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Amazon.com, reported a drop in profit for the first quarter as its investment in new businesses ate into earnings, but the online retailer's revenue forecast beat Wall Street expectations.

The companies which are expected to see active trade on Tuesday are: Ford Motor, Amazon.com, Broadcom, 3M, United Parcel Service, Western Union, Coca-Cola, FMC Technologies and AK Steel Holding.

Amazon.com Inc is thinking long-term when it spends heavily on the cloud, but investors may see a little more short-term rain when the online retailer reports its earnings on Tuesday.

Two days after Amazon's cloud hosting service was taken down, company engineers are reporting that things are starting to look up.

When Amazon.com and eBay report quarterly results next week, investors will try to determine how well the e-commerce rivals' expensive fight for shoppers is paying off.

When Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc report quarterly results next week, investors will try to determine how well the e-commerce rivals' expensive fight for shoppers is paying off.

Disruption to Amazon.com Inc servers that host Internet services took down a raft of social networking websites including Foursquare and Quora early on Thursday, underscoring concerns about reliability as more companies turn to the cloud.

Amazon announced today that it will bring eBook lending to 11,00 U.S. libraries later this year.

Amazon.com Inc will start allowing users of the Kindle to borrow e-books from many U.S. public libraries later this year in its latest move to speed the adoption of its electronic reading device.

A group representing individual video game developers has accused Amazon.com Inc of setting pricing terms that could harm them in the long run and of trying to win a near monopoly selling games made on Android software.

Caris issued a list of public internet companies with most cash and the companies include Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay and Yahoo.

Amazon.com Inc is due to meet with music label executives on Thursday to hash out deals over the online retailer's controversial cloud-based media locker service that has sparked a music business uproar.

Amazon.com Inc is now offering a version of its Kindle device for $25 less, but that electronic book reader will include advertising, the company said on Monday.

Deutsche Bank has cut its profit estimates of online retailer Amazon , citing impact from Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Apple Inc. is widely expected to release its own iTunes-related cloud strategy soon likely integrating its MobileMe services and taking advantage of its investments in its North Carolina data center, Barcalys Capital said.

Mobile devices are radically changing our lives. As mobile ownership grows, so does the role these devices play in improving and enhancing the travel experience. Two of the fastest-growing areas in mobile technology are m-payments (mobile payments) and the use of Near Field Communications (NFC).

Record labels such as Sony are not happy that Amazon is offering a cloud-based storage service for music.

Amazon's new service won't save the music industry, analysts say.

A new Amazon.com Inc service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry that could ignite a legal battle.

The Amazon's terrible 2010 drought could mean the accelerated effect of global warming.

Amazon.com Inc has beaten rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc by introducing an online music locker service that lets customers play songs they already own on many smartphones and computers.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing an online service to allow customers to store their music files remotely and access them through their smartphones and computers in a move aimed at drawing music buyers from rivals such as Apple Inc's iTunes.

Support of iOS devices is a notable omission with Amazon's recently-announced Cloud Player

Amazon has launched a cloud-based music locker service called Cloud Drive, which gives the online books trader an early mover's advantage over Apple and Google.

Amazon.com Inc has launched an online service that would enable its customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are.

Amazon.com Inc said it has unveiled an online service that would enable its customers to securely store and access music through their smartphones and computers.

Online auction site eBay Inc moved to bolster its ability to take on No. 1 Web retailer Amazon.com Inc with a $1.96 billion takeover bid for e-commerce service provider GSI Commerce.

Kindle owners who subscribe to The New York Times via the e-reader will get free access to the newspaper's website, Amazon said

Amazon.com Inc is well-positioned to grab market share from Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Target Corp given its competitive pricing and wide assortment, analysts at William Blair & Co said, and upgraded Amazon to outperform.