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In March, it was pieces of the rocket that propelled Apollo 11 spaceward, kindly dragged from their watery grave by Amazon CEO and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos.

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, at the launch of a new family of Kindle e-readers last September in Santa Monica, Calif.

While it remains to be seen how the 2013 Marketplace Fairness Act will impact sales for Amazon.com , what we do know is that the online leader seems to have a loyal constituency in its Amazon Prime Membership.

Starting Friday, they can purchase tickets to tour the Cosmosphere's SpaceWorks division as workers there go about preserving Apollo F-1 artifacts.

JEFF BEZOS launched Amazon in 1995 with books, among the easiest things to sell online.

Since its earliest days, Amazon has put investing in new business ahead of expanding its profit margins, often to shareholder chagrin.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the Kindle Fire HD 7", right, and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" during a launch event in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sept.

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, demonstrates a Kindle paperwhite tablet. The company will soon offer fan fiction its Kindle tablets and e-readers. There's loving a TV show, book or movie, and then there's loving a TV show, book or movie: being so inspired by its universe and characters that people imagine whole new narratives for them and ... (more)

For many years, Amazon.com enjoyed a crucial leg up compared to traditional retailers like Barnes & Noble, Sears, and Wal-Mart: The e-tailer didn't charge sales taxes to its customers.

The Kickstarter-funded Veronica Mars movie showed fan engagement at its strongest, but as the canned Zombieland TV pilot proves, viewers can also kill a project After jumping into the TV game with a set of eight free-to-watch sitcom pilots last month, Amazon is now acting like a proper US network by culling its slate.

The engine's nozzle would extend from the top as positioned in the wooden basin.

The Kansas Cosmosphere's new Apollo F-1 Conservation Project tour will give visitors a first look at the engine parts Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos salvaged from the ocean.

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 .

We are at the end of a cycle, andapproaching the beginning of a new one. It's post-global, post-digital, and post-commoditization. That we can stare at the rot that consumes so many industries, and simultaneously cheer the stock market's record response to 'new efficiencies,' and wonder, "What replaces all of those jobs?" is both terrifying and ... (more)

Even the acclaimed show The New Normal couldn't make it through its freshman season this year.

On Amazon's May 13 front page, a message from Jeff Bezos notified Kindle Fire owners that they have something "a little unexpected" in their accounts.

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The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon is expanding its hardware offerings with a whole new line of gadgets, including a lame-sounding "audio streaming device" and a pair of next gen smartphones.

InsideSales.com, the leading provider of cloud-based sales automation and analytics technology, announced today that Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com, has been selected as a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas ... (more)

In growing sectors of the economy, we often witness a situation in which some companies tend to become overvalued.