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Column: Forget groceries - Amazon's latest play in China is the real news
Selling gourmet cupcakes in Los Angeles is easy. You know what’s hard? Selling books in China. Actually, selling anything in China is hard. Even if you’re Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN).
Yesterday’s news that Amazon will expand its grocery business to the Los Angeles area, after a five-year-long trial on its home turf in Seattle, got all the attention. But the real headliner should have been... » more
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Column: Grocery wars; can Amazon keep the milk fresh and even make some money?
For the past two weeks, I've hunted my neighborhood supermarkets for oyster sauce to complete my steak stir-fry creations. Frustrated by my inability to locate this evasive condiment (#firstworldproblems), I turned to the one source where I can get anything my heart desires - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN).
And courtesy of my Amazon Prime membership, I'll ave my Lee Kum Kee Panda Brand Oyster Sauce... » more
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Column: The government's case against Apple
The curtain has just gone up on the Justice Department's anti-trust case against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), but whatever the verdict is, we've already gotten a whole graduate-level business course on the different paths to profit off Apple and its rival, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), as demonstrated in the $40 billion-per-year book publishing business.
Here it is in a nutshell:
Amazon swoops into... » more
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