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News Breaks February 15, 2013 05:11 EDT AMZN Amazon Web Services makes Amazon Redshift available to all customers Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced that Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud, is now broadly available for use. News For AMZN From The Last 14 Days Check below for free stories on AMZN the last two weeks. Sign up for a free trial to see the rest of the stories you've been missing. 1 | 2 | all recent AMZN news | >> May 22, 2013 13:56 EDT AMZN Amazon.com to add 500 jobs in Web services unit, Washington Post says Subscribe for More Information 09:07 EDT AMZN Amazon introduces 'Kindle Worlds' commercial publishing platform for fan fiction Amazon Publishing announced Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment division for its series Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and Vampire Diaries and plans to announce more licenses soon, the company said. Through these licenses, Kindle Worlds will allow any writer to publish authorized stories inspired by these Worlds and make them available for readers to purchase in the Kindle Store. Amazon Publishing will pay royalties to both the rights holders of the Worlds and the author. May 21, 2013 09:07 EDT AMZN Amazon.ca introduces Amazon Cloud Drive for Canada All customers get 5 GB of free storage. Additional storage plans start at C$10 a year, the company said. 05:33 EDT AMZN Amazon Web Services achieves FedRAMP compliance for AWS GovCloud Amazon Web Services, or AWS, an Amazon.com company, announced AWS GovCloud and all U.S. AWS Regions have received an Agency Authority to Operate, or ATO, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, requirements at the Moderate impact level. FedRAMP is a U.S. government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. With this distinction, AWS has demonstrated it can meet the extensive FedRAMP security requirements and as a result, an even wider range of government customers can leverage AWS's secure environment to store, process, and protect a diverse array of sensitive government data. Leveraging the HHS authorization, all U.S. government agencies now have the information they need to evaluate AWS for their applications and workloads, provide their own authorizations to use AWS, and transition workloads into the AWS environment. May 17, 2013 07:10 EDT AMZN U.K. to question Amazon over income tax, Reuters reports Subscribe for More Information 06:43 EDT AMZN Apple disputing government's e-book allegations, NY Times says Apple (AAPL) is aggressively combating the U.S. government's contention that it pushed Amazon.com (AMZN) and publishers to raise e-book prices,The New York Times reported yesterday, citing court papers filed this week. Amazon and publishing companies were already looking to use a different pricing model before Apple joined the e-book business in 2000, the newspaper quotes Apple as stating. A trial over the Justice Department's lawsuit against Apple regarding e-book pricing is slated to start June 3, the newspaper noted. Reference Link 06:12 EDT AMZN Apple losing its edge as innovator, poll shows, Bloomberg reports Subscribe for More Information 06:06 EDT AMZN On the Fly: Periodicals Wrap-Up WALL STREET JOURNAL: A so-so Q1 earnings season hasn't dented investors' enthusiasm for stocks as prices have been rising, with the DJIA up 16% for the year and 4.2% since earnings season began April 8, the Wall Street Journal reports...JPMorgan Chase (JPM), in a last-ditch effort to beat back activist investors, sent a letter to shareholders who have yet to vote on the nonbinding proposal ahead of the May 21 annual meeting, urging them to reject a proposal to split the chairman and CEO roles held by James Dimon, the Wall Street Journal reports...REUTERS: Amazon.com (AMZN) will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate income tax bill, Reuters reports...J.C. Penney (JCP) CEO Ullman says that the department store chain is emerging from what he called an abyss but warned he needs time to fix the issues of the retailer, Reuters reports...BLOOMBERG: Apple (AAPL), which holds $102B in cash and investments outside the U.S., will suggest changes to corporate-tax laws to encourage companies to bring more cash into the country, Bloomberg reports...Fiat’s (FIATY) deliberations over moving its headquarters to the U.S. after a merger with Chrysler Group LLC. raised concern among Italian unions and politicians about the plans of the country’s biggest manufacturer. CEO Marchionne is considering the move because Fiat’s main sources of revenue and profit are shifting to North America, Bloomberg reports. May 16, 2013 10:03 EDT AMZN On The Fly: Analyst Initiation Summary Today's noteworthy initiations include: Amazon.com (AMZN) initiated with a Buy at Lazard Capital... Apple (AAPL) initiated with a Neutral at Susquehanna... Churchill Downs (CHDN) initiated with a Buy at Brean Capital... Interpublic Group (IPG) initiated with an Overweight at Evercore... Monarch Casino (MCRI) initiated with a Buy at Brean Capital... Stillwater Mining (SWC) coverage resumed with an Outperform at Wells Fargo... Wabtec (WAB) initiated with an Overweight at Atlantic Equities... eBay (EBAY) initiated with a Buy at Lazard Capital... Dangdang (DANG) initiated with a Buy at BofA/Merrill... Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE) coverage resumed with a Neutral at JPMorgan... ValueClick (VCLK) initiated with an Underperform at Northland Securities... Yelp (YELP) initiated with an Outperform at Cowen. 09:24 EDT AMZN Amazon.com expands content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Subscribe for More Information 06:46 EDT AMZN Amazon.com initiated with a Buy at Lazard Capital Subscribe for More Information May 15, 2013 17:46 EDT AMZN SAC Capital gives quarterly update on stakes NEW STAKES: Discovery (DISCA), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Media (LMCA), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), and Cubist (CBST). INCREASED STAKES: Suncor (SU), EQT Corporation (EQT), Amazon.com (AMZN), Visa (V), and GNC Holdings (GNC). DECREASED STAKES: News Corp. (NWSA), Facebook (FB), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), and Avago (AVGO). LIQUIDATED STAKES: Coach (COH), Dover (DOV), and Virgin Media (VMED), . 08:19 EDT AMZN Amazon paid $3.7M tax in U.K.on $6.B in sales, Reuters reports Subscribe for More Information May 14, 2013 07:54 EDT AMZN Amazon's employees in Germany to strike for pay, benefits, Reuters reports Subscribe for More Information 07:05 EDT AMZN Netflix continues to lead web usage in North America, AllThingsD reports Subscribe for More Information May 13, 2013 15:22 EDT AMZN Amazon confirms purchase of Samsung screen technology, The Digital Reader says Subscribe for More Information May 10, 2013 14:52 EDT AMZN Market poised to end week higher as tech helps lead advance Subscribe for More Information 07:24 EDT AMZN Alibaba to expand beyond China, Economic Times reports Alibaba is looking to expand beyond its home market in China by targeting overseas Chinese through its flagship e-commerce website Taobao, reports the Economic Times. Taobao is China's most popular e-shopping platform, with over 90% of the online market for consumer-to-consumer transactions in the country. It had more than 800M product listings and over 500M registered users as of last year. Reference Link 07:08 EDT AMZN ESPN considers subsidizing wireless data plans, WSJ reports Subscribe for More Information May 9, 2013 13:41 EDT AMZN Amazon hardware developments include phone with 3D screen, WSJ reports Subscribe for More Information 1 | 2 | all recent AMZN news | >> Sign up for a free trial to see the rest of the stories you've been missing.