December 19, 2014
USPS Inspector: Amazon Sunday Deliveries Wear Out Workers And Cost...
The U.S. Postal Service’s experiment with Sunday deliveries for Amazon is attracting criticism from both workers and the USPS’s own Inspector General, according to eCommerceBytes. Some of the workers doing...
December 17, 2014
EU: No member state safe from tax deal scrutiny
The European Commission has widened its investigation into nations’ tax relationships with foreign companies to include every Member State, say reports. The investigation, which first launched to look into tax...
December 17, 2014
Amazon Extends Free Shipping Deadline During Busiest Days
Amazon has given last-minute online shoppers a couple more days to get that holiday list checked off. Last year’s free-shipping deadline was Dec. 17, but this year Amazon said its...
December 16, 2014
Was 2014 The “Break Up” Year?
ebay and PayPal said they’d break apart. Apple Pay broke into the payments scene, cybercriminals and data breaches everywhere broke merchants hearts and consumers’ confidence and Kim Kardashian broke the...
December 16, 2014
Are Google and Amazon In Competition For The Next Buy...
Google Wants to push Amazon’s buttons a little further — this time with its own retailer-driven buy button. The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is ramping up its eCommerce efforts...
December 15, 2014
EU: Vestager braces for legal challenges to tax probe
The European Commission’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager is reportedly expecting legal challenges to her investigation into member states’ tax agreements with foreign companies. Vestager spoke with reporters in Brussels on...
December 15, 2014
US: Authors won’t give up on Amazon probe
While Amazon has resolved its dispute with book publisher Hachette, authors are not stepping down from their calls for federal officials to investigate the online retailers. According to reports, the...
December 15, 2014
US: Apple says DOJ, Judge got it wrong in eBook...
A federal appeals court did not immediately decide on Apple’s appeal of an earlier ruling that found the company to have conspired to fix eBook prices, say reports, as the...
December 15, 2014
UK Amazon Glitch Prices Thousands Of Items At One Penny
A software glitch on Friday night (Dec. 12) in the U.K. caused “thousands of items” sold by third-party vendors on Amazon to be prices at one penny—and holidays shopped grabbed...
