A year after Amazon’s acquisition of comiXology, Marvel Comics has renewed its exclusive relationship with the digital comic distribution platform and expanded the deal to allow digital comics sales directly on the Amazon Kindle store for the first time. ComiXology will remain distributor of English-language…

This could allay some doubts as to whether Amazon has the stomach to keep competing in the tablet wars vs Apple’s iPad and a growing fleet of products powered by Google’s Android operating system. The e-retailer says today that it bought IVONA Software, the Poland-based firm that powers the "Text-to-Speech," "Voice…

UPDATE, 11:10 AM: It's official — there's a new Kindle. It's called Kindle Paper White, costs $119 and will ship October 1. At 9.1 millimeters and 7.5 ounces, it is very slender. "Thinner than a magazine, lighter than a paperback,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said as he announced the product in Santa Monica this morning. A…

The e-retailer says it has agreements with just about every major music provider — including Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner — giving it the right to offer streamed versions of songs found on a customer’s hard drive. Amazon will include this scan-and-match feature in its Cloud Player service, making it more…

This is one of the most interesting stories circulating before the opening today in San Francisco of the Google I/O conference for developers. It seems the search giant will pose a more direct challenge to Amazon’s Kindle Fire than to Apple’s iPad: Google and computer maker Asus will announce a 7-inch tablet that will…

A milestone announcement today for HBO’s streaming platform. The new HBO GO app, available at the Amazon Appstore for Android, should significantly expand the number of HBO subscribers who’ll be able to use a mobile device to watch the premium channel’s 1,400 titles including original series such as The Sopranos, Sex A…

Tablet computer devices like Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook have replaced laptop and desktop computers as the preferred second-screen alternate to television for watching full-length TV, according to the results of a study commissioned by Viacom. Titled “Tapping Into Tabletomics” and…

Amazon says that its Kindle Fire tablet is “the most successful product we've ever launched” based on sales. But early adopters have had a mixed reaction to the sometimes jerky graphics, and an off button on the bottom that some users say they frequently hit by accident. The Fire gets a so-so 3.8 stars out of 5 from…

LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2011 — Coinciding with the first shipments of the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet™, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) today unveiled a new interface for Android-powered tablets that makes browsing and instantly watching unlimited TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix better…

Amazon stoked the hype around its new Kindle Fire tablet by shipping it a day ahead of schedule, the company announced today. That’s a smart move: In addition to the extra PR and…

The tablet wars are intensifying as the holiday shopping season approaches: Amazon kicked things up today by announcing that Kindle Fire customers will only have to fill out one form to register for multiple media services including Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, Facebook, and The Weather Channel — and games from…

Amazon startled investors last night with its report of a huge 3Q profit miss. The stock is off about 11.5% this morning from yesterday’s close of $227.15 before the announcement. But analysts are taking the disclosure in stride, saying that Amazon’s just going through some growing pains while CEO Jeff Bezos awaits a…