April 11, 2012
Amazon, eBay Add Pinterest Buttons to Product Pages
Product pages at Amazon and eBay now include an option to share items on Pinterest. The button is small, down on the bottom right. But its neighbors on the page...
April 11, 2012
DOJ reaches settlement with some, but fight over eBook pricing...
Ending weeks of speculation, the Department of Justice has announced that it has reached a settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster over eBook pricing. However, Apple, Holtzbrinch (d/b/a...
March 29, 2012
CPI March 2012 Blog o’ Blogs
The competition world has been really active this month. Among other treats, Great Britain is planning to reorganize its competition administration, the DOJ is attacking digital book prices, Carlos Slim...
March 25, 2012
Amazon Spends $5 Million in 14 Hours to Spur AmazonLocal
In a span of 14 hours, Amazon sold one million $10 gift cards for $5 each. You can see the deal’s appeal for consumers, but what’s in it for Amazon?...
March 22, 2012
Western Union’s Marwan Forzley Introduces WU Pay
Western Union just launched WU Pay, a new way to pay for goods and services bought online. WU Pay leverages Western Union’s 44,000 agent locations throughout the U.S. to make...
March 15, 2012
Target Looks to K.O. Amazon Price Check
The media was abuzz last week over Target’s clever move to combat “showrooming.” Showrooming is the latest word to take up entry into Webster’s dictionary and describes the following phenomenon:...
March 14, 2012
Competition Commission expands probe of BSkyB to consider Netflix and...
The Competition Commission will expand its probe of BSkyB and the pay-TV market to include Netflix and Lovefilm. The decision comes after “potentially relevant” developments in the market that would...
March 06, 2012
How Staples Hopes To Achieve E-tail Innovation
Related Content: That Was Easy! Staples VP Shares Keys to mCommerce Success Which Sites Could Overtake Facebook as Tops in Social Commerce? Amazon.com, Apple, Walmart.com — with...
March 05, 2012
Karen Webster Sizes Up the Rapidly Changing World of Mobile...
Let’s play a little game after you’ve read all of these recent announcements. “Starting This Summer, the Isis Mobile Wallet Will Be Available to More Than 100 Million U.S. Card...
