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YouTube to allow music partners to sell merchandise and tickets via site

October 17, 2011 10:56 am by Phill Tutt

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YouTube has launched Merch Store, a feature where YouTube’s music partners will be able to sell artist merchandise, digital downloads, concert tickets and other experiences to fans and visitors, TechCrunch reports. The online video sharing site has also announced partnerships with a number of companies to launch the service: Topspin is being used to help in sales of merchandise, while Songkick will be involved in concert tickets and iTunes and Amazon will look after transactions for music downloads. Read more

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Amazon E-readers to outsell Fire

October 10, 2011 12:15 pm by Phill Tutt

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Research by Barclays has found that the Amazon’s Kindle E-readers will outsell the full-colour Kindle Fire in 2012, PaidContent reports. Barclays estimates that Amazon will sell 15.3m Kindle Fire tablets and 23.5m Kindle e-readers next year. Read more

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Story of the Week: Kindle fires up

October 1, 2011 5:11 am by Maryam Nabi

amazon kindle fireAmazon entered the tablet battle this week, unveiling the Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet that will run on Google’s Android operating system.

While news of Amazon’s tablet was long-rumoured, the unexpected price point caused quite a stir with some commentators. Others saw the Fire as a game changing device for media consumption. Read more

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Richard Waters Amazon Fire catches the eye of Microsoft’s lawyers

September 28, 2011 9:22 pm by Richard Waters

Could there be a lawsuit over the Fire in Amazon’s future?

This was what Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, had to say when I caught up with him shortly after the launch of the device on Wednesday: “We have yet to see an Android device in the market that does not infringe on our patents.” Read more

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Amazon said to be in talks on an e-lending library

September 12, 2011 11:04 am by Phill Tutt

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Amazon is in discussions with book publishers about a Netflix-style service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon would offer book publishers a fee for participating in the service, sources told the WSJ. Read more

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Amazon said to trial pick-up ‘locker’ with 7-Eleven

September 6, 2011 9:19 am by Phill Tutt

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Amazon.com is testing an in-store pick-up service in a partnership with 7-Eleven, according to Geekwire. A delivery locker, currently being tested in Seattle, would allow customers to pick up their packages at the stores.

Chicago-based National Louis University will offer a Groupon for nearly 60% off tuition for its entry-level graduate teaching course, Mashable says. The deal, set to go live on Tuesday and will be open to up to 25 buyers, will discount the cost of the course from $2,232 to $950. Read more

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Apple faces South Korea privacy suit

August 17, 2011 12:14 pm by Phill Tutt

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A group of some 27,000 South Koreans is suing Apple for $26m for what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information, AP reports in The Washington Post. Each person in the suit is seeking  Won1m ($932) in damages  from Apple and its South Korean unit to “protect privacy” rights. Read more

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Richard Waters Retail giants Amazon and Walmart back Web apps

August 11, 2011 1:08 am by Richard Waters

If Apple was hoping to earn a slice of all the transactions that take place on its devices, it had better think again. Wednesday’s launch of browser-based apps for Amazon’s Kindle and Walmart’s Vudu services are the biggest shots yet across the bow of Apple’s App Store. Read more

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Chris Nuttall Nebula attracts star investor cloud

July 27, 2011 5:51 pm by Chris Nuttall

The last space shuttle has flown and instead of reaching for the stars, some former Nasa employees are reaching for the clouds instead with new startups. The latest, Nebula, emerged from stealth mode this morning, led by Chris Kemp, Nasa’s chief technology officer until last March, and funded by an impressive list of investors – Google’s original backers and VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. Read more

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Amazon plans October launch for tablet

July 14, 2011 10:26 am by Phill Tutt

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Amazon plans to release its own tablet computer by October, according to the Wall Street Journal. The online retailer hopes customers will use the tablet to rent and buy the company’s content, the WSJ believes.  Read more

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