... s that of Amazon (AMZN.US) last year after making the world's biggest IPO of all time in New York. But since then its fortunes have plunged on a string of scandals and negative reporting. That has wip ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will build a rocket manufacturing plant and launch site in Florida, ramping up competition with fellow tech billionaires in the race to push the frontiers of human space trav ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a US$50 tablet with a six-inch screen in time for the holiday shopping season. The move comes as the world's largest online retailer struggles to draw customers to its ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
... s such as Amazon's Createspace or the Kindle authoring tool. The abundance of free content on the internet has also made the business of selling the printed word a bit messy to say the least. Newspape ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-03
Amazon.com Inc. has “unprecedented power” over the book publishing market and should be investigated for antitrust practices. A group of prominent authors wants the US Department of Justice to look in ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-21
In North America, Amazon and eBay rule the roost of e-commerce. But in other places like Asia, there are so many other online shopping platforms. Taobao, Tmall and JD.com dominate the China market. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-18
... er. Here, Amazon is exemplary. By making use of the search history of shoppers, it devised tools that match recommended books with shoppers’ preferences – this is something brick-and-mortar bookstores ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-10
... imilar to Amazon Kindle e-book reader, which enable the user to check the remaining value. Also, up to today, Octopus is still not accepted in some sectors such as the city’s 18,138 taxies. Over the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-31
Alibaba Group Ltd. is planning a US$1 billion war chest to battle Amazon.com in cloud-based services. The Chinese e-commerce giant said part of the money will go into data centers in the Middle East, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-30
Aliyun Computing Co. Ltd., a unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., seeks to surpass US e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc.'s leading status in the cloud computing business in three to four years, the Hong ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
Amazon.com Inc. has surpassed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as the world’s biggest retailer by market value after a surprise second-quarter profit sent the e-commerce company’s stock to a record high. Amazon s ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
... percent, Amazon 50 percent and Facebook 24 percent. By comparison, the Nasdaq index has only rallied 9 percent during the period. Giant internet technology firms are getting even bigger. Meanwhile, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
Amazon.com Inc. must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker, a US federal appeals court ruled. The suit says the online retailer's search results can cause confusion for potential customers, ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... ng goods. Amazon Prime Air is an early example of how drones can facilitate more efficient delivery. At the commercial level, drones can also provide aerial video coverage of sports, travel and real e ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... from the Amazon jungle to the Galapagos islands, yet heavily reliant on oil and mining -- Ecuador in many ways illustrates the issues at the heart of the pope's recent exhortations on the environment ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... rival to Amazon's Twitch service, will launch this summer, starting in the United States and UK, Reuters cited the company as saying. More than 25,000 games will each have their own page on the site, ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-15
European Union regulators are at an advanced stage of investigations into US giants Apple, Amazon and Starbucks for suspected tax avoidance and other offenses. Findings could be announced in the comin ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-12
... ting with Amazon and JD.com to introduce more Western brands to Chinese consumers. The Chinese e-commerce giant's newly appointed chief executive Daniel Zhang told company employees last month that gl ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-09
... eBay and Amazon and the advertising services of Google and Facebook. And European app developers, too, build businesses on mobile-phone software. The internet is not a game of winners or losers; ever ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
The European Union is set to announce Wednesday a wide-ranging probe into how big technology firms such as Google, Amazon and Facebook use their market power, Reuters reported. The move follows calls ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-06
