Tag: Amazon

How low can prices go? For tablets, is a $99 tablet feasible, especially one that has the backing of a big company such as Amazon? Earlier today, there were reports suggesting that in fact, the online retailer was indeed working on a $99 tablet and it would launch this year.

Amazon has had a pretty big role in the way in which we shop and its managed to change the mindset of many by encouraging more online shipping. Now, Amazon is at it once more and this time, they want to launch their own virtual currency.

Amazon has confirmed that they have purchased Ivona. This company may not be a well known household name, but they play an important role in the area of text to speech and have been providing software solutions in regards to this for the past decade.

The online retail giant, Amazon Inc. has confirmed that they have begun to ship their Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet today. It is the WiFi only model of their big screen Android tablet that has started to ship with the company confirming that it will be about another seven days before the 4G LTE model [...]