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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Stephen King, Book
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Amazon reports 22% increase in Q1 revenue, 37% decline in profit
Amazon.com reported a 22% increase in revenue in the first quarter but a hefty decline in profit. For the three months ended March 31, the e-commerce behemoth said profit fell 37% to $82 million, or 18 cents a share, from $130 million, or 28 cents, a...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Global Expansion
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Amazon 'TV pilots' are set to fly (Part 1)
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAmazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up...Tags: Community (tv program), Television, Media Industry, Ed Begley Jr., IKEA
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs Henry Blodget with $5 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission may have booted Henry Blodget off Wall Street, but the former Merrill Lynch & Co. Internet analyst has attracted some big fans for Business Insider Inc., which he co-founded in 2007. A major endorsement for the...
Tags: Walmart, Amazon.com Inc., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Otis Chandler, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone, Book
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Human Interest, NASA, Neil Armstrong
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Google launches Keep, a note-taking app for Android devices
Google has released Keep, a convenient note-taking app for Android smartphone and tablet users. The app, which is available now on Google Play, is designed to make it easy for users to take notes and sync them across their mobile devices and on the...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Google Play, Apple iPhone
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Apple CEO Tim Cook runner-up for Time's Person of the Year
Time magazine announced Wednesday that President Obama has been anointed its "Person of the Year" for 2012. But there among the four runners-up was Apple CEO Tim Cook. The folks at Apple may not like to finish second to anyone, but coming in just...
Tags: Higgs Boson Search, China, Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Officers, Steve Jobs
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Rich get richer: Bill Gates tops Forbes list, Zuckerberg plunges
Bill Gates has been the richest person in the country for an entire generation, cinching the top spot on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans for the 19th consecutive year. That’s what a net worth of $66 billion will do for a guy....
Tags: Larry Page, SpaceX, Social Media, Amazon.com Inc., Sergey Brin
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Amazon.com announces Career Choice tuition reimbursement program
Want to work in one of Amazon's warehouses? What if the company paid for the cost of your higher education? The e-commerce giant on Monday announced its new Career Choice Program in a lengthy letter that was posted on Amazon's homepage. To reward its...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Employment Opportunities, Consumer Goods Industries, Companies and Corporations
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos vows to recover Apollo 11 engines from ocean
Ever wonder what kind of random hobbies you’d take up if you were a billionaire? Well, for Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos -- worth $18.4 billion according to Forbes -- it’s about tracking down old rocket engines. Did we mention they&...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Amazon.com Inc., Science and Technology
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Waterstones makes deal to sell the Amazon Kindle, dismaying many
Jacket CopyBritish bookseller Waterstones' decision to carry Amazon's Kindles in its stores has been compared to Neville Chamberlain's pact with Nazi Germany....
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