Anonymous member claims responsibility for today’s EC2 outage, Amazon says baloney

Someone claiming to be a member of hacker collective Anonymous who previously claimed to take down GoDaddy and Facebook has claimed responsibility for today’s big Amazon’s EC2 cloud outage.

Kindle Fire HD gets updated with Kindle Freetime: A safe space for kids

Now parents can control exactly what their kids see on the Kindle Fire HD -- and for how long.

Amazon cloud outage takes down Reddit, Airbnb, Flipboard, Coursera, & more

Amazon's EC2 cloud infrastructure has once again had an outage that has partially taken down web services including Reddit, Airbnb, Flipboard, GetGlue, Coursera, and more.

Amazon is killing the Kindle Touch to focus on Paperwhite

Amazon is streamlining the number of Kindle products in its lineup today by discontinuing some of its older e-ink reader devices.

.XXX was just the beginning — get ready for 1934 new top level domains

Microsoft wants .docs, .windows, and .xbox. Amazon -- and 12 other applicants -- wants .app. Seven different companies want .love.

Small tablets = big engagement: 20% more pageviews, more time on site for e-readers

When it comes to tablet engagement, it seems like smaller devices lead to big gains.

Amazon just made it way easier to put Kindles in schools with Whispercast

Amazon has introduced a new service called Whispercast that will help organizations take better control of content on large amounts of Kindles.

With StorSimple acquisition, Microsoft turns up the heat on Rackspace, Amazon

Microsoft's long-term strategy is to win over the large enterprises that are still using traditional disks before Amazon or Rackspace can get to them.

Kindle smartphone rumors surge as Amazon considers TI processor buy

Are Amazon's smartphone phone plans at the heart of its rumored purchase of Texas Instruments OMAP chip line? It sure looks that way.

iPad Mini: 16 options from 8GB to 64GB, prices from $250 to $650

iPad Mini models and prices have been revealed by someone with access to the internal system of Europe's largest electronics retailer, Media Markt.

Amazon comes clean on Kindle Paperwhite: It has some flaws

Amazon is coming clean on some of the problems with the Kindle Paperwhite. Cutting costs, it seems, has its flaws.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye opens up about racism allegations, OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Amazon gets Assassin’s Creed III Encyclopedia Edition for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

The Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia 2nd Edition covers the franchise's vast and complicated history.

CloudFlare adding 30K new customers a week and just passed 2B pageviews per employee

Oh, and the company is growing revenue 20 percent monthly.

Amazon shells out $1.16 billion to buy Seattle headquarters

Not content with leasing its own headquarters, Amazon will buy the campus for $1.16 billion.

Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite is amazing (too bad it’s sold out until November)

The Kindle Paperwhite is Amazon's best e-reader yet -- but you won't be able to get it for a while.

B&N Nook with GlowLight drops to $119 to challenge Kindle Paperwhite

Barnes & Noble has dropped the price of its back-lit Nook e-reader to $119 from $139 at several retailers to prepare for Amazon's upcoming Kindle Paperwhite, which also retails for $119.