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.
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.
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.
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.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 16, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT
If you love reading and want smart ways to share your books with friends or reading updates with social networks, the Nook Color has you covered.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on September 14, 2010 at 1:14 pm PT
Springpad is a free service that lets you save digital content like a photo or a Web page and sends alerts related to that content.
News Byte
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.”
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.
