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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.

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.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.

Filed under: Internet , Competitive strategy , Google , Apple Inc , eBay , Amazon.com , Technology While eBay has been working hard to manage its marketplace in a trying economy, its PayPayl business has been growing comfortably and could become the company's biggest earner .

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

The book price wars are no longer just for pre-orders. Amazon.com was offering hardcovers of John Grisham's "Ford County" and Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna" for just $9 on Tuesday, the official release date for both books.

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.

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.

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

Bargain-hunting during the holiday season is a national pastime, and internet shopping has been increasing over the years.

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

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

Amazon.com Inc. shares soared Friday after the company reported a surge in third-quarter earnings, attributed to discounting and mushrooming sales of its Kindle electronic book reader.

When I named Amazon.com my pick as the best stock for 2009 -- a pick that's up more than 120% through yesterday's close -- I argued that investors buying at last December's prices were getting its cloud-computing business for next to nothing.

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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 ...

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.

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company , today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service , a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud.

Wall Street's bulls took a breather last week, and e-commerce stocks would have joined the downward trend as well but for the lift provided by leading online retailer Amazon.com Inc.

Amazon.com might be partying like it's 1999, but is any other company even at the party? In other words, is this Internet retailer's good fortune something to generalize about? Or is it nothing more than the exception that proves the rule? Commentators have long found irresistible the drawing of profound investment lessons from what's happening to ...