More shoppers are flocking to the Web for the holidays, boosting online retail sales 12% over a year ago. In five weeks ending Dec. 3, Americans spent $17.5 billion on retail items on the Web, up from $15.7 billion in the year-…
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In the latest of many recent successful Chinese IPOs, E-Commerce China Dangdang — often called the Amazon of China — saw its shares soar in its New York Stock Exchange debut Wednesday.
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While news that Groupon has rebuffed Google’s $6 billion offer has stolen the limelight, Amazon’s $175 million investment in LivingSocial could end up shaking up the daily-deal business and helping the No. 2 e-coupon company ga…
As the market for electronic book readers has grown, Apple’s iPad has been pulling e-reader market share away from Amazon.com’s Kindle, according to a new report from ChangeWave Research. The Kindle’s market share has slipped t…