Amazon Consolidates in Growing Area of Seattle
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Amazon.com, the worldâs largest online retailer, will soon finally have one place to call home.
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By Benjamin J. Romano, The Seattle Times  Sep. 6--Brian Valentine, who herded the past three versions of  Microsoft's flagship operating-system software toward completion, left the  company Friday to take a senior position at Amazon.com.
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Revenues at online retailer Amazon.com get a boost from sales of the latest Harry Potter book.
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Amazon.com Inc.  Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos sold a total of 450,000 shares in the online retailer this week, for a total of &#36;18.2 million, according to regulatory filings.
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The massive retailer has reportedly renewed efforts to build its presence there.
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By Elizabeth M. Gillespie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SEATTLE -- Amazon.com launched a video download service Thursday, ending months of speculation that the Internet retailer would be getting into the online TV and movie business.
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Online superstore Amazon.com (Quote, Chart) has expanded its Web Services platform for developers, adding a new service for access to the Alexa database and increased access to the Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0.
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Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. is trying to become a bigger player in the Internet's crowded search engine market with a local business directory that supplements address and phone number listings with a photographic tour covering 10 major US cities.
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Shares of Amazon.com rose nearly 9 percent yesterday after the Seattle online retailer said it recorded its best holiday season ever.
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Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to buy Joyo.com, China&#39;s largest on-line retailer of books, music and videos, for $75-million (US) to gain access to the world&#39;s second-biggest Internet market.
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By Nick Perry, The Seattle Times  Sep. 17--Seattle could become the new Detroit.   A once-proud hub of innovation left to languish as brilliant people, new  ideas and dazzling products bubble up elsewhere.
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SEATTLE Amazon-dot-com says things are running normally again on its Web site after a sometimes sluggish Monday. A spokeswoman says the world&#39;s largest Internet retailer began experiencing &quot;a slowness&quot; Monday morning.
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The deal for the provider of digital audiobooks bolsters Amazonâs offerings of audio downloads.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV   shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, solidly   moving the online retailer into the nascent market.
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Stoop sales have become big business in some Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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By Christopher Schwarzen, Seattle Times  CORRECTION: Clarification: Information in this article, originally published May 23, was corrected June 1.
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Amazon begins selling storage, computing power and other behind-the-scenes data center services. Its new web services may keep the company strong if an economic downturn hits retailers.