Both eBay and Amazon.com have significant book-auction areas on their sites: eBay has 157, 039 books on auction and Amazon sells everything from first editions to dog-eared copies of L. Ron Hubbard.
Of the pure plays, only Ebay, Amazon and Buy.com are of any size, and only Ebay, an auction site, is consistently profitable.
Google Chief Executive EricSchmidtEric Schmidt could buy almost anything on the Internet, from eBay to Amazon.com.
But parcel deliveries have grown as consumers order more products from sites such as eBay and Amazon.
In the best on-line marketplaces, like eBay, Amazon.com or the iTunes store, you find much of this experience replicated.
Online merchants who sell products through websites like eBay and Amazon often have trouble getting working capital from banks.
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Both companies have found public support from the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), which counts eBay and Amazon among its members.
After a clumsy start, net neutrality backers Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo!
The deal puts the company in direct competition with Fusion-io and others that target Big Data customers like Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon.
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While DFJ has not bagged famous prizes like Ebay and Amazon.com, the Redwood City, Calif. firm still has bragging rights in venture circles.
While DFJ has not bagged famous prizes like Ebay and Amazon.com, the Redwood City, California, firm still has bragging rights in venture circles.
That could put them at risk of obsolescence, similar to the way dot-com era Internet Malls were quickly leapfrogged by eBay and Amazon.com.
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Sites such as eBay, Amazon and Netflix are always looking for new ways to surface what they believe you will want to click on.
If eBay and Amazon can deliver products within a day, it puts them in more direct competition with drugstores, supermarkets and home improvement retailers.
Precisely because they do not trust sellers or advertising much, they devour online customer reviews of the sort made popular by eBay and Amazon.
Although Taobao and its sister site Taobao Mall, where only professional sellers are allowed, somewhat resemble eBay and Amazon, their executives have a grander ambition.
Tre Milano has an active anti-counterfeiting program that includes buying goods to check if they are counterfeit and sending takedown notices to eBay and Amazon.
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People can recommend a book, a song, an app or a restaurant, choosing from the stores of iTunes, the App Store, Etsy, EBay, Amazon and others.
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With Kabbage, oonline merchants can go to the website and enter their log-ins for sites such as eBay, Amazon and Yahoo Stores where they sell products.
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Millions of people have already set up small web businesses, and millions more will do so, many of them using services provided by eBay, Amazon, Google and Yahoo!
Over the next few years his firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, landed such hits as Hotmail and Kana Software, although it missed investing in still-bigger hits Ebay, Amazon and Yahoo.
As e-commerce platforms, eBay and Amazon are helping attract customers online by giving them the ability to search a wide selection and get the best prices for any item.
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"If you wish to poll what people think are the life-changing events that were a direct result of the Internet, you have to include e-mail, Ebay, Amazon, etc, " he said.
Much of this was driven by eBay and Amazon.
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In April, U.S. Internet users did about 80 million searches using Google's shopping-search site, while eBay and Amazon handled about 900 million and 335 million searches respectively, according to research firm comScore Inc.
More and more customers use its big box stores as showrooms to look at goods, only to then use a smartphone to find a better price online at e-retailers like eBay and Amazon.com.
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