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CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
Reuters(Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800...Tags: Startups, Business, Bain Capital, LLC, Amazon.com Inc., Travel
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AMAZON-WEBVAN/ (FEATURE, PIX, REPEAT)
ReutersHBEAT-MESSAGE @ 2013-06-18 21:32:44 +0000. Generated from NTM heartbeat by HTCP-JANMDN01A.Tags: Startups, Business, Bain Capital, LLC, Travel, Amazon.com Inc.
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From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its...Tags: Startups, Business, Bain Capital, LLC, Amazon.com Inc., Travel
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FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersBy Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three...Tags: Startups, Business, Bain Capital, LLC, Travel, Amazon.com Inc.
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On top of big salaries, companies pile on perks
NEW YORK (AP) — Wynn Resorts kept a suite open all year at its tony Las Vegas hotel and casino for founder and CEO Steve Wynn, at a cost of nearly $452,000. Former IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano was guaranteed an administrative assistant and furnished...
Tags: Diebold Incorporated, Clubs and Associations, Sheldon Adelson, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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No e-book for Stephen King's new novel, 'Joyland'
In a move to bump up physical book sales, Stephen King will not release an e-book version of his new novel, "Joyland," the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s something of a radical move for the man who stood onstage with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos...
Tags: Stephen King, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., The Wall Street Journal, Book
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Chan Lowe: The Internet sales tax
This is going to be interesting. Republican dogma unequivocally asserts that taxes stifle free enterprise. But here we have a situation where the imposition of a tax will benefit a segment of the retail universe that is a mainstay of traditional...
Tags: Elections, E-Commerce Industry, Republican Party, Politics
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Amazon reports 22% increase in Q1 revenue, 37% decline in profit
Amazon.com reported a 22% increase in revenue in the first quarter but a hefty decline in profit. For the three months ended March 31, the e-commerce behemoth said profit fell 37% to $82 million, or 18 cents a share, from $130 million, or 28 cents, a...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Global Expansion
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Amazon 'TV pilots' are set to fly (Part 1)
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAmazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up...Tags: Ed Begley Jr., Animation (Movie Genre), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Book, Entertainment
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Biblioracle: Tom Sawyer economy
Amazon has purchased the book-oriented social networking site Goodreads for an undisclosed sum. Speculation from Bloomberg Businessweek based on other social media properties (like Instagram and LinkedIn) puts the market price close to $1 billion. Other...
Tags: Authors, Social Media, Jane Austen, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Media Industry
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Millennial Media looking past market swings to chart growth
Millennial Media's stock has lost three-fourths of its value since the Canton company went public a year ago as an established force in the mobile advertising market. Ask CEO Paul Palmieri about that, and he'll repeat what he deems wise words from a...
Tags: CNBC (tv network), Washington, DC, Advertising, Google Inc., Millennial Media
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs Henry Blodget with $5 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission may have booted Henry Blodget off Wall Street, but the former Merrill Lynch & Co. Internet analyst has attracted some big fans for Business Insider Inc., which he co-founded in 2007. A major endorsement for the...
Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon.com Inc., Walmart
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