Book lovers’ social net Shelfari has raised a $1 million first round from Amazon.com and others, according to John Cook’s Venture Blog. The company is headed by Josh Hug, the…

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We have mentioned this funding before, but the amount came out today through SEC filings, picked up by PEHub: Amazon was the sole investor in Wikia’s second round, and the…

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Someone’s finally realizing it makes more business sense for that broadband pipe to get the downloaded movies onto TV...it is that simple, it is that complex. The early proof? That…

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Through a new service called OpenServing, Wikia will provide free bandwidth, computing power, storage and software for collaborative content—and those who have a Google ad code will get 100 percent…

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Amazon is the sole investor in Wikia’s second round; amount undisclosed. It’s a shift from the crowd that invested in the$4 million first round earlier this year from a group…

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If you can print it they will buy or so goes the logic here ... A new deal between printer giant Hewlett-Packard and Amazon marks the latest attempt to make…

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Microsoft, one of the founders of the It’s Our Net coalition, pulled its name from the group’s site after deciding not to weigh-in on AT&T’s pending $82 billion acquisition of…

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Amazon.com may have won new friends on Wall Street after posting a better-than-expected third quarter. The company expects to have record holiday sales. Net income was $19 million, or 5…

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Amazon has expanded the TV shows available via its Unbox service thanks to a distribution deal time with Showtime. Episodes of Weeds, The L Word, Sleeper Cell, Penn and Teller:…

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Those trying to get that A9 Instant Reward link on Amazon working don’t have to worry about it anymore. That feature of the search engine is gone, as are the…

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On the day that his company is releasing a patch to its Unbox movie-download service, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is in Cambridge talking not about his company’s ambitious…

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We’ve covered at length the varying experiences our writers and readers have had with the Amazon Unbox video download store. Apparently some of the reports have made it to Amazon,…

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A fascinating interview about movie making and Harvey Weinstein’s career with precious little having anything to do with interactive media. The one exception came when interviewer Charlie Rose asked about…

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Amazon and Tivo are in discussions about creating a new feature that would automatically copy films downloaded online through Amazon’s Unbox service onto Tivo sets. The New York Post reports…

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Music and books retail group HMV is abandoning its sleeping-with-the-enemy tactic of selling books via Amazon, relaunching its own retail site at waterstones.com. Outgoing CEO Alan Giles told The Independent…

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A few days after the debut of flawed Amazon Unbox Video comes word of what looks like e-book reader pland. The 4.9"x7.5"X0.7" device described by Engadget from FCC filings is…

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Jason Asaeda, Standard & Poor’s (via BW): “We see the breadth of available content and Amazon’s large customer base as positives. But we think Amazon Unbox’s non-compatibility with Apple hardware,…

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During my first look at new Amazon Unbox Video, I experienced slow downloads—90 minutes-plus for 1G at low transfer speeds well below 400KB/s. After some discussion about KB/s, Mbps and…

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Staci has listed her first experience and some oddities of Amazon.com’s movie and TV download service below. I’ll list some oddities and idiocies I noticed, though I haven’t yet downloaded…

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It took seconds to make my first Amazon Unbox Video purchase with Amazon One-Click and 90 minutes to download the 45-minute, 1.03G season finale of “NUMB3Rs” from CBS. Luckily, the…

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As expected this week, Amazon.com has launched its much-anticipated download service, called Unbox Video. This is only for U.S. Some topline details: -- TV shows will cost $1.99 per episode,…

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It was supposed to launch last month, but didn’t. Now Variety reports it could come this week, which means within the next day or two. Apple’s iTunes movie downloads is…

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Updated: Business2blog has the provisional terms of service of the video service, here. Some good info in it, and doesn’t sound very different from what CinemaNow offers now, in terms…

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Amazon.com is making its ambitions clear, and in its first feature-film venture, it has optioned screen rights to Keith Donohue‘s bestselling novel ”The Stolen Child.” Amazon will move to secure…

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Work in progress. Ah, the art of writing earnings releases. It takes Amazon (AMZN) five paragraphs to get to the 55 percent drop in operating income for 2Q06, to $47…

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