Aspiring YouTube of comics—Tapas Media—featured in new Kindle Chronicles podcast
Chang Kim, CEO of Tapas Media in San Francisco, is on a mission: to build the best platform for bite-sized mobile content. His 2012 startup was already a leading online platform...
Amazon adds silver aluminum, 64 GB option to Fire HD 10
It’s really hard to tell what Amazon’s going to do with regard to its new devices. Everyone was excited over the release of a new Kindle—and then it turned out to...
Amazon sues sellers who posted fake reviews
Amazon’s serious about eliminating fake reviews from its site, and the latest move in its take-no-prisoners approach is to sue three of its marketplace sellers who have used sock puppet accounts...
In competing with Amazon, Internet retailers are their own worst enemy
Why are other Internet retailers failing next to Amazon? It’s a good question, and Kim Garretson on the blog Internet Retailer believes he has the answer. The fundamental problem he sees...
Amazon Prime has an incredible subscriber retention rate
Amazon customers seem to love Amazon Prime. While Amazon doesn’t release its own numbers, privately-run surveys fill in some interesting data. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has surveyed over 2,000 consumers (PDF)...
Today only: Woot sells refurbished Fire HD 6 tablets for $30 off
If you want this deal, better grab it if it’s still on offer, because it will sell out fast. Woot is offering refurbished Fire HD 6 tablets for $40 for the...
Cover battery connector continues to annoy Kindle Oasis owners
In the couple of weeks since complaints about the Oasis’s battery cover not properly charging the reader started to come out, more people have found the magnetic charging connector to be...
At Code Conference, Jeff Bezos talks of many things
Yesterday at Recode’s Code Conference, Jeff Bezos spoke with veteran tech reporter Walt Mossberg and then answered many audience questions afterward. The hour-and-twenty-minute video is up on Facebook and YouTube, but...
‘Frankenkindle’ adds accessibility support to an ordinary Kindle
Design News has a brief story and video on the “Frankenkindle,” a Kindle modification that an electrical engineer hacked together to make a Kindle that was easier to use for his...
PayPal discontinues its app for Fire, Windows Phone, and Blackberry
PayPal has just announced some important changes to its mobile apps. Starting in June, Android and iOS users will be required to upgrade to version 6.0 of the PayPal app—but from...