Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT
Amazon is not all about squashing the little guy, or at least that is what it wants you to believe this holiday season.
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.
Voices
Ethan Smith and John Kell, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 23, 2011 at 5:07 pm PT
Amazon.com Inc.’s one-day, 99-cent promotion of Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated second studio album, “Born This Way,” resulted in downloading delays on the Internet retailer’s website due to high volume, the company said Monday.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 24, 2011 at 11:16 am PT
Amazon is rolling out a new promotion on Monday that reveals how it could package together its various efforts in the wireless industry.
News Byte
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 30, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT
Only a lucky few get to go to T-Mobile’s concert series, but thanks to Microsoft, anyone can listen in to the three shows via the Web. The series, which kicks off with an Ellie Goulding show from Chicago at 5:30 p.m. PT tonight, aims to show how tech can be used to enjoy music socially.
The concerts can be seen by checking out the “Live Rising” tab on
T-Mobile’s Facebook fan page or via mobile phone. Cold War Kids will play April 1 and Rye Rye on April 9.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT
The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 8, 2011 at 9:35 am PT
The music service still doesn’t have a U.S. launch date, but it’s telling the American digerati that their free lunch is just about over.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2011 at 6:31 am PT
The best ticket in town is the one that gets you into the News Corp. CEO’s apartment for a look at his long-awaited iPad newspaper tonight. I don’t have one! But I’ve got a pretty good idea of what his guests get to gawk at.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT
Facebook is testing a new feature called Buy With Friends to give users social incentives to increase their purchases of virtual goods from games on its platform, according to the company’s product marketing manager for commerce, Deb Liu.
