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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.