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On top of big salaries, companies pile on perks
NEW YORK (AP) — Wynn Resorts kept a suite open all year at its tony Las Vegas hotel and casino for founder and CEO Steve Wynn, at a cost of nearly $452,000. Former IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano was guaranteed an administrative assistant and furnished...
Tags: Shareholders, Clubs and Associations, Constellation Brands Incorporated, Economy, Business and Finance, Lifestyle and Leisure
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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: Stephen King, Amazon Kindle, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com Inc., Book
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Chan Lowe: The Internet sales tax
This is going to be interesting. Republican dogma unequivocally asserts that taxes stifle free enterprise. But here we have a situation where the imposition of a tax will benefit a segment of the retail universe that is a mainstay of traditional...
Tags: E-Commerce Industry, Elections, Republican Party, Politics
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La fórmula del éxito de Amazon: mover bits en lugar de cajas
ReutersPor Alistair Barr y Ben Berkowitz SAN FRANCISCO/NUEVA YORK, 26 abr (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc parece haber descifrado el secreto para ser más rentable: vender menos artÃculos fÃsicos. La compañÃa reportó una desaceleración en el crecimiento de...Tags: Amazon Kindle
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Amazon's success formula: move bits instead of boxes
ReutersBy Alistair Barr and Ben Berkowitz SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc appears to have figured out the secret to being more profitable: sell less physical stuff. The company reported slowing revenue growth and offered a...Tags: Amazon Kindle Fire, E-Commerce Industry, Marketing, Amazon Kindle, Advertising
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Amazon reports 22% increase in Q1 revenue, 37% decline in profit
Amazon.com reported a 22% increase in revenue in the first quarter but a hefty decline in profit. For the three months ended March 31, the e-commerce behemoth said profit fell 37% to $82 million, or 18 cents a share, from $130 million, or 28 cents, a...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Global Expansion
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Amazon 'TV pilots' are set to fly (Part 1)
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAmazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up...Tags: Book, Paramount Pictures, Television, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Animation (Movie Genre)
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Biblioracle: Tom Sawyer economy
Amazon has purchased the book-oriented social networking site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum. Speculation from Bloomberg Businessweek based on other social media properties (like Instagram and LinkedIn) puts the market price close to $1 billion. Other...Tags: Media Industry, LinkedIn Corp., Social Media, Chicago Tribune, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Millennial Media looking past market swings to chart growth
Millennial Media's stock has lost three-fourths of its value since the Canton company went public a year ago as an established force in the mobile advertising market. Ask CEO Paul Palmieri about that, and he'll repeat what he deems wise words from a...
Tags: Elections, Washington, DC, Advertising, Career and Workplace, Pandora Media, Inc.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs Henry Blodget with $5 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission may have booted Henry Blodget off Wall Street, but the former Merrill Lynch & Co. Internet analyst has attracted some big fans for Business Insider Inc., which he co-founded in 2007. A major endorsement for the...
Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon.com Inc., Walmart
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Amazon announces it will buy book-recommendations site Goodreads
Amazon.com Inc., which started as an online bookseller before becoming the e-commerce behemoth it is today, is buying book-recommendations site Goodreads. Amazon announced the deal Thursday. The purchase price was not disclosed. Goodreads, a San...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Book, Otis Chandler
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Space Programs, Oceans, Atlantic Ocean, Satellite Technology, Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
May 23, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
May 20, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
![Amazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001155581&ref=lpc_1">posted its first 14 "TV pilots"</a> -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up comedies -- online for your ratings and comments. (That is the Amazon way.)](http://www.trbimg.com/img-5176b234/turbine/la-et-st-critics-notebook-amazon-tv-pilots-20130423-thumbnail/187/16x9 "Amazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001155581&ref=lpc_1\">posted its first 14 \"TV pilots\"</a> -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up comedies -- online for your ratings and comments. (That is the Amazon way.)"){kind=small}
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|Story| Chicago Tribune
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
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