If you are not into selling your old gadgets simply because you don’t get a respectable price for it. I have major issues with ridding myself of these and I keep running out of space to keep these. Trade-in sites flourish all across the Web, but to have a reputable name doing this just makes things more trust worthy. Earlier, Amazon announced its trade-in program for electronic devices as well. Which includes the iOS devices. Read More »
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We are all waiting hands down for Google to announce the launch of its Online Music service at the Google I/O. The online music service has been in jeopardy, much like that of the Amazon that has also failed to secure licenses from major music labels and music companies. What Google plans to release is called a Passive locker, which means that such services don’t require licenses from record companies with the only drawback being that they have limited features.
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Something worthy to talk about for a change at Digg. First things first, I hate the new Digg, it’s crappy, in no man’s land and I have no idea what Kevin Rose was thinking when he updated it. Anyways Digg has got itself a new CEO, a position that had been held by Kevin Rose after Jay Adelson relinquished the position back in April. The position will now be taken by former Amazon Exec, Matt Williams.
Digg had been on the lookout for almost a month and I bet the title of CEO had added more pressure on the Young Kevin Rose, who in my personal opinion is not really up to the task. Rose will head back to his previous position as Chief Architect at Digg, a position he rightly deserves and is more suitable for him.
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The future of books lies in ebook readers one reason why so many players are stepping in the arena of rolling out devices to read and publish books to. Amazon started it off with its Kindle, Apple has taken it to the next level with the iPad and the battle continues. It will now be for more compact, yet powerful devices and Kindle has already got itself a sleeker, faster and a much better version of the ebook reader.
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The Kindle e-reader might be feeling threatened by the iPad, but lets not take the credit away from Jeff Bezos from bringing forth these handy devices to read content. The concept of Buy Once and read everywhere has made life easy and it’s not just confined to one device alone. You have the Kindle app for the iPhone, the iPad itself, Android, BlackBerry, PCs and Macs. However there has been a vacuum when it came to the Web. That might just get resolved as Amazon is set to release the Kindle Previewer for HTML5.
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Hey we all need to be social! And so do devices, rather devices need to have more social features/applications if they are to be any useful for the consumer. Am I wrong? Just tell me if iPhone or the HTC Hero had no social app or support for networks like Twitter, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc would you still love these devices? Just a thought and there is nothing of the sort shaping up.
Today Amazon, got a step further with its eBook reader, the Kindle by adding more social features. Users will now be be able to make full use of the social media services with a free update. This would enable you to update your status on Facebook and even Twitter right from the device. I welcome the move big time, though I feel the Kindle would soon be eaten up by the iPad.
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After almost four months in talks, Amazon has finally pulled the shutters on the Zappos deal as it acquired the online retailer for shoes for $1.2 Billion. That’s almost $400 Million more than what had been anticipated. I guess Zappos will be more than happy with that, rather would have waited a bit longer if it could have fetched an even higher price. The management team at Zappos will remain as it is and will continue operations in its head quarters in Las Vegas, NV.
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Local Express Delivery Option is the new feature Amazon has rolled out to a few cities. The purpose? To impress the consumers out there by giving them option for same day delivery option for certain items available. The only thing you need to make sure of is they need to place the order between 10AM to 1PM. The service is presently available only in a few select cities namely, Washington D.C, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Seattle, New York, Boston and Boston with extension planned to other cities as well.
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Some of us just won’t get the swarm of texts in order to be informed and if the need arises, one does so reluctantly, believing that a picture says a thousand words. Apparently someone on the Web though of it and decided to put all of Amazon’s investments as a visualization. This comes right after Amazon’s purchase of Zappos for more than $900 Million. Appears pretty neat, more like a circuit diagram. To be honest I find it better to read a post and write about it instead of trying to follow the diagram. For a bigger image you can visit the page here.
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Online shoe retailer, Zappos will be having dreams given that Amazon is set to acquire it for a total of $847 Million, divided; $40 Million in cash and $807 Million in stock. Zappos will keep its brand and HQ in L.A and the management team upon the closing of the deal. Zappos had been quite successful on its own, so much that it got attention from Amazon then why go for this? Perhaps Zappos knows the fragility of the sales in the current financial atmosphere and going to Amazon might just give it a wall to rest against in case sales take a plunge. Whatever the reason be, it’s definitely one more short in competing Amazon. Zappos on the other hand will be able to take full advantage of Amazon’s global dominance and will give it the right structure to expand further.
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