Collection: Amazon Kindle

Amazon has its first $10 Billion Dollar Quarter Thanks to Kindle

Amazon has just released its earnings statements for the end of 2010, and it looks like the holiday season was a doozy for the online retail giant. Overall, sales were up 36% and totaled $12.95 billion. For the entire year, sales were up to $34.20 billion, a 40% increase from 2009. Founder and CEO Jeff [...]

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What are the most popular products at Amazon? Amazon Reveals the Most Popular Products of 2010

Amazon announced its bestselling, most wished-for and most popular gift products of 2010 on Thursday. Topping all three of the lists in the electronics category is the company’s bestselling product in history, the third-generation Kindle. The bestselling and most wished-for book on all of those Kindles this year was Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the [...]

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Google Fails to Acquire Groupon looking into Living Social and Buy with me

Google wants to be in the online group buying space, badly, and with good reason. The company may have not succeeded in purchasing the current leader in the space, Groupon, which has spurned a $6 billion buy-out offer in a bid to stay independent and shoot for the stars, but it seems determined to get [...]

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Amazon invests 175 Million in LivingSocial by Sean Browne

LivingSocial just closed a massive round of financing totaling $183 million. Amazon has invested a majority of that sum — $175 million to be exact — but repeat investor Lightspeed Venture Partners has joined in with an additional $8 million. This round is LivingSocial’s Series D; it brings its total funding to date to $232 [...]

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The New 3G Kindle free and how to get it by Sean Browne

Amazon announced the newest generation of Kindle, its popular e-reader.  We have started an offering to win a free new style Kindle to anyone who registers for the Allianz 2:1 promo.  You can register for that here. As hardware is wont to do, the newest version of the Kindle has become smaller and lighter while [...]

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