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Amazon: No Plans to Launch a Standalone Video Service Soon

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:08:30 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Ryan Lawler
Amazon has aggressively grown its Prime Instant Videos service over the past year, more than tripling the amount of content available to subscribers since launch. And as Amazon continues to add more content to Prime Instant Video, there have been speculations that it could introduce a service not tied to its Amazon Prime offering. But that's probably not in the cards -- at least not in the near term -- according to the company.

With Viacom Deal, Amazon Looks Like a Real Competitor to Netflix

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:29:31 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Ryan Lawler
Amazon continues to ramp up the amount of video content it offers for free to its Amazon Prime subscribers. It announced a deal with Viacom that will bring the number of titles available as part of its Prime Instant Videos service to more that 15,000, or three times the amount of content it launched the service with.

Amazon and Viacom Close to Web Video Deal

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:12:16 -0500

Full article: Reuters
Yinka Adegoke
Amazon.com is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix.

Amazon Looking into Taking on Netflix

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:23:24 -0500

Full article: New York Post
Claire Atkinson
Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon are weighing a move to beef up the Web retailer's video-streaming service -- possibly carving it out as a standalone, subscription-based operation.

Amazon, Indiana Strike State Sales Tax Deal

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:51:12 -0500

Full article: Reuters
Alistair Barr
Amazon and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels unveiled an agreement that may mean that the world's largest Internet retailer starts collecting sales tax in the state in 2014.

Amazon: We're Selling over One Million Kindles per Week

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:00:22 -0500

Full article: CNet
Brooke Crothers
Amazon announced that Kindle devices, and the Kindle Fire in particular, continue to fly out of the warehouse in dizzying numbers.

Privacy Lawsuit Against Amazon Dismissed

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:46:18 -0500

Full article: MediaPost
Wendy Davis
A judge in Seattle has dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit against Amazon alleging that the company circumvented the privacy settings of Internet Explorer users.

Amazon Plans iPhone Rival

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:33:41 -0500

Full article: USA Today
Scott Martin
Amazon may be piling its chips on the table in a bet on smartphones. According to a recent report, a smartphone from Amazon "may be coming next holiday season."

Amazon's Kindle Lending Library Is Contract Breach

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:24:03 -0500

Full article: The Guardian
Alison Flood
American authors are up in arms about Amazon's new Kindle lending library, accusing the online retailer of "boldly breaching its contracts" with publishers as it exercises its "brute economic power."

Amazon Backs Bipartisan Federal Sales-Tax Bill; eBay Hates It

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:57:05 -0500

Full article: TechFlash
Greg Lamm
Amazon is throwing its weight behind a bipartisan tax bill introduced in Congress to create a federal online sales tax. However, eBay does not like the proposed law, saying it hurts small businesses at the expense of large online retailers like Amazon.