Wal-Mart Is Latest To Offer A Cut-Rate Computer
As Wal-Mart continues its push into consumer electronics, the company has announced plans to sell a stripped down Windows PC at a discount price. While it will run Vista, the rest of the software will...
View ArticleMore Music Retailers Learn To Change With The Times
While the recording industry continues to insist that its world is dying, the music industry continues to thrive -- even if it's not in the same way it did a decade ago. One of the more interesting...
View ArticleBlockbuster In Surprise Bid To Buy Circuit City
The news came out early this morning that Blockbuster was making an unsolicited bid to buy Circuit City, which has left many scratching their heads, saying that the synergy isn't all that obvious....
View ArticleBlockbuster Looks At Circuit City's Books; Ditches Acquisition Offer
We were one of a very small number of people who actually saw some logic behind Blockbuster bidding for Circuit City -- though, it seemed unlikely that Blockbuster viewed the purchase in the same way...
View ArticleAmazon: A Search Engine With A Warehouse
Clay Shirky made an offhand comment on Twitter recently that's way too good to leave to just the Twitterverse and not expand upon (hopefully Shirky himself will expand upon it -- but in the meantime,...
View ArticleUK Music Retailers Ask Why They Should Pay Performance Licenses To Play Music...
We've had plenty of stories about music collections agencies shaking down various businesses for playing music -- and over in the UK a fight is apparently brewing over whether or not music retailers...
View ArticleInnovation In Retail: The Informed Shopper Is A Happier Shopper
This post is part of an Intel-sponsored series of posts we'll be doing here at Techdirt on the topic of innovation. The series consists of a video interview of myself (which you'll see below), the...
View ArticleThe Coming Fight Over Sales Tax For Online Retailers
For years, we've written about the back and forth in various attempts by states to force Amazon to collect sales tax for purchases in states where it doesn't have a presence (or, well, claims it...
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Life Imitates Conan O'Brien As Samsung 'Opens Apple Store'
Just a few weeks ago, Conan O'Brien did a satire video about the Samsung/Apple lawsuit, in which someone pretending to be a Samsung VP "defended" the company against charges of copying Apple, but...
View ArticleOne Step Closer To Sales Taxes On All Internet Purchases
On Friday, Congress came one step closer to imposing a federal "internet sales tax" on any internet purchases by agreeing to amendment that more or less indicates strong support for a more...
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Dumb Policy: Store Charges $5 Just To Look At Goods, To Keep People From...
It's really incredible how many bad strategies legacy companies come up with in trying to compete with the internet. Rather than increasing their own value and figuring out ways to leverage that...
View ArticleFrench Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online...
A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for "just looking", because it felt that many people were merely inspecting goods there before then buying...
View ArticleUpset About Beyonce Going Digital, Target Refuses To Stock New Album
As you may have heard, Beyonce took much of the music world by surprise by launching her new album on iTunes only with no buildup. It was an incredibly successful promotion, garnering a ton of sales,...
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