Report: Microsoft Scraps Amazon, eBay Rival

The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft had once planned to compete with Amazon and eBay by launching its own eCommerce store.

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    The newspaper’s sources say the initiative, called “Project Brazil” internally, would have created an online marketplace that allowed shoppers to purchase from a variety of retailers while using a single shopping cart.

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    “Project Brazil was an incubation to enable a more direct commerce model between customers and brands and merchants,” a spokeswoman for the tech giant told the Journal.

    For more details, read the full report here.