Archive for the 'Amazon.com' Category
I was reading SI on the NFL Draft and how random it is: which players become successful vs. which ones flop.
Business is the same, here is a good post on Tech Crunch about Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Mind you, it helps to have a maniacal leader in Jeff Bezos who will win at all costs.
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Amazon.com is taking on Ze French by trying to offer consumers free shipping. On the surface, you wonder, why is the French government upset? But looking at the nuances in the matter, I agree with the French.
Booksellers have complained about Amazon.com’s decision to waive S&H, the matter has gone to court and Amazon has lost. […]
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2007 will go down as the year of the book. All right, that’s a blatantly false statement, but it does make for a good headline, no?
Maybe 2008 will earn that title. After all, what gathers steam and momentum in one year can always trace its roots to the previous year, no?
In 2007, Amazon launched Kindle, […]
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Odd that a bunch of newspaper and magazine journalists and bloggers (yours truly included) wrote one thing or another about Amazon.com’s Kindle, but no one figured this out.
Well, no one until Alley Insider’s Peter Kafka:
Amazon’s Kindle offers readers a chance to pay to read online newspapers? We haven’t spent time talking about it, because it’s […]
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The late 1990s brought us Jeff Bezos, who pioneered a new e-commerce model and changed the dynamics of book sales for good. What Bezos failed to do, however, was change the dynamics of book publishing itself.
The 2000s brought us Steve Jobs (again), who pioneered music sales and changed the dynamics of the music industry for […]
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According to this article, the past two days’ gains boosted Amazon.com’s market capitalization — the value of all the shares trading in the public domain — from $18.3 billion to $25.7 billion, a gain of about $7.4 billion.
But more importantly, for Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon.com in 1994, that meant the value of his 101.3 million […]
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Since 1994, we have seen many companies come out of nowhere, off the radar, only to grow into positions of leadership and dominate their sphere. Some go on and galvanize that leadership positions, others falter and let someone else pass by.The following is HipMojo.com’s list of Internet Company of the Year, based on growth, […]
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Alexa vs. Alexaholic/Statsaholic.
Google Maps vs. Platial, Frappr, Flagr.
Expect more of these folks.
The only thing that is different between now (2005-present) and then (1994-2001) is that then, the business models were unsustainable because the money supporting it all originated with venture capital, which converted into advertising, with it all being justified by a public offering exit. Of course, when the Nasdaq […]
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The following article is a modified excerpt of my next/third book called Context is King, which increasingly is being published in bits and pieces on this blog.
We’re about to enter a new phase of the Web’s development, the writing is on the wall.
The 1994-2000 era was Phase 1 (and frankly, that could be broken down into sub-phases). […]
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March has seen us off to a great start. So I log on Alexa to check latest WatchMojo.com stats to see if it’s reflecting that… lo and behold, I see Alexa T-Shirts?
I guess this is Amazon.com’s foray into fashion?
Tags: Alexa, Amazon.com, eCommerce|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Mar 9th
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