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Amazon.co.uk  and amazon.com led ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index Customer Satisfaction Scores for the Top 40 Retail Websites in the UK. Amazon.uk  garnered 86 points, to stay ahead of  Amazon.com, which recorded 84 points. John Lewis (80) stayed at in third this year, rounding out the list of three companies that surpass the excellence threshold of 80. Play.com (79), Apple [...]

Amazon has introduced  its Cloud Player media service in the UK, France and Germany. Amazon Cloud Player scans users Music Player libraries and and stores their MP3s with high quality 256 kbps copies on Amazon’s servers. All Amazon MP3 purchases are automatically saved to Cloud Player for free. Customers can store up to 250 tracks for free not including the Amazon purchased MP3s. Cloud Player [...]

Amazon today announced that it is finally launching its Android apps Appstore in UK and few other European countries such as Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Coincidentally, Amazon’s rival Barnes & Noble announced three partners for in UK  – electronics and home goods seller Argos, and bookshops Blackwells and Foyle’s. In UK it will follow the same conventions as the U.S. with [...]

AmazonLocal has been launched in the UK, starting with London with the aim to eventually expand across the UK, it joins the likes of Groupon, Living Social and KGB Deals. So far the service has been US-only. Bargain hunters can also personalise the deals they are targeted with by using a deal preferences section, which allows them to rate how much they would prefer to be offered entertainment and travel, [...]

Amazon is opening a new Development centre in London with tens of developers, engineers, UX designers and graphic designers  who will be developing services and APIs for phones, computers, televisions and gaming consoles The offices will be located in an eight floor, 4,366 square metre area in Glasshouse Yard. The design and development teams from Amazon companies Pushbutton and Lovefilm will also [...]

Amazon Store Amazon has announced this morning the launch of its UK Kindle Store. The online store will stock over 400,000 books including 84 of the 100 Nielsen UK Bestsellers. On 29th July, Amazon UK started taking pre-orders for the all-new Kindle featuring a new electronic-ink screen , a new sleek design with a smaller body while still keeping the same 6-inch-size reading area. The all-new [...]