Another factor at play is lighter-touch consumer reviews such as Amazon, Yelp and increasingly, Foursquare.
And of course there are online book sites such as Amazon.com, Half.com and Alibris.
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And Apple faces competition from cheaper netbooks and other devices such as Amazon.com Inc.
Other ways to monetize your writing include selling affiliate marketing through programs such as Amazon Affiliates.
Other technology leaders such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and even Microsoft are much more expensive on a valuation basis.
The recording industry has long sought a counterweight to Apple's growing clout, but rivals such as Amazon.com Inc.
This seems largely to exempt online-only retailers such as Amazon from tax collection.
Behind door number one: collaboration with technology companies such as Amazon and Apple.
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However, its in the interest of other companies, such as Amazon and TripAdvisor, to ensure that reviews are accurate.
This includes services such as Amazon Cloud Drive, Apple iCloud and Google Drive.
The bookstore giant is losing market share to Amazon's online sales and to e-book readers such as Amazon's Kindle.
Bypassing traditional distribution means, including eRetailers such as Amazon, allows OR Books to have products up almost overnight for pre-sale.
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Companies such as Amazon, Google and others are changing the wireless device landscape, but first a little history is in order.
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In fact, some of the slack will have been made up by the growth of online-only companies such as Amazon and Orbitz.
Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple countries by numerous brands such as Amazon, Samsung, Asus and others have been driving volumes.
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But campaign group UK Uncut argues that rivals such as Amazon also have an advantage in the way they pay tax.
Last week, Best Buy said it would match the price of online competitors such as Amazon during the make-or-break shopping season.
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Ultimately, the online retail market seems likely to favour just two models: the best-of-breed specialists such as Amazon, and the good-enough-for-everything megastores.
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When it comes to popular e-commerce sites such as Amazon or CDNow the digital wallets manage to offer automatic login without any problems.
In three years, Ebay stock has been up and down in on a very small scale compared to other companies such as Amazon.
NYSE, transacts around a fifth of all retail-trading volume in Nasdaq shares such as Amazon.com with software that runs on a desk-top computer.
But there are still plenty of inefficiencies in the supply chain for conventional books that firms such as Amazon and Apple can exploit.
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Among the share stealers are so-called vertical search engines such as Amazon that beat Google when it comes to searching for a narrower purpose.
This feature-packed new model is the worthy successor to the LG TONE (HBS-700) which was a top-seller for popular online retailers such as Amazon.com.
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Netflix, founded in 1997, can't afford to anger subscribers and risk having more of them jump ship to competitors such as Amazon.com Inc.
Chains with physical stores such as Wal-Mart are more likely to go out of stock on some products than online retailers such as Amazon.
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The scale-out public cloud such as Amazon Web Services holds the promise of finally delivering an infrastructure that can respond to business fluctuations nimbly.
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We will investigate why some companies such as Amazon and Facebook are able to rely on frontline employees to experiment, innovate and make good decisions.
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Finally, we believe that the focus on European sovereign debt crisis has drawn attention away from the companies with very strong fundamentals, such as Amazon.
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