Amazon's Audible audiobook arm made the purchase.
Amazon’s third-quarter revenues and profits missed expectations; investors are now concerned the company is stretched too thin.
It means more trucks for holiday deliveries as well.
Amazon, and other retailers, will recruit thousands of temporary workers to meet the holiday shopping rush.
Acquisitions of Twitch and Double Helix show that Jeff Bezos is willing buy his way into the market.
Amazon is opening one "pop-up" store for the holidays in Sacramento, as well as one in San Francisco.
Amazon is looking to expand aggressively in a market that is set to explode but restricts foreign companies' operations.
The influential movie website Box Office Mojo has disappeared from the Internet. No one seems to know what happened to it.
E-commerce giant may be on the hook for more than $1.5 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg will keynote an Internet conference in India next week, and separately meet India's social media-savvy prime minister.
The Indian e-commerce market is growing much faster than other markets, and Amazon jumped into it at the right time, according to Bezos.
Alibaba shares surged 38% in the company's first day of trading. Here's why that's not ridiculous.
NASA has relied on the Russian Federal Space Agency to send astronauts to the International Space Station.
Amazon might be preparing to test its 'octocopter' Prime Air delivery drones in India in late October, The Economic Times reports.
Tech helps the Ice Bucket Challenge go viral.
In yet another apparent contract dispute, Amazon.com Inc. halted pre-orders on major titles from the Walt Disney Company.
Amazon is reportedly opening its wallet to make political alliances in Washington, D.C., as it aims to roll out a drone delivery service.
A hedge fund billionaire spending big on state politics is now funding journalism about money in state politics.
The war for supremacy in the burgeoning online grocery delivery market is heating up, with big names battling -- but profits may be elusive.
Amazon's move comes a day after Flipkart, India's largest online retailer, raised $1 billion from investors.
Amazon just said it might lose close to a billion dollars next quarter, and investors barely blinked.
Mobile conversion rates are one-third that of PCs, which is a problem for Amazon.com. Which brings us to the Amazon Fire smartphone.