Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. said it sold more than one million Kindle devices per week during the month of December, implying that it might have sold more than 4 million Kindles during December.
Amazon's Kindle products had their best holiday season ever, according to a statement released by the company on Thursday. More than a million Kindles flew off the shelves each week during the month December.
The Conan O'Brien show decided to have some fun at the expense of the Kindle Fire. On the show, an actor portrays Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. He is on hand to show viewers how to fix issues with the Kindle Fire tablet. Bezos, or rather the actor playing Bezos, is sitting in a living room decorated by framed money.
Late night host Conan O'Brien lampooned the complaints surrounding Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet via a video message from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book.
Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's head of space operations said on Thursday.
Amazon, the No. 1 e-retailer, reported shipping more than three million Kindle Fire tablet devices, its $199 media tablet priced to compete with Apple’s iPad 2.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos, donated $15 million to Princeton University for a biosciences unit within the Princeton Neuroscience
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As more and more users begin to find that Amazon’s tablet-like e-book reader Kindle Fire is actually not a tablet computer at all, Amazon said on Monday that it will roll out a software update to improve performance.
A private company will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. program to buy spaceflight services on a commercial basis, NASA said on Friday.
A top tech analyst is predicting that Amazon is likely to release its own smartphone for under $200 next year. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney said in a research note that Amazon may sell the smartphone for as little as $170. Citing supply-chain channel checks in Asia, he said Amazon may release its first-ever smartphone by the fourth quarter of 2012.
Amazon.com Inc almost breaks even on every Kindle Fire tablet it makes and sells, IHS iSuppli estimated on Friday, underscoring the aggressiveness with which it tried to rein in the cost of a device that spearheads its foray into the tablet market.
Amazon.com Inc almost breaks even on every Kindle Fire tablet it makes and sells, IHS iSuppli estimated on Friday, underscoring the aggressiveness with which it tried to rein in the cost of a device that spearheads its foray into the tablet market.
Engineers at IHSiSuppi originally tore down a Kindle Fire and estimated the total cost to build it was $209.63. Now they’ve lowered the cost about 4 percent, to $201.70.
Amazon kept its purchase of voice recognition start-up Yap under heavy wraps. Here's why.
Mark Zuckerberg has been deemed less powerful than Bill Gates by Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People.
New Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman may try to sell the Palm WebOS mobile platform designed into the ill-fated TouchPad tablet.
Mark Zuckerberg says he would have rather stayed in Boston than moved to Silicon Valley. Where else should he have gone?
Amazon is reported to be building millions more Kindle Fire tablets because of the huge demand.
Shares of Amazon.com, the world’s biggest e-retailer, plunged 12 percent in the first hour of trading, wiping out $9 billion in value, after the company reported disappointing third-quarter results.
Google registered a revenue growth by a third to $9.7 billion in the past quarter, as net profits grew more than a quarter to $2.7 billion. The figures were announced at a time when technology industry analysts were more or less predicting that Google Plus was doomed to fail.
Senior Google Engineer, blogger and public speaker Steve Yegge accidentally posted a candid critique of the Google Plus platform, which he originally intended to share internally among his peers in Google. But being an inexperienced Google Plus user, he allowed his post to be visible publicly, before he decided to take it down.
