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The local coupon company LivingSocial made headlines on Wednesday with a half-price Amazon gift card, the largest deal in the company's history.

The text of the 14-page complaint against the iPad hackers.

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, launched AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Java developers.

Rusnano will invest $700 million in British Plastic technology firm Plastic Logic to produce basic plastic computer components in Russia.

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Search giant Google has acquired start-up firm eBook Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum, a move that is likely to boost its recently launched eBook store.

Amazon's Infrastructure-as-an-offering (IaaS) the EC2, though synonymous with cost savings for businesses, is also gaining reputation as a potential tool in the hands of malicious code crackers.

Smartronix announced the launch of the new Treasury.gov web site and the migration of four other agency sites to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, marking the first time a cabinet level agency has moved its Web sites to AWS.

A security researcher says he has figured out a quick and inexpensive way to break a commonly used form of password protection for wireless networks using powerful computers that anybody can lease from Amazon.com Inc over the Web.

S&P Equity Research predicts slower, but healthier growth in the technology sector in 2011, including notable developments regarding new products, international activity, and M&A deals.

Amazon announced that its Kindle apps will now be available for Android and Windows based tablets as part of its Buy Once, Read Everywhere strategy.

Google and Apple are slugging it out in the publishing domain as they up their ante to woo publishers, who are still emerging from the recessionary shock and are looking for a viable digital content related business model.

e-readers have exploded into the market in 2010

According to a recent survey from Foresee Results, Amazon.com and Netflix gave its consumers the highest satisfaction this holiday season.

Amazon.com released its Best of 2010 lists, which include the bestselling, most-wished-for and favorite gift products as determined by Amazon.com customers in 2010. The data includes period from Jan. 1, 2010, to Dec. 15, 2010.

Amazon.com announced that its third generation Kindle e-reader is now the bestselling product in its history, surpassing Harry Potter 7.

Amazon.com Inc said sales of its Kindle e-reader were strong over the holiday season amid competition from devices such as Apple Inc's iPad, a computer tablet that also has e-reader capabilities.

Amazon says tablets aren't cutting into sales of the Kindle.

ThinkEquity has listed out its leading internet stock picks for 2011 that includes Google (GOOG), Baidu (BIDU) and Priceline (PCLN). Following are those stocks.

Amazon Canada announced that beginning Dec. 25, customers can take advantage of amazing Boxing Week promotions on everything from electronics and books to home and garden products and men's watches.

Barclays Capital raised profit estimate of online retailer Amazon.com, Inc., citing strong online holiday season.

Groupon has brought in a former Amazon.com Inc executive as its new chief financial officer, the discount coupon provider said.

Amazon said several applications of Oracle are now available in its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, a commercial web service that allows customers to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications.

Bank of America has banned transactions to whistle-blower site Wikileaks since Friday, according to media reports. The Obama Administration earlier urged financial organizations to sever ties with the site for illegally releasing confidential US diplomatic cables.

The outage suffered by Amazon.com's European websites was due to a hardware failure but not due to hacking attacks, according to the company. The websites Amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr and amazon.es were down for almost half an hour late on Sunday night. Hackers have not made any claims of the attack so far.

NEW YORK - As music retailers suffer ever shrinking sales, some of the most aggressive moves to boost business are being made by the perpetual runners-up in their respective sectors.

NEW YORK - As music retailers suffer ever shrinking sales, some of the most aggressive moves to boost business are being made by the perpetual runners-up in their respective sectors.

Amazon.com Inc's websites in Europe suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, in what the company said was a hardware failure in its European data center network.

Amazon.com Inc's websites in Britain, France, Germany and Spain suffered an outage for more than half an hour on Sunday night, but it was not immediately clear whether it was due to a cyber attack.