Amazon.com Inc. has struggled to draw customers to its pricier tablets. So it’s going further down-market. The Seattle online retailer plans to release a $50 tablet with a 6-inch screen, in time for this year’s holidays, according to people familiar with the matter. That would make it one of the least-expensive tablets on the market and half the price of the company’s current Fire HD 6-inch tablet. The move would potentially ...
While Chinese shoppers have always been able to buy many goods from Amazon.com and ship them into China, a new program by the company will handle tariffs and localization of product descriptions to smooth the user experience. Amazon.cn announced that its Chinese-language international shopping store started trial operation on November 11, 2014. That day was important as being the Alibaba-inspired ...
My money is on Alibaba, the massive Chinese company that will soon conduct a New York IPO.* Here’s why. Amazon and Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce companies, are gearing up for the next big competition: cross-border e-commerce. Both companies have unique advantages in the market, and both are rushing to lock in an advantage in shipping goods from abroad into China, now the world’s largest e-commerce market. In the last few weeks, Amazon.com Inc announced that ...
Amazon.com has been in late-stage talks to acquire video site Twitch, according to two people familiar with the matter, after reports that Google had virtually sealed a deal to acquire the site for $1 billion. Whether a deal has been signed remains unclear, but one person close to the transaction said it could be announced shortly. Spokespeople for Twitch and Amazon did not have an immediate comment. the source
Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to more directly challenge Google Inc. 's dominance of the online advertising market, developing its own software for placing ads online that could leverage its knowledge of millions of Web shoppers. Initially, Amazon plans to replace those ads on its pages that Google chiefly supplies with a new in-house ad placement platform, said people familiar with the matter. In the future, that system could challenge Google's $50 billion-a-year advertising business and Microsoft ...
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