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Thank You Amazon, Retailers May Now Merge at Will
When reports surfaced regarding Office Depot merging with OfficeMax, the first thing which may have occurred to many, is regulators wouldn’t let this approximately $2 billion happen because the resulting store would be too large and create antitrust concerns. Much...
Important Tech News of the Day Dec 14, 2012
Amazon Prime Instant Video app for iOS is out Alcatel Lucent says providing video to devices is a great new revenue opportunity for carriers Google Just Settled a Six-Year Dispute with Belgian Publishers IT spending will pick up in...
Banks, The Latest Threat to Groupon and LivingSocial
If there is one constant these days it is that your competitors tomorrow are going to come from the most unlikely of places. Apple came from nowhere to unseat RIM and Nokia in mobile phones, Amazon is becoming a major...
Walmart To Go is Webvan 2.0
Have we finally broken the barrier to same day delivery? During the dotcom boom, Webvan and Peapod were going to change the world and when things went bust and both companies had to deal with the realities of massive infrastructure...
Dunkin Donuts App Lets You Pay More Quickly
Allowing you to utilize a virtual credit card, the new Dunkin Donuts app available on iOS and Android allows you to send "gifts" electronically through text and Facebook for example. The app also functions as a nutritional guide and allows...
Best Buy's Best Choice is to Evolve
This guest blog post is from TMC Senior Editor, Peter Bernstein, a respected analyst covering technology and communications for a number of years. Peter’s post addresses my recent comments about what Best Buy can do to make it in the...
Beyond Amazon Price Match - What Best Buy Must Do
Recently I was in a Best Buy store while traveling because I needed three items which retailed each for $99. I needed one right away but the other two could have waited. So while in the store I decided to...
Oracle Customer Experience Live Blog
The event is about to begin.Judy Sim CMO takes the stageMark Hurd President takes the stage.Mark started off talking about the need for happy customers. Only 30% of customers can engage with customers on mobile - few of these people...
Is This Why Web Sales Are Through the Roof?
Holiday sales are up 15% to a record $32 billion so far. And you have to stop and wonder why the numbers are growing so quickly... After all Amazon isn't new. It isn't like people weren't comfortable with online shopping...
Identity Management is the Decade's Killer App and Facebook Knows it
How long before we hear the TSA say, "Boarding pass and Facebook ID please?"Have we gotten to the point where Facebook has become so dominant as an online identity system that is going to enter the real world with business...
X.com: an App Store for Commerce from eBay
How the “now-boring” auction site is trying to become the hub of commerce Since the launch of the iTunes App Store there has been a rush to emulate the success of Apple by owning an ecosystem which is powered by...
Cablevision Allows E-Mail Sign-ups in TV Ads
Yes Virginia, cable companies are innovating Just yesterday I discussed in an article about Cisco Quad that it is very hard it is to determine who the leaders in tech will be in the future. And today when I learned...
Spreadable Shuts Down - Why?
While reading a blog post from telecom and channel partner thought leader Peter Radizeski, on how small businesses are responsible for much of the nation's hiring I learned about the fact that Grasshopper is shutting down its Spreadable company -...
Use PayPal in the Mall?
For as long as I can remember the mantra has been the Internet will kill (insert your industry here). Magazines, brick and mortar, movies, music, photos... You name it. The truth is, in many cases the predictions were accurate.The interesting...
Gasbuddy.com A Winner As Oil Prices Rise
So many products have their costs correlated to gas prices – in fact last night the company that pumps my septic tank told me they are seeing profits go down and will need to raise prices because diesel fuel...
LivingSocial Gives You $10 Off Amazon Purchases
500,000 people including me just now have purchased a $20 Amazon gift card for $10 via LivingSocial. the offer is a play on ensuring the Groupon competitor which offers a deal a day builds out a large mailing list of...
Groupon May be Bad for Business Health
If you found a way to attract the least valuable customers - those who will yield the lowest margin and simultaneously ensure they won't come back to pay retail because they will soon see a great deal from your competitors,...
Skype, Amazon and BitTorrent news For a Snowy Week
Still snowed in? That’s what I thought. Regardless of whether you got back from back-straining snow removal or you live in Orlando, you’ll appreciate some of the latest tech news of the day. Popular Mechanics starts off the list with...
Google Now Ranks Based on CRM
This past weekend I was fairly amazed to read about how a retailer of glasses with very high rankings on Google seemed to thrive on providing service which is extremely aggressive and even hostile. The site, DecorMyEyes.com has an owner...
ShopVisible on Mobile Commerce
There has been and will continue to be a massive increase in mobile commerce as consumers are becoming more accustomed to shopping online and mobile devices are proliferating and providing bigger screens and better interfaces. Personally I have been amazed...
Vuvuzelas Equal Profit Online
How the World Cup and Entrepreneurial risk-taking turned an idea into profitThe power of the Internet coupled with a good idea allows companies to make money more quickly than ever. Consider the case of the simple vuvuzela - the super-annoying...
How You Know Amazon has Made it
Amazon doesn't need me to tell them they have "made it" and with a market cap of $56B they are obviously doing a lot of things right. Still, this morning I saw my house absolutely littered with new boxes from...
Should Amazon Collect State Sales Tax?
Amazon and other ecommerce vendors enjoy a tremendous advantage in these times of fiscal responsibility as many of the products the company sells do not involve sales tax in most states. There are arguments for and against Amazon paying taxes...
Mine Your Spam Filter
We get so wrapped up sometimes in esoteric software solutions to boost sales that sometimes the simplest ideas are overlooked. I bet if I did a study I could find massive amounts of sales that were not concluded because of...
Social Web as Next Frontier
Remember Cuil - the Google killer? The search engine launched with much fanfare and then disappeared from the scene pretty quickly when it was determined the site's results were not that good. Well the search engine is back with a...
