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Everyone Is Scared of Amazon – And They Should Be

, May 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

There was a time when some of the biggest electronics retailers in the world had issues with Amazon. They realized that the online retail giant was able to beat them on price, and with more and more people coming to its site, it had the ability to take them down.

The past is littered with companies that tried to go up against Amazon, including Circuit City, CompUSA, and others. Best Buy is now having some trouble competing against online giants like Amazon, and by the look of things, eventually, only mega retailers like Walmart, as well as small boutiques, might survive the online onslaught.

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Amazon to produce original TV shows for Prime Instant Video

, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Streaming video has become big business and competition seems to be increasing all the time. The big companies in the video streaming market are Netflix and Hulu, but these two firms will have competition from Amazon soon. Amazon has announced that it intends to create its own original programming for its Amazon Prime Instant Video service. Read The Full Story

Apple, not Amazon, is Microsoft’s NOOK Motivation

, Apr 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Barely was the e-ink dry on Microsoft and Barnes & Noble’s $300m NOOK agreement when pundits were questioning the wisdom of adding Amazon to the software company’s existing roster of big-name rivals. Microsoft is already under attack in mobile and computing, so the commentary went; throwing one of the biggest retailers around into the mixture was at best foolish and at worst evidence of Microsoft spreading itself thin when it needs to be extra lavish with its strokes. That analysis is wrong, though. Make no mistake: Apple, not Amazon, is in Microsoft’s sights today.

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Samsung Galaxy S III hits Amazon pre-order

, Apr 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

A product page for the Samsung Galaxy S III has gone live on Amazon Germany, apparently confirming the handsets price as well as specs including a 12-megapixel camera and 4.7-inch Super AMOLED display. The page, which suggests the unlocked, SIM-free handset will be €599 ($792) when it launches, does not have a release date estimate. However, some details differ from the hardware of the apparent Galaxy S III prototype spotted in the wild in Vietnam yesterday.

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Next-gen E-Ink Kindle could get illuminated screen

, Apr 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon's next-gen e-ink Kindle may come with a front-lit screen, according to TechCrunch, which claims to have caught a glimpse of an early prototype. The e-ink display offers a more comfortable paper-like reading experience, but like paper it can only be read during the day or in well-lit conditions. Read The Full Story

Amazon Instant Video heads to PS3

, Apr 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

The PS3 will be the first game console to offer video streaming from Amazon's Instant Video platform, including both on-demand pay-per-view titles as well as Amazon Prime Instant Video. The move is a huge benefit both to Sony and Amazon as each is competing in its own way to dominate the streaming video market - Sony as a platform and Amazon as a content provider. On the other side of the spectrum, it's a bummer for Netflix as that competitor's differentiating qualities slide. Read The Full Story

Amazon Appstore celebrates one year with app deals

, Mar 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

The platform that allows users to buy and download Android apps without actually going to the Android Market has been alive and kicking for an entire year. In that time, it has arguably grown to be an even more attractive place to find and discover apps than Google's own service. It gained even more traction when Amazon began selling its own tablet, the Kindle Fire. Read The Full Story

Amazon Prime Instant Video adds Discovery Communications TV shows

, Mar 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

Amazon's just scored another huge coup in its battle to take on Netflix and the predominant player in the instant streaming video market. The online retail giant has struck a deal with Discovery Communications, which owns The Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science Channel, and Military Channel. The deal also includes documentaries and other special features that aren't attributed to a specific network. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle Lending Library reaches 100,000 titles

, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

The Amazon Kindle Lending Library, which can probably best be described as Netflix for e-books, now gives subscribers an amazing 100,000 titles they can read for free. The retailer hit the skyhigh milestone after recently releasing a large update of books. It is growing to become one of the best features of Amazon Prime, and of the Kindle platform as well. Read The Full Story

Amazon nabs Magnolia Pictures digital streaming rights

, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

The biggest headline to make out of this story is not necessarily that Amazon Prime members can now stream Hobo With a Shotgun. Rather, the real story here is the contrast in the fact that Amazon has added another movie studio to its streaming program within one week of Netflix losing one of its biggest content partners. Netflix recently failed to renegotiate its contract with Starz Play. Read The Full Story

Netflix Starz Play titles pulled from streaming

, Feb 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Starz is ending its streaming content contract with Netflix and will be yanking all of its Starz Play titles from the service in the very near future. Starz was one of the strongest Netflix content partners because it was able to bring Disney movies to the platform, as well as titles from Sony Pictures. However, because of the complicated licensing issues between Disney/Sony and Starz, and the agreements Netflix had with the Xbox 360, the companies involved started renegotiating their contract. Read The Full Story

Amazon pulls 5,000 Kindle books after distributor fails to pay more money

, Feb 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the largest distributors in the market of small and independent publishers, IPG said it did not buckle under pressure from Amazon to pay more money from its e-book sales. And as a result, the online retail giant has disabled the electronic versions of all IPG titles, which is somewhere in the range of five thousand. IPG's contract with Amazon had just come up for renewal and, according to IPG, Amazon asked for new terms that would have given it a bigger cut of IPG's sales. Read The Full Story

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