Online sales growth will outpace revenue at brick-and-mortar-only stores this holiday season, according to research firm ComScore. The company predicts online shopping will grow three times as fast as overall retail sales.
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Among today’s top online stories for investors: Which stocks should you own as the Fed reignites the economy? What could justify a $500 stock price for Apple? And why is Amazon a bigger threat to Google than Facebook?
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Amazon.com is buying Quidsi, the parent company of online diaper and soap retailers Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $500 million in cash and $45 million in debt. Will the deal help Amazon grow its sales beyond books, CDs and DVDs…
The rumors that e-tail giant Amazon is looking to buy Quidsi, parent company of Diapers.com, have proven true. But Jeff Bezos isn’t likely to stop there, and Alice.com and Drugstore.com could be easy pickings.
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Amazon, Volkswagen and Florida real estate developers are drastically dropping the prices of some of their key products. In a short video, Douglas McIntyre reveals which products are getting the biggest price drops. Could these cuts be a sign that deflation is at work?
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Three Companies That Are . . . Cutting Prices originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:00:00.
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