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I like clouds.  Aside from their fluffiness, they provide temporary shade from the sun, life-sustaining water to our  planet, and storage for our documents, photos, music, and videos. That last part refers to cloud storage, of course; it seems as though more and more companies are allowing us to store our digital treasures on their [...]

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Thanks to mostly rave reviews from its customers, L.L. Bean has announced that it is now making free shipping standard on all orders to U.S. and Canadian consumers.  The outdoor gear and apparel retailer becomes the latest in a long line of merchants offering free shipping as an additional enticement for shoppers. The policy officially [...]

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Our February 2011 Junkie award recipient isn’t a small up and coming operation like some of our previous winners have been.  In fact, you know the name very well—Amazon.com has been a rock in the e-commerce industry for about as long as online shopping has been around. But neither Amazon’s pedigree nor its reputation is [...]

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We just reported on Amazon and the online sales tax issue in North Carolina on Friday but it appears that there’s another new development in one of e-commerce’s hottest topics now in Texas. Following through on repeated threats that it has made in Texas (and elsewhere) during the dialogue over internet taxes, Amazon has announced [...]

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It’s getting intense out there on the internet taxation battlefield! While more states across the country mull online sales taxes here in 2011, Amazon has scored a victory in its ongoing face-off with the state of North Carolina over its proposed internet tax with some help from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Thanks to [...]

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Online shoppers who have grown accustomed to using Amazon.com to shop for and compare prices on products from the likes of Macy’s, Gap, and Buy.com have probably started wondering what happened to those products lately. The three big name merchants had all partnered with Amazon as third-party sellers through Amazon’s Marketplace offering at one time [...]

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A pair of very familiar names sit atop an annual index that ranks the top web and mobile companies based on their 2010 holiday season performance and offerings. Dell and QVC were the cream of the crop in the web and mobile sectors respectively, earning the highest performance satisfaction scores during the recent holiday push, [...]

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Flush with cash and better positioned than ever to make a run at Groupon for dominance in the daily deal/featured product shopping market, LivingSocial has made another big splash as part of its continuing evolution. The company has named John Bax, a former e-commerce executive with Walmart, as LivingSocial’s new chief financial officer. “We’re excited [...]

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Even though the calendar reads 2011, we’re of the mindset that there’s a lot to still be learned by looking back at the year that we just closed out. There are trends and there are fads and nowhere is that more evident than in the tech world.  But when we look back at 2010, there [...]

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The 2010 holiday shopping season went down as the most robust ever, with sales and web traffic for online retailers posting all-time highs.  Of course, as these things tend to go, it was a better season for some than others and customer service once again played a big role in determining holiday success according to [...]

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