Amazon and Samsung are running away with the battle for Android tablet market share

Given that there are approximately a gazillion Android-based tablets on the market, you'd expect the Android hardware market for tablets would be massively fragmented. Think again.

Amazon deletes negative feedback, but only for its own shipping service

Amazon is giving itself an unfair advantage, third-party merchants say, by deleting negative feedback pertaining to shipping problems -- but only when merchants use Amazon's own shipping service.

Amazon brings Prime membership to Canada — but without Instant Video

Online retail giant Amazon is introducing its popular Prime membership program to Canadian consumers, the company announced today.

Christmas 2012 shopping: paper catalogs whipped Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and Amazon is the new Google

I guess we're just not as advanced as we think we are. Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Author, publisher, entrepreneur: Guy Kawasaki on apes, authors, and what it means to write books today

The consummate entrepreneur, and the successful writer: put the two together, and you've got someone who budding authors should listen to about what it means to write books in 2013. Especially ... if you actually want to sell any.

Amazon signs deal to bring A&E, Bio, History, and Lifetime TV shows to Prime Instant Video

Amazon has signed an agreement with A&E Networks that will make TV shows from A&E, Bio, History, and Lifetime channels available to watch on Prime Instant Video. Now you can finally watch Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and Dance Moms on Prime.

Court tells Apple that Amazon’s use of the term ‘app store’ is not false advertising

Amazon's use of the words "app store" in its marketing is not false advertising, a judge has ruled.

Technology 2012: The year’s winners and losers

In every year, there are winners and losers: companies, devices, operating systems. Here's our look at some of the biggest successes and failures of 2012.

Here’s the scorecard on our 2012 predictions for the game industry

Before you read our forecast for 2013, take a look at how we did on last year's predictions.

Amazon tops in customer satisfaction, as Apple slides out of the top 5

Amazon retained its industry-leading 88 percent satisfaction score from 2011 in the study, which asked more than 24,000 consumers about their online shopping experiences between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22

Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update, and the numbers aren't great for any tablet that doesn't start with the letter I.

‘Random Shopper’ bot buys and sends Amazon gifts to owner without help

Simple code and a love for gifts made this man create a bot that can send and pay for Amazon orders on its own.

At peak, Amazon sold a whopping 306 items per second in 2012

The biggest piece of data revealed by the company was the number of packages it sold on the peak day of 2012. On November 26, Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories.