet for m-commerce. But retailers considering
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