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Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm PT
As more telecommunications carriers launch rivals to Amazon.com’s popular computing-services business, a Silicon Valley start-up is aiming to help them beat the Web giant’s prices by tackling one layer of the computing “stack”—data-storage software.
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Justin Lahart, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
The rapid growth in internet sales is great for online retailers. But it’s not such good news for state and local governments.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that e-commerce retail sales totaled $44 billion in the fourth quarter last year, up from $38 billion a year earlier. E-commerce sales now account for 4.3 percent of total retail sales (which include lots of things that don’t get bought online, like new cars, gasoline and restaurant meals), up from one percent a decade ago. For the year, e-commerce sales totaled $165 billion.
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Owen Fletcher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 18, 2011 at 12:26 pm PT
E-Commerce China Dangdang Chief Executive Guoqing Li lost his temper Sunday on China’s biggest Twitter-like microblogging service, Sina Weibo, accusing Morgan Stanley of undervaluing his company’s initial public offering and exchanging outrageously off-color insults with a user who claimed to work for the financial services firm.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 29, 2010 at 2:34 pm PT
WikiLeaks, the website that published a quarter-million sensitive diplomatic cables on Sunday, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver its information. It sounds like an odd choice, but it could make sense.
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Beth Callaghan in News on June 29, 2010 at 3:39 pm PT
Amazon.com
has been limping badly for a few hours now, and anecdotal reports of downtime are
flying across Twitter. According to
an Amazon support staff forum post, “We continue to experience an issue that is impacting customers’ ability to place orders on the Amazon.com website as well as the display of item details within Manage Your Inventory within your seller account. We appreciate your understanding as we work toward resolution.”
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Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 28, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
A Seattle startup that provides primary health care for a flat monthly fee is getting some big-name financial backers from the technology industry: Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell.
Qliance Medical Management Inc. says it has raised $6 million in new funding in a financing round led by Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Amazon.com’s CEO; additional financing came from MSD Capital, Michael Dell’s investment firm.
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Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 25, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT
Black Friday is expected to kick off a more upbeat e-commerce season this year, but heavyweights Amazon.com, Google and eBay are poised to make the biggest holiday gains, analysts said.
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Jess Bravin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 9, 2009 at 5:00 am PT
Microsoft Corp., Bank of America Corp. and L.L. Bean Inc. are just some of the companies that have flooded the Supreme Court with advice as it prepares for Monday’s arguments over one of the biggest questions involving intellectual property: When can a business method be patented?
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Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 30, 2009 at 5:00 am PT
We already have a ton of passwords to remember. Now Amazon.com wants us to remember something new–PayPhrase–which has already sparked an online pile on.
The program, which Amazon announced Wednesday, is supposed to replace ordinary login and password combinations with a phrase and PIN combination that are linked to a specific account and shipping address.
