While much of the attention on Amazon’s shock and awe product launch on Wednesday focused, reasonably enough, on the products themselves – and there were a fair few of them to focus on – it is worth taking some time to look at the wider implications of the announcements (other, that is, than the glum [...]
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Amazon on fire: online retailer announces FOUR new devices, including first tablet
by Daniel Ashdown on September 28th, 2011
With Apple almost certain to announce its next iPhone model next week, Amazon has stolen its thunder, announcing not one, but four new devices: a tablet (a poorly kept secret) and three new Kindle models. As if teasing the audience, the online retailer spoke about the success of its Kindle device/store combination, with the former [...]
It can hardly have escaped the notice of anyone who follows the mobile commerce market that Google’s long awaited mobile wallet launch finally happened last week. Now that the phoney war is over the first offensive in the “wallet war” may now have started (see Who are you going to trust to look after your [...]
The news that William Hill is in talks to buy the UK-based (but Gibraltar-licensed) Probability provides the clearest evidence yet of the bookmaker’s intent to strengthen its hand in the mobile sector and to deliver a suite a products to compete with those of rival Ladbrokes. William Hill has already made significant strides in this [...]
Last week’s news was full of content for those following the mobile commerce market. With the imminent launch of Google Wallet, both PayPal and Mastercard shared their approaches to mobile payments with the world. On the one hand, PayPal had a very pragmatic near-term view and much has been made of the lack of NFC [...]
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