Besides launching their 'revolutionary' product Kindle, Amazon Inc. has one more thing to be thankful for this Christmas. The company said that the 2007 holiday season was the best ever in its 13-year history. The Seattle-based retailer said Dec. 10 was its busiest day, when customers ordered 5.4 million items (that's 62.5 items per second, Einstein).
Amazon said the hot-selling Wii video game, which is distributed by Nintendo of America, was selling at about 17 per second on the site, when the game was in stock.
According to their "Amazon Worldwide 2007 Holiday Facts" (worldwide w/c includes www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, and www.amazon.ca):
There's no doubt lot of cool stuff was released this year, from the "invention of the year" iPhone to those hot HDTVs. And more people having access to the internet means more prospective customers to online shops like Amazon.com. How about you? Are you included in Amazon's statistics this year? Did you buy something on their website this Christmas?
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Amazon reports its best holiday ever
The Three Kings (of web search) charged of illegal gambling... ads.
The Three Kings (i'm calling them that in the spirit of the Holiday season) of web search namely - King Microsoft, King Yahoo, and King Google were charged by the US Justice Department of taking money by accepting illegal gambling advertisements from online betting operations between 1997 and 2007.
The companies agreed to pay a total $31.5 million to settle claims by the Justice Department. Being the most generous(?) and oldest among the trio, Micro$oft paid $21 million. Next to seniority is Yahoo contributing $7.5 million. While this "startup" company they called Google gave $3 million.
The money collected will be used as a fund by the US government for various public awareness programs. Now the (31.5 million dollar) question is, how much money did these three search giants earned when they placed those illegal ads for ten years? <*wink*><*wink*>
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Are you a moron? Click here now!
Ah, what a dumb year it was! And with that Fortune created the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" for the year 2007.
This particular adsense unit shown below just brought Google into the said list:
To test Google's ability to block harmful advertising, Belgian IT security consultant Didier Stevens posts an ad that reads "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" It is accepted by Google and displayed 259,723 times; 409 web surfers actually clicked on the ad.
Other tech groups also included on the list were Apple, Sony and Intel. One group I noticed missing on the list is Bill Gates and co. Does this mean Microsoft didn't do anything stupid this year?
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