The Bay Citizen: Amazon Spends Millions To Fight Internet Sales Tax

Amazon is determined to overturn California’s Internet sales tax and has spent $5.25 million toward that end, even though the referendum is nine months away.

The Bay Citizen: Amazon Spends Millions to Fight Internet Sales Tax

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Ponponpon Finally Available As Mp3 Purchase On Amazon

[video link] I am pleased to announce that "PONPONPON", the totally insane and deliciously obnoxious J-pop song Mark posted about last month, is finally available for purchase as an MP3 download on Amazon. Until now the song has been unavailable … Continue reading →

Amazon Cloud Drive & Cloud Player: Buy Music Once, Listen Forever

With Amazon's new cloud storage option, you can purchase MP3 singles and albums and store the music online. Store music, video and data on the Cloud Drive.

Amazon Cloud Drive & Cloud Player: Buy Music Once, Listen Forever

Backlink: http://www.suite101.com/content/amazon-cloud-drive--cloud-player-buy-music-once-listen-forever-a363835

Amazon Elects HP Palm’s Rubinstein as a Director

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the largest online retailer, appointed Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Jon Rubinstein to its board, adding expertise in mobile devices as it expands sales of the Kindle electronic book reader.

Amazon Elects HP Palm’s Rubinstein as a Director

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Amazon: Wikileaks has no right to publish the leaks

Amazon claims that Wikileaks doesn't have rights in the leaked material, and hence was in violation of its terms of service. Here's its statement:

Amazon: Wikileaks has no right to publish the leaks

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Guardian: U.S. politicians told Amazon to remove Wikileaks

When Wikileaks twittered that Amazon's removal of its website from its servers was a "free speech" issue, it seemed an odd turn of phrase: after all, Amazon is a private company and is free to host what it likes. The Guardian has just reported, however, that it did indeed remove Wikileaks after being pressured to do so by the U.S. government.

Guardian: U.S. politicians told Amazon to remove Wikileaks

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Wikileaks 'ousted' from Amazon

Amazon will no longer be hosting Wikileaks, according to Wikileaks: "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free--fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe."

Wikileaks 'ousted' from Amazon

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