Posts Categorized: Ecommerce

Do Google Stores Make Sense?

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Description: Google is contemplating getting into the retail game, taking a similar approach to Apple, in order to gain more traction on their products like the Chromebook Pixel. Source: TechCrunch Date: February 21st, 2013 When talking about Apple’s rise from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world, people often credit the amazing… Read more »

Online Holiday Spending Tops $40 Billion for First Time Ever

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Description: The data has been tallied and the results are in: e-commerce saw growth across all major shopping days during the holiday season in 2012. Source: Mashable Date: January 3rd, 2013 U.S. consumers spent $42.3 billion online during the holiday season, the first time online spending has ever topped $40 billion for that time period, according to… Read more »

20th Century Fox Puts Movies Online First With A Big Push Behind “Digital HD”

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Description: 20th Century Fox has recently shown some innovation in attempts to boost their online movie sales. Going forward, new movies released by Fox will be offered online in “Digital HD” 3 weeks ahead of In-store DVDs. This shift in priorities may just inject some life into a floundering industry. Source: TechCrunch Date: September 18th,… Read more »

Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals

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Description: The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon in a powerful position: the nation’s largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences. Source: nytimes .com Date: April 11, 2012 But publishers… Read more »

Metered pay walls the new reality for newspapers

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Description: Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They’re enticing people with a little free online content before asking them to pay up. Source: GlobeandMail .com Date: April 3, 2012 About 300 newspapers across the United States, and a growing number… Read more »

A Game Explodes and Changes Life Overnight at a Struggling Start-Up

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Description: At a cocktail party on the second floor of the expensive Bowery Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday night, as trays of stuffed mushrooms and thinly sliced filet mignon circulated, Charles Forman was marveling at how quickly things can change. Source: NYTimes .com Date: March 25, 2012 Draw Something transformed Omgpop from a little-known, nearly… Read more »

Comics Are Now Selling Laughs by the Download

Posted by & filed under disintermediation, Ecommerce, industry analysis, marketing, revenue model, streaming video, telecomunications.

Description: Stand-up comedians of a certain era knew they had arrived when Johnny Carson invited them to a desk-side seat on “The Tonight Show.” A generation later, the gold standard was getting a solo comedy special on HBO. But in the Internet era, the yardstick for success has been redefined. Source: NYTimes .com Date: March… Read more »

Erasing the Boundaries

Posted by & filed under Apple, Ecommerce, exam2012A, FaceBook, Google, RIM, YouTube.

Description: The biggest tech companies are no longer content simply to enhance part of your day. They want to erase the boundaries, do what the other big tech companies are doing and own every waking moment. Source: nytimes .com Date: Feb 12, 2012 In the old days, you listened to music on your iPod while… Read more »