Amazon buys Samsung’s Liquavista screen-tech company, potentially for color Kindle

Amazon's Kindle Fire is in glorious living color, but it's original and still strong-selling Kindle and its cousins, the Kindle Paperwhite family, are still irritatingly stuck in 1950's-style black and white. That may soon change.

Amazon giving away ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in virtual money with launch of Amazon Coins

Amazon launched its first digital currency today with a giveaway: 500 free Amazon Coins for every Kindle Fire customer. The coins, which are worth $5, can be used to buy games, app, and in-app purchases.

Amazon launches its own virtual currency for Kindle Fire: ‘Amazon Coins’

Now Amazon has yet another way to differentiate the Kindle Fire from other Android tablets.