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LOS ANGELES - Discovery Communications chairman and founder John Hendricks waited 17 years for the moment when Amazon and Sony would battle for dominance in the world of portable electronic book readers.

Sprint Nextel Corp is looking to rent the excess capacity on its network to makers of consumer gadgets, the Wall Street Journal said.

Sony Electronics Inc. is joining forces with Google Inc. to battle Amazon.com Inc. in the growing electronic books market which is projected to more than double this year.

Sony Corp is making available public domain books from Google Inc to users of its electronic book reader, Sony said on Wednesday, vastly increasing the amount of available content on the device.

Media company Discovery Communications Inc has sued Amazon.com, accusing the online retailer's Kindle of infringing its patent on electronic book technology.

Media Company Discovery Communications has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming the Kindle infringes on a patent Discovery has for DRM on electronic book technology.

Media company Discovery Communications Inc has sued Amazon.com, accusing the online retailer's Kindle of infringing its patent on electronic book technology.

Media company Discovery Communications Inc has sued Amazon.com, accusing the online retailer's Kindle of infringing its patent on electronic book technology.

Warren Buffett said on Monday the U.S. economy had fallen off a cliff but would eventually recover, although a rebound could kindle inflation worse than that experienced in the late 1970s.

Apple Inc iPhone and iPod Touch users can now read books on their devices using software from Amazon.com Inc's Kindle electronic reader, boosting shares of the online retailer 5 percent.

Amazon.com is offering a new application to let consumers access books on its electronic reader Kindle from Apple Inc's popular iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Amazon's share of the electronic book reader market just got smaller with new e-readers from the Netherlands, China, Korea and also from the U.S.

Hearst Corp., one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, says its rolling out an electronic reader for its newspapers and magazines, similar to Amazon's new kindle e-book reader. The company also said it will hold back from putting all its content online for free as advertising continues to slow.

Amazon.com Inc, responding to criticism that a text-to-speech feature on its new Kindle book reader helps it sidestep royalty payments, plans to allow the audio function to be disabled.

Amazon.com Inc. today unwrap the company's upgraded reading device, this second generation version of the electronic device goes on sale next week.

Amazon.com Inc. rolled out a new, slimmer and talking version of the Kindle, its electronic reading device that will begin shipping February 24, the company's chief executive said Monday.

Amazon is widely expected to release the latest version of its Kindle electronic book reader today, and one of the highlights could be an exclusive deal for the Kindle with horror story master Stephen King.

Ahead of Amazon's CEO appearance in New York on Monday where it is widely speculated that the Kindle 2.0 will be launched, authentic looking photos of the new Kindle were leaked on the MobileRead forums Friday night.

Google announced the launch of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books in the US, and over half a million abroad, in a bid to compete against Amazon's Kindle eBook reader.

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. recorded higher than expected results during the fourth quarter, as profit grew 8.7 percent.

Amazon.com Inc, the largest Internet retailer, will expand its digital music and video with a streaming video service in the next few weeks, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said Wednesday.