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Video: Amazon Swipes At Square With New Card Reader

Amazon.com (AMZN), in its biggest move in payments to date, said Wednesday that it is offering a secure card reader and mobile app that lets small merchants process digital point-of-sale transactions. Called Amazon Local Register, it competes directly with similar offerings from Square, eBay’s (EBAY) PayPal, Intuit (INTU) and VeriFone Systems (PAY). The product can accept credit and debit cards loaded on smartphones or tablets. This includes Apple…

ChannelAdvisor Stock Falls On Weak Q2 Customer Data

ChannelAdvisor (ECOM) stock was down more than 27% in midday trading in the stock market today http://www.investors.com/stock-market-today/, a day after ChannelAdvisor gave less-than-expected Q3 guidance and reported weak customer additions. The Morrisville, N.C.-based company makes software designed to help third-party retailers sell on big online websites like Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY). ChannelAdvisor late Monday posted a Q2 per-share

Video: Will Apple’s own content delivery light a fire under its TV sales?

Apple (AAPL) is developing its own content delivery network, which might be just what the doctor ordered for its flagging Apple TV set-top box sales. Market research firm Strategy Analytics on Tuesday said Apple’s TV sales growth has slowed significantly this year in the face of increased competition from the likes of Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google (GOOGL). Apple’s market share in OTT (over-the-top) video streaming has dropped to 27% from 38% in 2012, says Strategy Analytics in a report released Tuesday. The research firm forecasts that global OTT streamer unit shipments will top 35 million in 2014, up from about 15 million in 2012 and about 24 million last year. Apple quietly launched its own CDN last week, according to a blog post at StreamingMedia.com by Dan Rayburn, a Frost & Sullivan analyst. Apple has been a customer of CDN leader Akamai Technologies (AKAM), whose stock slipped late last…