Amazon.com could face a backlash for hiking the annual membership fee on its Amazon Prime service to $99 from $79, a survey shows. The higher cost might nudge some shoppers to drop their Prime memberships and buy fewer items on Amazon (AMZN), according to findings from the survey by research firm Bizrate Insights. The increase comes at a time when complaints are surfacing about prices charged for some third-party goods sold on Amazon.com and as
Amazon.com could face a backlash for charging state sales taxes, potentially inspiring more of its customers to shop locally and keep more tax revenue in their communities, a recent survey suggests. As of Jan. 1, Amazon (AMZN) has been charging and collecting sales taxes in 19 U.S. states, with Indiana, Nevada and Tennessee the most recent additions. Amazon had long fought any such taxes, but in recent years it has reached agreements to collect
Tableau Software is getting some traction in the cloud. Tableau (DATA) was set to announce on Tuesday that it has signed up more than 1,000 enterprise customers to a cloud-based version of its data analytics software. The company released its cloud package last July, looking to better serve customers and better compete with rivals that include business software leaders Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP). Tableau’s cloud service, which lets companies