According to a new report, amazing might be planning to open its first ever store in the Seattle area, where the company is headquartered.

The report by Good Ereader cited sources closer to the matter and said that Amazon will open up a single store in the Seattle area. The company is planning to launch its store soon in order to tap in the holiday season, according to the report.

US retail giant, Amazon. com is entering the Indian market with the launch of its Junglee. com for customers in the country where the online market is growing at a rapid pace.

Junglee will allow customers to find products that are offered by online as well as offline retailers in the country as well as from Amazon. com. The Junglee. com service is currently in its bet stage.

Research firm, Flurry Analytics has said in a report that the Kindle Fire tablet of Amazon has increased its market share from just 3 months to 36 percent in three months.

The company measured application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012 and found that the tablet controls 36 percent of the Android market. On the other hand, Samsung Galaxy Tab has seen its market share drop from 64 percent market share to 36 percent in the period.

American online giant, Amazon has launched a new managed NoSQL database service called, DynamoDB aimed at allowing users manage databases easily.

The NoSQL aims to create a database for unstructured information which is uploaded on the internet every day in huge quantities. DynamoDB includes tools offering online access to several resources and is one of many Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The android powered, Kindle Fire tablet has remained the highest selling item on the American online retail major, Amazon’s ecommerce website.

Amazon had not disclosed the number of tablets sold on the site as it is company policy to guard figures. The company only said in statement that, "2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family as customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers."

San Francisco, Dec 30: Amazon announced Thursday that it has sold over one million Kindle devices per week throughout December, making 2011 the best holiday shopping season ever for the e-reader family.

In a press release, the e-commerce giant said the Kindle family, including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch and Kindle, held the top three spots on its best seller list, reports Xinhua.Kindle Fire, the tablet introduced 13 weeks ago, is the No. 1 best-selling, most gifted and most wished-for product on Amazon. com.

The much-anticipated, Kindle Fire tablet is facing severe acceptance problems in the markets, where it has been launched by the US online giant. Even as the tablet has been sold out in stores across the US, many customers are complaining about the sluggish updates and even the design of the tablet. The tablet, which was expected to be the true competitor to the Apple iPad, is criticised for various design flaws.

Analysts and customers point out that the tablet does not have the convenient external volume control. The tablet has a power switch which is often pressed mistakenly by users and the tablet is found to have no security features and an uneasy touch screen.

US online retailer, Amazon has said that its profits plunged 73 per cent in its latest earning news. The company’s revenues were at 10.88 billion while the stock price, which were at $230 a share at the beginning of the week were at $217.20.

The company has a trailing price/earnings ratio of 115 and there is a possibility that it will suffer an operating loss in the fourth quarter. However, many believe that the company could be one of the exceptions and could turn around its prospects.

US retail giant, Amazon has started accepting pre-orders for its newly revealed Kindle Fire tablet and according to some reports the retailer might be able to sell as many as 2.5 million units of the new tablet, which is expected to take on Apple iPad.

The new 7-inch tablet will be powered by Google's Android operating system providing users with the choice of thousands of apps from the Android ecosystem as well as useful content-based and other apps from Amazon itself.

London, Sept 29 : Amazon has unveiled the new kindle Fire, which it has launched in direct competition against the iPad.

Kindle fire, which is half the size of the iPad, is not just an e-reader, it also allows its user to play games, watch movies, listen to music and download new applications.

"The reason some of the companies that have made tablets haven't been successful is they didn't make services," the Daily Express quoted Jeff Bezos, Amazon boss as saying.

Amazon. com might be planning to launch a new digital book library service allowing users to pay a yearly subscription fees for accessing a library of content, according to reports.

It is not known how committed Amazon or its partners will be to the idea. According to some sources, publishers are not very keen on the project as they believe that it will reduce the price of e-books. However, the move shows that the companies are increasing looking at offering digital content as more and more users read books on their computers, tablets and other electronic devices.

US online giant, Amazon is planning to release its new tablet computer powered by Google's Android platform to take on Apple iPad as well as other devices running on Android.

The device comes with a 7-inch screen and 6GB of internal storage for books and applications. The tablet will have a custom Android interface with Android Webkit browser and a dock for displaying available books and movies.

American online giant, Amazon. com may soon launch a new subscription based service for books, much like its subscription video-streaming service as part of Amazon Prime that was launched his February.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon may soon launch a book service with a fixed monthly fee for access to a library of books. The company will offer book publishers a substantial fee for being part of the service with their content.

According to reports, for all those individuals who are in a habit of dropping their smart phones, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO recently announced that the newly launched Airbags, a copyright application which was filing with the exterior inventors, was the perfect solution.

However, talking about this new magical appliance, the company officials asserted that the innovative patent application offered a special kind of system, by which, if any one drops his Smartphone then this system would immediately create a protective airbag around the devices and hence it would not get damaged.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the US online retail giant, Amazon. com is planning to launch an Android-based tablet as early as October to the customers.

Analysts say that through Amazon’s tablet will not knock out Apple iPad from the market; it does have a real chance of becoming a serious competitor to the popular tablet.

US online retail giant, Amazon. com is planning to release its own tablet this fall to compete with rivals including Apple’s iPad and host of other makes running on Google’s Android platform.

According to some reports, Amazon will ship as many as 1 million of its tablet computers in the third quarter of the year. Amazon’s tablet will run on open source Android platform and if it is able to attract a significant number of buyers, it will be the first Android powered tablet to give a serious complementation to Apple’s iPad, according to PCWorld. com.

Amazon. com has a made a revolutionary announcement indication that e-books are beginning to take over from traditional copies.

The American online retain giant claimed that it is selling more electronic books than traditional copies. Amazon said that it has sold 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 printed copies since the beginning of April.

American online retail giant, Amazon has claimed that it sold 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 printed copies since April 1.

“We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly—we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

He also claimed the Kindle is the largest selling e-book reader in the world even as Amazon does not announce its sale figures. The Kindle e-books are selling the rate of three times their rate during a comparable period in 2010. Amazon arrived at the number of 105 after excluding the free Kindle e-books.

Amazon. com Inc. which is the biggest online retailer around the globe has started providing instant streaming of over 5,000 movies as well as TV shows to customers belonging to its Amazon Prime home-delivery service from Tuesday.

This service is a kind of extra to the already existing Amazon Instant Video, which has over 90,000 commercial-free movies as well as TV shows to offer for purchase or rent, as told by the Seattle-based company. A membership to Amazon Prime requires an expenditure of $79 annually to have access to the unlimited free streaming.

Online business firm, Amazon has bought out Lovefilm. com for £200million. Lovefilm is into the business of movie rentals. Post this, Amazon will have majority stake in the company in which it already had a share of 42 per cent since 2008.

The remaining 58 per cent is also a part of it now and will be catering to 1.6 million customers during this time. For a company that showed a revenue of £97 million alone in 2009 and suffered a loss of nearly £1 million, the deal comes as a golden opportunity.

After bad financial, it decided to launch a movie rental business online and has shown a growth of 30-40 per cent during this time.