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Marketplaces Taking Over E-tailing: ChannelAdvisor

Online marketplaces for third-party sellers, such as those provided by Amazon.com and eBay, are taking the e-commerce world by storm, says a survey of retailers in the U.S. and U.K. The Aug. 13 study by ChannelAdvisor (ECOM), a software maker that helps third-party retailers sell on big websites that offer marketplaces, focused on identifying major trends and challenges in online commerce. The poll found that 90% of retailers sell their products

Amazon, Cloud Rivals Wage Price War In ‘Land Grab’

Cloud-services providers are unlikely to throttle back their torrid capital spending despite an ongoing price war that took some steam out of Amazon.com’s Q2 earnings. Cloud-services leaders Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) are stepping on the accelerator as they aim to grab market share, analysts say. Amazon’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud business is the biggest provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), where customers

Sprint Data Buckets Bigger; Will Subscribers Grow?

Sprint’s new shared-data family plans, which offer data “buckets” twice the size of rivals at similar prices, might spell trouble for wireless firms aiming to get a payback on huge network investments. Sprint (S) late Monday unveiled a promotion that gives new subscribers 20 gigabytes of data, along with unlimited calling and texting, for $100 a month through 2015. The Sprint promotion doubles the 10GB of data that T-Mobile US (TMUS) provides for