Google hasn't committed to opening a store in Dublin just yet. In a statement to Bloomberg, the company said that it's "examining all potential uses" for the space, and did not provide a timeline on when it will made a final decision. Late last year,...

Kindle products and Amazon Exclusives. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) There's been some chatter lately about Amazon opening its own stores out in the non-cyber world. Yes, we're talking physical, brick-and-mortar stores, the kind people can actually walk into.

(NYSE: BKS), Books-A-Million and Canada’s Indigo are saying they will not carry Amazon Publishing titles in their stores, though it is unclear how that boycott will actually be carried out. Other sources have previously suggested that Amazon might open...

In an early report on the rumors, Jason Calacanis at Launch noted that Jeff Bezos ”Bezos gets off on destroying channels” and on imitating Steve Jobs. Calacanis imagines the stores would be huge — Wal-Mart-sized — and feature lots more than books: …...

But they rarely think big enough, Jason says. "If it's not beyond your conception, it's too small." We were talking about Weblogs, Inc. , a network of blogs that Jason launched in 2003 and sold to AOL in 2005, when it had 90 titles, including Engadget,...

It was up within a few minutes [here] & I submitted to Hacker News. It got enough traction there to get to the first page for an hour or so & generate some high quality applicants. A few minutes later, I checked the post & saw a comment from the...