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3 hrs ago | The Beaumont Enterprise

Travel Author's New Book Hits Amazon's Top 20 Bestsellers in First Week

Travel Author's New Book Hits Amazon's Top 20 Bestsellers in First Week Travel Author, Victoria Ugarte's new book, "Losing Sight Of The Shore" hit #11 on Amazon Kindle's bestseller rank in Biographies, Adventurer's & Explorer's Category, within forty-eight hours of publishing.A natural storyteller, she spins travel tales of resilience, hard ... (more)

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7 hrs ago | Insider Monkey

Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA), SolarCity Corp (SCTY): What's Next?

The Fool's Jason Hall calls what is happening with Musk's stock "a bubble," and on an absolute valuation basis, he's right.

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Related Topix: Tesla Motors, Startups, SolarCity, Google

11 hrs ago | The WHIR

@WalmartLabs Acquires Cloud Startups OneOps, Tasty Labs

Both of the acquisitions were for undisclosed amounts. @WalmartLabs is the Silicon Valley operations of Walmart's ecommerce division and was created to help the big box retailer do ecommerce and compete with the likes of Amazon.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Internet, Social Software

16 hrs ago | WebWire

New on Amazon Kindle: 'Pleasure My Lustful Heart,' Torrid Romance Novella

'PLEASURE MY LUSTFUL HEART: A ROMANCE NOVELLA' by Geena Maxon, is now on Kindle.

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20 hrs ago | Highlands Today

Amazon effort to build in Fla. crumbles

A plan by Internet retailing giant Amazon.com to build at least one warehouse in Florida has been scrapped, with the company unable to reach an agreement on when it would have to start collecting state sales taxes, an official in Gov.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Media, IT Services, Audible, Rick Scott, US Governors

22 hrs ago | Seeking Alpha

Buy Or Sell Amazon On E-Commerce Sales Data?

This week we learned that E-Commerce Retail Sales growth slowed in the first quarter of 2013 compared to Q4 of 2012.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Retail, Overstockcom, Apparel, Household Products

Fri May 17, 2013

ComputerWorld

Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

Newvem , which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science, Computer Science, Microsoft, Startups

Reuters

Amazon kills 'Zombieland' TV project, backs 'Alpha House'

Amazon.com Inc decided not to turn pilot project "Zombieland" into a full TV series, but is going ahead with "Alpha House," as the world's largest online retailer enters the next stage of its foray into original video creation.

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DesignLines

Amazon buys Samsung display subsidiary Liquavista

Online vendor Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Liquavista NV, a Netherlands based display subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd., for an undisclosed sum, according to multiple reports.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

AlertNet

After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Social Software, Opinion

Internet Retailer

Fulfilling web orders from stores can be costly, but worth it

Fulfilling a web item from a warehouse costs on average about 30% less than shipping that product from one of the 13 retail stores operated by Peter Glenn Ski and Sports, says Jason Merrick , the chain's director of e-commerce. "But it's worth the extra expense, if the tradeoff is losing the sale," he says.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Retail, Wal Mart Stores

Reuters

Techquity: Google gets a grilling, Amazon receives praise

Google on the hot seat. One day after announcing new music streaming service well having a hard time striking the right note at a tax hearing in the UK.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Thu May 16, 2013

Bicester Advertiser

Google boss faces new tax grilling

Google will face a fresh grilling over its tax affairs after the global corporation was recalled to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry.

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Related Topix: Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Investor's Business Daily

Amazon Prime Instant Video Adds NBCUniversal Shows

As of Thursday, Prime members will have unlimited subscription streaming access to NBC's dark fantasy drama "Grimm" and USA Network's legal drama "Suits" and its serialized spy thriller "Covert Affairs." NBC's psychological thriller "Hannibal," will be available later this year, and the Syfy channel's sci-fi and drama series "Defiance" will be ... (more)

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The Miami Herald

Fla. gov. rejects Amazon deal

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has made job creation his top priority since coming into office, has rejected a proposed deal to bring major Internet retailer Amazon to the state.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Florida, Senator Marco Rubio, US News, US Senate, Republican, Florida Government, Rick Scott, US Governors, Media, IT Services, Audible

ComputerWorld

Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost

Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.

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The Guardian

From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax?

Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain - and bought on Amazon - is taxed in Luxembourg Online book orders account for 41% of the A 1.8bn market for books in the UK.

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CNet News

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talks shop about the social network

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave a rundown on life, goals, and business at the social network during an interview Wednesday at the National Venture Capital Association's VentureScape , according to the Mercury News .

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Jeff Bezos

Wed May 15, 2013

Digital Video Editing

Amazon cloud partner Apptio raises $45 million

Apptio, a start-up that helps big companies like Boeing Co track billions of dollars in technology spending, said on Wednesday that it raised $45 million from institutional investment firms including Janus Capital Group.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Services, Hillman, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Dr. Dobb's

Amazon OpsWorks Cloud App Management Service

Amazon Web Services has launched a developer-focused service called OpsWorks, which claims to manage apps at any scale on the AWS cloud.

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