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Winning Brands Listing Formalized by Amazon China

BARRIE, ONTARIO--(MARKET WIRE)--May 2, 2008 -- Winning Brands Corporation (Other OTC:WNBD.PK - News) (Frankfurt:WMU.F - News) www.WinningBrands.ca announces that Winning Colours® Stain Remover has passed the evaluation phase of its listing with Amazon.com China affiliate -- Amazon.cn. For the Chinese market, the product will be known as "1000+(TM) Stain Remover" to accommodate the non-roman alphabet of Chinese consumers. Amazon is a world leader in on-line consumer sales and entered the Chinese market through the acquisition of Joyo.com in 2004, now renamed Amazon.cn. The Winning Brands product had been under evaluation by Amazon.cn since 2007 according to 4 criteria: assessment of interest by consumers, determination of whether satisfaction followed purchase, the safety of the product and the likelihood of growth.

Amazon Launches New Applications on Facebook(R) Platform--''Amazon Giver'' and ''Amazon Grapevine'' Let Facebook Users Share and Buy Products Their Friends Want from Amazon.co

SEATTLE - (Business Wire) Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today launched two applications on Facebook Platform, Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine, allowing Facebook users to see and purchase what their friends want through their Amazon Wish Lists, as well as recent public activity on Amazon. Amazon Giver allows users to see what their friends on Facebook have on their Amazon Wish Lists. Users can choose to purchase a gift for them from Amazon.com via the application, or view suggested items based on interests they have listed on their Facebook profile. Amazon Grapevine allows users to see friends

Amazon Rolls Out Fulfillment Service API

Amazon.com has rolled out a new interface for the firm's fulfillment service for online merchants. The new service, dubbed Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS), provides a web application programming interface (API) that allow the firm's merchants to access information and integrate with Amazon's fulfillment service, Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA). Fulfillment By Amazon--which has been running since last fall--lets Amazon handle all of the fulfillment, packing, and shipping of inventory for online retailers. The new API is free for Amazon's Fulfillment By Amazon customers, who already pay fees for using FBA. The latest API is one of many from Amazon, which let third party programmers access Amazon inventory and product information, store data, and run applications.

Winning Brands Listing Formalized by Amazon China

BARRIE, ONTARIO -- 05/02/08 -- Winning Brands Corporation (PINKSHEETS: WNBD) (FRANKFURT: WMU) www.WinningBrands.ca announces that Winning Colours® Stain Remover has passed the evaluation phase of its l..

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Premium Support, Providing Customers with Fast, One-on-One Technical Assistance

SEATTLE, BUSINESS WIRE -- Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the availability of AWS Premium Support. AWS Customers who sign up for AWS Premium Support will receive personalized technical assistance from the Amazon Web Services team, whenever and as frequently as their business demands. The service offers support for operational issues or technical questions during development, test or integration. Customers can contact AWS developer support engineers and count on fast, predictable response times and personalized support to help bring their issues to resolution. AWS Premium Support is currently available to customers of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Premium Support, Providing Customers with Fast, One-on-One Technical Assistance

SEATTLE--April 17, 2008--Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the availability of AWS Premium Support. AWS Customers who sign up for AWS Premium Support will receive personalized technical assistance from the Amazon Web Services team, whenever and as frequently as their business demands. The service offers support for operational issues or technical questions during development, test or integration. Customers can contact AWS developer support engineers and count on fast, predictable response times and personalized support to help bring their issues to resolution. AWS Premium Support is currently available to customers of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).

Amazon Launches Premium Support For Web Services Offerings

Seattle-based Amazon Web Services said today that it has launched a new offering, AWS Premium Support, which provides personalized technical assistance to users of their Web Services products. The new support option covers the firm's Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS). According to Amazon, the new support offerings will come in two flavors: Silver, and Gold. The Silver plan will provide a response time of four hours for high severity items, and two days for lower severity issues, and will cost users $100 per month or $0.10 per dollar of total monthly usage, whichever is higher. The Gold Plan provides phone support, and a one hour response time, and will cost $400 a month, or $0.

Doing Business in China, Web 2.0 Style

SHANGHAI, China, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- With a tiny camera and a big personality, Christine Lu is on the move in Shanghai, vlogging fashion shows, entrepreneurs, advertising execs, Olympic planners, and China consultants. Founder of The China Business Network, the platform from which she hosts The China Business Show, and the largest online community of people doing business in China, Lu is on a mission. "China's economy and social environment are vibrant in a way that too few people outside China understand. Back in the USA, so many people who need to learn about doing business in China don't know where to start. I figure that all of us in the trenches have a story to tell."

Doing Business in China, Web 2.0 Style

SHANGHAI, China, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- With a tiny camera and a big personality, Christine Lu is on the move in Shanghai, vlogging fashion shows, entrepreneurs, advertising execs, Olympic planners, and China consultants. Founder of The China Business Network, the platform from which she hosts The China Business Show, and the largest online community of people doing business in China, Lu is on a mission. "China's economy and social environment are vibrant in a way that too few people outside China understand. Back in the USA, so many people who need to learn about doing business in China don't know where to start. I figure that all of us in the trenches have a story to tell."

Amazon Adds Web Services to 'Fulfillment By Amazon' Program

Amazon has added a new service to help online sellers fulfill goods: the Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) allows merchants to tap in to Amazon's network of fulfillment centers and expertise in logistics. Amazon FWS builds on the company's existing Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) service by adding "programmatic access" to the fulfillment process.

Amazon Insists Publishers Use Their On-Demand Printer

Lawrence Person writes "According to a story up on Writer's Weekly, Print on Demand publishers are being told to use Amazon's own BookSurge POD printer or else Amazon will disable the 'buy' button for their books. After hemming and hawing, an Amazon/BookSurge rep 'finally admitted that books not converted to BookSurge would have the "buy" button turned off on Amazon.com, just as we'd heard from several other POD publishers who had similar conversations with Amazon/BookSurge representatives... their eventual desire is to have no books from other POD publishers available on Amazon.com.' So much for Amazon's Vision Statement: 'Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

Amazon.com Launches ''Amazon TextBuyIt,'' Making It Fast and Easy for Customers to Shop and Buy on Amazon.com Using Text Messages

Amazon.com Launches ''Amazon TextBuyIt,'' Making It Fast and Easy for Customers to Shop and Buy on Amazon.com Using Text Messages

RIM to launch new BlackBerry in China before end of October

Shenzhen. April 14. INTERFAX-CHINA - Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones, hopes to launch a new BlackBerry model in China by the end of October this year, an official from RIM China said last Friday at a conference in Shenzhen. "We will hopefully be able to secure a network access license from the Ministry of Industry and Informatization (MII) before the end of October this year for our second BlackBerry model for the Chinese market," Johnson Xu, RIM's south China sales director, told Interfax at the First China Mobile Phone Industry Research Conference. The new model will probably have a camera and multimedia functions, Xu said. In October last year, RIM introduced its first BlackBerry for China, the 8700g, through a distribution deal with Alcatel-Lucent.

Amazon.com Invites Customers to Determine Who Is One Step Closer to Winning the Weekend Trip to London with ''The Tales of Beedle the Bard''

SEATTLE - (Business Wire) After receiving thousands of submissions from around the world, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 20 semi-finalists of the Amazon Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest (www.amazon.com/beedleballads, www.amazon.co.uk/beedleballads). The contest challenged Muggles ages 13 and older to creatively answer one of three Harry Potter-related questions (in 100 words or less), for the chance to win a weekend trip for two to London, England with

Amazon.com Launches Two Facebook Apps

Amazon.com launched two applications on Facebook Platform, Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine, allowing Facebook users to see and purchase what their friends want through their Amazon Wish Lists, as well as recent public activity on Amazon.

Amazon Web Services Launches 'Elastic IPs' -- Static IPs for

Amazon Web Services LLC, an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN, today launched Elastic IP addresses and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple Availability Zones, two new features that enable Amazon EC2 developers to build even more powerful and fault resilient applications in the cloud. These new capabilities enable developers to achieve greater reliability and redundancy for all of their applications, including hosting websites. These two features were among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and allows developers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.

Amazon Web Services Launches 'Elastic IPs'

Amazon Web Services LLC, an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc., today launched Elastic IP addresses and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple Availability Zones, two new features that enable Amazon EC2 developers to build even more powerful and fault resilient applications in the cloud. The company states that these new capabilities enable developers to achieve greater reliability and redundancy for all of their applications, including hosting websites. These two features were among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2. It adds that Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and allows developers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.

Amazon launches two new applications for Facebook

Amazon.com has introduced two new applications for social networking web site Facebook.com. Amazon Giver allows users to view friends’ virtual wish lists and link directly to Amazon.com to purchase gifts. Amazon Grapevine displays a Facebook member’s friends’ recent Amazon.com activity.

Amazon Sues New York Over Sales Tax Law

Amazon.com has sued New York State, over a law which forces online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to the state. Amazon filed the complaint last Friday in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The move comes after the approval of a section of the New York State Tax Law which requires Internet retailers -- including those who do not have a physical presence in the state -- to collect taxes on behalf of the state. In particular, the law targets affiliates of Amazon.com and other e-commerce retailers, claiming that a retailer must collect taxes if they use any "in-state entity" to directly or indirectly refer customers to a retailer. The lawsuit (AMAZON.COM LLC and AMAZON SERVICES, LLC. vs. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE), challenges the constitutionality of N.

Amazon Launches New Applications on Facebook Platform

Online retailer Amazon.com has launched two applications on Facebook Platform, Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine, allowing Facebook users to see and purchase what their friends want through their Amazon wish lists, as well as recent public activity on Amazon.

Amazon launches new applications on Facebook platform

Online retailer Amazon.com has launched two applications on Facebook Platform, Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine, allowing Facebook users to see and purchase what their friends want through their Amazon wish lists, as well as recent public activity on Amazon.

Amazon Web Services Adds Static IP Addresses

Seattle-based Amazon Web Services, the web services arm of Amazon.com, said today that it has launched the ability to have static IP addresses with its Amazon EC2 cloud computing services. The firm's EC2 services previously did not allow static IP addresses, making it more difficult for developers to create computing instances and applications. According to Amazon, the new support allows users to create "Elastic IP" addresses which can be dynamically remapped to any compute instance in EC2. The ability makes it easier for users to host web sites on the service, and other applications which require a fixed (non-changing) IP address. The firm said static IP addresses were among the top requests of its developers. EC2 is Amazon's web-based service for renting computing capacity "on demand.

Amazon Web Services Launches 'Elastic IPs' for EC2

SEATTLE, March 27 -- Amazon Web Services LLC, an affiliate of Amazon.com Inc., today launched Elastic IP addresses and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple Availability Zones, two new features that enable Amazon EC2 developers to build even more powerful and fault resilient applications in the cloud. These new capabilities enable developers to achieve greater reliability and redundancy for all of their applications, including hosting Web sites. These two features were among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and allows developers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.

Amazon Web Services Launches ''Elastic IPs'' -- Static IPs for Dynamic Cloud Computing

SEATTLE - (Business Wire) Amazon Web Services LLC, an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), today launched Elastic IP addresses and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple Availability Zones, two new features that enable Amazon EC2 developers to build even more powerful and fault resilient applications in the cloud. These new capabilities enable developers to achieve greater reliability and redundancy for all of their applications, including hosting websites. These two features were among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and allows developers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.

Amazon Web Services Launches ''Elastic IPs'' -- Static IPs for Dynamic Cloud Computing

SEATTLE (Business Wire) -- Amazon Web Services LLC, an affiliate of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), today launched Elastic IP addresses and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple Availability Zones, two new features that enable Amazon EC2 developers to build even more powerful and fault resilient applications in the cloud. These new capabilities enable developers to achieve greater reliability and redundancy for all of their applications, including hosting websites. These two features were among the top requests of developers using Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud and allows developers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.

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