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Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo have joined an alliance in a bid to fight Google over the search giant's plans to commercialize a huge digital library of books.

Ahead of the new Playstation 3 release , Amazon has warned of shortages of the new slim PlayStation 3 when the system launches next month.

News Corp, which is trying to stem newspaper revenue declines, could charge for access to its news websites by the middle of next year, and might break off its relationship with Amazon.com Inc's Kindle e-reader if it cannot get better terms.

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, taking rival Amazon.com Inc head-on in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.

Amazon.com ate my homework.That's a legitimate excuse for one high-school student whose notes for a homework assignment vanished when the online retailer remotely deleted digital copies of George Orwell's 1984, off consumers' Kindle devices.

Amazon faces a lawsuit filed by a high school student after his homework was remotely deleted on its kindle2 E-book without his consent according to the AFP reports Friday.

Sony Corp said on Wednesday it has made available over 1 million public domain books on its electronic readers via Google Inc's Books project, which digitizes classic titles not protected by copyright.

Stocks fell on Friday, pressured by disappointing quarterly results in the tech sector and weak consumer sentiment data.

Amazon's chief executive officer Jeff Bezos posted an apology message to customers over last week's remote-deletion of illegally sold books.

Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Friday as disappointing results from Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc curbed sentiment a day after a rally took the Dow industrials above the key 9,000 mark.

Stock index futures rose slightly on Friday despite disappointing results from Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc , a day after a rally took the Dow industrials above 9,000.

Amazon.com Inc reported on Thursday that net profit fell 10 percent to $142 million in the second quarter, or 32 cents per diluted share, compared with a net income of $158 million, or 37 cents per share in the second quarter of 2008.

Amazon.com Inc posted a 10 percent decline in second-quarter earnings and gave a modest third-quarter outlook on Thursday, taking the shine off the world's largest online retailer and sending its shares down nearly 7 percent.

Amazon.com Inc posted a quarterly net profit on Thursday that fell by 10 percent as foreign currency fluctuations and a legal settlement hit earnings at the world's largest online retailer, sending shares down more than 5 percent.

Amazon.com will pay about $928 million for booming online shoe retailer Zappos.com, expanding aggressively into the apparel arena with a well-known name after trying unsuccessfully to go it alone.

EBay Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly results after managing to slow a persistent deterioration in its main Web auctions and retail business, propelling its shares nearly 5 percent higher.

Amazon.com made an aggressive move to grab market share in shoes and apparel on Wednesday, announcing a deal to buy online shoe retailer Zappos.com Inc for $927.9 million, mostly in stock.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday that it has reached a deal to buy online shoe retailer Zappos.com Inc for $927.9 million, mostly in stock, as the world's largest online retailer, known for its electronics and books, moves aggressively into shoes and apparel.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday that it has reached a deal to buy online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com Inc for roughly $927.9 million, mostly in stock.

Amazon.com said on Wednesday that it has reached a deal to buy online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com Inc for roughly $927.9 million, mostly in stock.

Yahoo Inc said it plans to introduce a major overhaul of its Internet home page on Tuesday. The new homepage blends Yahoo's collection of online content and products with popular social networking services like Facebook and Twitter.

Apple, the iPhone maker, is scheduled to report their fiscal third quarter 2009 results after the market closes on Tuesday. Analyst estimate between $1.02 earnings per share to a high of $1.31, with a consensus estimate of $1.15.

Amazon.com Inc has been sued by a user of its Kindle electronic reader who claims the device's cover, which is sold separately, can break the screen and make the device inoperable.

Online retailer Amazon.com has cut the price of its standard Kindle electronic reader by 17 percent to $299, the company said on Wednesday, the latest salvo in the war for digital readers.

Online retailer Amazon.com has cut the price of its standard Kindle electronic reader by 17 percent to $299, the company said on Wednesday, the latest salvo in the war for digital readers.

Amazon lowered the price of the popular Kindle 2 by $60 to $299 on Wednesday, just two months after it first introduced the e-reader into the market.

Amazon.com has closed its third Internet associates program in a week, in Hawaii, as the online retailer steps up an effort to skirt new sales taxes in several U.S. states.