Amazon announces new Kindle and 2,000 permanent UK jobs September 6, 2012 AMAZON yesterday unveiled larger Kindle Fire tablets with lower prices as it also revealed plans to create more than 2,000 permanent jobs over the next two years in the UK. The new Kindle, revealed to crowds in Santa Monica, California, is set to challenge Apple’s dominant iPad with lower prices and a trove of digital [...]
Netflix shares plunge after rival Amazon signs streaming deal September 4, 2012 SHARES in Netflix plunged as much as 11 per cent yesterday on back of news that rival Amazon had struck a three year deal with video streaming channel Epix to add about 3,000 movies to Amazon’s video streaming library. The deal will boost Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service, a streaming service for subscribers, from its [...]
Amazon launches iPad streaming August 1, 2012 Amazon.com launched a video application for Apple’s iPad yesterday, in its latest effort to get its digital content on as many gadgets as possible. The Instant Video app lets users stream or download movies and TV shows bought or rented from Amazon on their iPads.
Amazon profit dragged down by expansion July 26, 2012 AMAZON, the online retailer, reported a sharp drop in profits last night as its massive investment programme took its toll on the company balance sheet. The firm reported quarterly profits of $7m (£4.5m) versus $191m a year ago, equating to earnings per share of just one cent compared to 41 cents a share a year [...]
New chapter for publishing as Amazon Kindle overtakes print August 6, 2012 EBOOKS are outselling their printed counterparts at Britain’s largest bookseller Amazon for the first time, the web giant has revealed. Across Amazon’s UK operations, 114 Kindle ebooks have been sold for every 100 hardback or paperback editions this year. The figures also showed that ereaders are sparking a boom in total book sales, with Kindle [...]
What 2013’s top gadgets might look like (we really, really hope) February 13, 2013 iPad 5 The last generation iPad was a small improvement on the iPad 3. Expect the next one to be lighter and thinner, and some analysts think it could shave 17mm from the width and 4mm from the height. It is also likely to feature a far smaller bevel, more akin to the iPad Mini. [...]
Cloud computing could easily save your start-up money February 24, 2013 ACCORDING to technology consultancy IDC and IT firm EMC, the global digital universe will expand tenfold between 2012 and 2020, reaching a difficult to comprehend 40 zettabytes. To put this into perspective, in 2009 the internet was estimated to contain just half a zettabyte. Even then, if that quantity of data were printed and bound [...]
What the other papers say this morning February 5, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Turner defends permanent printing Lord Turner, outgoing chairman of the Financial Services Authority, has launched an impassioned defence of financing government spending by printing money, arguing that within limits it “absolutelym definitely [does] not lead to inflation. Speaking ahead of a valedictory speech in London today, Lord Turner, who applied to be the [...]
Amazon keeps lion’s share of UK market July 23, 2012 ONLINE retail giant Amazon has built up its spot at the top of the UK entertainment market, largely at the expense of supermarket rivals and specialists like HMV, according to research published yesterday. Kantar Worldpanel figures for the 12 weeks to 10 June show that Amazon strengthened its market share by 3.2 percentage points, boosted [...]
Failure to adapt meant rivals left HMV behind January 15, 2013 Almost exactly a year ago we looked at HMV on YouGov’s BrandIndex and saw that it did not fit the traditional pattern of a retailer facing difficulties – struggling with consumer perception compounded by a poor economic situation. HMV was by no means a high scorer on BrandIndex but it was in a perfectly respectable [...]