Hundreds of Amazon employees Sunday openly criticised the online retail giant’s environmental record, in violation of the company’s communications policy. More than 300 signed a Medium blog post by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), which is pushing the company to go further in its climate change mitigation plan which was announced with great publicity […]
New rules require internet retailers like Amazon to collect a 10% goods and services tax on everything bought from overseas sites from July 1
Bridge Books looks to change Johannesburg’s book dealing landscape.
Customers’ commitment, through Amazon Anonymous, to spend elsewhere now adds up to more than £2.5m.
The launch of the VIDI video-on-demand service signals a dramatic shift in the way South Africans will consume movies, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
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Even if Amazon’s drone delivery service does not succeed, the idea it embodies is too powerful to suppress, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s offer of $250-million to buy the Washington Post newspaper has been accepted by the Graham family.
Amazon is grappling with a problem that eBay has struggled with for years: the proliferation of unauthorised third-party sellers.
Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners, but inside that plastic case other things lurk.
Analysts say up to 29-million iPhones were sold in the last quarter of 2011 while others say Samsung sold 35-million smartphones in the same period.
Online retailing offers convenience and economy but few of the social advantages of a busy shop.
There’s something special about your favourite book shop. The smell of all those crisp pages, the comfy armchairs, those beautiful new covers.
YouTube is doubling the size of its online video store in an expansion that will make more movies available for internet streaming.
Online retail powerhouse Amazon on Monday introduced a cut-price version of its Kindle electronic reader that features on-screen ads.
A new Amazon.com service that lets customers store songs and play them on of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry.
Auction site eBay moved to bolster its ability to take on number one web retailer Amazon.com with a $1,96-billion takeover bid for GSI Commerce.
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/ 13 December 2010
Amazon.com’s websites in Europe suffered a failure for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware problem.
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The <em>M&G</em>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five quirky things you may have missed over the last week.
After years of lurking in the literary wilderness, the e-book market has exploded with Amazon’s digital volumes recently overtaking hardcover sales.
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The Nicolas Sarkozy "voodoo manual" hit the top of internet retailer Amazon’s bestseller list in France on Friday, despite his attempts to ban it.
Sony is trying a new tack in the e-books market: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.
Microsoft has posted a major package of updates and security fixes for Windows Vista. It said that "Service Pack 1" will improve Vista’s reliability, security and performance, though many components already have been released during monthly updates since the operating system went on sale just more than a year ago.