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Amazon raises Prime pricetag to $99

Back in February, we wrote about rumors that Amazon might be raising the cost of its Prime service as much as $40. Amazon decided to split the difference rather than alienate all its customers by only raising the price by $20, but it seems that was enough to rile up a lot of Amazon Prime […]

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Stephen Hawking documentary ‘A Brief History of Time’ is now on iTunes

In preparation of its release on Blue-ray, the Criterion Collection has made Errol Morris’s documentary about Stephen Hawking available on the iTunes Store. The 1991 film tells the story of Hawking’s struggle with the degenerative disease that paralyzed him. From the description; “Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the […]

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Amazon has a plan to get into the mobile payments game

It looks like Amazon is determined to expand out of the “virtual” retail space to get its foot in the door of brick-and-mortar stores. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, has plans to0 equip retailers with Kindle tablets with credit card readers for accepting payments, possibly in exchange for web site […]

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Will subscribers of Amazon Prime still think it’s a good value at $119?

Last Thursday, Amazon reported their holiday quarter earnings and things didn’t look good. Their overall revenue was up 20% at $25.59 billion but analysts expected sales to come in at  just over $26 billion. This sounds very similar to the report of Apple’s earnings, which were good, but given the thumbs down for not meeting analysts’ expectations? […]