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Amazon.com Offering Free Two-Day Delivery On Every Kindle Made By Tomorrow
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) will be offering free two-day shipping to any Kindle devices that are ordered by 8PM Pacific Standard Time on December 21st. This is perfect timing for people that want to give this as a Christmas gift. The free two-day shipping is available for the $79 Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch, $149 Kindle Touch 3G, and $199 Kindle Fire. Currently Amazon.com is shipping over 1 million units per week. To receive the deal, customers just need to add a Kindle device into their shopping basket and select a two-day shipping option when checking out. This offer is only available for U.S. customers. [Amazon PR]
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Every Week Amazon.com Sells About 1 Million Kindle Products
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shoppers have been buying over 1 million Kindle devices per week for about three weeks in a row. The Amazon.com Kindle Fire is the company’s best selling item as of right now. Even though the Kindle Fire has receive a lot of criticism for not having external volume and for being too balky, the company is working on updating their software. [Mashable]
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Amazon Kindle Fire Being Returned For No External Volume, No Privacy, and Balky Touchscreen
The Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has been highly criticized despite all of the sales that it has been getting. The primary complaints are that the device does not have external volume control, the off switch is easy to hit on accident, websites take a long time to load, there is no privacy on the device, and the touchscreen is balky.
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LivingSocial Raises $176 Million In Private Offering
LivingSocial has raised $176 million in a private offering according to an SEC filing. Investors in this round include Amazon.com, U.S. Venture Partners, and Steve Case’s Revolution Ventures. Code Advisors and JP Morgan oversaw the deal and made $5 million in the process. LivingSocial offered $400 million worth of stock and sold a portion of it. About $224 million of stock still available. The final $224 million is expected to be bought in the next several weeks or months. This round of funding will be used for operations and expansion such as setting up a new company headquarters. [BusinessInsider]
Steve Jobs Biography Is Amazon’s Best Selling Book Of 2011
Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs has become the best-selling book of 2011 on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). What makes this milestone so outstanding is that the book was released in October, which is 10 months into the year.
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Amazon Announces A Holiday Deals Website Called Flurry Deals
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has launched a holiday deals website called Flurry Deals (amazon.com/flurrydeals). Flurry Deals has discounted products that are an extension of Cyber Monday promotions. Starting today, Amazon will start offering category-specific daily deals. There is an e-mail sign-up form so you can stay on top of the sales.
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Amazon.com To Ship About 5 Million Kindle Fires This Year
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has shipped about 3-4 million Kindle Fire tablets according to Netbooknews.com. Suppliers are expecting that shipments will hit up to around 5 million units by the end of December or early January. Industry sources believe that Amazon.com supplier Wintek alone will ship 3-3.5 million touch panels for the Kindle Fire before January. [NetbookNews]
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Amazon Starts Selling Every Smartphone For One Penny Until Monday
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has become extremely aggressive when it comes to selling smartphones this holiday season. Amazon.com has started selling every non-iPhone smartphone for $0.01.
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LivingSocial Expected To Announce $200 Million Investment This Week
This past September, I wrote about how LivingSocial was expected to raise $200 million in funding instead of going the IPO route for now. This week the company is expected to confirm the investment as provided by JP Morgan Asset Management, Amazon.com, and T.Rowe Price. This would put LivingSocial’s valuation at between $5 and $6 billion. LivingSocial is also expected to receive a $100 million revolving credit facility from JP Morgan that would allow them to draw funds without singing for a loan each time. [NYT]
Amazon Kindle Fire Is Loaded With TI Chips
The Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has gotten a tear-down by iFixit.com. It turns out that the device is packed with Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) chips. This is good news for the company since they are facing intense rivalry from Qualcomm and Nvidia.
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