As Amazon continues to expand as the “Wal-Mart of the Web,” one of its more recent strategies has been to offer private-label brands that you can’t buy anywhere else… Tweet This Post

Despite the stagnation of book, music and DVD sales, Amazon.com is gaining momentum as a retailer of almost every other kind of product, as I report in an article in Sunday’s Business section… Tweet This Post

eBay is the most trusted company in terms of privacy, and Yahoo and Facebook are among the Top 10, according to a new report released on Wednesday. Following eBay is Verizon, the U.S. Postal Service, WebMD, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Nationwide and Intuit, with Yahoo and Facebook in the ninth and tenth spots, the study [...]

Samsung Electronics surprised the world in 2002 when its market value surpassed that of Sony’s. It marked Samsung’s emergence as a truly important player in the electronics industry and its brand image has since improved consistently. Now the Korean electronics giant, which is the world’s second largest semiconductor maker after Intel, is within reaching distance [...]

Michael Lazerow, CEO Buddy Media, predicts that Twitter will continue to scale and then sell within the next year so someone else can figure out the annoying business model part. If he were Google or Microsoft, he would cough up $2 billion and somehow harness the 100-200 million users later… Tweet This Post