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Amazon Commerce
Dash’s Coming Great Leap Forward
June 27, 2016

If recent reports are correct, it looks like a lot more brands could be coming soon to an Amazon Dash near you. Which brands exactly remain something of a mystery box, but according to Wall Street Journal reports citing anonymous but knowledgable sources, the online...

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Amazon Boosts Offline Sales In India With Vodafone
June 21, 2016

India only just gave Apple the green light hours ago to set up stores inside its borders, but Amazon has been operating there for quite some time. And while the eCommerce giant is known for a hundred things (good and bad), waiting for the dust to settle has...

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Amazon’s Portland Plans Prove B&M Bookstores Aren’t For Books
June 20, 2016

A handful of years ago, the very mention of a physical Amazon bookstore would be enough to get laughed out of a room. How quickly things change. Friday (June 17) saw Amazon announce the location of its third brick-and-mortar bookstore that will complement its growing...

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Amazon’s Next Brick-And-Mortar Shop
June 17, 2016

Blame the people or blame the media, but Portland has acquired a reputation as a haven for the slightly off-kilter and the anti-mainstream. Cliches, like rules, are made to be broken, and it’s too fitting that Amazon is the one to do it. Fortune is...

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Will Amazon Be America’s Largest Firm By 2020?
June 06, 2016

Analysts are suggesting that Amazon is currently the U.S. firm with the biggest growth potential. MKM Partners analyst Rob Sanderson notes that Amazon has surpassed Facebook as the United States’ sixth-largest firm by market cap. Sanders further notes that Amazon still has growth potential yet...

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How Amazon Normalized Subscription Retail
June 03, 2016

Amazon Prime might have been a good little idea, the naysayers nay-said, but once shoppers have to start shelling out higher fees for the privilege of faster shipping, those “loyal” customers would run into the waiting arms of the retailers they’d left behind. Well, the...

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Amazon’s War Of Attrition Against Fake Reviewers
April 26, 2016

Amazon has had it with sites like PaidBookReviews that offer the aspiring novelist 100 book reviews on Amazon for the bargain price of $2,200. How sick of fake reviews is Amazon? So sick that PaidBookReviews is one of five companies that will be facing off...

Amazon Doubles Walmart’s Web Traffic In March
April 22, 2016

According to the latest figure from comScore, Amazon had a very, very good March. The newly released figures indicated that Amazon received 180.97 million unique visitors – making it the most visited retail site on the Web – and the fifth most trafficked (non-porn) site...

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Amazon, Target And Walmart Fight For New Parents’ Spend
April 21, 2016

In a piece of news that likely comes as no surprise to any parent that has ever faced the possibility of going to a big box store with a tiny, easily enraged baby, the latest data suggests baby products are the most sold category of...