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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
We've been guessing for quite some time about sales of Amazon's Kindle e-reader , We have to guess, because Amazon doesn't give out any details about the product's performance. But today Jeff Bezos gave us the smallest morsel of info. Prodded during Amazon's Q2 earnings call, he offered a single data point: Of the 140,000 titles Amazon sells in both conventional book format and Kindle's...
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Forbes (Free subscription) | yesterday
What happens when a high-flying company meets some very high expectations? We don't have to wonder, thanks to Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos. The online retail giant is expected to report earnings growth of 40.8% over the year-ago period after the close of trading Wednesday, analysts say. Yet the Seattle-based company's shares have sagged $3.15, or 4.4%, to $68.48 over the past...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
After attacking some heavenly projects , Jeff Bezos may be interested in things somewhat closer to earth...in fact under the earth. This pic below of Bezos this morning at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay, testing out a Triton submarine simulator from U.S. Submarines , makers of personal/luxury submarines. Check out the best business jobs in digital media. Go...
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
What happens when a high-flying company meets some very high expectations? We don't have to wonder, thanks to Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos. The online retail giant is expected to report earnings growth of 40.8% over the year-ago period after the close of trading Wednesday, analysts say. Yet the Seattle-based company's shares have sagged $3.15, or 4.4%, to $68.48 over the past...
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Webware.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
At the Fortune Brainstorm 2008 conference, David Kirkpatrick asked Jeff Bezos about the origins of Amazon Web Services . "We were building these services for ourselves," Bezos said, when Amazon came up with the idea to "harden the intefaces" between interdependent services. Bezos said the idea was to make interaction between services "coarse-grained instead of fine-grained."...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
When cloud-computing services like Amazon’s S3 go down, as it did again this weekend, it raises the question of whether they are ready for prime time. If these services keep going down, can startups rely on them enough to build their businesses on top of them? At Fortune’s Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay today, in response to a question from the audience, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos...
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Unfortune (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
When cloud-computing services like Amazon’s S3 go down, as it did again this weekend, it raises the question of whether they are ready for prime time. If these services keep going down, can startups rely on them enough to build their businesses on top of them? At Fortune’s Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay today, in response to a question from the audience, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Internet retailer Amazon.com more than doubled its second-quarter profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, a performance CEO Jeff Bezos credited in part to high gas prices that are sending shoppers online.
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CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
I can't possibly convey the wild excitement that surged through my heart when I first read about the Kindle. I can tell you the exact date: Nov. 19, 2007. The Kindle had just been announced, by Jeff Bezos himself. I read about it online, and my lust for a piece of technology that instantly implied a complete lack of technological expertise was immediately ... kindled. What a divine thing:...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Social Gaming Network is by one measure the third largest distributor of Facebook apps, and just last week it announced a fresh investment from Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) CEO Jeff Bezos. Like the other big ones, such as Slide, RockYou and Zynga (which just raised $29 million ), its fortunes depend on the moves made by Zuckerberg and his team. I spoke this afternoon with CEO Shervin Pishevar...
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Casual gaming on the web must look like quite an attractive market to VCs right now. Jeff Bezos already invested in two casual gaming companies this year, Kongregate and SGN , after SGN had already raised a $15 million Series A round in January. Now, Mark Pincus' Zynga , another online gaming site, announced that it raised $29 million in a Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins. Zynga...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
On Wednesday, Amazon reported second-quarter earnings that more than doubled and easily topped analysts' expectations. It also raised its full-year revenue projections. The Seattle-based company's shares were up $9.42, 13.4 percent, at $79.96 in morning trading Thursday. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said Amazon suspects increased fuel prices may give it a "relative advantage" over other...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... The company said it benefited from shoppers going online to save on gasoline. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos also said Amazon's Kindle digital book reader was gaining readers, while the number of independent sellers offering goods on Amazon's site continued to grow. Recent disappointing results from rival eBay Inc and tech giants Apple Inc and Google Inc have worried investors, who seemed...
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Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... of the decline of the dollar that has boosted their overseas sales. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos managed to double Amazon’s net income thanks to some great promotions, such as free shipping and lower prices in the hope of enticing customers who do not have as much money to spare. Amazon.com shares rose 8.6 percent yesterday to $76.58; this is a stark difference as their shares...
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SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... continue to take advantage of our low prices, free shipping and Amazon Prime,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.“Amazon Prime membership costs less than a tank of gas - more and more customers are joining the program and enjoying its benefits,” Bezos added.The company said that during the quarter some 400,000 software developers registered to use Amazon Web Services.Also...
