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NEW YORK (Mar. 11, 2010) -- Media companies desperately need a vibrant device market to energize content sales. Fortunately, the current market leader, the Amazon Kindle, is showing strong momentum, and imminent competition from the Apple iPad and other tablet products expected to launch this year will only help.

SEATTLE, Jan 28, 2010 -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009.

Operating cash flow was $3.29 billion in 2009, compared with $1.70billion in 2008. Free cash flow increased 114% to $2.92 billion in 2009, compared with $1.36 billion in 2008.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards outstanding totaled 461 million on December 31, 2009, compared with 446 million a year ago.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Apple’s iPad announcement is big news. It’s a robust tablet form factor that is a half-inch thick and weighs 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display that supports 1024x768 VGA video.

Apple.com Worldwide Sites Ranks as Top Retail Destination in Australia, Followed by Amazon and Coles Group

27 Jan 2010 -- SYDNEY, Jan. 26 -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) today released a study on traffic to top Retail sites in Australia during the 2009 holiday season. The study found that three out of five Australians online visited a Retail site in December, as traffic to the category reached its highest volume of the year with more than 8 million visitors during the month.

On Christmas Day, for the First Time Ever, Customers Purchased More Kindle Books Than Physical Books

SEATTLE, Dec 26, 2009 -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon's history. On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.

The Kindle Store now includes over 390,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including New York TimesBestsellersand New Releases.

With two clicks Google Blogger users can now add revenue-generating Amazon product links to their blogs

SEATTLE & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec 16, 2009 -- Amazon Services LLC, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced Amazon Associates for Blogger, a directintegration between Amazon Associates, Amazon's self-service advertising program, and Blogger, the award-winning blog platform from Google.

Low-cost, low-latency streaming media distribution with no contract negotiations or up-front investments

SEATTLE, Dec 16, 2009 -- Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced streaming media delivery for Amazon CloudFront, the content delivery service from AWS.

New Asia-Based AWS Infrastructure Will Enable Businesses to Run Applications, Store and Process Data, and Better Serve Their End-Users Located in Asia

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2009-- Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010, enabling businesses to deploy compute and storage resources in close proximity to their end-users in the region.

Application for Reading Kindle Books Available on the PC

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2009-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the availability of "Kindle for PC," the free application that lets readers around the world enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC). The U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) currently offers more than 360,000 books, including New Releases and 101 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, which are typically $9.99 or less.

SEATTLE -- Oct. 27, 2009 -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today revealed the Holiday Toy List (www.amazon.com/holidaytoylist), where customers can find this season’s hottest toys, video games, sporting goods, electronics, movies and more. The Holiday Toy List features innovative search tools that allow customers to quickly narrow and expand search results simultaneously by “bestselling” or “average customer review,” then filter by age, gender, category, price and discount.