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Weekly Top 5

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Amazon’s Kindle Textbook Rental, expansion of endless.com’s free shipping, S3 data, Amazon Prime’s deal with CBS, Amazon.com’s acquisition of ParAccel; Zynga’s IPO filing edits, Google’s stake, revenue sharing with Facebook, failed PopCap bid, merger of Lolapps … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

This week’s roundup covers Apple’s record label deals, the OS X malware, the Foxconn factory explosion and patents from Freescale; Groupon’s deals with Loopt and possibly Foursquare, Foursquare and INQ, HTC’s foray into location based coupons; Amazon’s Kindle records, Lady … Continue reading

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Social Shops

One of the trends I think will catch on in the next few years is social commerce, despite the buzz. Though word-of-mouth has always been around, newer technologies provide scope for newer manifestations. At this point, social commerce is seen … Continue reading

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Weekly Top 5

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Paper Money

There was a wonderful post in the Edelman Digital blog titled ‘The Last Newspaper‘. An insightful, well balanced and objective take on stories and content which perhaps captures the newspaper and web relationship best. From the post Stories are personal … Continue reading

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Book Values

Three mails in my inbox, all relating to an interest of mine – reading, but at three levels of engaging me. The easiest one to discuss is Rediff Books, which in a very matter of fact way gave me a … Continue reading

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