Amazon Amazon Third Quarter Profits Drop 73% Amazon just released its third quarter sales, indicating that net income is at $63 million, or $0.14 a share, down from $231 million, or $0.51 a share a year ago. This is a 73% drop in quarterly profit from the third quarter of 2010. Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S reports that analysts expected Amazon's third-quarter earnings to land at 24 cents per share… Alicia Eler View comments
Product Reviews Kippt: A Bookmarking App to Watch Jori Lallo, a web and mobile designer at developer-loving message board startup Convore, has released a new version of a side project built with Finnish designer Karri Saarinen, called Kippt. It's a bookmarking app along the lines of Delicious or Pinboard but without social sharing, with a stripped-down Reader view of all articles and with a… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
E-Commerce Facebook Testing Credits for Outside Websites On October 21, the Facebook Developer blog announced that it had started working with "a few developers to test the ability to offer Facebook Credits on websites, with the goal of helping them offer a more unified app experience to users beyond apps on Facebook." Their preliminary Facebook Credits test uses the games UNO Boost and Collapse! Blast… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Sponsored Resources Building a Public Cloud for Business Continuity Cloud computing has been eyed for some time as a solution for business continuity needs, as the thought of setting up new virtual servers on an automated, on-demand basis seems highly appealing. But when it comes to figuring out the kind of cloud offerings that will work best for business continuity, typically private cloud options are usually the… Brian Proffitt View comments
News Real-Time Chat Comes to GetGlue Social TV and entertainment check-in app GetGlue pushed out an update today that brings real-time chat, Tumblr integration and new Web widgets that let users show off their accumulated badges. Once a user checks into a show, movie, album, video game or other form of entertainment, they can engage in a conversation with others. It prioritizes… Social John Paul Titlow View comments