Two of its largest holdings, Amazon and Ebay, slipped in the first quarter and have straggled since.
Competitors like Amazon and eBay also made announcements this week in the local e-commerce market.
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All successful web companies have adopted this diversified approach: Amazon, Ebay, Google, Twitter, Facebook.
"Pixels and paper" is the new buzz phrase: Amazon and Ebay circulate holiday catalogs as newspaper inserts.
Amazon, EBay, Walmart and other on-line discounters, have targeted the electronic sector as a loss leader department.
Think Amazon, eBay, and Google that offered more than just a digital representation of an offline business.
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Brick and mortar retailers are finding it hard to compete against online retailers like Amazon and eBay.
Amazon and eBay remain the default shopping engines, and Wikipedia is on the browser bar as the sole reference link.
In contrast in the U.S. Facebook is approaching or surpassed American usage of search engines and other platforms like Amazon, Ebay, Craiglist.
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Dell.com generated more online revenue than Amazon, eBay, Google and Yahoo combined.
Would Amazon or eBay really want to allow sellers all this flexibility?
Channel Advisor, an e-Commerce platform company that works with thousands of Internet sellers, has a good view into trends at Amazon and eBay.
But then Amazon and eBay created new business models and enticed many of those same Americans away from the shelves to their computers.
Millions of people are upgrading from iPad2s, creating a very viable market for used iPad2s as Amazon Amazon and eBay are demonstrating.
The three search giants, plus Amazon , eBay and others, are all giving away code, offering up computing resources and begging hackers to build with them.
Amazon and eBay, for example, compete with brick-and-mortar retail firms, as well as a wide array of other enterprises, both on and off the Internet.
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It has released Same Store Sales (SSS) data for Amazon, eBay, comparison shopping and search on a monthly basis from December 2011 to December 2012.
Etoys ranks ninth in sales among publicly held web sellers in the U.S. and crows about luring more holiday buyers than everyone but Amazon and Ebay.
There have been websites and services -- including Amazon, eBay, Facebook and apps from a range of banks, stores and other institutions -- that have gone native.
On Monday, this new rule was broadened to include debit cards and purchases at any online site outside the country, which targets Amazon and eBay purchases.
Large ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon and eBay might also show acquisition interest in the company, given that Sift cuts out the clutter of connecting consumers to retailers.
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Facebook has partnered with retailers like Amazon and eBay to leverage its large base of users looking for advice before making a decision as to which product to buy.
These include CRM (from Salesforce.com and other services), integrated commerce options with Amazon and Ebay, and access to analytics to see how the service is meeting marketing goals.
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Today, the delivery options and services are defined by the marketplace (Amazon or eBay), and sellers do not have the flexibility to provide their own delivery options to their customers.
Every conceivable market from retail (Amazon, eBay) to music (iTunes) to sports tickets (StubHub) to dining (OpenTable) has been subject to massive disruption at lightning quick speed over the last decade.
The product-search site has grown rapidly over the past couple of years, comScore data show, but still lags behind Amazon and eBay in terms of the number of searches it handles.
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