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Square — a company best known for the small, white plastic cube that can read credit cards when plugged into a smartphone or tablet — is taking on the likes of Etsy, Amazon, and eBay with the launch of its own online marketplace called Square Market. The expansion from mobile payments to online retail might Continue Reading →

Amazon entered a new multi-year licensing agreement with PBS on Wednesday to grab some extra TV shows for its subscription-based on-demand streaming service Prime Instant Video. The deal adds hundreds of new episodes from programs such as NOVA and Masterpiece, as well as a bunch of new PBS KIDS shows such as Caillou, Arthur, Daniels Continue Reading →

A new political comedy starring John Goodman as a Republican senator living in a “man cave” near Capital Hill will not be offered to Amazon viewers all at once as a 10-episode, online binge experience, according to its executive producer. Jonathan Alter, the former Newsweek columnist and author who is executive producer of the new Continue Reading →

I’ll admit it — I am terrible at remembering birthdays. There’s no excuse, really, considering that practically every major Internet company offers some form of calendar with built-in integration to notify you of your friends’ birthdays. (It’s Facebook’s forte.) E-retailer giant Amazon knows that people like me exist, and wants to make the best of Continue Reading →

Amazon on Monday acknowledged the expansion of its same-day AmazonFresh grocery delivery business to certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles, making L.A. the first AmazonFresh market outside of Seattle. The L.A. service is available to Amazon Prime members as part of a 90-day trial, the according to the AmazonFresh website. After that, these Prime members will Continue Reading →

Amazon Studios has just announced a new tool called Amazon Storyteller, which promises to help would-be filmmakers and scriptwriters more easily realize their visions by translating scripts into full-on storyboards with characters and dialogue. The tool, which is available now in beta, scans a submitted script for scenes, locations, and characters from the descriptions and Continue Reading →

On Thursday, Amazon announced an initiative to help indie game developers promote and sell their games: the Indie Games Store. The dedicated storefront is a new category in Amazon’s Digital Video Games Store, designed specifically to help indie games for PC, Mac, and the Web get noticed. The store appears to be US-only, but if Continue Reading →

Amazon is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation. While food is a low-margin business, Amazon could outperform similar online grocery services by delivering Continue Reading →

Months after being apparently retired from Amazon’s e-reader line, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX is back in stock. Amazon has brought back the DX for $299, reflecting the price drop that was implemented late last year. The Kindle DX was apparently discontinued back in October of 2012, shortly after Amazon announced the backlit Kindle Paperwhite e-reader Continue Reading →

Amazon announced on Tuesday it’s exclusively adding “thousands of TV episodes from Viacom to Prime Instant Video.” The content is mostly kids programming, with shows like Dora the Explorer and Blue’s Clues. Those are coveted shows for streaming services, and up until late May they were on Netflix. Amazon has also snagged up other Viacom Continue Reading →