There it is again, you hear it? That’s the sound of consumer trust clinking against the sides of the shaft as it falls, down, down, down. Belkin is just the latest company to drop trust equity down the sewer.
A New York State Supreme Court Justice has dismissed Amazon.com's lawsuit challenging the law that requires some out-of-state online retailers to collect New York sales tax.New York Justice Eileen Bransten wrote in an order released today "there is no basis upon which Amazon can prevail."The judge said the New York law does not tax "any and all Internet sales," but only requires businesses to collect state and local sales taxes if the company generates $10,000 or more in revenue via affiliate networks.
Last week, some fairly devastating unemployment stats renewed comparisons between what we're going through now and the Great Depression. Fresh reports indicate that at least a few major tech companies are still happily chatting up potential employees, though.
Amazon.com announced today that it has launched an Inauguration Store, which "features everything customers need to get ready to attend the event, host an inauguration party or watch from home."
For Amazon, business was good this past holiday season. In fact, it was better than ever. On its peak day alone—December 15—Amazon sold 6.3 million items, or 72.9 per second. To commemorate that, Amazon released a few fun statistics. -- Amazon shipped to over 210 countries.-- One of our most remote shipments was Take Along Thomas & Friends toys, delivered to Unalaska, Alaska. (Editor’s note: Unalaska is where Sarah Palin sends people who are deemed un-Alaskan. It’s close to Russia. Just kidding.)
The news may be a little hard to believe today - the Dow has closed down about 221 points - but a fresh report from Compete says that online retailers aren't having such a bad holiday season. In fact, thanks to a charge led by Amazon, the latest unique visitor stats are pulling ahead of the levels set in 2007.
Recently I dug back through our archives to put together something of a retrospective looking at the year in online video. Now I have done basically the same thing looking at 2008's happenings in online music.
A new study by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, predicts that digital music will grow from the current 18% to 41% of total sales in 5 years. Researchers credited stores like Amazon and the transition to mp3's which make downloads portable for some of the increase.
Amazon.com has unveiled a "Holiday Customer Review Team" that consists of half a dozen of its most active reviewers.Amazon says the goal of the review team is to "provide fellow Amazon customers with top gift picks for the season as well as helpful tips on cutting costs over the holidays."The reviewers have been given access to some of Amazon's most popular Black Friday deals so they can offer up their opinions on the items with other shoppers.
Amazon Web Services has launched a new pay-as-you-go content delivery service, Amazon CloudFront aimed at making content delivery more efficient for developers and businesses.
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