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- to claim a significant portion of the market from a traditional retail business that failed to develop an effective e-business strategy. The term stems from the seemingly overnight success of...
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- Gordon Gould of ThisNext.com: The Power of Social Networking
- Gordon Gould knows that consumers have the power. His site ThisNext.com seeks to take on giants like Amazon and eBay by bringing the power of social networking to shopping. Here Gould talks about raising money, generating interest, and listening to the real experts: customers.
- Videos 2007-10-29
- Amazon CTO: Cloud's Business Advantage
- At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Amazon's Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels outlines the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure. He says Web services enable businesses to lower costs, and increase agility and security.
- Videos 2009-12-01
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- Amazon's Wheel of Growth
- Scot Wingo submits: This is Episode 3B in a 4 part series. Here is the outline for the series:Episode I - Q408 in-depth analysis - available here with Q+A covered in an addendum IA linkEpisode II - Introducing the ChannelAdvisor Ecommerce Framework CEF linkEpisode III - eBay, Amazon and...
- External links 2009-02-22
- Amazon vs. eBay: The Giants of E-Commerce Duke It Out
- Scot Wingo submits: This is the first of a four part series focusing in on eBay EBAY and Amazon AMZN. This series comes from many questions we are receiving at ChannelAdvisor from our customers and prospects (and the press/Wall St.) about what...
- External links 2009-02-05
- Heads Up: Some Samsung Home Video Gear Getting Amazon VOD and Blockbuster Streaming by Firmware Update [Software]
- Owners of some recent Samsung HDTVs like the 650 or 7000 series and above, will be getting Amazon video on demand via firmware update. Those TVs, and some blu-ray and HTIB setups detailed below will be getting Blockbuster's video service. Yay for the endless upgrade, boo for the infinite format...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Amazon Bridges Corporate IT with the Cloud via New Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service
- Amazon Web Services AWS LLC, an Amazon.com company, has announced a limited public beta of its new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Amazon VPC service, a secure and seamless bridge between a company?s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. The service helps enterprises overcome a major obstacle to adoption of...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Amazon Launches Relational Database for the Cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service Amazon RDS, a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. The database is based on the MySQL platform, the company said.Amazon Web Services AWS has announced the Amazon...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Amazon`s Head Start in the Cloud Pays Off
- Amazon Web Services has leveraged its head start in the cloud space to address a nagging barrier to greater cloud adoption in the enterprise -- the ability to bridge internal corporate IT infrastructure with the cloud in a secure, reliable and cost-efficient way.SEATTLE -- Amazon Web Services has leveraged its...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Guy Vs. Guy: Amazon Parties Like It's '1984'
- Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this recurring feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. This week’s topic: The Amazon Kindle. Recent headlines haven't done the beloved device -- or the company that sells it -- any favors. How can Amazon recover...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Amazon's Conflicting Censorship Stories Show Problems [UPDATED]
- If you paid attention at all to industry news yesterday, chances are you heard about Amazon's book de-ranking kerfuffle. A large group of books, including many with gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender GLBT themes all lost their Amazon sales ranks. Supposedly all is again where it was and the company has apologized for its...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Amazon to let shoppers pay with a phrase
- A simple phrase and pin code may be all you need the next time you pay for that book or CD at Amazon.The online retailer on Thursday debuted a new feature called Amazon PayPhrase, designed to let busy shoppers store their name, address, and payment information in a single phrase...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Amazon Still Reaping Benefits from Risk on Amazon Prime
- Now that big-name magazines are explicating the workings of the economy of free, it seems a little odd to think that only two or three years ago a lot of people were dumping on Amazon.com for building up its business by paying for things like shipping. Free shipments for shopping...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- The Crook in the Nook: Barnes & Noble ebooks are overpriced compared to Amazon
- By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Yesterday, I excitedly preordered Barnes & Noble's "Nook" ebook reader . Today, I cancelled the order -- and I'm none to happy about it. Why can't Barnes & Noble learn from its past mistakes? The bookseller's digital titles...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Amazon Slashes Prices for Kindle
- Amazon.com decided to cut the prices of its original Kindle device, to $259-$279, as it faces increased competition from Sony and other manufacturers in the e-reader space. The price cut could also be an attempt to put Amazon.com on more advantageous competitive ground against Apple's much-rumored tablet PC, which current...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Amazon offers same-day delivery to select cities
- Amazon.com on Thursday announced that customers looking to get their packages sooner will have a couple new options available to them.Amazon customers placing deliveries within the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Seattle, as well as "some surrounding areas," will now be able to receive...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Amazon Woos Corporates: Cuts EC2 Price, Offers Relational Database as a Service, New High Memory Instances
- Amazon's web services division AWS, in a move clearly aimed at wooing enterprise customers, says it will launch a new relational database as a service called Amazon RDS. It will also cut prices of its EC2 on-demand compute service by 15 percent, starting Nov. 1st. Charges for Linux-based EC2 instances...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Will Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough?
- Amazon last night announced it Virtual Private Cloud service, essentially giving enterprise customers worried about security and control in the cloud a salve to get them to trust it. The offering provides access to Amazon's web services through a virtual private network, which is basically a secure tunnel through the...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Amazon Puts the Human Genome, Economic Stats in the Data Cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Amazon vs. eBay: Follow Up Q&A
- Scot Wingo submits: Earlier in the week, I started a series around the battle between eBay EBAY and Amazon AMZN - here. Before I get into Episode II, I wanted to answer some of the more common questions that have come in from Episode I to make sure...
- External links 2009-02-08
- Amazon Soars Above Street View
- By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Amazon.com AMZN on Thursday posted quarterly profit that handily beat Wall Street estimates and said holiday sales could come in far above expectations, sending its shares up 15 percent to their highest level in nearly a decade. The world's largest online retailer...
- News items 2009-10-23
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