Blum and Bezos faced off in late November, bidding for Egghead.com, the failed software e-tailer.
The head of Bluefly, another fashion e-tailer, vows to be the last store standing.
Amazon rejects the argument that affiliates represent a local presence for the e-tailer.
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It could be stored on a personal password-protected web site, with temporary access granted to any e-tailer a customer chooses.
When I returned home, I dropped an email to my chosen e-tailer asking if they had any Black Friday specials running.
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The average e-tailer has done next to nothing to optimize for mobile.
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Australian e-tailer Pena.au has 10.1-inch netbooks from both Gigabyte and Lenovo listed on its site with the fresh 1.5GHz Atom N550 processor.
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The 111-year-old department store and the 5-year old e-tailer have joined forces.
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Those fears were recently compounded after the collapse of high-profile e-tailer, boo.com.
Expect Natalie Massenet, who has already turned a kitchen table business into the global luxury e-tailer Net-a-porter, to pull her new role off with equal aplomb.
When Gwen Caras, head of e-commerce at Del, visited top managers at a cosmetics e-tailer, they still didn't know the key distributors six weeks before the planned launch.
In 2010, when online e-tailer Shangpin switched from being just a me-too discounter of end of season fashions to limited time, flash sales, revenue grew 20 times year-over-year.
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While many people take great pride in shopping locally (vs. buying online from Amazon or some other e-tailer), they miss the point by hitting up Wal-Mart or another big box retailer.
Signet has attempted to gain an injunction to prevent the brand reappearing on Ratners Online, a jewellery e-tailer Mr Ratner hopes to launch in September with second ranking UK jewellers chain Goldsmiths.
Among the most spectacular examples of bad judgment: Sequoia Capital 's seeming refusal to distribute any of its 8 million shares of Etoys, the e-tailer that was going to drive Toys "R" Us out of business.
For a limited time, gamers who purchase a GTX 660 Ti GPU from a participating retailer or e-tailer will receive a voucher for a free copy of Gearbox Software's Borderlands 2, which is launching next month.
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Now that they have Prime, they get free two-day shipping from Amazon and are more likely to buy physical goods from the e-tailer goods they may have at one time stopped by their local Wal-Mart for.
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