price comparison

Amazon Paid You $5 to Leave a Store; Now eBay Is Giving You $10 to Return

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 15, 2011 at 10:20 pm PT

Price wars!

Online Shopping on the Side

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT

Walt reviews Digital Folio, free software that lets you gather online shopping products to compare retailer prices.

Start-Up Watch: Smoopa Android App Helps Electronics Shoppers Compare Prices

Liz Gannes in Social on January 28, 2011 at 2:00 am PT

Smoopa, a new comparison shopping start-up with a pretty silly name, this week introduced its first app, which allows Android users to scan bar codes of electronics, movies and games, and find out whether they’re cheaper online.

Google Search Stories–Including Batman!–Or Are They Anti-Bing Commercials in Disguise?

Kara Swisher in News on November 21, 2009 at 9:41 pm PT

It’s well known that Google doesn’t do much in the way of marketing around its search service. So, then, what is one to make of a half-dozen videos–called “Search Stories,” which look suspiciously like commercials, starring the company’s many products–that Google introduced late last week on its blog and posted on a new channel on YouTube? Could it be that the $100 million marketing campaign that Microsoft launched for its Bing search service, which seems to be slowly gaining share, is starting to get on the nerves of those Spocks in Silicon Valley?

Amazon Remembers Forgets Barcode Scanner

John Paczkowski in News on December 3, 2008 at 10:07 am PT

There’s a new beachhead in Amazon’s campaign to commandeer sales from competing retailers: Apple’s iPhone. This morning the retailer uncrated Amazon Mobile, an iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows users to browse its wares and those of associated retailers like Target and Macy’s. The app supports Amazon’s standard features as well as an intriguing, but totally cumbersome, new one.