Why Amazon Has Entered The Ebook Subscription Market
Amazon unveiled Kindle Unlimited, a service that offers readers access to 600,000 ebooks and audiobooks for $9.99 a month. Sound familiar?
Jeremy Greenfield, ContributorAmazon unveiled Kindle Unlimited, a service that offers readers access to 600,000 ebooks and audiobooks for $9.99 a month. Sound familiar?
Jeremy Greenfield, ContributorRecognizing a competitive differentiator when they see it, shopping center owners are helping to fund Deliv's growth. read »
The highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date when measured by share price gains are NetScout Systems (NASDAQ:NTCT) up 45.72%, Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN) up 31.35%, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) up 29.84%, Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) up 28.6%, Fusion-IO (NYSE:FIO) up 26.15% and Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) up 25.56%. A $10K investment in NetScout Systems shares on January 2nd of this year is worth $14,951 as of market close Friday, leading all 55 companies in this index. read »
After years of assassination attempts by various WoW-killers hitting the market, it's more clear than ever that World of Warcraft has not only weathered the storm, but continues to thrive even in the face of a declining model. read »
Tornado Alley is the optimal place for wind turbines in the United States, pushing capacity factors beyond 40%, and making wind the second largest generator of electricity in Kansas, South Dakota and Iowa. But political forces seek to stop expansion. read »
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was a blow to the global fight against Aids. Among its 298 innocent crew and passengers were at least six prominent experts on the disease. read »
Apple just added a second female director to its 8-seat board – and in Silicon Valley, that counts as progress. read »
Both proponents and opponents of nuclear power expect the Environmental Protection Agency in coming months to relax its rules restricting radiation emissions from reactors and other nuclear facilities. EPA officials say they have no such intention, but they are willing to reconsider the method they use to limit public exposure—and the public's level of risk. read »
Shovel Knight is hard to stop playing. It is a super stylized tribute to the epic platformers of the video game industry’s early days. My kids and I have been playing the game together for the last few weeks. We sit on the sofa, handing off the WiiU controller and navigating our way past witty characters and imaginative obstacles. The thing about platformer games is that they are all about style. After all, they are all essentially the same. The avatar just keeps moving to the right. Sometimes[...] read »
Germany is considering ditching PCs and returning to the typewriter for sensitive documents in the wake of the NSA spying scandal, the head of the government's inquiry into the situation has admitted. The comments were swiftly followed by polarised reaction on the web and from other politicians in Germany. read »