40 posts and columns on Greg Bensinger

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Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen

in News on May 9 at 10:44 am PT

Amazon.com Inc.’s hardware ambitions are broadening.

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eBay Asks Users to Fight National Sales Tax Bill

in Commerce on April 22 at 4:26 am PT

eBay Inc. is trying to enlist its users in a fight against a national online sales tax bill.

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Netflix Cues Up Facebook, Twitter for Disclosure

in News on April 11 at 4:04 am PT

Netflix Inc. is making it official: It “likes” social media.

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Netflix Goes Social With Ties to Facebook

in Social on March 13 at 11:00 am PT

Netflix users may want to think twice before watching that Rob Schneider movie yet again.

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Amazon’s Quest for Web Names Draws Foes

in Commerce on March 11 at 7:00 am PT

Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.’s plans are coming under particular scrutiny.

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Google, Microsoft, Amazon Clash in Cloud Services

in Enterprise on February 4 at 5:00 am PT

Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. have fought each other for dominance in mobile gadgets and Web searches. The latest front in their war is invisible: Computing horsepower.

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Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon

in News on December 25, 2012 at 11:56 pm PT

Four big technology fiefs — Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — have been creeping into each other’s turf for years. In 2013, their war is set to escalate around two fronts: Hardware and search.

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Netflix Hit by Outage, Blames Amazon

in Media on December 25, 2012 at 10:26 am PT

Netflix Inc. said its streaming video service was hit by an outage as a result of problems at Web service provider Amazon.com Inc.

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Start-Ups Adjust to Web’s Down Cycle

in News on December 24, 2012 at 9:30 am PT

Prominent venture capitalist John Doerr coined the phrase “SoLoMo” in 2010 to describe how three technology trends — social, local and mobile — were fueling a new Internet boom.

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Amazon Taps Bond Market for First Time in 15 Years

in Commerce on November 26, 2012 at 3:11 pm PT

Amazon appears to be taking advantage of low interest rates to build its cash reserves.

Early Sales Pay Off, for Now

in Commerce, November 26, 2012 at 7:25 am PT

Wine: the Web’s Final Frontier

in Commerce, October 27, 2012 at 10:11 am PT

Mobile Ads: Here’s What Works and What Doesn’t

in Media, September 28, 2012 at 7:30 am PT

Amazon.com Planning Online Wine Sales

in Commerce, September 28, 2012 at 3:09 am PT

The Sales-Tax Effect on Amazon: Nada

in Commerce, September 17, 2012 at 2:20 pm PT

eBay to Target Under-18 Set

in Commerce, July 26, 2012 at 10:57 am PT

Investment Values Web Retailer Fanatics at $1.5 Billion

in News, June 6, 2012 at 4:07 pm PT

Talking Less, Paying More for Voice

in Mobile, June 6, 2012 at 2:30 am PT

Sprint’s Virgin Mobile to Offer iPhone

in Mobile, June 5, 2012 at 11:42 am PT

LiqhtSquared Moves Toward Bankruptcy

in Mobile, May 13, 2012 at 12:30 pm PT

Falcone Agrees to Step Aside

in News, April 30, 2012 at 3:06 am PT

Users Shun Prepaid Carriers

in Mobile, April 26, 2012 at 4:08 pm PT

T-Mobile Set to Receive AT&T Airwaves

in Mobile, April 25, 2012 at 12:48 pm PT

AT&T Posts 5.2 Percent Profit Gain

in Mobile, April 24, 2012 at 7:23 am PT

Clearwire, Leap Make Wholesale Pact

in Mobile, March 14, 2012 at 5:15 pm PT