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While the Touchpad may never beat the iPad, it has possibly set up a formula for other tablets to do so.

Jeff Bezos showed a striking mechanical aptitude and insatiable curiosity as a child. Bezos dismantled his crib with a screwdriver, and he developed intense and multiple scientific interests, converting his parents' garage into a laboratory. Even as an adult, the founder and CEO of Amazon is dreaming of launching space tourism by funding the development of a spacecraft.

Amazon.com Inc is rolling out a major redesign of its familiar website as it prepares to offer a new $250 tablet device to rival Apple Inc's iPad.

Amazon will launch a new tablet as early as October and the product could be priced at $300 or lower in the attempt to come out strong in competing with Apple's iPad.Apple's iPad is the global tablet leader, though the fire sale $99 TouchPad made a brief appearance on the sales radar, but the biggest threat to the industry leader is on its way. Amazon has a new tablet -- its first -- expected to start shipping in October, according to a report in Taiwan's DigiTimes.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos can launch an e-commerce giant, he can launch the world's most popular e-reader, the Kindle, and he is likely to soon launch a new tablet to compete with Apple's iPad. But he hasn't yet been able to launch a rocket that successfully leads to space tourism.It's not for a lack of trying, though.

Now that has resigned at Apple's CEO, it's time to recognizing the world's new reigning tech freak geek leader. There was only one clear heir apparent to the post, and really no discussion at all is required in naming Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to the honor.Jobs is credited as arguably the world's all-time great innovating CEO. He helped launch the Mac computer. He created iTunes, the iPhone smartphone and the iPad tablet. But Bezos has hire share of tech obsessions and ac...

Undaunted by the loss of a Blue Origin space ship making a test flight, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said the ambitious private space program goes ahead step-by-Step, ferociously.

On some days when they were starting out, the Bansals would get on a motorbike to make the rounds of book warehouses around Bangalore, ride back to their two-bedroom apartment and package up orders for online customers.

An unmanned spacecraft privately financed by the Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, lost control and crashed during its third month of test flight in West Texas.

Self-pubilshed author John Locke, who built a large audience selling digital books and become the second independent writer to sell one million books through Kindle has a few lessons to teach you, if you want to try and follow in his footsteps.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos can launch an e-commerce giant, he can launch the world's most popular e-reader, the Kindle, and he is likely to soon launch a new tablet to compete with Apple's iPad. But he hasn't yet been able to launch a rocket that successfully leads to space tourism. It's not for a lack of trying, though.

In its third month of test flight, an unmanned spacecraft lost control and crashed, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who privately funded the vehicle, announced on Friday.

Apple's iPad is the global tablet leader, though the fire sale $99 TouchPad made a brief appearance on the sales radar, but the biggest threat to the industry leader is on its way. Amazon has a new tablet -- its first -- expected to start shipping in October, according to a report in Taiwan's DigiTimes.

The quest of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, one of the richest man on this planet, to reach for the stars will continue despite suffering a setback recently when an unmanned rocket funded by the billionaire went out of control during its test flight and had to be destroyed.

As a blow to commercial space programs, an unmanned spacecraft privately funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos crashed during a test flight, said the billionaire CEO on Friday.

An unmanned spacecraft financed by Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a test flight last week. The experimental suborbital space vehicle was developed by Blue Origin, a space startup founded by Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos.

Amazon’s upcoming 7-inch tablet computer, known as Amazon Kindle, is rumored to be available for $250.

During a developmental test, the spacecraft funded by the Amazon chief, Jeff Bezos, misfired and crashed at an altitude of 45,000 feet in West Texas.

A spaceship funded by Internet billionaire, Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, crashed during a test flight in West Texas.

Amazon.com Inc plans to unveil a cheaper, smaller $250 rival to Apple Inc's iPad tablet device in November, industry blog TechCrunch reported on Friday.

Amazon.com has offered to create 7,000 jobs in the company's California distribution centers if lawmakers agree to put a recently enacted online sales tax law on hold until 2014.

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Amazon.com Inc has proposed a hiring spree of 7,000 jobs in California if state leaders put a recently enacted online sales tax on hold for two years.

After a long hegemony of Apple’s iPad, while HP is giving up its TouchPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is struggling with a patent issue, Sony and Amazon are betting their tablets will rival the iPad.

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Lucimar Pereira, the world's oldest living person, is set to celebrate her 121st birthday on Sept. 3 with her family in an indigenous Amazonian community.

While the iPad is today’s undisputed giant in the tablet market, senior Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps predicted that Amazon could sell 3-5 million units of its own tablets in the fourth quarter alone. Here are our top 5 reasons why the Amazon Tablet will be the iPad’s newest rival.

The outnumbering demand for HP’s TouchPad, after the company slashed its price to $100 seems to indicate a clear strategy to all the iPad foes to beat the undefeated tablet.

Barnes & Noble announced its Nook sales could more than double this year and one way it could hope to achieve that growth is through increased college bookstores sales of the digital reader.