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Shopping from the earth's biggest selection of books, magazines, music, DVDs, videos, electronics, computers, software, apparel & accessories, shoes and more. Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Google, Apple, and Facebook.

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Macy’s Latest Showrooming Weapon
Macy’s Latest Showrooming Weapon
September 17, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

Macy’s is launching its own mobile image-recognition app designed to let customers easily search for items on its ecommerce site by submitting a photo of...

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Diapers.com Founder Raises Big Dollars To Get Back To Competing With Amazon
Diapers.com Founder Raises Big Dollars To Get Back To Competing With Amazon
September 17, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

The old saying goes: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.  Diapers.com parent company (Quisidi) founder Marc Lore, who sold Diapers.com to Amazon for $550...

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Amazon Unit Lets Expensive Downloads Happen Before Verifying Payment
Amazon Unit Lets Expensive Downloads Happen Before Verifying Payment
September 16, 2014  |  News

The Amazon Audible unit lets shoppers sign up using fake payment card data, fake E-mail addresses and fake names and then permits them to download...

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Amazon Shutters P2P
Amazon Shutters P2P
September 15, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

Amazon is formally pulling the plug on it free person-to-person funds transfer service WebPay as of October 13, 2014. “We are not addressing a customer...

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UPS Delivery Headache: Too Much E-Commerce
UPS Delivery Headache: Too Much E-Commerce
September 12, 2014  |  News

There once was a time when E-Commerce was a gift to delivery services, where replacing all of those personally-picked-up purchases with a truck-delivered one a...

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Amazon China Takes On Alibaba
Amazon China Takes On Alibaba
September 11, 2014  |  International

Alibaba will have a record-breaking IPO next week, but it’s Amazon that owns the future of China’s $400 billion online shopping industry, argues Peter Fuhrman,...

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Amazon’s Fire Phone Price Slashed To 99 Cents
Amazon’s Fire Phone Price Slashed To 99 Cents
September 09, 2014  |  Mobile

Talk about your fire sale. Amazon on Monday (Sept. 8) slashed the price of its 32-GByte Fire smartphone from to 99 cents—barely two months after...

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Rakuten To Pay Almost $1 Billion For Ebates
Rakuten To Pay Almost $1 Billion For Ebates
September 08, 2014  |  News

Coupon/rebate site Ebates is being pursued by Japanese E-Commerce giant Rakuten, which is prepared to pay $950 million to take the site over, according to...

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Is Amazon Quietly Getting Into The Lending Business?
Is Amazon Quietly Getting Into The Lending Business?
September 01, 2014  |  News

It’s no secret that following the trail of hiring announcements can often signal the strategic directions of a company. The more quiet the announcement, the...

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