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Amazon is launching a film streaming service that would contend directly with Netflix in a move that could have a big impact on the fortunes of Hollywood studios. Amazon is planning to bundle access to the service with Amazon Prime, a premium service that guarantees Amazon customers unlimited free shipping of books and other items [...]

Stop thinking about combating with desperate shoppers for the last of the coveted gifts at the mall on Christmas Eve or issuing your loved ones “IOUs” on Christmas morning. The following online retailers offer speedy shipping that rival even Santa Claus’ sleigh so no one will have to know that you put off Christmas shopping [...]

British, French, German, Austrian and Italian sites were down for about 30 minutes on Sunday during a peak pre-Christmas shopping period. A group of cyber activists, Anonymous, is hitting firms that withdrew services from whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. There has been no official comment from Amazon or from Anonymous. Amazon sites ending .it, .de, .uk, .fr [...]

WikiLeaks is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, as the controversial website combats powerful Internet-based attacks. WikiLeaks said Tuesday it was the target of a computer attack that overwhelmed its website and made it inaccessible for a few hours to some users. The site also claimed to [...]

This holiday season should be particularly merry for book lovers. By most accounts, eReaders such as Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and the Sony Reader will be among the top-selling gifts. Recipients can carry hundreds of books without needing a scrutiny visit to a chiropractor. But eReaders can be useful even for people who [...]

Seeking to become the first stop for online shoppers of apparel and accessories, Google Inc. launched a fashion e-commerce site Boutiques.com. Boutiques.com doesn’t sell the items, which come from hundreds of online merchants such as Ralph Lauren, Steve Madden and Juicy Couture, but directs shoppers to sites where they can be purchased. Other sites such [...]

The giants of the web have long insisted that they should be regarded not as media firms, responsible for the content that appears on their platforms, but as technology businesses shaped purely by their users’ desires. But in the last 24 hours two web giants have shown, in very different ways that this line may [...]

Amazon is selling an e-book entitled “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure,” and shocked consumers across the nation now are calling for a boycott of the online retail giant. The e-book, authored by Phillips Greaves, was published late last month, according to product details on Amazon.com. It sells for $4.79 on the company’s Kindle [...]