Amazon's rescue reversed
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Science & environment: Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil's recent 'great achievement' of halting rainforest destruction
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Amazon.com Inc. AMZN.O is   scaling back A9, its general-purpose Web search system,   removing search-recall and mapping services that were among its   most distinctive features, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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OCTOBER 22, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Amazon.com Inc. fell a penny short of analysts&#39; per-share earnings expectations, while reporting net sales of $1.
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Bird-on-bird magazines ruffle feathers The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has slapped Amazon.com with a lawsuit aimed at preventing the online retailer punting cockfighting magazines and dogfighting videos, Computerworld reports.â¦
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SAO PAULO -- A radar failure over the Amazon forced Brazil to turn back or ground a string of international flights yesterday, deepening a national aviation crisis just hours after the president unveiled safety measures prompted by the country's deadliest air disaster.
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Amazon.com Inc.'s   quarterly net profit halved due to higher taxes and investment  spending, but its shares rose 6 percent as it beat analysts'  expectations and gave 2007 forecasts above Wall Street  estimates.
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Amazon.com collected more than $1,300 a minute for tsunami and earthquake relief efforts in South Asia after calling for donations on its Web site.
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Yesterday a funny thing happened with a package on its way from Amazon to me. Today they found it and it went on the truck "out for delivery." I waited and waited, but alas, it never arrived.  And the other package took a similar trip. Dallas to Rockford to Oakland to San Pablo to Lost by Carrier. Oy oy oy.   0 for 2, Amazon. :-(
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Amazon.com Inc reported on Tuesday a drop in profit margins from the previous quarter, unpleasantly surprising investors betting on continued improvement at the world's largest Web retailer, and its shares fell 9 percent.
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Amazon.com said that its Web site experienced slowdowns for much of the day Monday but was running normally by evening.
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Amazon all but exited the search business over the weekend, stripping features from its site and turning to other providers for search functionality. As of last week, the site was ranked 83rd among U.S. search sites.
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Shares of Amazon.com Inc  plunged 15 percent on Wednesday, depressing the overall market and delivering a rude wake-up call to investors whose hopes for the online retailers' sustained profit performance had more than doubled share prices since January.
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U.S. technology stocks were knocked  lower on Tuesday after brokerages downgraded Internet retailer  Amazon.com Inc. AMZN.O and computer maker Dell Inc. DELL.O.
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Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O on  Thursday posted a higher quarterly profit but its stock fell  more than 4 percent as the online retailer's results failed to  top Wall Street expectations.
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Recent technical glitches have stopped some holiday shoppers from completing purchases at Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , but the Web retailer&#39;s
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No-show at 9am as promised Amazon.co.uk disappointed eager buyers today when its pledge to begin offering its entire launch allocation of 60GB PlayStation 3 consolea to pre-order customers first thing this morning went awry. The firm was supposed to start taking advance orders for the PS3 from 9am this morning, but the sale didn't commence until 1:35pm.â¦