Amazon customers to be able to rent HD movies, purchase TV shows for home viewing

September 19th, 2009 Amazon widens private labels with electronics gearSAN FRANCISCO — Consumers visit Amazon.com for deals on products from companies ranging from Apple Inc. to Zenith Electronics Corp.

September 15th, 2009 Blockbuster may close as many as 960 US storesSAN FRANCISCO — Blockbuster Inc. may close as many as 960 stores by the end of next year, shedding more dead weight as the struggling video rental chain tries to reverse its losses and fend off rapidly growing rivals Netflix Inc.

September 4th, 2009 Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on KindlesSAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.

August 13th, 2009 College publisher will rent textbooks to studentsSTAMFORD, Conn. — A college textbook publisher said Thursday it would become the first to rent titles directly to students, another option for students fed up with spending $100 or more to buy books they have little use for after a semester.

July 30th, 2009 Amazon.com shows support for vetoHONOLULU — Amazon.com has reinstated its associate program with Hawaii-based Internet partners. The move follows Gov.

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists at the University of Liverpool, UK, have discovered that the Amazon River is 11 million years old. They discovered that the Amazon River, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.

July 24th, 2009 On The Call: Amazon CFO Tom SzkutakSAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. refuses to say how many of its Kindle electronic reading devices have sold since their original debut in 2007, but the release of newer versions of the product, a steadily growing number of available digital books and a recent price cut suggest it may be gaining some traction with consumers.

July 23rd, 2009 Amazon 2Q profit falls with Toys R Us settlementSEATTLE — Amazon.com says second-quarter earnings fell while sales rose. That's because of a $51 million payment to settle a long-standing dispute with former partner Toys R Us.

July 22nd, 2009 Amazon.com in $850M deal for Web shoe store ZapposSEATTLE — One can never have too many shoes. Amazon.com Inc.

July 20th, 2009 Barnes & Noble to open electronic bookstoreNEW YORK — Retailer Barnes & Noble says it will take on Amazon.com with an electronic bookstore that will allow customers to buy books to read on a variety of handheld platforms and computers. The New York-based retailer says the store will provide access to more than 700,000 titles and up to 1 million titles within the next year.

May 6th, 2009 Amazon's larger Kindle for textbooks, periodicalsNEW YORK — Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger — and more expensive — version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Kids watching adult-stuff on TV slyly during childhood may have sex early, according to a new study. These findings by Children's Hospital Boston (CHB) are based on a longitudinal study tracking 754 children aged six to 18 years, of which 365 were males and 389 were females.

April 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a unique way of relaxing at home - they watch three films in a row. "We like to watch three movies in a row," People magazine quoted Holmes as saying at the Swarovski and Independent Filmmaker Project's 30th annual gala Sunday night at Cooper Square Hotel.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes unwind themselves by watching back-to-back movies. The couple, who have a three-year-old daughter Suri, love watching several films in a row after a busy day at work, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

April 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers from Oregon State University suggest a classroom-based intervention program that has been found to significantly reduce the amount of violent TV that children watch. The study showed that special classroom curriculum could reduce violent TV viewing among first- through fourth-grade children by nearly 18 pct.