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Hot Toys of 2009 will help you track when and where toys are in stock online this holiday season

Will you be able to find a Zhu Zhu Pet? Zhu Zhu Hamster The holidays are fast approaching, which means parents are beginning to frantically search for those must have toys that their little ones are hoping for.

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Related Topix: Hamsters, Pets

Sun Nov 08, 2009

GuruFocus.com

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Senior Vice President and CFO Thomas J Szkutak sells 70,000 Shares

Senior Vice President and CFO of Amazon.com Inc. Thomas J Szkutak sells 70,000 shares of AMZN on 11/02/2009 at an average price of $118.3 a share.

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Related Topix: Amazoncom, Retail, Amazon, Computers, Video Games

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Business

Take cool look at hot stocks

Amazon, Skechers, Bucyrus shine in Oct., but are they good buys? Published on Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 Bloomberg News The stock market's waters were languid in October, but some fish were jumping.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Financial Markets, Amazoncom, Retail, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Wal Mart Stores

Fri Nov 06, 2009

ABC News - Brian Ross

Amazon Shares Climb on Analyst's Sales Growth View

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. got a boost Friday after a Bernstein Research analyst upgraded the Seattle-based online retailer, expecting faster revenue growth in 2010.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Amazoncom, Retail

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Psion Place

E-Book Readers May Not Halt Publishers' Woes

Publishers hoping to halt a slide in sales with new electronic reading devices will struggle to get consumers to embrace them until the technology improves, experts say.

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Related Topix: Amazoncom, Retail

Wed Nov 04, 2009

WEBSPHERE Journal

The Amazon Wish List 10th Anniversary Celebration Continues

Amazon.com, Inc. continues to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Wish List feature with November sweepstakes that offer customers amazing cash and prizes.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Amazoncom, Retail, Mesa, AZ, iPod, Games, Board Game

WDBJ7

Palin book tour includes stop in Roanoke

Sarah Palin's taking her "Going Rogue" book tour to Roanoke. Bypassing the usual promotional route, the former Alaska governor has penciled in Roanoke for the tour but has yet to schedule a date.

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Related Topix: Roanoke Metro, Roanoke, VA, US Governors, Sarah Palin, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Blogging Stocks

Best Buy follows Amazon into the clouds

Filed under: Apple Inc , Amazon.com , Netflix, Inc. , Blockbuster Inc 'A' , Best Buy , Media World , Technology Best Buy may be the world's largest electronics retailer, but it realizes that it faces a huge threat to a hefty chunk of its business .

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Related Topix: Best Buy, Retail, Amazon, Apple, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, Netflix

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Post-Standard

You'll still get the free shipping to and from Syracuse, but Zappos.com is now a part of Amazon.com

This is a view of a fisheye-mirror used by workers to avoid collisions in the warehouse at the Amazon.com fulfillment center in Fernley, Nev.

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Related Topix: Syracuse Metro, Syracuse, NY

Ticker

Amazon.com, Microsoft Surge; Broadcom Falls

Microsoft gained 10% on higher than expected earnings as it accelerates cost cutting.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Software, Semiconductors, Electronics, Broadcom, Financial Markets, Amazoncom, Retail

Mon Nov 02, 2009

ABC News

Amazon.com Closes on Zappos.com Acquisition

Amazon.com Inc. said Monday that it closed on its acquisition of online apparel and footwear company Zappos.com Inc.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Amazoncom, Retail, Apparel

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Albany Times Union

PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens

Windows 7 isn't the only fall update: PCs get lighter, ditch DVD drives, embrace multitouch Last updated: 2:45 p.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009 SEATTLE -- Personal computers are changing -- and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component.

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Related Topix: Computers, Laptops/Notebooks, iPhone, PC, Amazon

Internet Retailer

...While Wal-Mart takes on Amazon by launching an online price war

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. got to the be the world's biggest retailer largely by offering the lowest prices.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Amazon, Amazoncom, Target, Under the Dome, Electronic

Internet Retailer

Amazon takes on retail chain rivals with same-day delivery in seven cities...

In what some analysts see as a challenge to bricks-and-mortar retailers, Amazon.com Inc.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Amazoncom, Retail, New York, Internet, Science / Technology

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Battle of the book readers

Amazon reported huge quarterly financial results yesterday, thanks in large part to sales of its Kindle e-reader: "Kindle has become the No.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Retail, Barnes and Noble, Computers, PC, Amazoncom

Burbed.com

The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket: Stephen Elias

It's Saturday and that means it is time for Burbed's Book of the Week: Amazon.com: The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket eBook: Stephen Elias The Foreclosure Survival Guide: Keep Your House or Walk Away With Money in Your Pocket by Stephen Elias "Facing foreclosure? Know your options! According to ...

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

The Motley Fool

Too Late to Cash In?

Remember that scene in Meet the Parents where Ben Stiller discovers that his fiancee's ex-fiance lives in the American equivalent of Versailles and builds ornate altars out of rare wood in his spare time? I remember it because after showing off his Bolivian wormwood floors, Owen Wilson casually mentions the fact that he "got in early on some ...

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Related Topix: Amazoncom, Retail, Comedy Movies, Meet the Parents, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amazon

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Consumers dislike web tracking, but not enough to change behavior

Filed under: Industry , Consumer experience , Internet , Competitive strategy , Google , Microsoft , Amazon.com Traditional retailers haven't exactly embraced online sales channels.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Microsoft, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software

Internet Evolution

Nook Launch, Apple Tablet Augur Writers' Revolution

To celebrate the launch of the Nook , its new e-book reader, Barnes & Noble is giving away a free copy of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point to the first 10,000 people who buy the $259 device when it is released late next month.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Computers, Apple Computer, Amazoncom, Retail, Amazon, Sony

Bloomberg Business News

Most U.S. Stocks Fall as Valuation Concerns Overshadow Microsoft Results

Most U.S. stocks fell as disappointing results at the nationa s largest railroad and concern equities have become too expensive offset better-than- estimated earnings at Microsoft Corp.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Financial Markets, Software, Amazoncom, Retail, Amazon, Railroads, Burlington Northern Santa Fe

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