BloggingStocks:
Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Media World, TechnologyTake the Nook off your Christmas list. The new e-reader from Barnes & Noble (BKS) has already sold out, and more won't be available until after the h (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Proclaimed iPhone-killer the Droid has been out for a week and it's already seeing price cuts from some retailers.Verizon is still selling the phone for $200 but Amazon.com has a new Droid with contract for $150. Dell is taki (Read More)
Reuters:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its first allotment of newly launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand and new shipments will not arrive in time for the holidays.
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores have slashed the price of Palm’s newest smart phone, the Pixi, by 75% to $24.99 after only a few days on the market. (Read More)
Reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The upcoming debut album by British singing sensation Susan Boyle has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon.com, the online retailer said on Thursday.
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BloggingStocks:
Filed under: Competitive strategy, Amazon.com (AMZN), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), TechnologyEvery day, it's becoming clearer that e-readers will be the hot holiday gifts of 2009. Amazon (AMZN) is obviously in the game with its Kindl (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
The Archerfish “Mobile Video Intelligence System” has been renamed to Archerfish Quattro, presumably because “Mobile Video Intelligence” doesn’t roll off the tongue. The unit is on sale now at Amazon.com, making it easy to ad (Read More)
The Economist:
The enduring appeal of Jane AustenA Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen. Edited by Susannah Carson. Random House; 320 pages; $25. Buy from Amazon.com“SOME literary works are mortal; Jan (Read More)
The Economist:
Czechoslovakia was born out of trickery and died in failure. Only up to a pointCzechoslovakia: The State That Failed. By Mary Heimann. Yale University Press; 406 pages; $45 and GBP25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukOUTSIDER (Read More)
The Economist:
Kati Marton uses secret police files to uncover a half-forgotten childhood in communist HungaryEnemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America. By Kati Marton. Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $26. Buy from Amazon.comCOMMUN (Read More)
The Economist:
Making Istanbul the heart of the worldThe Museum of Innocence. By Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Maureen Freely. Knopf; 542 pages; $28.95. To be published in Britain by Faber and Faber in January 2010. Buy from Amazon.com ...
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USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live:
Susan Boyle continues to find fans around the world. Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Boyle’s upcoming album, I Dreamed a Dream has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon. (Read More)
Latest from Computerworld:
Amazon.com's Electric Cloud Computing service is helping to boost the visibility of supercomputer centers to business users. (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
The smart phone price war rages on.In the latest example, Amazon.com (AMZN) has slashed the price of the Palm Pre to $79.99 with a two-year service plan from Sprint (S); they’re also throwing in free activation of the phone. (Read More)
EETimes:
The smart grid promises to be in some ways similar to and even bigger than the Internet, according to veteran venture capitalist John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers who helped fund Google and Amazon.com (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A planned electronic-book reader from Sony Corp. may not arrive in time for many holiday shoppers, according to reports Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal cited Sony as saying its new Daily Ed (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalTwo high-profile electronic-book readers seeking to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN) Kindle could be scarce under the Christmas tree.Sony Corp. (SNE) Wednesday said orders for (Read More)
Bloomberg:
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Haber, president of Sony Electronics Inc. digital reading unit, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about the electronic-reader market. Sony, squaring off against Amazon.com Inc.’ (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster this afternoon repeated his Overweight rating on Amazon.com (AMZN), lifting his price target ont he shares to $163, from $119. Yesterday, the stock closed at $131.25.Munster thinks the compa (Read More)
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online:
N900: Going it alone.Nokia (NOK) today announced that its N900 smart phone is now on sale in the U.S. through Nokia’s stores in New York and Chicago, through independent retailers and via Amazon.com - at $649.The phone, which (Read More)