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USPS To Stop Delivering iPads And Kindles To Troops And Overseas Consumers On May 16

BY Neal Ungerleider | 05-10-2012 | 12:49 PM | LEADERSHIP

The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple. READ MORE›

Kindle Lending Library Will Stock Harry Potter Series

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 05-10-2012 | 9:16 AM | INNOVATION

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Why Target Would Want To Kick Amazon Out

BY Kit Eaton | 05-02-2012 | 3:11 PM | INNOVATION

The big-box retailer is trying to avoid being a bleak house. READ MORE›

Follow-Up: The Tablet Really Is Killing The E-Reader

BY Kit Eaton | 04-27-2012 | 12:50 PM | INNOVATION

One innovation outclasses another, again.READ MORE›

Amazon's Revenues Rise To $13 Billion, But Profits Slip

BY Kit Eaton | 04-27-2012 | 6:15 AM | INNOVATION

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The Great Tech War Of 2012: Players Invade Each Others Turf

BY Kit Eaton | 04-11-2012 | 10:25 AM | DESIGN

Google's move to radically overhaul Google+ is just its latest salvo in its social battle with Facebook, just as Facebook's using Spotify in a musical skirmish with Apple, and Apple's battling with Amazon over ebooks....READ MORE›

Amazon Goes To Brazil

BY Neal Ungerleider | 02-24-2012 | 3:46 PM | TECHNOLOGY

Amazon's gearing up a Brazilian launch for the Kindle this summer. Their strategy? Sell their product for far cheaper than the local competition, take a hit in import duties, and watch the profits roll in.READ MORE›

Apple CEO Tim Cook On Cheap iPad Knockoffs: "You Hate It"

BY Austin Carr | 02-14-2012 | 5:51 PM | INNOVATION

While most of Tim Cook's comments today were characteristically measured, the Apple CEO saved his choicest words for iPad competitors such as the Kindle Fire.READ MORE›

Relationship Guru Charles Orlando Helps E-Book Self-Publishers Help Themselves

BY Adam L. Penenberg | 02-08-2012 | 9:01 AM | CAREERS

Too many do-it-yourselfers don't actually do anything--then expect to become the next Amanda Hocking. The author of "The Problem With Women ... Is Men" breaks down the economics of self-publishing and his own winning strategies. READ MORE›

Amazon's Kindle Hits And Misses, Tumblr Expands In-House Content, Apple Dominates WSJ's Most-Read List

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 12-29-2011 | 7:11 AM | INNOVATION

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Amazon Kindle Will Win Thanks To Hype, Not Performance

BY Kaihan Krippendorff | 12-07-2011 | 9:20 AM | MANAGEMENT

Amazon is projected to sell 5 million of its new $200 tablets--that's one for every three iPads sold, making it the first real iPad contender despite the fact that many technology wonks argue the Kindle Fire lacks what it takes to challenge the iPad. So is the Kindle Fire living on hype and false expectations? Yes...and that is precisely why it may win.READ MORE›

Amazon's Kindle Fire Blazed Through An Army Of Androids

BY Peter Pachal | 12-02-2011 | 5:15 PM | TECHNOLOGY

The new tablet from Amazon is selling like crazy, and plenty of people are calling it a threat to the iPad. But the real story is how it flipped the script on the many makers of tablets running Google's operating system. Your move, Sony.READ MORE›

What Every Company Should Take From Barnes & Noble: A Page From Their Corporate Playbook

BY Aaron Shapiro | 11-09-2011 | 3:38 PM | CAREERS

With the launch of the Nook Tablet and the announcement that it expects to generate $1.8 billion from the Nook line this year, Barnes & Noble did something that anyone who cares about technology and business should find inspiring: It became a technology company. Here’s what it did to transcend its would-be analog and fruitless future. READ MORE›

Samsung's Smartphone Sales Grow 44 Percent, Netflix Users Take Up A Third Of U.S. Bandwidth, Amazon In Talks For Kindle In China

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 10-28-2011 | 5:39 AM | INNOVATION

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Steven Johnson Unveils A Twitter-like Network For Sharing Long Reads

BY John Pavlus | 10-27-2011 | 8:49 AM | E-READING

As a daily writer and reader, I can't live without Twitter: I get story ideas there, I drum up freelance work there, I get inspired and educated there. But man, that 140-character limit is a bitch sometimes. And let's face it--in ... READ MORE›

The Great Tech War Of 2012

BY Farhad Manjoo | 10-17-2011 | 3:38 PM | CAREERS

Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon battle for the future of the innovation economy.READ MORE›

Why Amazon Will Win

BY Farhad Manjoo | 10-17-2011 | 11:32 AM | MANAGEMENT

Its retail engine keeps humming, and its ambitions feed the beast.READ MORE›

What Amazon's Fire Reveals About Its Innovative Strategy

BY Kaihan Krippendorff | 10-05-2011 | 8:31 AM | MANAGEMENT

If you look at Amazon's business model as a service instead of disconnected parts composed of books and devices and shipping, you start to see the strategic vision. The longer it takes competitors to "get" this picture, the longer Amazon will have their competitors guessing. What is the unique frame you are taking on your business?READ MORE›

Why Amazon Isn't Sweating Losing Millions On The Kindle Fire

BY Austin Carr | 09-29-2011 | 8:12 AM | INNOVATION

As a tablet, the Kindle fire won't threaten the iPad, even at $199. As a digital catalog and promotional tool for moving Amazon products, it could be revolutionary. READ MORE›

Google Amps Up Analytics, Facebook Spartan En Route, Playbook Cuts Prices To Keep Up With Kindle Fire

BY Nidhi Subbaraman | 09-29-2011 | 4:38 AM | TECHNOLOGY

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