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Sunday | 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, Retail, Amazon.com

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, Retail, Amazon.com, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Wal Mart Stores

Fri Nov 06, 2009

ABC News - Brian Ross

Deja Vu: Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target in DVD Price War

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.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Amazon, Amazon.com

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Blogging Stocks

PayPal on track to lead eBay, opens doors to outside developers for more growth

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 .

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Related Topix: Retail, eBay, Startups, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, Computers, Apple Computer

Wed Nov 04, 2009

SYS-CON MEDIA

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, Amazon.com, Retail, Mesa, AZ, iPod, Games, Board Game

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Amazon.com extends Internet price war on books

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.

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Related Topix: Amazon.com, Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Amazon, Games, Board Game, Fayetteville Metro

Charleston Daily Mail

PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens

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, Retail, Amazon, Amazon.com, iPhone

Mon Nov 02, 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: Retail, Amazon.com

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.com, Amazon, Retail, Apparel

ETF Investor

An Internet ETF to Capture the New Holiday Shopping Climate

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

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Related Topix: Amazon, Retail, Amazon.com, eBay, Startups

Sun Nov 01, 2009

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, Amazon.com, Target, Under the Dome, Electronic

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, Amazon.com, Retail, Barnes and Noble, Computers, PC

Montreal Gazette

Amazon.com shares hit record high

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.

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Related Topix: Amazon.com, Amazon, Retail

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Motley Fool

Amazon Is Killing the Kindle

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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Related Topix: Retail, Amazon, Amazon.com, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, iPod

Wed Oct 28, 2009

KXMA-TV Dickinson

Amazon tries to simplify Web buying with PayPhrase

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Photo NYBZ153 SAN FRANCISCO Amazon.com Inc.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Amazon.com, Retail

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: Retail, Comedy Movies, Meet the Parents, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amazon.com, Amazon

Tue Oct 27, 2009

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, Retail, Amazon, Amazon.com, Sony

Freshnews

Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Relational Database Service - "...

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.

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Related Topix: Retail, Amazon, Amazon.com, Science, Computer Science, CPU, Science / Technology

Internet Retailer

Amazon's stock price hits a record high, helping e-commerce stocks advance

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.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Financial Markets, Internet, Science / Technology, Amazon.com, Retail, Netflix, Startups

Mon Oct 26, 2009

MarketWatch

Mark Hulbert: Amazon's good fortune reminscent of Nifty Fifty

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 ...

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Related Topix: Amazon.com, Amazon, Retail, Financial Markets

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