Posts Tagged with Amazon

Brand Identity in the Age of Social Media

Whether or not you agree with the comments made by Whole Foods’ co-founder and CEO John Mackey in a recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on the state of US healthcare, the resulting consumer backlash raises interesting questions around establishing and maintaining brand identity in an era of increasing engagement and transparency.
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Filed under: Business, News on August 19th, 2009 @ 12:37 pm

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Facebook Steps Into Online Retail

According to data published on the site, Facebook currently boasts 250 million active users, nearly half of which login at least once a day, making it the 3rd most visited site behind only Google and Yahoo. Following the announcement that the social network released its first e-commerce storefront (1-800 Flowers) last week, with 20 more [...]

Filed under: News, Technology on August 5th, 2009 @ 3:34 pm

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Conscious Capitalism and the Value of the Customer

Reports of Amazon’s acquisition of venture-backed online apparel and footwear retailer Zappos.com took over the business newswire this week, with speculation that invester Sequoia Capital forced Zappos to sell, that Zappos requested Amazon stock options instead of cash, and that Amazon is aiming for other buyouts including Netflix. Rumors aside, news of the merger has [...]

Filed under: Business, News on July 24th, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.