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The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Amazon learns from quick acquisition, posts net loss

Living Social an acquisition of 2010 was $170 mln of the $274 Mln loss Amazon noted int he September quarter as its shares tanked 5% on results after Apple also warned of its Holiday season conquests in the marketplace in

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Posted in Financial Markets

US Week Ahead: Facebook, Netflix, Apple and the Digital Economy (July 22, 2012 – July 28, 2012)

These Retail lifestyle champions, variously featured on our series’ would report along with Earnings behemoth Amazon with a dominant share of all digital sales and now local warehouses and the cloud as well.  Ford and Boeing will also report for

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Retail Lifestyle, US

The Retail Lifestyle Champions: Amazon gets one back on the digital resolutionaries

The $829 64 GB new retinal resolution iPad (2k X 1.5k resolution) may be a gamechange but the Kindle strategy got one back when DOJ announced earlier that Apple would likely be actioned for having manipulated prices in e books

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Posted in Retail Lifestyle, US

A time to buy: The Retail Lifestyle Stars: Amazon reports $600mln profit for the year

As Amazon prices follow its not so confident peers like Radioshack and Sears Holdings after the results announcement, it is one of those great buying sprees you get at Amazon, every once in a while. The loss leader strategy adopted

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Posted in Financial Markets

The Retail lifestyle Champions: Is it really Apple vs Amazon?

Even as JP Morgan USA analyst for Apple rode over the supply chain hill and boutiques upped Apple’s iPad sales estimates to $12 bln at the high end the 18 million units thus apple might chalk from the 18 mln

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The retail lifestyle stars: We are finally on the same page

Image via CrunchBase ..As Google in Retail Lifestyle is no longer a facile detour While Tim Cook has been expected at Apple for some time Apple has clearly led the “convergence” of design and utility into daily lifestyle habits till

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Emerging Markets, Financial Markets, Retail Lifestyle

EBooks: The Macmillan Chapter

Lest you and I thought that Macmillan is going to be material only in demanding royalties from iPad and Kindle, the followers of education reform in Obama country have something more important than 123 million European subscribers to look forward

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Posted in immigration & juvenile law, O'nomics, Retail Lifestyle, US

Amazon gets behind the technology

After all, Amazon will have to do a lot of value buying to keep the spirit of competition with the iPad! Amazon has acquired New York-based startup Touchco, according to Nick Bilton at the New York Times. Touchco specializes in touch-screen

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Posted in O'nomics, Retail Lifestyle, Uncategorized

MacMillan 'vs.' Kindle? – A fat cheesy twist!!!

Here’s the Amazon Forums posting from the Kindle marketing team at Amazon, who probably also think it is time to turn out their clothes and show a different trick. Amazon Forums Dear Customers: Macmillan, one of the “big six” publishers,

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Posted in Media and Entertainment, O'nomics, Retail Lifestyle, US

Kindle vs iPad: It's the (stupid) Publisher..

In a move reminding of the precipitate ways of the Music Industry, Macmillan seems to have argued with Amazon over increasing the price of ebooks in the fledgling market. Amazon, rightly moved Macmillan off its shelves, thus causing tremendous losses

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Posted in Media and Entertainment, O'nomics, Retail Lifestyle, US