"e-business" news, interviews, and features

News about e-business

• Amazon reportedly scoops up video gamer site Twitch for $1B

  Reports would mean Google's talks with Twitch fell through while Amazon stepped up

• Google goes after Amazon with same-day delivery

  Barnes & Noble teams with Google to challenge Amazon's delivery service

• Amazon Fire dubbed an 'experiment in e-commerce' with lessons for future phones

  Firefly button lessens friction in buying, which is what Amazon wants to learn about for future generations

• Workarounds to purge search bar from Firefox's new tab page are available

  Code of new tab page hints that Mozilla is preparing the browser for ads

• Google scoops up Songza and its modern version of the 80s mix tape

  Google says it will eventually work Songza into Google Play and YouTube

• Amazon's Firefly will flicker on iOS, Android

  Analysts agree that Amazon will extend the Firefly technology to apps for solid strategic reasons

Features about e-business

• A closer look at the new technologies in Amazon's Fire smartphone

  Firefly, Dynamic Perspective are compelling features, but are they enough to make phone users drop the iPhone or Android?

• Amazon's Fire phone is 'Prime' example of customer first

  Firefly button in new smartphone makes it simpler to shop online

• Amazon's expected smartphone already faces skeptics

  Hinted 3D features could be used to display Amazon store products for phone users

• Malvertising rise pushes ad industry to action

  Hidden malware within ads on websites has advertisers scrambling to come up with a coordinated response.

• Apple's rich enough to buy Beats with movie-date money

  The $2.6B in cash amounted to just 1.7% of Apple's horde

• Google aims for purity with Android Silver

  Is the Android Silver initiative mostly a rebranding effort for existing Nexus smartphones, or is it something much more?