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- Amazon seeks £2,000 for rare The Voice star album
A one-off CD copy of the only album recorded so far by a contestant in BBC talent show The Voice is being offered on Amazon UK for £2,000. - Amazon promotes British music with exclusive live release
You might not know this, but this week is 'Music is GREAT' week, during which many famous British artists will be paying tribute to the contribution music makes to our lives. - Amazon and eBay ordered to comply with tax probes
Amazon and eBay have both been told they must hand over details of thousands of their members to the UK's tax authorities as they continue to clamp down on revenue from online trading. - Harry Potter ebooks to be issued solely for Kindle
Tech-savvy Harry Potter fans will be able to buy all seven Harry Potter books for their Kindles from next month. - Amazon has designs on new clothing display system
Clothes shops beware - Amazon is getting serious about taking a slice of your pie. - Amazon Kindle Fire sales dampened
Some British customers frustrated at being denied the opportunity to get their hands on the Kindle Fire may see this as poetic justice, but figures suggest that sales of the most popular Android- powered tablet on the market have bombed since its festive season highs. - New Call of Duty title gets triple pre-orders of predecessor
Amazon has taken its highest ever number of pre-orders for any computer game for the latest episode in the Call of Duty series – even though its official release date is still six months away. - Hopes high Amazon will pick extended Stobart site
British road and rail haulier Eddie Stobart is hoping to persuade online retail giant Amazon to establish a new distribution hub to serve the north-west of the UK, after it won planning permission to extend its existing logistics park in Widnes, Cheshire. - Is Amazon planning to start a smartphone Fire?
A report in an authoritative online tech news journal has today revived rumours that Amazon could be about to launch its own smartphone. - Nine out of 10 Amazon bestsellers now digital products
Global online retailing giant Amazon has reported that nine of the products in its current best-seller list are digital. - Nine in 10 UK shoppers have an Amazon habit
An incredible 90 per cent of the UK's online shoppers buy goods from Amazon in a typical month. - Amazon offers limited trade-in deals
Amazon buyers who have books, CDs, DVDs or games which they bought from the online marketplace, but no longer use, can, for the next couple of days, get special deals for trading them in. - Amazon acquires rights to James Bond novels
Amazon has recruited James Bond to kick-start its venture into physical book publishing. - Publisher strikes kids' books from Amazon
A leading publisher of children's and educational books in America has withdrawn its titles from sale on Amazon. - Tesco 'online shopping mall' to challenge Amazon
Tesco is set to announce the launch of an 'online shopping mall' later this week, as part of efforts to turn around its fortunes. - Pinterest buttons added to Amazon and eBay pages
Social photo-sharing app Pinterest has been seized on by Amazon and eBay as a way for them to generate interest in the images of products posted on their sites. - Apple and publishers face e-book price cartel claim
Amazon was prevented from competing effectively in the market for e-books because of secret collusion between Apple and five of America's biggest book publishers. - Amazon lowers borders between its European markets
All European sellers using Amazon can now offer their goods on each of the online marketplace's five largest sites covering the continent. - Amazon tests apps to let tablet users make purchases
Amazon is testing a service that lets tablet users make purchases through mobile apps, according to reports. - E-books price-fixing settlement may be close
A breakthrough could be imminent in talks between the American Justice Department, Apple, and several major publishers, who have been accused of colluding to fix prices of e-books. - Amazon buys warehouse technology business
Online retail giant Amazon is aiming to speed up its dispatch processes, and is to acquire a company which specialises in automated warehouse picking systems. - Channel Islands tax hearing to start tomorrow
A judicial review into government plans to bring an end to a rule which allows certain goods to be imported into the UK from Guernsey and Jersey tax-free is set to start tomorrow. - Amazon gets best online retailer gong
Online retailer Amazon has been voted the best online retailer of 2012 by readers of PC Advisor. - eBay and Google help fill empty offices
Developers in London are increasingly turning to online businesses such as Google and eBay in an attempt to fill empty premises. - Amazon and eBay move towards US brands big league
Amazon and eBay are becoming names that we tend to drop into our conversations without thinking. - Tough Amazon response time targets anger sellers
Many traders using Amazon have voiced anger over new requirements for their seller ratings which are forcing them to work seven days a week. - Backers plough another £1m into online sales platform
Multi-channel online selling platform eSellerPro has secured another £1million of funding from its original backers. - Amazon still keeps UK guessing over Kindle Fire release
After an initially promised January launch promised by Amazon for its Kindle Fire e-reader failed to materialise, speculation is growing that it won't see the light of day in the UK until the new nine-inch screen version is ready for release. - E-stores set to do battle over new PlayStation
With just eight days to go until the new PlayStation games console is launched, Amazon has announced a deal aiming to undercut its rivals. - Whitney items quickly surface on Amazon and eBay
The death of singer Whitney Houston has brought about a huge rise in interest in her work on online sales and auction sites. - British consumers tell Amazon: 'give us Fire'
It's proving a runaway success in the United States, with estimates suggesting that between four and six million have been sold. - Amazon signs video streaming deal with Viacom
Dora The Explorer and SpongeBob Square Pants are coming to the screens of Amazon Prime subscribers for free, as part of a new streaming deal with TV production giant Viacom. - Amazon stays silent on store opening rumours
Rumours are spreading quickly across America that Amazon is about to open its first bricks-and-mortar store. - Amazon now top UK seller of music, games and video
Today has seen Amazon depose HMV to become the UK's biggest seller of music, video and games for the first time. - Amazon hopes to cash in on Olympic fever
Online retailer Amazon has outlined its strategy to capitalise on Olympics fever in the UK. - US bookseller refuses to stock Kindle books
Sales of e-books for Amazon's Kindle reader increased five-fold in the last quarter of 2011. - Amazon move into sporting goods rumoured
Amazon could be planning to add a sports goods store to its list of outlets, according to reports coming out of America. - Cost of new ventures expected to drag down Amazon results
Digging deep into its pockets to launch new products and services, and buying out smaller companies in doing so, is testing the patience of investors in Amazon.com. - Amazon among top beneficiaries of festive 'brand talk'
Online shopping website Amazon was among the biggest beneficiaries as people shared stories about their buying experiences in the run-up to Christmas. - Survey: Fifth of Christmas Kindles remain 'unused'
A new survey has claimed that more than one-fifth of people who received an Amazon Kindle for Christmas have yet to use the device. - Amazon tops US customer service study
Amazon has come top of a customer service poll of nearly 9,500 shoppers. - Record online sales growth to continue say analysts
An average of £155 was spent online by everyone in the UK in December, according to a survey by a group representing the biggest online traders. - Amazon on track to become UK's favourite brand
Bearing down on Google, Amazon.co.uk is close to becoming the UK's most positively-viewed brand, according to an annual survey by YouGov. - Amazon's LoveFilm signs Disney distribution deal
Amazon-owned film streaming company LoveFilm has partnered with the UK arm of the Disney corporation. - Amazon and eBay rank highly in m-shopping survey
Amazon's mobile apps were among the favourites with American consumers for buying goods over Christmas, notching an impressive 84 out of 100 satisfaction score in a survey. - Half of people now look online first to save cash
Online auction sites such as eBay are one of the main ways in which Britons are saving money, according to a new survey. - Kindles way out in front in Christmas gift stakes
Kindle e-readers were received as Christmas presents by an estimated one in 40 Britons, a new poll suggests. - Amazon confirms Kindle Fire as best seller
Online retailer Amazon has said that sales of its new tablet device, which was released in the US in November, have helped ensure the "best holiday ever" for Kindle products. - Amazon tops customer satisfaction poll
Online retail giant Amazon has finished top of a survey designed to gauge the level of customer service provided by some of the world's biggest firms. - Virtual books listed among Amazon 2011 best sellers
A couple of books which have never been made available in print form are among Amazon's 10 best-selling titles for 2011. - Price-cutting puts squeeze on Amazon
Amazon's aggressive sales drive might well have made lots of customers happy as they have been looking to save money in the Christmas run-up – but it has not been good news for the company's shareholders. - Amazon secures geo-location patent
After a four-year application process, Amazon has been granted an American patent for a system which can offer mobile device users offers based on their current location. - Amazon launches 'January sales at Christmas'
We've become well used by now to shops launching their so-called 'January sales' well ahead of the turn of the year. - Amazon predicts forces single to be festive No 1
A single track has achieved the highest-ever pre-sale orders of any music track on Amazon. - Amazon price check app ruffles stores' feathers
Amazon will tomorrow introduce a new tablet and smartphone app which lets shoppers get a discount on goods bought through the online retailer if they find them on sale more cheaply elsewhere. - Amazon makes Lovefilm available on Xbox
Europe’s most popular video subscription service, Lovefilm, is now available to Xbox users. - Google aims to take slice of Amazon's Prime success story
Arch tech rivals Amazon and Google are looking set for their biggest battle yet, as the latter prepares to move into online selling. - Harry Potter DVDs set Amazon sales record
They passed all sorts of milestones in print form, and the DVD versions of the Harry Potter books have now done the same. - Gadgets and gizmos top 2011 Christmas wish-lists
Smartphones and tablet computers look set to be the most sought-after gifts of Christmas 2011, if the early signs from Black Friday sales in America are to be believed. - Monday madness set to grip US online shoppers
After the frenzy of the American Thanksgiving holiday, and the ensuing 'Black Friday' which saw the country's retail sector kick off what it hopes will be its bumper Christmas sales, today is 'Cyber Monday'. - Shoppers rush to bag online PS3 Black Friday deal
Consumers on the lookout for a bargain were quick to pounce following reports of a Playstation 3 bundle priced at just $199. - Apple rises to challenge Amazon as UK's top e-shop
The Christmas gadget wars look like being a straight fight between Amazon and Apple. - Rumours suggest Amazon working on smartphone
With the frenzy surrounding Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet computer still going strong, speculation has now emerged that the company is planning to enter the cut-throat smartphone market. - Online sales to grow 14 per cent in final festive run-up
British shoppers will spend £7.75billion on online purchases between the end of November and Christmas Eve. - Kobo sale signals stiffer competition for Kindle
Competition with the Amazon Kindle for success in the e-reader market is set to become more intense, with the news that Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten has bought Kobo, which makes e-readers and apps to enable users of other mobile devices to adapt their phones as text readers. - Regulators OK Amazon takeover of UK online bookstore
Amazon's purchase of The Book Depository, a fellow online bookstore, has been given the green light by competition watchdogs in the UK and Australia. - Amazon says December 5 to be its busiest day
The giants of online shopping, eBay and Amazon, have both forecast when they expect to hit their peak volume of pre-Christmas traffic. - US braces itself as Amazon gets Black Friday fever
Amazon has announced that it will be marking so-called 'black Friday' again this year, as part of its push to persuade more people to do their Christmas gift shopping on the site. - Amazon launches festive gift store
Amazon has today officially launched its Christmas store in the UK, with the promise that it can help stressed shoppers "find great gifts for everyone". - Amazon plans to reinforce UK distribution network
By this time next year, Amazon will have taken its total number of UK-based distribution centres to eight. - Christmas online sales to surge at shops' expense
The UK's love affair with online shopping will result in sales climbing by more than 16 per cent over the levels seen last Christmas. - Official Harry Potter DVD sales to stop by year-end
The seeds have been sown for Harry Potter fans to send their favourite boy wizard to the top of the DVD best-seller charts this Christmas, with production company Warner Brothers announcing that all eight films will be withdrawn from sale by the end of the year. - Online book sales start to rise for Christmas
With publishers' Christmas schedules now in full swing, online retailers are gearing up to send plenty of business the way of their partners in the parcel delivery sector. - Amazon shoppers can now search for toys by age
Amazon is trying to help shoppers find suitable toys and other gifts for children more easily ahead of the busy Christmas shopping period. - Web makes men happier to shop, survey says
Men are happy to do the shopping, as long as they have a clear objective in mind when they embark on a trip, a new survey suggests. - More inducements offered to Amazon Prime customers
Subscribers to Amazon's Prime privileged buyers' network will have access to a wealth of new online video content, thanks to the online seller signing a new deal with American public television network PBS. - eBay won't follow Amazon into tablet market
Online retailer and auction site eBay has said it doesn't plan to follow rival firm Amazon into the tablet computer market. - Britons spending longer hunting online bargains
Britain is becoming a nation of online bargain-hunters, if new figures charting the continued spectacular growth in retail search volumes are anything to go by. - Quarter of e-traders need the cash to make ends meet
Almost a quarter of people engaged in trading online say the funds it generates are essential to help them pay their bills. - Retailers told to get wise to mobile shoppers' needs
Retailers who are serious about attracting customers browsing for goods on mobile devices must do more to make their websites more user-friendly for these platforms. - Kindle Fire sets internet blogs alight
The technology world is buzzing with rumours surrounding a meeting tomorrow, during which online retailer Amazon is expected to unveil a new tablet computer. - Amazon chief tops latest publishing power list
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's climb to the top of a list of the most powerful people in publishing reflects the huge changes wrought in the business by digital technology. - eBay wants to build trust with new payment system
Online retail site eBay has confirmed that it is trialling a new payment system with newly registered users in Germany and Austria. - Amazon to recruit 1,000 new employees
Online sales giant Amazon has announced it is to recruit almost 1,000 permanent and temporary employees in the UK. - Amazon bows to US government over sales tax
Book-buyers using Amazon.com will have to pay their state's sales tax on top of their purchases from late 2012. - Amazon gears up to open new UK distribution hub
The first jobs at a new distribution centre for Amazon.co.uk have just been advertised. - Amazon lining up quick launch for collection lockers
Amazon is gearing up to offer a new self-collect service for its customers, using lockers at shopping centres. - Huntingdon residents are UK's biggest readers
Former British Prime Minister John Major's old political constituency of Huntingdon is the most well-read town in the UK, according to statistics from online bookseller Amazon. - Alibaba publishes guide to trading online
Chinese online selling giant Alibaba.com, which is used by millions of people across the Far East to buy and sell goods online, has just published a new guide to running an online sales business. - Amazon to overhaul site to make it more buyer-friendly
Online retail giant Amazon.com is finalising a major revamp of its website, focused on making the site easier to use by people with tablet computers and smartphones. - OFT delays Amazon takeover decision
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said it will again delay announcing its verdict on Amazon's takeover of Gloucester-based online bookseller The Book Depository. - One in five web users visit Amazon over a month, figures show
Amazon websites are the most popular retail and auction sites in the world, attracting more than one in five visits to all online shopping websites in June, according to new figures. - Amazon unveils student app
Online retailer Amazon has developed a new app aimed specifically at students. - Deluge of interest in new Harry Potter website
Within hours of going online for its testing phase, the new, official Harry Potter website, sanctioned by author J K Rowling, was falling prey to online scammers. - Apple and publishers face e-books price-fixing claim
Computer giant Apple is being sued by Amazon over allegations that it fixed the prices of e-books available for its iPad tablet computer. - Amazon tipped to sell new tablet at a loss
The highly-anticipated first fully-fledged tablet computer from Amazon is looking set for a pre-Christmas launch, as the company aims to replicate the success of its Kindle e-reader. - Online sellers asked for views on Amazon and eBay
An Amazon gift certificate for £50 will be awarded to one lucky participant in a new survey about the online shopping channel. - eBay search results have highest visibility in Google
Anyone using Google in the UK to search for items to buy is most likely to find a page from eBay.co.uk at the top of the results. - Amazon halts German developers' app work
Online retailer Amazon has stopped accepting submissions for its app store from German developers, following a legal challenge by Apple. - Amazon picks up Pushbutton
Amazon has announced that it has acquired UK-based independent digital agency Pushbutton. - Amazon to spend extra income on broadening services
Cash earned from the success of its Kindle e-reader will be ploughed back into Amazon so it can expand into other web-associated activities and support services, the company has said. - Big names in e-commerce to address UK conference
One of the biggest get-togethers of online retailers in the UK, due to take place in October, is heading towards being a sell-out. - Amazon to take the weight off students
Online marketplace Amazon.com has announced the launch of its textbook rental service, designed to allow students to replace their heavy school books with a single tablet computer or e-reader. - Business students seek experiences from e-tailers
Experiences of people who have started an online business are being sought by business students at the University of Amsterdam. - Amazon lets sellers target individual European countries
On the same day as eBay said it would let sellers choose specific country sites on which their products would appear, Amazon has simplified its process for listing items on multiple sites covering major European countries. - Amazon announces 900 new jobs
Online retailer Amazon has said it plans to create 900 new jobs by opening another order fulfilment centre in Britain later this year. - Brits leading the way on mobile purchases
More than 90 per cent of Britons have used their mobile phone to either carry out research before buying goods, or bought products through their handset, a new survey claims. - Amazon offshoot launches new online pet store
Pet owners will soon be able to spoil their furry, feathered or finned friends simply by logging on to their computers, thanks to a new venture by a subsidiary of Amazon. - Amazon plan to buy rival faces competition probe
Competition authorities in the UK are expected to launch an investigation after Amazon announced that it wanted to buy The Book Depository, a smaller-scale British-based rival. - Apple unlikely to win 'Appstore' case against Amazon, judge says
A legal battle between Apple and Amazon is likely to go in the latter's favour, an American judge has said. - Amazon helps self-published writer reach million sales mark
A 60-year-old businessman from Louisville, Kentucky, who has become one of the biggest sensations so far in the e-books market, has passed the milestone of one million books sold. - eBay says federal sales tax would hurt small firms
The debate over whether online retail firms should pay sales tax is coming to a head in a number of US states, the Financial Times reports. - Amazon to create 900 jobs in Scotland
Online retailer Amazon has announced that it is to create 900 new customer support positions in the UK. - Sellers given way to keep up with the best prices
Amazon Marketplace retailers worried that they are losing sales to competitors offering the same goods more cheaply can now take advantage of a tool which is designed to automatically reprice their goods so that they can compete to have Amazon’s ‘Buy Box’ added to their sales pages. - Amazon counts cost of internet battle of giants
Taking the fight to fellow internet giants Google and Apple is proving expensive for online retailer Amazon, whose profits dipped sharply in the first quarter of 2011. - $23.7m genetics book fails to attract Amazon buyer
A science book priced at $23.7million on Amazon attracted interest from around the world, but it seems no one was prepared to make the investment. - Amazon named America’s most reputable business
Amazon has been voted America’s most reputable company by business leaders in a prestigious annual poll. - Now hear this – audio books launched for Kindle
Anyone who has struggled getting to grips with the display on their e-reader will be pleased to learn that Amazon has come up with a solution. - Amazon tops global brand league table
Online retailer Amazon is perceived as the world’s strongest brand in terms of value, according to new research. - Amazon sets up link for Japan tsunami aid donations
The International Red Cross has backed down from its initial stance of not accepting donations from the UK to help towards the relief effort following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. - Book lovers flock to Amazon, says survey
Amazon is the number one place on the internet to buy books, according to a new survey. - Amazon to sell and check Android apps
Online retailer Amazon has said it will be selling and testing applications for Android users. - 'Imminent threat' to Amazon affiliates
Online retailer Amazon has said it will sever links with affiliate marketers in California if a new sales tax is made law. - American Amazon Prime members get reel benefits
Unlimited video streaming of a range of 5,000 films and top-rated TV shows is being offered to encourage Amazon customers to sign up for its premium Prime service package. - Amazon prepares to launch latest mobile app
Online retailer Amazon has announced its official application for mobile handsets running Windows Phone 7. - Amazon sellers need to consider data issues
Businesses that sell goods through online venues such as Amazon Marketplace should think about the amount of data that they’re releasing, according to one marketing firm. - Amazon announces release of Android app
Online retail giant Amazon has announced the release of a shopping application for Android mobile phone users in the UK. - Amazon lines up US-wide grocery delivery service
Online retailer Amazon has confirmed its intention to broaden the base of the products it offers by launching a home delivery service for groceries in America. - Amazon clicks with LoveFilm
Amazon.com is to take full control of DVD and streaming video service LoveFilm. - Amazon sprouts Beanstalk in bid to grow customer base
Amazon.com, best known for selling a huge range of consumer goods online, has announced it is to extend its cloud computing arm. - Amazon’s new Scottish distribution centre to cost £40m
A new distribution centre being built in Scotland by online retailer Amazon is expected to cost about £40million. - 950 new jobs as Amazon expands in Scotland
Online retailer Amazon is to create 950 new positions in Scotland as part of a major UK expansion plan. - Amazon launches deals app
Online retailer Amazon has released its latest app for the Apple iPhone, which allows customers to get the firm’s best product offers sent direct to their mobile. - Amazon to open Appstore
Online retailer Amazon is set to open its own store for mobile apps later this year. - Amazon wins patent for system to block unwanted gifts
America’s Patent and Trademark Office has given Amazon’s IT experts the go-ahead to develop a system to allow people to exchange unwanted gifts for something more suitable. - Amazon issues unusual advice as bad weather continues
As another weekend of wintry weather disruption affected many people’s Christmas shopping plans, Amazon has taken the unusual step of advising sellers who cannot meet buyers’ expectations to suspend their business until conditions improve. - Amazon issues timely tips to Christmas sellers
With sellers keen to maintain, or improve, their customer ratings at this, the busiest time of year for most of them, Amazon has issued a list of tips to help them stay on the right side of their customers. - Amazon back online after technical glitch
Amazon is back running as normal this afternoon, after a technical glitch yesterday left it offline for about 30 minutes on one of its busiest days of the year. - Monday was a mega online shopping day – but the biggest is yet to come
British shoppers spent about £22million per hour on online shopping websites yesterday – as the day lived up to the ‘Mega Monday’ tag which it has earned among retail analysts. - Amazon says ‘buongiorno Italia’ with latest country-specific site
Online retailer Amazon has chosen Italy for the launch of its eighth website dedicated to serving online shoppers in an individual country. - Amazon’s ‘Black Friday’ UK offers provoke massive rush
Amazon sparked a massive rush, and some disappointment, among customers – but gained lots of media coverage - over its ‘Black Friday’ offers in the UK. - US retailers draw battle lines over free delivery offers
A battle has broken out between Amazon and Wal-Mart ahead of America’s main Christmas shopping rush, with both companies announcing free delivery deals. - Patent outlines plan for Amazon gift converter
Amazon has been granted a patent application that could see the online retailer develop technology that automatically swaps unwanted gifts. - Rising costs dampen reception of Amazon’s sales figures
The predicted big rise in Amazon's latest financial fortunes, which we flagged up on Wednesday, duly materialised as the online retailer announced a near-40 per cent hike in its sales. - Amazon predicted to amaze with sales figures growth
Amazon is the subject of fevered speculation as it prepares to announce its latest quarterly sales figures tomorrow. - Amazon goes mobile with scanning technology
An update to Amazon’s iPhone app could prove to be the undoing of high street retailers.
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