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17 hrs ago | CNN

Ex-Amazon engineer wants to outsmart Jeff Bezos

There are few dot-com era startups more ignominious than Webvan, the online grocery business that spent over $800 million in three years before collapsing in 2001.

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Related Topix: Amazon

18 hrs ago | WHIO

4 Lessons Jeff Bezos Learned From Failure

Let's look at one of Bezos' innovation initiatives; its grocery delivery service, AmazonFresh.

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Related Topix: Grocery, Mercer Island, WA, Robots, Science / Technology

Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Motley Fool

Do You Really Want to Short Tesla?

Shmulik is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Tesla Motors, Startups, Amazon, Salesforce

Forbes.com

Four Lessons Amazon Learned From Webvan's Flop

MAY 07: Mackenzie Bezos and Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com May 7, 2012 in New York City.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Media, IT Services, Audible, Getty Images, Internet, Science / Technology, Mercer Island, WA

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Fortune

The Apple e-book trial: About that dinner on January 20, 2010

In its effort to prove that Apple "knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books" -- to use the judge's own words -- the Department of Justice has spent an inordinate amount of time cross-examining witnesses in the Apple e-book trial about a dinner that took place in Manhattan on the evening of Jan. 20, 2010.

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, US News, Steve Jobs, Amazon

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Investor's Business Daily

MakerBot late to Amazon, run by investor Jeff Bezos

But that was not the case. When Amazon launched the store earlier this week , it featured consumer 3D printers mostly from lesser-known manufacturers, including U.S.-based Afinia and Airwolf 3D Printers and China-based FlashForge and Mbot3D.

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Related Topix: Amazon

The Atlantic

The Amazon Bundle: Why the Retail Giant Is Like the Cable Company of the Future

This week, Amazon announced plans to bring online grocery shopping to Los Angeles with a new service called Amazon Prime Fresh.

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Related Topix: Amazon, US Politics, US News

Wed Jun 12, 2013

MSN Money

Why Facebook investors find Facebook so baffling

Judging by the questions at Facebook's first annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, its investors are unhappy with its stock price, frustrated with its features and just baffled by Facebook generally.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon

Hollywood Reporter

What Amazon's Viacom Coup Means for Netflix

Analysts see a viable streaming option from Jeff Bezos, whose company snapped up thousands of episodes of "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Dora the Explorer," "Jersey Shore" and "Teen Mom 2." If there were any doubts that Amazon is a serious streaming-media competitor, they likely were erased June 4 when the company struck its largest licensing deal to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Amazon, Animated TV, SpongeBob SquarePants, Children TV, Entertainment, Television, NPD Group, Advertising

Tue Jun 11, 2013

The Motley Fool

This CEO Is Breaking All the Rules

Quick, what do Twitter, Uber, and MakerBot all have in common? No, they aren't the most recent recommendations in Motley Fool Rule Breakers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Amazon, Financial Markets

CIO Today

What Jeff Bezos Can Teach You About Customer Service

"If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell six friends," Amazon's Jeff Bezos has said.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Science / Technology, Internet

Wall Street Journal

Not Ready to Ship: Amazon Says Logistics Hold Up Bezos Book

You might think that being married to the chief executive of the country's biggest online bookseller would give you something of an edge as an author.

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Related Topix: Amazon

Seeking Alpha

The Danger Of Shorting Tesla Motors: The Amazon And Salesforce Factors

On June 8, Barrons' published its latest cover story , an expansive critique of Tesla Motors , in which author Bill Alpert laid out, once again, the short thesis for Tesla Motors.

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Related Topix: Salesforce, Amazon, Tesla Motors, Startups

Mon Jun 10, 2013

The Washington Post

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The move is obviously a massive boost for the fledging consumer 3D printing market, which has slowly been creeping into the mainstream but has so far largely lacked major corporate retailer support.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Sports

Sun Jun 09, 2013

The Motley Fool

$10 Million Says Amazon Buys MakerBot

As fellow Fool Blake Bos pointed out last week, it appears that 3-D printing specialist MakerBot is in talks with suitors, which could potentially lead to an acquisition of the four-year-old company.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Media, IT Services, Audible

CNet News

First Borders, then Best Buy. Now Amazon's gunning for Safeway

For the last five years, Amazon has been working to figure out an online business that has claimed its share of carnage--grocery delivery.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Startups, Napster, Science / Technology

Fri Jun 07, 2013

The Province

Conclave of conspiracies? World's most powerful gather for secretive Bilderberg meeting

JUNE 06: A man dressed as a clown stands in the protester encampment outside The Grove hotel, which is hosting the annual Bilderberg conference, on June 6, 2013 in Watford, England.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Hertfordshire County, England, Getty Images, Startups, Search Engines, Google, Emerging Technology, Amazon

The Motley Fool

2 Attractive Stocks for Your Portfolio Today

Earlier this week I had the good fortune to join Barry Armstrong on his radio show Financial Exchange on WRKO AM 680 in Boston.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Warren Buffett, Clean Harbors, Environmental, Waste Management

Book trade news from Book2book

The Meeting In Jeff Bezos's Boathouse

That's what Russell Grandinetti, Amazon's vice president for Kindle content, said when asked in a Manhattan federal court Friday about a meeting he attended in Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Seattle boathouse on Sunday Jan. 24, 2010.

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Related Topix: Amazon

Thu Jun 06, 2013

Bangkok Post

Apple clashes with Amazon in e-book case

Apple attorneys in the US antitrust case on e-books went on the offensive, attacking the credibility of government witnesses and seeking to debunk key elements of the government's case.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Santa Monica, CA, Emerging Technology, Search Engines