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Retailers vs. Amazon: A Brick-and-Moral Dilemma

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 8, 2011 at 1:38 pm PT

Brick-and-mortar retailers are asking consumers to “buy it where you try it” after Amazon disclosed it will be encouraging consumers to treat stores as showrooms through the use of a one-day promotion on Saturday.

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French Court Fines eBay €1.7 Million

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 30, 2009 at 1:22 pm PT

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton said Monday that a French court fined eBay €1.7 million ($2.6 million) over perfume listings, despite filtering technology that the online auctioneer said is screening out unlawful items. The court accused eBay of “the unlawful marketing” of Christian Dior, Givenchy and other LMVH cosmetics.

Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl's Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com

John Paczkowski in News on October 3, 2008 at 8:55 am PT

With a Department of Justice ruling on Google’s advertising partnership with Yahoo expected by late next week, a key legislator is urging further scrutiny of the deal. In a letter to the DOJ, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, encouraged it to monitor the Google-Yahoo deal, even if the agency signs off on it.

Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl’s Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com

John Paczkowski in News on October 3, 2008 at 8:55 am PT

With a Department of Justice ruling on Google’s advertising partnership with Yahoo expected by late next week, a key legislator is urging further scrutiny of the deal. In a letter to the DOJ, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, encouraged it to monitor the Google-Yahoo deal, even if the agency signs off on it.