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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.

Barclays Capital said Apple Inc.'s iPad 2, which began shipping in the U.S. on March 11, remains sold out across retailers with limited sporadic availability at Apple stores themselves and 4-5 week wait times via Apple.com.

A U.S. judge's ruling has rejected Google's deal with publishers that would have digitized every book and made them widely available.

Amazon.com introduced its store for Google Android smartphone applications ratcheting up its fight with Apple Inc.

Amazon has launched its Android Appstore with curatorial element to take on the Android Market but in the process was sued by Apple for trademark violation.

Amazon has entered the mobile app market, but not without stepping on Apple's toes.

Amazon said the highly anticipated Angry Birds Rio for Android debuts today, exclusively in the Amazon Appstore and customers can even download it for free for a limited time.

Amazon.com, Inc. said it has launched the Amazon Appstore for Android at www.amazon.com/appstore where customers can by Android apps.

Apple Inc has sued Amazon.com Inc in a bid to stop the online retailer from improperly using Apple's APP STORE trademark, according to a court filing.

Adobe Flash may struggle to gain adoption on the Post-PC devices including smartphones and tablets as behavioral shift of consumers to apps from web browsing may make Flash less relevant on these devices, according to Global Equities Research.

Zacks Equity Research highlights: Standard Motor Products (NYSE: SMP) as the Bull of the Day and RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), Google Inc (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Apple Inc (Nasdaq: AAPL).

A book titled - What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex - containing blank pages has been lapped up by youths, making it a bestseller at Amazon.

Leveraging its content and channel, Amazon could present a unique and significant challenge to Apple and its iPad.

Sears Holdings Corp sent an open letter on Thursday to independent Web operators affiliated with online retailer Amazon.com inviting them to join its network, becoming the second major U.S. store chain to go after key partners of the Web retailer in recent weeks.

Best Buy and Wal-mart both put the iPad 2 on their retail sites.

If Yahoo decides to divest its Japanese assets, then it might look to monetize its assets in china as well, where it owns about 40 percent of the Internet company Alibaba Group.

Apple iPad 2 was spotted in Amazon’s German website by Yourdailyapple.net.

The company joins Target, Best Buy, and Staples as the latest company to sell Amazon's eReader.

Google is planning to launch an unlimited subscription of its YouTube movie service in UK, according to a report from NewYork Post.