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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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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