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Why isn't Amazon.com talking about its $150 million windfall? [Bill Me Later]

Why isn't Amazon.com talking about its $150 million windfall? [Bill Me Later]

Amazon.com got a big payday when eBay bought Bill Me Later, the payment service, for $945 million earlier this month. So why isn't it admitting it? In an SEC filing, Amazon.com didn't name Bill Me Later as the source of a $150 million cash payment it will receive in return for an investment. But ...

Bury Valleywag October 23

Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?

Amazon Web Services EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service has dropped the beta tag, added a service level agreement and launched Windows and SQL betas and plans a management console. Add it up and it appears that Amazon is giving prospective enterprise customers most of the things they need to tak...

Bury Btl October 23

Amazon Caught Deleting Negative EA DRM-Related Reviews... Again

You probably remember the uproar that surrounded the release of Spore, where plenty of people were pissed off at EA's decision to use draconian DRM and made their feelings known via thousands of 1-star reviews on Amazon.com. At one point, all of those reviews disappeared from the site, leading s...

Bury Techdirt October 23

Amazon Tempers Holiday Outlook

Amazon.com posted a 48% rise in profit and 31% jump in revenue but lowered its sales outlook. Shares fell more than 13% after hours. ...

Bury WSJ.com:... News US October 23

Amazon Slashes Delivery Charges

Amazon Slashes Delivery Charges

Things must be getting pretty dire indeed if Amazon is cutting delivery prices but, as a gadget-obsessed consumer, I'm not complaining. From now on, as long as you spend over £5 on Amazon UK, delivery will be free. This is down from the previous minimum spend of £15. It also point...

Bury Gizmodo UK October 16

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