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How Do You Solve A Problem Like eBay?

Daily Finance writer Anthony Massucci has written a wonderful piece describing the challenges faced by eBay, which commanded an enormous share of the online marketplace ten years ago but has seen its fortunes decline ever since.

There’s a lot to summarize here, but I found the following section regarding the failures of eBay’s online [...]

Apple Vs Amazon, Round Two

The battle brewing between Apple and Amazon keeps heating up. First, Amazon took aim at Apple’s iTunes market share with its Digital Download service. Now, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has fired a shot across the bow at Amazon’s next-generation e-book reader:

“I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages [...]

All Your Userbase Are Belong to Us

An interesting development in the small but growing field of eBooks: who owns the relationship between content and customer? Amazon clearly believes it should do so, following in the model of Apple’s iPod. Newspaper tycoon and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch feels otherwise:

“We will not be ceding our content rights to the fine people [...]