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Amazon Has Acquired Yap, the Closest Thing to a Siri Clone It Can Find

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 9, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

There are a lot of similarities between Amazon and Apple. The secrecy, the dedication to the consumer, the focus on devices and digital media, and now this: Siri.

As Amazon Cuts Off WikiLeaks, Sen. Joe Lieberman Claims a Pointless Victory

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

WikiLeaks, the site infamous for exposing America’s diplomatic dirty laundry, has confirmed via its Twitter feed that it is no longer hosting its files on Amazon’s servers. The move comes as Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut–who was a onetime vice-presidential nominee and who is also chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee–had called for Amazon to cut its ties to Wikileaks.

Jeff Bewkes's Internal Memo on the AOL Spinoff

Kara Swisher in News on May 28, 2009 at 11:42 am PT

Here’s Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes’s memo on the AOL spinoff, which was approved by the media giant’s board last night and announced this morning. BoomTown reported a lot of the deep details of the new structure of the online unit, which sweeps aside the previous one and includes a new venture unit. Here’s the memo.