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There are people who spend their whole day online. Over time they’ve learned a lot to tricks that make their lives easier. And they are willing to share those tricks. Some time ago, a Reddit user posted an interesting question. He asked other users what was their one cool internet trick they’ve used. The response [...]
April 20th, 2013 by Loic Cobbina
People don’t buy CDs much these days and much of our music consumption is done via our smartphone or tablets. This presents a wonderful opportunity for distributors and for the last few years a bitter three-way battle has been waged between Amazon, Google and Apple. All three sell music to users via their respective marketplaces [...]
January 13th, 2013 by Anthony West
Amazon reviews have become a bit of a joke among rivals who believe the company’s system for ranking user feedback is woefully inadequate and rife with ‘paid endorsements.’ Amazon user reviews, once a beacon of trust and credibility have been marred in recent years by fixes, backhanders and sometimes just plain mischief. Amazon wants to [...]
December 26th, 2012 by Anthony West
This holiday season is proving rather bountiful for Amazon’s revenues and it appears that Bezos and co are not content—they want more. The online retail giant has taken a page from Walmart’s books by adding social integration to its web properties for Facebook Gifts. Friends and Family Gifting The push to generate more sales is [...]
December 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
As an alumnus of the tech boom of the 1990s, Amazon.com has kept pace, stayed relevant and made money—all at a time when several other alumni have faltered. The online retail giant seems to have struck gold again this year because reports are suggesting that many of its divisions and products are enjoying revenues and [...]
November 28th, 2012 by Anthony West
The cloud storage space doesn’t really have a low barrier to entry and this has led to a proliferation of players in the market, one of which is search giant Google. A few months ago the company launched Google Drive, its own offering to compete with the likes of Dropbox. Straight out the gate Google [...]
November 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
The shopping madness is over, and yes, I said ‘madness’. comScore has tallied the numbers and for the first time ever, Black Friday spending online has topped the $1 billion mark. Who says consumerism is dying? According to comScore, the $1.042 billion spending spree represented a 26% jump on online sales for 2011 and marks [...]
November 26th, 2012 by Anthony West
Today Amazon has launched a Cloud Drive service specifically aimed at serving the Android market. This move will ensure that Android users will receive 5GB of storage absolutely free – another move by Amazon who’s policy is to “create customers obsessed” with it’s brand. AWS (Amazon web services) currently offers the worlds most spectacular cloud [...]
November 2nd, 2012 by SiteTrail
Amazon does not exploit retailers online For those who are too small to open their own business and take up physical premises, or who cannot predict the scalability of a start up business, Amazon has provided the perfect answer as it allows retailers, big and small, to participate in selling it’s inventory. The Amazon strategy [...]
November 2nd, 2012 by SiteTrail
Google has largely stayed away from e-commerce and since its genesis as a search engine; its involvement in the space has been relatively hands-off. But that is changing, and the rate of change is starting to make traditional giants like Amazon shake. Google signaled its intent with the launch of Google Catalogs, its own shopping [...]
October 28th, 2012 by Anthony West
Google already dominates much of the commercial search traffic on the web and online retailers like Amazon and eBay depend on the search giant for millions of visitors each day. But with Google announcing the web version of Google Catalogs, its shopping offering previously available on tablets, analyst are predicting tough times ahead for the [...]
October 26th, 2012 by Anthony West
With all the promise that the cloud brings, it still has some major kinks that can make things bad for those rely on it too heavily. Case in point is Amazon’s cloud offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS); according to reports across the web, the service has been down in North Virginia and this has caused [...]
October 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
Who says the real estate market is flat in the U.S.? Amazon has wowed everyone by splashing out the jaw-dropping sum of $1.16 billion to buy its corporate headquarters in Seattle. According to Reuters, the purchase is the largest in the country so far this year and puts Amazon in very elite company—no other has [...]
October 14th, 2012 by Anthony West
For the small-time seller that sells on Amazon, finding the cash to buy much needed inventory can be hard, and when these types of sellers struggle, Amazon doesn’t make any money—at least not from them. The retail giant as you may know charges sellers a percentage of each sale and Amazon has taken a bold [...]
October 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
Americans are known for having sprawling shopping malls and a zest for splashing out on things and it looks like that pastime hasn’t changed much in the digital age. A new report from comScore highlights the degree to which Americans are using their smartphones. According to data collected for July 2012, there was a total [...]
October 3rd, 2012 by Anthony West
Depending on where you live in America, your Amazon.com purchases are taxed or given a free pass. State legislators have been battling online retailers like Amazon for some years now over the collection of sales tax and for Californians, this battle is now over. As at 12:01 am PDT Saturday, Amazon will be required to [...]
September 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Reed Hastings and the guys over at Netflix must feel like 2012 is definitely not the company’s year. Just a few stories ago we covered a bit of news relating to Netflix having poor quarterly results and the subsequent drop in the company’s share price. Yet again, there’s more bad news for Netflix. The company’s [...]
September 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
It looks like the Amazon pay structure for its lower level employees is pretty bad because one of them has just gone ahead and stolen $160,000 worth of goods. 20 year old Todd Anthony Cofield made off with a whopping 726 iPod Touch players and 49 laptops of the HP variety. Cofield didn’t do this [...]
July 29th, 2012 by Anthony West
