Amazon.com, which is moving in multiple directions vis a vis local, has agreed to buy TeachStreet, the service for matching teachers and students. Amazon’s interest appears to be less in TeachStreet than in the underlying ecommerce platform for SMBs. The platform already is being used by The Washington Post for its Service Alley SMB leads...Read More
Netflix was once one of the highest-flying internet media companies around. That all changed in 2012 when its CEO, Reed Hastings, decided that the days of requesting DVDs by mail were numbered. The future of his business was streaming. To push consumers into the future, Hastings had to break ‘DVDs by mail’ and ‘streaming’ into...Read More
Amazon is the 800 pound gorilla of e-commerce, and to maintain its dominance, it has developed a number of competitive advantages that will make it harder for any other company to take its throne. Increasingly, one of those competitive advantages is Amazon Prime, which, among other things, offers customers free two-day shipping on all their...Read More
Amazon’s a sleeper bet to really shake up local commerce . But what does that look like? For sure, we see the pieces being assembled…the focus on Amazon Stores, the $ 175 million Living Social Investment, the Kindle Fire rollout, the expansion of Amazon Prime to include access to a range of content, the build...Read More
