In the daily Amazon news, the company is said to be negotiating for part of a 12.5 acre parcel of land next to their South Lake Union headquarters in Seattle in order to expand. Research firm OTR Global has echoed a report from Digitimes in January, saying that information from Asias component suppliers indicates that first quarter “component orders for Amazon’s Kindle Fire and ereaders are down significantly…due to abundant inventory of finished product in the supply chain.” Separately, market research firm IHS iSuppli estimates Amazon shipped 3.9 million Fires in the fourth quarter–lower than many analyst guesses–and said that […]
