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Who needs a personal shopper? Amazon Watcher does the work for you.

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2008-08-02 18:02:18 by Karl L. Gechlik in MakeUseOf.com
...Amazon Watcher can wield. My 8 month old daughter has been eating an Israeli cereal by a brand called Taami . I was always able to buy it in the store around my neighborhood in good old Brooklyn, New York. But one day it wasnt available anymore They stopped producing it and I went to Amazon. I was able to buy a few cases that lasted me until...
 
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Who Should Collect The Amazon Tax?

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2008-05-02 17:32:12 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...Amazon and the State of New York over who is responsible for collecting state sales taxes on online purchases. Up until now, online retailers have only had to collect state sales taxes in states where they have physical locationsthe same way that catalog retailers are treated. Otherwise, it is up to consumers to declare goods bought over the...
 
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Amazon Watcher

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2008-07-24 07:27:17 by Martin in gHacks technology news
Amazon Watcher is a handy application to monitor availability and changes of items at the six Amazon stores. Users can feed Amazon Watcher with full urls to Amazon items, their ASIN or ISBN-10. The product will then be loaded into the application with a preview image if available and the user can configure Amazon Watcher to react if the item is...
 
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Amazon Fights New York on Amazon Tax Bill

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2008-05-02 18:23:02 by Ashley in CyberNet
...Amazon is fighting back against the state of New York over their Amazon Tax Bill which now forces retailers to charge sales tax to customers who live in the state of New York. It would bring in a reported $50 million dollars to the state, but Amazon isnt so willing to just let this happen without a second look at it According to The New York...
 
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Amazon Argues Against NY State Tax, Claiming It Vague and Invalid

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2008-05-02 16:14:05 by Paul Glazowski in Mashable!
...Amazon for purchases made by customers residing within the state. The proposal, a leftover from former governor Eliot Spitzers office, recently passed with approval from governor David Paterson, with objections from a number of commentators. Including myself, admittedly Most opposition to this measure centers around the basic principle that...
 
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No, Amazon's New Streaming Video Service Is Not Derailing Amazon.com (AMZN)

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2008-06-10 16:11:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
Amazon.com (AMZN) has been flaky lately. After a two-hour outage last Friday , it had a new round of problems on Monday What's the matter? One theory: Amazon's forthcoming streaming video service , which CEO Jeff Bezos teased last month , could be screwing with Amazon's Web site. From the NYT's Bits blog In a note to investors on Sunday night,...
 
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Amazon Said To Be Preparing a PayPal Killer. Wait, It Already Tried That.

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2008-06-19 20:35:09 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...Amazon getting ready to step up its game in the payments arena. Eric Savits writes Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown asserts in a research note this afternoon that Amazon may soon launch a PayPal-esque Payments service for use by consumers and merchants across the Web, potentially siphoning growth and/or profit from eBays crown jewel....
 
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Amazon MP3 Store: 27 Million Tracks In Last 6 Months? (AMZN, AAPL)

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2008-07-16 06:00:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Amazon's digital music store, which is supposed to provide the music industry and music buyers with an alternative to iTunes. Amazon is mum about nearly everything it does, and so far none of the music labels that work with it have been forthcoming, either. But now we do have an estimate, albeit one from a very biased source: eMusic CEO David...
 
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Kindle Sales To Get A Boost? Chase, Amazon Push $100-Off Deal

2008-08-25 13:01:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Amazon's Kindle sales are stellar or just okay , they could easily get a quick boost as part of a new promotion from Amazon and Chase, Amazon's Visa card partner The companies' latest offer: New cardmembers who buy a Kindle with their Amazon Visa will get $100 off the price of the e-book reader -- a 28% discount off its $359 retail price, and...
 
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