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Run, Forrest, Run! Paramount deal brings hundreds of new videos to Amazon Prime Instant Video
Amazon has struck a deal with Paramount Pictures that will see hundreds of flicks being added to its Prime Instant Video subscription service.
The licensing agreement will bring movies like Forrest Gump, Mission: Impossible 3, Top Gun, The Italian Job, B...
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Amazon Appstore Now Lets You Try Out Apps Via the Cloud [Amazon]





Here's a neat little feature in the latest release of Amazon's Appstore for Android: you can now try out apps on your phone, instantly via the cloud, before you choose to buy them. More »
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DOESN’T MATTER



DOESN’T MATTER
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Study Confirms Amazon Reviews Are as Reliable as Media Critics [Amazon]





While there are some dubious reviews floating around on Amazon, the system has one thing going for it: power in numbers. In fact, a new study from Harvard suggests that Amazon reviews are, taken together, ...
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Every Single Harry Potter Book Will Be Free on Amazon Prime [Harry Potter]





Do you have an Amazon Prime account? Then you have all seven books of the Harry Potter adolescent warfare odyssey. Amazon just told us the entire series will be made free as part of its Kindle Lending Libr...
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The Best Display Under Bright Light: It's Not Your iPhone [Displays]





Brightness ratings and contrast ratio make for lovely tech spec reading when you're shopping for a new device. But neither tells you how usable a display will actually be in everyday ambient light situatio...
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How Amazon Aims to Fill Your Wardrobe [Amazon]





Amazon has dabbled in selling clothes online for a while, with limited success. Now, it's pouring money into its fashion division—and it won't be happy until it's filled your wardrobe. More &...
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Now Amazon Is Planning to Make Original TV Content [Amazon]





Rumors have been floating around for the past couple of months that Amazon was looking to produce sitcoms and children's television. Now All Things D is confirming it: Amazon is looking to pay $10,000 to o...
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Why Is Target Kicking Amazon Kindles Out of Its Stores? [Amazon]





According to an internal memo leaked to the Verge, Target will be removing Amazon hardware from its stores in May and June, citing a "conflict of interest." At first glance, the instinct might be to start ...
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This $140 Kindle Fire Is the Best Tablet Deal You'll See for a Long Time [Dealzmodo]





The Kindle Fire is a spectacular tablet—arguably the best (for the money) Android slate out there. And now you can cop one for $140 instead of $200. More »



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Exclusive: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; "Accounting Types" Joining
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According to sources close to the situation, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz (pictured here) and Accel Partners’ Kevin Efrusy will be stepping down from the board of Groupon.
Schultz’s departure wil...
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A Map of Where You Have to (Or Will Soon Have to) Pay Taxes on Amazon [Amazon]





Not paying taxes on stuff from Amazon is one of those little (slightly unpatriotic but whatever) joys that make life worth lifeing. Right now, there are just five states that tax the online retailer, but m...
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Amazon Softens Stance on Taxes
Amazon.com Inc. reached an agreement with Texas officials Friday to begin collecting sales taxes in the state starting in July and appears to be backing away from its long-held opposition to tax collection in states where it has warehouses and other facil...
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The Most Highlighted Book Passage of All Time on the Kindle Is Like So Deep Man [Books]





"Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them." Whoa. So deeeeeeeeeep. That line, from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is the most highlighted passage of all time o...
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Apple could theoretically buy Amazon, Nokia and RIM with its pile of cash
We know that’s not how it actually works, but it helps to put the size of Apple’s enormous pile of cash into some perspective.
With over $110 billion in cash, the Cupertino giant could theoretically buy three major rivals and still have chang...
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Collaborative commerce: Pinterest and Amazon are a match made in affiliate heaven
I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, not every service on the web is an acquisition target, nor does every company even want to be acquired. However, there comes a time in a product’s life where there is only a few ways it can go. This me...
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Amazon Is Overrun With a Plague of Bestseller Knockoffs [Amazon]





If you search for popular books on Amazon, it turns out you'll turn up intentionally misleading knockoffs. Publishers obviously aren't happy about about it, but some of these titles are hilarious. I Am The...
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Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’ salary remains unchanged – he made $1.68 million in 2011

According to a regulatory filing that surfaced earlier this morning, Amazon.com founder and chief executive officer Jeff Bezos again requested not to receive additional compensation in 2011 due to his “substantial ownership” in the company.
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Apple Claims It Broke "Amazon’s Monopolistic Grip" on Publishing [Blockquote]





Apple's delivered its response to antitrust charges leveled by the DoJ earlier in the week. Apparently the Feds have it all backwards, Apple is the hero here, not the villain. More »

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Put some search into your apps for $0.12 per hour with Amazon’s new CloudSearch service
Amazon.com subsidiary Amazon Web Services this morning unveiled a new product called CloudSearch, which basically lets clients integrate scalable search functionality into their websites and applications and ‘pay as they go’.
CloudSearch uses ...
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What Are the Pros and Cons of Running Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop vs Amazon Elastic MapReduce Service?
Old Quora question, but still very relevant. Top response from Jeff Hammerbacher:
Elastic MapReduce Pros:
Dynamic MapReduce cluster sizing.
Ease of use for simple jobs via their proprietary web console.
Great documentation.
Integrates nicely with other Am...
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Enso Pearl: The Only Timer Actually Worth Buying [Timer]





A smartphone makes a lot of little gadgets obsolete. However, even if you're attached at the thumbs to your iPhone, you might still find yourself coveting the Enso Pearl, the mother of all timers. More&...
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Amazon Prime Streaming Movie Service Now Available for PS3 [Amazon]





Amazon just enabled Prime streaming on PS3, bringing together the best Netflix alternative with the best Xbox alternative. If you're a Prime subscriber and want to get the all-you-can-watch service working...
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Precious Rescued Manatee



This poor blorpy baby was orphaned and rescued in the Amazon. Applause to the lovely people who saved such a sweet face!
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The Nimble Empire: In Defense of Cable [Cable]





One of the most fascinating stories of the last year has been the evolution of Amazon Prime. In exchange for a recurring fee, you get access to a huge, varied media library: movies, TV shows and books. And...
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Google Might Be Getting into the Tablet Business Later This Year [Rumors]





Normally an unmitigated disaster on the scale of the Nexus One would normally give a company pause, but not Google. The search giant is jumping back into competition with Apple and Amazon with potential pl...
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You Can Buy a Kindle Fire for $140 Today (!) [Dealzmodo]





The Kindle Fire is arguably the best Android tablet you can get—and at 200 bucks, already a killer deal. Now you can buy a (refurbished) Fire for 140. If you want an Android tablet, you should probab...
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Jeff Bezos Plans to Recover Apollo 11 Rocket Engines From Ocean Floor

Billionaire Jeff Bezos announced plans to recover from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at least one of the F-1 engines that carried the Apollo 11 rocket into space.
Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Bezos already has his hands in several extreme undertakin...
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Kindle Fire's Software Update Enables... [Kindle Fire]





Amazon's pushing out a software update that has a few nice-sounding features like Book Extras, a reading view for Amazon Silk, movie rentals, and personal document storage on Amazon's cloud servers. Mor...
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This guy figured out how to recommend anything he wants to you on Amazon
When you visit Amazon’s homepage, you’ve more than likely seen the recommended items that the company suggests you check out. It’s a really great way to get people into the mood of shopping when they might have just come to browse a bit...
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Did Harry Potter Demand Just Take Down the Amazon Kindle Store? [Amazon]





Just hours after all of the Harry Potter books were finally made available on the Kinde, the Amazon Kindle Store is experiencing some difficultires. Did fanatical Harry Potter fans rushing to download eboo...
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Amazon settles with patent troll
A subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, easily one of the world’s most annoying patent trolls, has managed to force Amazon.com into settling a pending patent lawsuit.
The subsidiary, Adjustacam LLC, originally filed suit against dozens of retai...
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More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc For the First Time In 2012 [Video]





According to researchers from IHS Screen Digest, 3.4 billion movies will be streamed online this year, more than double the 1.4 billion in 2011. And those are just the legal ones. Not only that, It is proj...
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Wordnik: Migrating From a Monolythic Platform to Micro Services
Wordnik: Migrating From a Monolythic Platform to Micro Services: The story of how Wordnik changed a monolithic platform to one based on Micro Services and the implications at the data layer (MongoDB):
To address this, we made a significant architectural s...
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Armchair Adventurers Can Now Take a Street View Tour of the Amazon [Video]





Sure, you can already explore exotic locales like Detroit, San Francisco, and the dark heart of Florida from your desk but now, in honor of World Forest's Day, you can wander around in the Amazonian rainf...
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Amazon May Have Sold Two Million 'Kindle Singles', But Why's That Impressive? [Amazon]





This morning, the internet is awash with people slapping Amazon on the back, congratulating them for selling two million Kindle Singles—e-books that are shorter than full-length books but longer than...
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Porting Your Digital Library to Ultraviolet Cloud Might Cost You Four Bucks a Title [Rumors]





If you want to copy that movie you already own to the Ultraviolet cloud at your local Walmart, you may need to pull out your wallet. Reports are circulation that this "convenience" will cost as much as fou...
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All Sprint 4G Phones Are a Penny at AmazonWireless This Month [Dealzmodo]





There are few more tender joys than when AmazonWireless opens up its dealz chest and flings free phones into our grubby, yearning mitts. Today, Sprint 4G phones are just a penny through March 26th, with no...
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The New iPad Comparison: How It Stacks Up to Other Leading Tablets [Ipad Hd]





Well, it's finally here, Apple's new hotness. But how does it compare to the new hotness from Asus, Samsung, Amazon, BlackBerry, or heck, the iPad 2? We've got you covered with this head-to-head spec sheet...
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Is Amazon Moving Into Original TV? [Amazon]





Original TV content is proving popular among the internet set right now, with Netflix, Hulu and YouTube all betting big on it. Now, it looks like Amazon might be jumping aboard the bandwagon. More ...
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Why DynamoDB Consistent Reads Cost Twice or What's Wrong With Amazon's DynamoDB Pricing?
Peter Bailis has posted an interesting article about the cost structure for Amazon DynamoDB reads— consistent reads are double the price of eventually consistent reads:
The cost of strong consistency to Amazon is low, if not zero. To you? 2x.
If you were ...
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Amazon Is the New SkyMall [Amazon]





Passengers on Delta flights with Wi-Fi will now get free access to Amazon. Say goodbye to that kitschy catalog, say hello to the better future of airborne shopping. More »



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Survey Says: Yes on iPad 3 (Not So Much on Final "Twilight")

It turns out that people responding to our poll about whether they were buying an iPad 3 — which Apple is unveiling this coming week — are overwhelmingly planning to fork over the dough for a new one.
Nearly 70 percent of those who answered s...
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Amazon Product Prices Get Marked Up Like Crazy to Give You Fake Savings [Wtf]





It's scary how much I trust Amazon. I don't even question anything—just click, buy and get 2-day shipped for everything. Underwear? Yep. Electronics? Sure. Tweezers? Why the hell not. But what if all...
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Facebook made this guy a spokesperson for personal lubricant
Facebook is planning to make a bulk of its money from advertising, that’s no secret. When you’re logged into the social network you’ll see display ads on the right-hand side of your Newsfeed that loosely fit your interests. The company...
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Amazon Pulls 5,000 eBooks From the Kindle Store [Amazon]





Almost 5,000 eBooks have been pulled from the the Kindle Store because of a change made to Independent Publishers Group's contract with the online seller. The move is a result of Amazon's demand for upfron...
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Amazon DynamoDB Is Not Production Ready
Amazon DynamoDB Is Not Production Ready: Timothy Cardenas reports on his experience with Amazon DynamoDB and the Ruby SDK:
Problems i have had include:
Write capacity hanging in create mode for over an hour
Inability to simply count my records
Inablity to...
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You Can Buy Ikea Products on Amazon [Amazon]





We don't know how long this has been going on or if it's new but we've never heard about it so HOLY CRAP you can buy Ikea products on Amazon right now! That's right, you can get Ikea's affordable furniture...
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Apple Pulled iPads from Amazon China, But Won't Face Total Ban (Yet) [Apple]





Apple's asked the Chinese Amazon store to stop selling iPads because of its not-going-so-well legal mess with Proview Technology. Proview's also trying to get all imports and exports of the iPad banned. So...
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The Kindle Touch Can Recognize Your Handwriting [Video]





If you thought the Kindle Touch was limited to page-turn taps and a pokey on-screen keyboard, it's time to re-evaluate. A start-up is now demonstrating software that lets the eReader handle handwriting re...
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