Commercial websites that use Amazon's cloud of Web services are still struggling after last week's outage, though many of the affected sites are back online.
Amazon Web Services denied Thursday that a government inquiry -- or even a massive denial-of-service attack -- prompted it to kick WikiLeaks off its servers.
Amazon.com Inc. has opened its payment system to other Web sites in a move that would pit it against eBay Inc's PayPal.
Amazon.com, the world's largest e-tailer, is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers - including those on eBay - to use its network of distribution centers to store and ship their products, according to a report published Friday.
Ed Anuff spent nearly eight years building portals for large corporations. But now he wants to reverse all that to become part of a movement that's exploding the Web into millions of tiny chunks an...
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - It's not easy being the man in the middle.
A LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS AGO, in March 2003, I wrote the very first Face Time—a column that asked if Silicon Valley was turning into the new Detroit. In support of this suggestion, I cited a bunch o...
Business 2.0: The Great Giveawayupdated: Fri Apr 01 2005 00:01:00
The meeting had dragged on for more than an hour, and a restless Jeff Bezos had heard enough. Three years ago, in one of Amazon's Seattle offices, the CEO had rounded up 15 or so senior engineers a...
It wasn't quite the dot-com craze, but back in the early 1990s there was a burst of excitement for what was called the virtual corporation. The idea--a great one, really--came from a book of that t...
It makes sense that Bill Gates would be tech's biggest optimist. For one, it's hard to be down when you're holding $33 billion of Microsoft stock. Then there's the fact that even in 2002's IT slump...
When staying at a hotel, who among us has not had to suffer through a dial-up connection that would have been blazing fast in 1985? Hotels are finally reaching out to tech-needy travelers, evidence...
If there's one thing an effective empire builder needs, it's a good map. Microsoft's map for reshaping and reviving the world of business software can be found on floor two of Building Four on the ...
Yes, these are dog days for technology. Stocks have been hammered. Programmers are out of work. Many companies have disappeared, and those still around have been humbled. And no matter how you look...
Never trust a thin chef. These words come from a cousin of mine, who is a chef, and, yes, is a little heavyset. The Web version of this is the free Web service. If it's so good, why isn't it chargi...
Nostradamus had it easy. He could write cryptic four-line poems and make vague predictions, letting the generations to come debate whether he was a seer or a faker. We here at FSB are held to a hig...
Outside, the building could not be more ordinary--it's indistinguishable from hundreds of other offices dotting Silicon Valley. You'd never suspect that inside are computers running services, like ...