Amazon, for example, spent billions to create its online storefront infrastructure and create a brand.
Standard and high-definition videos will be available for download from the Zune Marketplace online storefront, or "side-loaded" from a computer running the newly revamped Zune PC software.
Realising the importance of mobile services, it launched Ovi, an online storefront for such things in 2007, a year before Apple opened its highly successful App Store.
That small number Wei quoted would presumably fund business with an online storefront and a small amount of goods, which could be sold for proceeds to pay the loan and buy more wares.
You might say that Walmart would never, ever start hawking its own e-readers, but crazier things have happened -- Best Buy has an entire brand devoted to in-house goods, and Amazon itself has expanded from an online storefront for laundry detergent and bestselling novels to a bona fide hardware mainstay.
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With a sleek online storefront where customers can book fitting appointments, the goal, Mr. Ng says, is to give tailors better working conditions and better business by catering to Hong Kong's pool of young and Web-savvy expatriates, in part through its social mission of hiring youth with drug addictions to serve as tailor apprentices.
Whether you are creating a brick and mortar store or an online business, the website is your virtual storefront, your online salesperson and the first interaction a potential customer might have with your company.
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Apple has even buried Apple TV in its online store, taking it off the graphical section of its storefront, and sticking it under the iPod accessories section.
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On Tuesday night, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, a storefront for Web applications and services that snap into its Google Apps online suite.
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But nobody uses storefront travel agencies any more, and apparently, Carlson never got control of a major online travel agency.
GamersGate, an online videogame retailer that sells digital copies of Mac and PC titles, has recently opened up a storefront on Facebook that will eventually contain all of its catalog of more than 2, 300 games.
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