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Booting Up: Disobey Amazon and Say Goodbye to Your Ebooks
Busted. (Photo: flickr.com/photos/kodomut) Bad news, everyone: Researchers are claiming the smart-but-neglected nerds don't actually win in the end. It turns out that, in the long run, the more popular...
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LivingSocial Lays Off 400 as Daily Deals Lag
IDK. Bet you thought the next big story in the ailing daily deals business was going to be Andrew Mason's ouster. And yet, it's a competitor making headlines: Bloomberg News reports that LivingSocial...
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Booting Up: When Zuckerbergs Confront Breach of Facebook Privacy
(BuzzFeed) Were your plans to hunker down with loved ones and stream movies on Christmas Eve stymied by a Netflix outage? Blame Amazon, Netflix says. [NYDN] Everyone has a Facebook privacy issue...
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Booting Up: Brace for Social’s Invasion of Netflix
(Photo: flickr.com/ky_olsen Don't be alarmed, but it's very possible you wasted money on that smart TV. [PC Mag] Companies might be reconsidering Amazon Web Services, after one outage too many. [Wall...
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Live Fast, Die Young: E-Readers Are On the Decline
Days of yore. (Photo: kodomut Let's hope the various e-reader makers gathered their rosebuds while they could, because it seems the heyday of the e-reader is already passing. The Wall Street Journal...
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Amazon Homepage Down for Some Users, Hackers Claim Responsibility
(Screenshot: Amazon) Amazon.com's homepage appears to be temporarily down, showing a "service unavailable" message to users. Links within Amazon are still functional, but the homepage is inaccessible....
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Could Amazon Interest You in a Used eBook?
(Photo: flickr.com/justbecause) Oh boy, the big six are just going to love this: Geekwire reports that Amazon has secured a patent for a "secondary market for digital objects," meaning anything from...
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Macmillan Surrenders in Ebook Suit, Leaving Apple to Fight on Alone
Macmillan's HQ. (Photo: flickr.com/-jvl-) When four of the biggest publishers in the U.S. worked with Apple to create a new model of book sales, one that allowed them to set a minimum price on ebook...
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And the Most Respected Corporation In America Is… Amazon?
Reached for comment, Mr. Bezos said, "Mwah ha ha ha!" (Photo: flickr.com/oreilly) It appears that people just really, really love deep discounts and free shipping. Wired reports that, according to a...
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Booting Up: TelePod is a Terrible Name
(Photo: Scroogled) According to a former Apple ad man, Apple considered naming its phone offering a bunch of really terrible names before settling on iPhone. These names include "Telepod," "Mobi" and...
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Startup News: Ashton Invests in Bitcoin, Hacking Sandy, and Shaving Heads...
Photo: New York Daily News NYC Hackathon Goes Sandy Themed Since the NYC tech community basically lost their minds during the week without power that was Hurricane Sandy, the theme of this year's...
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Amazon Takes Down Sim City, But Not Before The Haters Gave It More Than 4,000...
Photo: Gameranx.com The clusterfuck that is the Sim City launch keeps on giving, as Amazon had to take down Electronic Arts' new version of the classic game from its store for almost the entire day...
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Let’s Give Amazon the .Book Domain, That’ll End Well
Old school, meet new school. (flickr.com/friarsbalsam) Hey, you know what sounds like a great idea? Giving the juggernaut Amazon any more of a stranglehold on the book business. The Wall Street Journal...
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Booting Up: Google Reader Users Migrate to Feedly
(Photo: Deviantart) Turns out having a book on the top of Amazon's bestseller list does not make you an automatic millionaire. [Salon] After the announcement that Google Reader would shut down in July,...
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Amazon: ‘Okay, Fine, We Have Nerd Shows, Too’
Ohhh no. (Photo: flickr.com/oreilly) No sooner did Netflix announce its new science fiction show Sense8 than Amazon made its own original content announcement: The company will be developing Betas, a...
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Amazon Is Buying Goodreads; Draw Your Own End-of-Literature Conclusions
HE SMELLS BLOOD. (Photo: flickr.com/oreilly) As if anyone in the publishing industry needed another reason to view Amazon with suspicion and alarm: Today the goliath announced it's acquiring...
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Jeff Bezos Invests in Business Insider to Fund More Henry Blodget Crotch Shots
(Photo: AlanLevenson.com) In a stunning gesture of support for EXCLUSIVE airplane journalism, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is leading a $5 million round in Business Insider, the web property helmed by Henry...
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Amazon Finally Unveils One-Stop Shop for Adult Diapers
(Screenshot: Amazon) Internet usage among older adults is on the rise, so it makes sense that retail behemoth Amazon is making moves to tap into that demographic. Today the company unveiled a new...
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Fab Announces It’s Pivoting Again, Will Eventually Get This Thing Right
Yep. (Photo: Fab.com) Fab.com has made more costume changes than a drag queen. Launched in 2011 as a social network for gay men (name: Fabulis), the company then transformed itself into a flash-sale...
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Fanboy Heaven: Amazon Will Let Viewers Help Decide Which Pilots Will Get a...
Fanboys of Firefly/Twin Peaks/Freaks and Geeks are probably infuriated to hear the news that Amazon will let customers decide which of its 14 newly produced Amazon Prime shows will be given a full...
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