The busiest shopping season of the year is here and the retail giants are finding new ways to pull the customers to their website. Online retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and others already enjoy significant advantage over the brick-and-mortar stores due to lack of state tax, easy search, easy comparison tools and “showrooming” effects. Now [...]
Today at Wal-Mart 19th annual analyst meeting, Wal-Mart outlined its e-commerce strategy. And to prepare itself for the coming holiday sales war with online retail giant Amazon, Wal-Mart started testing “same day delivery” service in test markets across the country. The service costs $10 per order irrespective of the number of items. The billion dollar question [...]
IBM and AT&T duo just announced a cloud partnership to provide cloud services using AT&T MPLS enabled virtual private networks. The duo calls these services “network enabled” cloud offerings. As a part of the deal AT&T will be providing secure virtual private networks and IBM will be offering IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ over these secure networks. [...]
Over the weekend Gary Marshall at Techradar published an article “Is Amazon’s boss the new Steve Jobs?” . But I would argue that Jeff Bezo’s style is much different from Steve Job’s. Steve Jobs made Apple by selling high tech “art” to consumers and Jeff Bezos by transforming traditional business models using Internet. Amazon is [...]
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