BuzzMachine |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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My Guardian column this week argues that we're witnessing not just the collapse of the financial (and auto and newspaper…) industries but the birth of a new economy best seen through - you guessed it - the lens of Google: The financial crisis might be damaging countless companies around the [...]
PaidContent.org |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has created a new position of chief digital officer, and has named Vijay Ravindran; he will start in February of next year. Ravindran is currently the CTO of of Catalist, a startup political tech firm that built a national voter database. This past election [...]
eMarketer |
November 10th, 2008 |
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Amazon, eBay and MySimon all have their fans.[...]
Rex Hammock |
November 10th, 2008 |
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Admittedly, I sign up for lots of web "social media" services. But I don't sign up on far more than those I do. Sometimes I'm asked how I decide what shiny new web thing to register on. Here's how: I have to answer "yes" to at least two of the [...]
SF Chronicle |
November 9th, 2008 |
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Philip Hensher's "The Northern Clemency" is a British novel that as of Sunday had yet to attract any customer reviews on Amazon.com. But the online retailer's staff reviewers have noticed well, making it Amazon's book of the year. "It quickly became a[...]
GigaOM |
November 7th, 2008 |
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Amazon Web Services' platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies. Case in point is the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, whose seven finalists are a diverse group of companies, among them Knewton, which provides live online educational testing prep services; remote health record management software firm [...]
After a string of high-profile ad exec departures, including the loss of Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms and Services, and Digital Sales GM Lisa Utzschneider, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made a key hire: former Time Inc. vet Robin Domeniconi. Starting January 1, Domeniconi will serve as VP of U.S. ad [...]
Seeking Alpha |
November 7th, 2008 |
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Last night, we were in a cab heading to an event and the Gotham Gal said, "the market dropped around 400 each of the last two days, what's up with that?". I thought of Bliss McCrum, the guy who first taught me about the markets, and said "more sellers than [...]
AP |
November 5th, 2008 |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shopping online can be great for bargain hunting, but it's not usually thought of as a feast for the senses. A new Amazon.com Inc. site is trying to change this, though, by showcasing some items in a multimedia setting.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
November 5th, 2008 |
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It's tempting to bottom fish, especially after seeing a 60% implosion in Amazon's (AMZN) share price, but don't get sucked in by the seduction, it is still is too expensive. The shares have already rallied more than 35% from their lows, so they are fast approaching overbought status, and are [...]
At first I thought the ad in last week's New Yorker was a mirage, a promise of a digital edition that would arrive when the magazine was published—not a week later like the print edition. And when the post-registration response was a promise to let me know when the first [...]
GigaOM |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Maybe Larry Ellison was right - maybe cloud computing has been so overhyped that the term now applies to pretty much anything. A perfect example: Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event. After riding the SasS wave to a market capitalization of $3.7 billion, it seems co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff and his minions [...]
One of the worst things about getting a new gadget or toy is trying to free it from the hard plastic casing that houses many products. To reduce those battles, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it is working with manufacturers to make the products it sells easier to open and more [...]
Editor |
November 3rd, 2008 |
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On October 24, Oprah Winfrey endorsed Amazon's electronic reader, the Kindle. As a result, Amazon's website has seen a surge in traffic and the blogs are all buzzing about it.According to Ad Age, Amazon.com saw web-page visits increase by 6% on the 24th. Eighty percent of blog posts about the [...]
Editor |
October 29th, 2008 |
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With shrinking newsrooms due to increasingly drastic budget cuts and a biting global economic environment, newspapers have been searching for a solution to the age-old problem of profit margins versus quality of product. A relatively new player is marketing a solution to this problem; Daylife this week is launching Daylife [...]
Portfolio |
October 28th, 2008 |
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The extremely poor can't catch a break, it seems. A year ago, with food prices through the roof, they were at risk of starving to death as a result of not being able to afford to eat. But now, with food prices falling, things don't seem to have got much [...]
WA-Seattle, Amazon.com is seeking an outstanding Data Engineer to join Amazon.com's Business Intelligence team. The Amazon.com Business Intelligence team delivers business intelligence to over 1000 internal custo[...]
